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Help Using Inkscape => Inkscape Beginners' Questions => Topic started by: beg_inner on June 03, 2017, 11:20:38 PM
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I was looking for space themed brushes for Inkscape, possibly realistic and not cartoonish ones to do stars, nebulas, planets etc.
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Inkscape doesn't have brushes. That's really a raster graphics feature.
However, there are ways to achieve a brush effect in Inkscape. A couple of different ways, actually.
- Pattern Along Path, which comes in both an extension and an LPE. Each has it's own pros and cons.
- The Spray tool :spr: Sprays copies or clones, can set random rotation and scale, color too, I think
And maybe there are a couple more features that could help. It's hard to say which way would be best, without knowing more about your project. From your description, it sounds like you might be looking to create some kind of space themed background? But maybe not?
Anyway, let us know more about it, and we can get more specific :)
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Corel Drawplus is a vector software and has some brushes, that's why I was asking. But maybe I can try with the spray tool.
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The Spray tool is going to work best if you want to cover a large area in a random way. It can spray in a line, but I find it hard to do. But if you want to draw a line which has a particular shape, then PAP would be better.
Oh! I forgot about the Scatter extension. Extensions menu > Modify Path > Scatter. Sometimes it's better than PAP, because the pattern doesn't get distorted around curves, like PAP.
It's hard to give you specific suggestions, without more info about your project. But let us know if you have further questions :)
(I'm not familiar with Corel, but it probably has both vector and raster tools, like Inkscape does.)