Not sure what you expect. You know the difference between vector and bitmap graphics, Inkscape and GIMP, Illustrator and Photoshop? Although Inkscape has a broad arsenal on tools like filters, masking etc in its drawers. Depends on what you´re trying to achieve.
How do you come to this conclusion? You can import all kind of raster graphics file formats, along with container files like PDF, EPS. You can do all kind of things to the bitmap formats as I said like masking, applying tons of filters or convert into vector graphic by bitmap tracing. What do you want to do especially?
Oh dear - you have at least indirectly answered the question: "Do you know the difference between vector and bitmap graphics, Inkscape and GIMP, Illustrator and Photoshop?"
Please use a search engine of your choice with the question: vector vs raster graphic.
The import tool just loads whatever you throw at it (but doesn't modify it).
This means: if you import a bitmap image (jpg, png, ...) - it will give the bitmap image a place on the canvas. Now you can do all kinds of stuff on that that Inkscape can do with bitmaps. I'm thinking of stuff like:
trace bitmap (turn it into a vector image)
clip and mask
use the color picker on it
...
Bitmap images (even if they are a crisp logo) aren't directly returnable into native shapes. Imagine a logo of a sun (yellow circle) behind a mountain (black triangle). Even when saving the image in a million megapixels... you'll loose the piece of the sun that is behind the mountain. That data just isn't in the bitmap.
The other way around... turning a photograph into a vector image is really tricky... just try taking a photo of yourself and tracing that.
Bitmap and vector are different formats, with very distinct (but useful) use cases.
Beyond the Basics Importing .jpg Files
Inkscape.org
Hi everybody :
I notice that you can import .jpg files. But they can't
be edited. The Inkscape tools won't work on them.
garytan52
Not sure what you expect. You know the difference between vector and bitmap graphics, Inkscape and GIMP, Illustrator and Photoshop? Although Inkscape has a broad arsenal on tools like filters, masking etc in its drawers. Depends on what you´re trying to achieve.
Polygon :
I didn't realize that he IMPORT tool was only for backgrounds
garystan52
How do you come to this conclusion? You can import all kind of raster graphics file formats, along with container files like PDF, EPS. You can do all kind of things to the bitmap formats as I said like masking, applying tons of filters or convert into vector graphic by bitmap tracing. What do you want to do especially?
Polygon :
Re: Importing .jpg Files
Whenever I imported a .jpg file, I couldn't use NODES or FILTERs on it. when I clicked on it, I
got the "sizing" arrows. Then when I clicked on PATH>OBJECT TO PATH, then NODES, the "sizing"
arrows disappeared, and then no editing tools worked.
garystan52
Oh dear - you have at least indirectly answered the question: "Do you know the difference between vector and bitmap graphics, Inkscape and GIMP, Illustrator and Photoshop?"
Please use a search engine of your choice with the question: vector vs raster graphic.
This was BTW my last advice in your direction as it seems you´re not following a single proposal on your own generated 17 topics.
Maybe this will help.
https://www.psprint.com/resources/difference-between-raster-vector/
The import tool just loads whatever you throw at it (but doesn't modify it).
This means: if you import a bitmap image (jpg, png, ...) - it will give the bitmap image a place on the canvas. Now you can do all kinds of stuff on that that Inkscape can do with bitmaps. I'm thinking of stuff like:
Bitmap images (even if they are a crisp logo) aren't directly returnable into native shapes. Imagine a logo of a sun (yellow circle) behind a mountain (black triangle). Even when saving the image in a million megapixels... you'll loose the piece of the sun that is behind the mountain. That data just isn't in the bitmap.
The other way around... turning a photograph into a vector image is really tricky... just try taking a photo of yourself and tracing that.
Bitmap and vector are different formats, with very distinct (but useful) use cases.