Inkscape Question

[Lodovico]

Hello,

I've started messing with Inkscape and I'm having trouble determining the right size to export an image to be a proper sized beer label.

I realize that the starting box on a new document is an 8.5 X 11 sheet but does anyone have a simple vector graphic drawn that is the proper size for a beer label when using Inkscape??

If you do, could you post it hear, so folks could import it into inkscape and work with it. I realize it's vector and you can shrink down anything you design, but I'd still like a point of reference.

At the same time, does anyone have a neck label template already drawn that they could post for users here that want to create a neck label but are useless with the drawing function of inkscape??

If anyone could post these, I think a lot of us incompetent folks would be very grateful.

 

[Edcculus]

Just make your document size the size you want your label to be.

I wish I could help you more. I use Illustrator, and I haven't bothered to make neck labels.

 

[Lodovico]

I guess I'm more looking for someone that has already drawn out the neck label shape that I could use for all of my brews. Thanks!

 

[Lodovico]

Can anyone help here? I'm sure someone that is good with inkscape could whip up this shape in two minutes. Anyone willing to do this?

 

[snail]

All I did for my neck label shape was take one off my local micro brew bottles, scan it, and delete everything in it to put whatever I wanted in it. But that was in photoshop, not a vector program.

 

[Turlian]

If you can do the steps that snail did, it's super easy to convert to a vector drawing. Just open the scanned image in inkscape, hit shift-alt-b and play with the settings in the new window until it finds the edge of the label.

Actually, it'll probably be easier if you scan the back of a label rather than the front, so you won't end up with a ton of extra vector points (due to the words / images / whatever on the front).

 

[Turlian]

Actually, if somebody already has a scanned neck label already, I'd be happy to vectorize it.

 

[Turlian]

Nevermind, I've created one. Here's the file:

http://www.assinine.com/beer%20neck%20label.svg

Right click on the image and choose "save as..."

 

[Lodovico]

Nevermind, I've created one. Here's the file:

http://www.assinine.com/beer%20neck%20label.svg

Right click on the image and choose "save as..."

You're the man. Thank you.