TheĬreative Commons License also allows for the creation of derivative works.#1 GrannyGrump 02-06-2014, 04:17 AM A Mini-tutorial on bitmap tracing.Įdited / updated 16 April 2014 to add information in steps 8, 9, 10, and a link in the P.S. The licenseĪllows wikiHow content to be used freely for noncommercial purposes. WikiHow licenses all content under a Creative Commons License. wikiHow articles help people solve their everyday problems. WikiHow is a group effort to create a great resource: the world's largest free

Select and drag nodes or curves with your mouse pointer. To edit and fine tune the result, click on the tool in the Then drag it off the top of the bitmap image. The vector image will be on top of the bitmap image. Experiment with different options and change the variables to find Optimize paths will try to join adjacent Bezier curves.Ĥ.Suppress speckles will eliminate any spots, dust, distortion, and other unwanted bits.Remove Background will take the background away.Stack scans will stack scans on top of another instead of tiling.

Smooth applies Gaussian blur to the bitmap before tracing.

Grays is like colors, but finds only grayscale colors.Colors finds an amount of colors specified.Brightness steps finds the difference in brightness.Multiple scans (Many paths, overlapping to create one picture) is good for multiple colors. Invert image will invert the colors of the bitmap if you think the faces-vase drawing is better inverted.Color quantization traces along the boundaries of reduced colors.Brightness cutoff finds the edges with brightness difference.Go to Path and click on Trace Bitmap (or Shift-Alt-B). Tracing an image in Inkscape can be used to vectorize (convert from rasterĢ. You to edit and resize the image much more easily. To draw, you manipulate vectors, rather than bitmap pixels. Inkscape is a free, open source, vector graphics application.

Inkscape trace bitmap text