Inkscape Reviews
What do you like best?
- Free software
- Vector graphics and bipmap graphics editing tools
- The majority of tools and processes work in a similar way to other graphic design software (Corel Draw and Illustrator)
- Short learning curve
- Versions for Windows, Mac and Linux
- Can run in older computers
- Excellent software for occasional users and hobbyists
- Can be used on professional settings as a support software Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
- Although is a very good software, isn't a complete replacement for professionals
- Limited on the export formats
- Some advanced tools aren't available Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you like best?
FULLY FEATURED vector graphics program that's available for FREE!
If you are familiar with CorelDraw or Adobe Illustrator, then the UI is quite intuitive!
Bonus:
Supports SVG!
Good for creating SVG Animations too! Just save the file and use a text editor to tweak the code and add animations.
Great for making SVG designs for your websites too!
Plugins to improve and add to the functionalities.
Being an open source software, you can even fix bugs, improve existing features or even add functionalities your own (of course, only if you are familiar with some coding)! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
The cons:
Quite CPU intensive and should be optimized.
Not good for frame by frame animations.
Applied modifiers may not be compatible when exported to other formats like SIF (Synfig Studio file format) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you like best?
It's Free and Easy to Use!
At first, you might have doubts about the true potential of this design software, but after using it, you realize that is not the design software that you use that makes amazing designs, rather, is your creativity, dedication, and joy doing what you love.
Easy to Create Vectors:
I highly recommend this for those who are in the font industry.
Exporting Several Objects at the same time:
When you have a bunch of separate designs (icons. logos etc.) in the same document, Inkscape allows you to save them as a whole, or, individually, making Inkscake very timesaving software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
Exporting/Saving Your Designs:
What I dislike about Inkscape is that is limited in terms of speed and in saving formats.
You can not save your designs as a jpeg, only as png or svg. This is a little disappointing because you need to use other software besides Inkscape to convert your svg or png to jpeg.
Tracing Bitmaps:
The tracer tool is very limited, and freezes easily, the software cant handle heavy tracing process.
Gradients:
Applying gradients to objects is something that you have to deal with. If you are used to other software like Corel, you might feel a little frustrated as the gradient by default changes if you move an object. There is an option that you can use to solve this problem, there is a button in the tools control bar, on "select tool" that allows you to move gradients along with the objects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you like best?
It is by far, one of the most significant vector graphics software I have used since my early Adobe Suite and CorelDraw days; before they migrated to encouraging cloud-based subscription versions.
I realise too, all these renown brands became a little costly for young startups and freelancers to afford, hence encouraging pirated software to flood the market.
Inkscape timely positioned itself as a decent alternative, for its amazing features that were reasonably compatible in many respects, and similar to those that designers were acquainted with using earlier branded versions.
What would have enticed many loyalists to migrate to Inkscape could have been, and probably still is – Inkscape is easily downloadable from the Web and subscription-free!
Besides, there are also loads of YouTube tutorials and forums that users can count on to seek out solutions or resolve ambiguities.
Unless a design team is looking towards creating dynamic graphics across a variety of software, the standalone Inkscape software meets most audio-visual designers'/publishers' productivity criteria. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
Nothing that would stifle my design production work. Inkscape will certainly make a mark in this segment if it offered a variety of integrated programs. Image editing software that allows such integration would be a marvellous add-on!
PDF-related features like merging and compressing files would make the application more alluring. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you like best?
What I like the best about Inkscape is that is a very useful program to help with my designs. I love the fact that it is also free! That is always a plus when I am using programs on the Internet. I use this to make banners, designs, logos, and fonts. I can tailor it for my specific designs based on what I am creating! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
There are very few cons or complaints that I can state when reviewing this product. If I had to choose something, it would be that it can get "laggy" or bogged down due to it not being a super fast program if I am creating many different paths in a project. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you like best?
* Huge variety of extensions supported.
*100% free and community-based.
*Covers Advanced vector editing features.
*Ability to trace images to vectors.
*Can be seamlessly connected with Openshot to create beautiful, gradient-based effects in the text used over videos.
*Used with with CANVA and GIMP, this will be all that you need if you are someone like me who designs occasionally and that too for business purposes only.
*For starters, tutorials are available on youtube to get started with basic vector editing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
*If you are a MAC user, the recent rollout is damn slow. Windows version is seamless though.
*Limited export extensions can often land you in trouble as most printers (at least in India) will ask for CDR format whereas Inkscape will help you mostly with SVG and PDF.
*The colours supported are HEX and not CMYK. So when sent for print, some colours might appear to be something different altogether. There are online tools to change colour codes but none of them is effective. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you like best?
Intuitive easy to use interface, a lot of filters, and it is absolutely free. There are a lot of tutorials available online if you want to learn Inkscape and they have a very helpful online community. The ability to export to many common formats, both vector (EPS, PostScript, PDF, AI and others) and raster. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
Can freeze from time to time as it can be demanding for some devices. Doesn’t support CYMK color system. No preview mode to check out the effects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you like best?
