Something else that may be overlooked is the ability to align and distribute nodes. It's easy way for some design inspiration, especially simple and catchy logos. Now we can get back to aligning! Play around with this while trying different shapes and objects. Well, instead of trying to select them all individually, let's try this: 'Relative to: Biggest object' to the rescue! Now you can just select all of the shapes at once and it'll still align to the big purple one. Oh no! You've accidentally unselected everything and now you're left with a pile of useless shapes. Step 2Ĭlicking 'Center on vertical axes' and 'Center on horizontal axis' will yield the following design. We want to align to the big purple diamond, so select that one last. With these particular settings, it doesn't matter how you select your shapes, but whichever one is selected last will be the shape in which all of the others align to. In Align and Distribute, set 'Relative to: Last Selected' (and let's uncheck 'Treat selection as group' before we forget). In this example, I've randomly arranged the same shapes with different sizes and colors. Let's try this and make some simple design ideas also. Finally, click 'Center on vertical axis' to perfectly center our selection of fruit to the page.Īnd of course, we can align objects to other specified objects. For this one, we need to check 'Treat selection as group' which aligns our selection as one object. It's looking pretty good now, but I want to do one last final vertical page align. Then, let's evenly distribute the selection by clicking 'Distribute centers equidistantly horizontally'. For this particular example, we want to click 'Center on horizontal axis'. This means whatever object(s) you have selected will respond to the Align and Distribute operations according to your Page dimensions. Under the 'Relative to' menu, select Page. Now, let's get Object > Align and Distribute opened up. Look at mine below - what a disaster, right? Step 2 While this is pretty simple, it'll show you exactly how Align and Distribute works.įor this example, just grab a bunch of objects and randomly place them on the page. Such a simple, nifty little trick (that I overlooked for too long) is just aligning your stuff to the page.

Let's go over a few cool things with Inkscape's Align and Distribute to make your designs as professional as they can get! When you begin doing some serious work in Inkscape, you're going to want to keep your work properly aligned.

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