You're all a bad influence (hope you can detect my sarcastic tone)! I'm suppose to be getting other stuff done, and now I'm playing with spirographs, reading tutorials for creating all sorts of different things, and reading through more archives here! Really though, thanks for all the tips and help....

Actually, I got a tablet, which has been what has helped me to "cross over" into starting my design rather then with a scanned in drawing.

Love the pic that you linked to. Can you give me a rough idea how long it takes you to do something like that?

Thanks.

(Actually, I've never used any computer graphics stuff at all apart from cropping and turning photos, just a pencil and paper, so it is a really steep learning curve for me.)

Wow c-quel, thanks for taking the time to do those pics. As I'm learning more about inkscape I am using the tools it has - the shapes and pen etc to create my images more. Looking forward to knowing the tools well enough to do a super simple flower in "about 7 minutes" as you have done (an...

Hey c-quel, I like that solution. Thanks. Simple.

Only, I have had trouble working out how to do simple things like expand the size of the image. I'm sure it is just something super easy that I missed in some tutorial somewhere, but would you mind giving me some guidelines here please?

Thanks again brynn. This stuff sure can eat up the hours in the day, can't it? Anyway, I think I'm happy with what I've got now. I have taken bits of the advice (and in the process learnt heaps that I'll be able to apply to other situations) and added a bit more experimentation, and I'm really pleas...

Hi brynn Thanks for your thoughts. I posted a different question at a similar time to posting this one and have now had this problem pop up with the image I was playing with when trying to figure out that issue, so I've posted a file there. In that case, I've just got very simple images - they're pa...

Okay, I just went to each original scanned jpg and started with that, used "trace bitmap" and then recoloured them, moved the opacity down to near 70% and put them into the one picture then by adding a layer and importing the image for the second and third images. I changed the blend mode ...

Thanks for the replies. It looks as though it should work using your method Ivan - thank you. I got through the first three steps with no problems except for as described below (ie, up to click on "flood"), but I can't see the "Flood Color Tab" then. There is one little issue whe...

I have just posted one question about colouring images, and hope it's okay to post another one right away. Again, this is a problem I've been trying to figure out for a while now, and I've tried solving it, but just can't seem to work it out. The design is for things similar to the one I described i...

Hi This is my first query. Hoping it's a simple one, but I have been trying to work out what I'm doing wrong with this for days. I've gone through the online manuals and searched the tutorials for relevant examples, but I just can't seem to make it work! I have two separate, but related problems and...