I am working on importing images into inkscape to work with.
I have a jpeg I’m working with and want to outline the image. Any good suggestions on the process or videos to help guide me?
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There are plenty of videos on-line for details on how to trace. I’m thinking it will depend a lot on how much contrast there is for what you want to outline. Be sure to use the preview to get an idea of what will happen but also just apply the trace and hide the (original) image layer to see the results. “Un-do” is your friend. If you just aren’t getting anything close to what you want, post the image here and ask for more guidance.
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Thank you. I finally found a couple good videos. I’ll will reach out if I hit any blocks.
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“Trace bitmap” is the instant way to do it… sometimes it’s not exactly what you want but on a clear black and white image it’s a good first cut.
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You… just broke about three project freezes…
You know when the process is suddenly not right for your brain or you aren’t sure you can pull something off so you put everything into a box and set it aside.
Yea that just rebooted some doom boxes.
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“Trace bitmap” is the instant way to do it… sometimes it’s not exactly what you want but on a clear black and white image it’s a good first cut.
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And of course none of those projects are the ones I’m supposed to be working on…
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On Thu, Aug 15, 2024, 19:40 James Seymour <james.a.seymour@makeict.org> wrote:
You… just broke about three project freezes…
You know when the process is suddenly not right for your brain or you aren’t sure you can pull something off so you put everything into a box and set it aside.
Yea that just rebooted some doom boxes.
On Thu, Aug 15, 2024, 05:02 Kim Burton via MakeICT Forum <noreply@talk.makeict.org> wrote:
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“Trace bitmap” is the instant way to do it… sometimes it’s not exactly what you want but on a clear black and white image it’s a good first cut.
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I was learning the trace bitmap. It turned out it was the image I had. Most of the trace processes just pulled the watermark out more clearly. I have since worked with some regular images and it works absolutely wonderfully.
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Huzzah!
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Of course, lol.
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Same person and kind of the same issue.
Finally made it into try some of my designs and most of them worked out.
I cleaned up the skull image, but it wants to cut it out like a printer and not tracing it as my other projects have done.
Would someone mind giving me a hand and how would I get the file to you?
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In inkscape is it “Filled in”? It should only have an outline that is .001" in order to guarantee a cut instead of a raster.
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I’ve cleared the fill and set colors for the strokes if that’s what you mean.
Going to try Trace bitmap once more. Just hoping I don’t have to do it with the besier tool, lol.
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In inkscape is it “Filled in”? It should only have an outline that is .001" in order to guarantee a cut instead of a raster.
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