Learn how to use free and open source graphic design software like Inkscape and GIMP.

I'm Nick Saporito; graphic designer, educator, and the creator of Logos By Nick. All of my lessons are reinforced by 10 years of experience working with thousands of clients as a freelance logo and branding designer.

Unlock your creative potential with my extensive library of Inkscape and GIMP tutorials where you'll learn everything from logo design, desktop publishing, user interface design, branding design, and more. Each lesson includes step-by-step instructions with voice narration.


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What are your pet peeves with Inkscape?

A member of the Inkscape UX team ("ltlnx") reached out and wanted me to ask you all.

With version 1.5 coming out hopefully this year, they'd like to know what annoyances you have with your everyday usage, whether that's inconveniences, bugs, quirks, or other things.

Leave a comment below to let them know! I'll be sharing a link to this post, so your feedback will be heard. Thanks in advance!

7 months ago | [YT] | 134

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Using the Spray Tool in Inkscape to spray a snowflake pattern using 25 various snowflake designs that I created.

Free download with instructions for how to use it will go out to mailing list subscribers tomorrow. Join here: join.logosbynick.com/

9 months ago | [YT] | 214

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If you're looking for some design elements to enhance your experience in Inkscape, be sure to subscribe to my newsletter to get my free bundle of 200+ vector design elements. Included are logos, icons, textures, infographics, avatars, and more.

Each month I send out additional free design assets, which you'll be the first to receive. You can subscribe and grab a copy here: join.logosbynick.com/

10 months ago | [YT] | 216

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For any of you looking to get acquainted with Affinity Designer, I've put together an introductory tutorial for beginners and new users on my other channel. I'll be uploading Affinity tutorials regularly so subscribe if you want more (don't worry I'm not abandoning Inkscape!)

1 year ago | [YT] | 90

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I'm curious where you're all at with GIMP these days. Admittedly, I haven't used it in a while. Do you still use GIMP?

1 year ago | [YT] | 164

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Inkscape Update: Version 1.3.1 was just released earlier today. Nothing major to report but a few notable mentions- objects created in the Shape Builder now have an appropriate amount of nodes, improved functionality of the Layers menu and Page Tool, and fixes to a bunch of issues that cause crashing, which is always good to see. Check the Inkscape website for the full release notes and happy 20th birthday to Inkscape!

1 year ago | [YT] | 355

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Very grateful that so many of you have stuck around 🙏 I'll be uploading 3X per week until I run out of ideas. Thanks for all your support!

2 years ago | [YT] | 511

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How stable has Inkscape 1.2 been for you?

2 years ago | [YT] | 54

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Last year I made a tutorial about creating ebooks and multi-page documents with Inkscape. Inkscape doesn't have the ability to save multi-page documents though, so we had to save each page individually and use a third-party app to merge the PDFs together.



This is an area where Inkscape falls short to Illustrator and other apps, but thankfully there is a solution in the works.


One of Inkscape's developers (Martin Owens) reached out to me recently to show me the new multi-PDF saving feature he's been working on. Check out the videos on his channel if you want to see how it works. He even has links to developer builds that you can download and try out for yourself if you want.

3 years ago | [YT] | 76

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To those of you who are Mac users: what problems do you run into when using Inkscape and GIMP on the Mac OS? Are there any advantages or disadvantages that you’ve noticed?

4 years ago | [YT] | 126