
Get the perspective you would like using the perspective effect. Each text piece has to be converted to path. Llogg wrote:I think the way to do this in inkscape is very tedious but possible. If I get a few minutes when I'm not dead from not sleeping for 30 hrs I'll do a sample of what I mean. If you want you can make the highlights fairly easily as well for the edges. Then take original text piece and align over them. Now take your side and bottom and align them properly and send to back. The trick is to get the same offset for both. Take the bottom piece and change the fill to a lighter or darker shade as you wish and do the same. Now take the side piece and duplicate it offset these duplicates and do effects>generate from path>interpolate. You need to separate the bottom from the sides using path>break apart, and playing with the nodes and breaking the path. Now you have what would be the bottom and side of the 3D piece. Then select both duplicates and do path>difference. Then duplicate text twice and offset the duplicates at the perspective you want. I think the way to do this in inkscape is very tedious but possible. Start with the, then convert object (the 1) to path. Here is 5 minutes of play with perspective extrude and path operations. The "sparkling highlight can be made with the Depending on how new you are inkscape you need to look at tutorial on path operations, perspective, gradients, and either importing patterns or patterns to path. To get the points on the vines use live path effects to add a triangle as a pattern to that path. Or draw the flowers and vines in by hand. And convert to a patter and apply that patten as fill.

And gimp has a crude perspective function and gradients of it's own. The flowers on the faces of the numbers and letter could either be done as a bit map in something like Gimp: You can get flower brushes for gimp. But the order you'd do it in is pretty much the same as the illustrator tutorial. ĭepending on how new you are to inkscape you will probably have to look at a few tutorials on inkscape.

It might be fastest to put the beveling around the numbers and letters in by hand. You want perspective and extrusion functions on the effects menu. (Might want to use a short cut to get the flowers by doing them in Gimp). I don't see anything there you can't do in inkscape right off the top of my head.
