Hi; I am using a photo to create a vector image. Before creating the vector from the photo, I clipped the photo so that I could only vectorize the part of the phot which I am interested in. However, when I use the 'Trace bitmap' command, the result still has a trace of the part that was clipped! (see B/W part below) how can that be?
How can I get rid of the clipped part so that the trace is only done in the center? Regards
Do you have any bitmap editor at hand like GIMP? I´d erase all the unnecessary parts and load just the point of interest into Inkscape for auto-tracing - as Inkscape sees the whole Image all the time even when clipped or masked.
Hi @Polygon wow, I wouldn't have thought that the clipping done by inkscape is not an actual clipping at all!. Why is that? But yes I can clip/crop the image with Gimp. Thank you
For most cases it seems sufficient and it works on vector data as well. What works inside Inkscape is after clipping go Edit->Make a Bitmap Copy and autotrace this - just make sure the bitmap is not down-scaled to maintain resolution.
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Hi;
I am using a photo to create a vector image.
Before creating the vector from the photo, I clipped the photo so that I could only vectorize the part of the phot which I am interested in.
However, when I use the 'Trace bitmap' command, the result still has a trace of the part that was clipped! (see B/W part below) how can that be?
How can I get rid of the clipped part so that the trace is only done in the center?
Regards
Do you have any bitmap editor at hand like GIMP? I´d erase all the unnecessary parts and load just the point of interest into Inkscape for auto-tracing - as Inkscape sees the whole Image all the time even when clipped or masked.
Hi @Polygon wow, I wouldn't have thought that the clipping done by inkscape is not an actual clipping at all!. Why is that?
But yes I can clip/crop the image with Gimp.
Thank you
For most cases it seems sufficient and it works on vector data as well. What works inside Inkscape is after clipping go Edit->Make a Bitmap Copy and autotrace this - just make sure the bitmap is not down-scaled to maintain resolution.
good to know!