LaTeX Video Tutorials

If you are not a Redditor you are a lucky person. It's a one way traffic scenario with no dead end. Once you subscribe to Reddit there is no way back and it is no good being there. I am expecting my colleagues to have an intervention for my Reddit addiction soon but till then I am all here to invest (read:waste) my precious time. Since we got that out of our way, let us get back to business. Today, we are going to see how to draw a cartoon figure using LaTeX. The motivation behind this post is /r/latex on Reddit as I wanted that subreddit to have its logo drawn in LaTeX. I did not know it already was in LaTeX but it seems my work is appreciated there so I am going to contribute my 2 cents to the community. Specifically, we will learn following things in this tutorial: How to work with Colors - defining RGB colors in LaTeX. How to use multiple layers to set order of document objects (send to back, bring forward like functionality). How to use Arcs in an effective way....

This tutorial is an extension of previous video tutorial on how to use tikz for image creation in Latex . In this video I explain how to set up your document for flow chat design. This equally applies to any other image that uses similar structure. Specifically, in this video I talk about following things: How to create a flow chart How to setup styles for reusable components of an image How to draw arrows from one component to other How to change the styles of components How to change the arrowhead for Latex arrows How to align components left, right, top, and below of each other The code use:d in the video is here: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{tikz} \usetikzlibrary{shapes,shadows,arrows} \begin{document} \tikzstyle{decision} = [diamond, draw, fill=blue!50] \tikzstyle{line} = [draw, -stealth, thick] \tikzstyle{elli}=[draw, ellipse, fill=red!50,minimum height=8mm, text width=5em, text centered] \tikzstyle{block} = [draw, rectangle, fill=blue!50, text width...

Tikz is one of the most widely used packages for image creation in Latex. It has so much that there is absolutely nothing that you can't draw with latex and can with some other tool. In this tutorial we explain the basics of Tikz. We go over the basic shapes, how to draw them, how to understand the co-ordinates, and positioning of the components of an image.  Specifically, this tutorial demonstrates: How to draw a rectangle in Latex using TikZ How to draw a ellipse in Latex using TikZ How to draw a circle in Latex using TikZ How to draw an arc in Latex using TikZ How to fill the shapes with colors How to change the line styles - solid, dashed etc. The code for this experiment is here: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{tikz} \usetikzlibrary{shapes, arrows, shadows} \begin{document} \begin{tikzpicture} \draw[fill=blue] (2,3) ellipse (2 and 3); \draw[fill=red, style=dashed] (2,3) circle (2); \draw (0,0) rectangle (4,4); \draw[fill=red!50] (1,2)...