I like that I can easily edit and make designs in the software without any problems. Hands down the best part about Inkscape is that it's free and it's accessible to everyone. The software is easy to use and you can easily learn the mechanics of the software. There is no guessing and prodding around with it. Once you learn how to use it, Inkscape is the easiest software to use. It offers all the tools you could ever need and it has a lot of useful extensions for more specific needs. Inkscape is also open software and they encourage their users t to add onto it for more features. It uses primarily SVG files, but you can import almost any kind of file into the software. The software and company are so good, I've never had to contact them for anything. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
There isn't a lot to say about my dislikes on Inkscape. It has some trouble printing larger files. I can't print 11x17 paper or anything bigger directly from Inkscape. I always have to export the file and print it in a different way. Other than that, I can't say that I have a lot of problems with Inkscape. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you like best?
I also highly value the fact that there is a Portuguese version, making it even more democratic and accessible to anyone. It is also possible to easily find the manuals entirely in Portuguese, which facilitates the search for some functionality. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
The fact that the interface does not yet have night or cloud mode. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you like best?
This is one of the best programs to edit images and to create new lines inspectors and edit everything it's actually one of the best programs I ever try Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
Some commands are quite confusing and authors are like difficult to understand Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you like best?
Inkscape is an alternative to other image editing software that has multiple advantages. It mainly has the characteristics of importing and exporting vector-based formats. Another important feature is that it focuses on maintaining a thriving community of users and developers, through an open development system that is very easy to use, learn and improve. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
A point that always plays in comment is not having a preview of effects and filters. This is always useful to speed up the results and generate a product exactly what the client or designer wants. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you like best?
If you have never done vector graphics, Inkscape is a great place to start. Inkscape is Open Source software, meaning you can download it and try it out. The creators ask for a donation but this means laying out far less money than for proprietary software.
The wonderful thing about Inkscape is that not only is it a good starting point, primarily because of price, it is also a program that can take you into doing professional-quality work. It has most of the features of other (high-priced) software. If you look around on Youtube and Google, you can find professional designers who use Inkscape and who can tell you how to make Inkscape do what its expensive counterparts do.
Some people fear downloading and using Open Source software such as Inkscape because they worry about technical support. Inkscape has a wiki, a webpage created by many Inkscape programmers and users, with a lot of information about how to use Inkscape and how to solve problems with it. The learning portion of the Inkscape website has video tutorials and other information. There is also a community forum which offers several ways of getting in contact with more expert users.
Additionally, Inkscape has been around long enough that there are many resources across the web for learning what you can do and how to do it. For example, there are videos on Youtube from a range of people.
Inkscape can take you from the trial phase of learning about vector graphic design all the way to being able to do that professionally, and all this for a great price. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
I've used Inkscape on Windows, Linux (Debian distros), and Mac. You'd think that Mac, with its appeal to artists, would be the easiest place to use Inkscape. The Mac version has improved in that now you do not have to download another program just to make it work. The current version of the program acts like any other program you download, where you click on the file and install. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you like best?
On 2D Drawing Inkscape is no one design tool with a very powerful features and very accessible.
The tool price is very much friendly and the image editing capabilities are good, easy rendering and data importation and exporting to other product.
i also like the fact that the tool is a free platform with a very simple interface which is very easy to customize. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
Inkfcape is a very friendly too and even the tool installation was very easy and i also like quality services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you like best?
I like that you can import all kinds of different files and use them all together to make one thing. I also like that you can change the colors on all files that you import into the software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
I don't like that I have to save the project I'm working on my computer as an SVG and then separately export it as a PNG file. I would like to save it and export it as one file, not two separate things. It also does this weird thing where when you export it everything has to be showing on the screen or else it will export it cut off. Like you can't export it if it's zoomed in because it will only export what is showing on the screen. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you like best?
Inkscape is the easiest program I've found to change or create SVG image files. I commonly use SVG files in creating websites, because they can adjust to the screen size without becoming pixelated, but working with SVG files can be difficult because you cannot use a standard image editor to modify them. Inkscape allows you to click specific nodes of an image and adjust as needed, change colors, add text, as well as adjust the size to exact inches or pixels. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
Inkscape can be difficult to use for anyone not familiar with the layout of a similar editor. Their help section is not as detailed as I would have liked and it would have been extremely helpful to have an introductory tutorial that explained the features and how to use the program. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you like best?
The well layed out tools, the shortcuts and controls together helps attain an extremely productive workflow. It is a free and open source software but numerpowerful extensions and features. The available features options and second to none. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
The raster format export options and the lack of support for CMYK colour space. Sometimes it freezes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you like best?
It's a free tool that allows you to easily create graphics. You don't need to be a expert to create illustrations, but if you have knowledge you can use advanced features to create a lot of graphics. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
I you use this tool for years and didn't have any problems yet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you like best?
I am attracted by your graphics for vector works in the open source system, obtaining more interest in its design, free of charge for all users close to this system, defining it as the point that I like the most, its free function, in different creations and the manipulation of objects allow customization to taste of its operators, who are mainly professional designers in the application of developer management in a wide network of sectors, be it marketing, branding and among other highlights of the subject, to throughout digital web Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
It does not offer template models for the objective creation of any idea in the execution process, since you must already know what you are going to do without the help tools for the elaboration of the project, this makes it possible to delay your process of allowing it to be implemented the sophisticated theme obtaining problematic results since it is not shown what was expected at the time of verification for the acceptance of oneself, all this is a detrimental drawback when mentioning that it does not contain an animation system for everything. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.