

Now that I have drawn my path, I’ll grab my select tool from the Toolbox (red arrow in the image above). Note that if you hold the ctrl key on your keyboard while you drag your mouse, it will draw your line in “straight line mode.” Step 2: Customize Line Settings and Add Markers to Your Path Next, move your mouse to the location where you’d like to place your second node, then left-click once again to create the node (red arrow in the image above). With the Pen Tool selected, left-click on your composition to create your first node (red arrow in the image above). For this example, I’ll simply draw a straight line to make things easy. Note that you can create arrows from either straight or curved lines. Let’s get into it! Step 1: Draw a Pathįor starters, you’ll want to draw a path using the Pen Tool (also known as the “Draw Bezier Curves Tool” or “Paths Tool”), which you can access via the icon in the Toolbox (red arrow in the image above) or by using the “B” shortcut key.

Extract the downloaded file.In this help article, I’ll be showing you how simple it is to add arrows to your Inkscape composition! Arrows are a great way to spice up your graphics, draw attention to items in a composition, or even demonstrate connections between objects, among other uses. That will download the ZIP file on your computer. Fortunately, they keep on updating it as well. Here are the steps to download and use the arrow plugin in GIMP:ġ. It’s a very useful plugin, so it’s worth hunting down to solve your arrow-based problems. Thankfully, the original plugin is still available at other sources. Add Arrows Using PluginĪpart from the above method, you were previously able to head to the plugin site and download a script that could handle all your arrow-based needs without an issue. You can also save it for future use as shown in method 4.Īlso read: How to Create a Logo Using Google Drawings 2. (Find more GIMP keyboard shortcuts in our cheatsheet.) With the key pressed, click again on the canvas to draw a straight line. Click once on your image where you want one of the arrow to begin.
