Now go to Path Menu (either click on the menu at the top or use shortcut Alt+P) and click on object to path. Click on the canvas and drag from top to bottom, moving very slightly towards right to create an oval.

Click to the tool which is depicted with a circle, its tooltip says, 'Create circles, ellipses and arcs'. To create a flower, we will first of create an ellipse. Just click on the tool and click, drag and drop on the canvas. You can start playing around with these tools - creating circles, rectangles, polygons, stars and spirals. When you open InkScape for the first time, you'll find a lot of tools lying in the toolbars at Left Hand Side. And so they might be helpful to a layman to computer graphics. This series of InkScape tutorials is intended for novices - absolute beginners who do not have any clue how to start with their vector designs. InkScape has a great UI but there are lot of tips and tricks along with shortcuts which can make life easier. However, if you're new to vector editing, than thinking in terms of vectors for your designs will add the steepness to your learning curve. Using this free vector graphics editor you can create complex designs, beautiful borders, colorful patterns and amazing abstract illustrations. As already discussed in a previous article, InkScape is an open source software for editing vector graphics.

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