Create a simple wallpaper with Fedora and Inkscape

In our previous two Inkscape articles, we have covered the basics of using Inkscape, creating objects, and doing some basic manipulations and color changes.

In this next installment, we are going to put all these new skills together, and create our first composition — a simple wallpaper.

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Document Properties…

. In the Custom Size section of the Document Properties dialog, enter the width of 1024px, and a height of 768px:

Exporting your background

Finally, we need to export our document as a PNG file. Open up the export dialog with FILE > EXPORT PNG, select the file location and name, make sure the Drawing  tab is pressed, and click on EXPORT

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Let no tool be a barrier to your imagination. Come up with beautiful wallpapers and submit the designs for FEDORA 25 wallpapers. Your design might get lucky enough to be used by thousands of Fedora users. Here are some examples of wallpapers created with Inkscape and the techniques above:

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5 Comments

  1. Ivan Augusto

    Loving this Inkscape series 😀
    Today I “convert” some png to svg for a web project. Inkscape is simple, fast and fun!

  2. AndyMender

    I use Inkscape for creating scientific figures for presentations and publications. People are always amazed, thinking that I’m using Adobe Illustrator. Hope I’ll manage to convince them at some point that Inkscape is indeed great!

  3. antikythera

    submissions for Fedora 25 supplemental wallpaper are already closed and wallpapers have been voted for and packaged. any created wallpapers using this tutorial would no doubt be welcome as submissions when the time comes next year though. keep an eye out for the Fedora Magazine article.

  4. antikythera

    submissions for Fedora 25 supplemental wallpaper are already closed and wallpapers have been voted for and packaged. any created wallpapers using this tutorial would no doubt be welcome as submissions when the time comes next year though for F26. keep an eye out for the Fedora Magazine article.

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