Inkscape 1.2 Trace Bitmap

[@surij8376]

I'm just getting started with Inkscape. This was an amazing tutorial. Thank you!!

[@CreateForFree]

You're very welcome!

[@YSJDesigns]

Thanks sir,your really good at teaching this inkscape stuff im learning very fast from you

[@CreateForFree]

You're welcome, I'm glad you are finding my videos helpful.

[@lancecluster]

Wow, I have used inkscape for years, but only doing basic things - announcements for PEG TV station, this is a whole new level and you made it very easy to follow along.

[@CreateForFree]

Thanks, hope you find it useful

[@SteveMacSticky]

thanks for showing me the clip group tool. I didn't know it was more versatile than I thought

[@Gaswafers]

The clip group tool just applies a clip and a group at the same time. It's kind of a pointer to the more obscure functionality of clips and groups.

[@SteveMacSticky]

@@Gaswafers yeah I didn't know that you could edit and design like the video was showing in clip groups. it's very useful. I didn't notice this before

[@CreateForFree]

I think I explained them in more detail in the video below: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nqWXqJeZmpWll5Y They can be really useful.

[@kimburgy9687]

I love your inkscape tutorials. Easy to follow, well explained. Thank you! :)

[@CreateForFree]

Thanks

[@StoneHazeCraze]

YOU ARE BRILLIANT ! I never thought I would ever be designing anything like this , first try and bingo 😆 I'm very tech challenged being an ol' girl but with your instructions being very clear,slow and precise your videos are 100% perfect for us beginners . Thank you and thank you again for taking the time to teach us noobs ❤️

[@CreateForFree]

Thank you, if I had an award for best comment of the week, I think you would have won it. Glad I could help

[@StoneHazeCraze]

😆, there is a lot of us ol' girls now looking for help in designing as a majority are starting to use cricut and like . Most get stuck in cricut design space which is severely limited but we stay there as we know were tech challenged . Videos like you do help us tremendously and leave many of us smiling ☺️

[@WriterLady]

Really nice tutorial, thank you! Just subscribed. 👍

[@CreateForFree]

Thanks for subscribing

[@daliborklusacek2095]

I already tried it, great idea

[@Rosinah52]

Brilliant! can't wait to look and rest of your videos. Was only trying to find some free software similar to 2D design so downloaded Inkscape and now found you!

[@CreateForFree]

Thanks, I was originally attracted by Inkscape price tag. It's pretty good for a free vector graphics editor.

[@davidnestico932]

Excellent tutorial - Thanks. I’ve learned a lot from all your videos

[@CreateForFree]

Glad to help

[@daliborklusacek2095]

beautiful, where did you manage to get the picture with the heart and birds?

[@CreateForFree]

I got both the heart and bird outline and the photo of the girl from pixabay.com. How did your image turn out? Good I hope

[@daliborklusacek2095]

@@CreateForFree it turned out well, thanks for asking

[@79twilson]

Great tutorial! Thank you!

[@CreateForFree]

You're welcome

[@Jem7sk]

Very cool!

[@CreateForFree]

Thanks

[@billholder253]

After creating multiple pages in Inkscape 2, I cannot get all pages or a selected page to be printed directly to the printer, Inkscape only prints page 1. It will not print other pages. However, if I do 'Save As' then select 'PDF' portable document format, it will save "all" of the pages. Do you know how to print from Inkscape and not do a 'Save As' 'PDF'?

[@CreateForFree]

I know there was an issue with this problem when Inkscape 1.2 was released, I don't know if it been fixed in 1.2.1 or 1.2.2. If you're not up to the latest release, might be worth up dating just incase.

[@billholder253]

@@CreateForFree Just did an upgrade to 1.2.2, had the same results as earlier. The PDF will produce pages & Export as PNG produce one large image, but has all pages as one large image. One could select what they wanted and do a copy and place in another image. Then just do the same for the other images. Oh well, will have to wait for more improvements to come. Thanks a lot for your help although. Your site is great, I like t very much. Bill in Van Alstyne, Texas

[@dmsalisbury]

This is cool.

[@CreateForFree]

Thanks 👍

[@jenniferramirez1636]

Mines is not doing anyhting after i hit diff. What am i doing wrong???!!!

[@CreateForFree]

When using Boolean operators (Union, Difference, etc.) you need select both paths and make sure that both elements are paths and there are no groups. I think when I imported the heart image it was a bitmap image and not a vector so I traced it with the Trace bitmap tool to create a path (if you are not sure if it is a bitmap image, you can change to the nodes tool - a vector path will have nodes around it). You can select each element in turn and click ungroup a couple of times to ensure there are no groups - if you do get multiple bounding boxes then you can union them together. If you think there may be a path effect applied (or just for good measure) you can click on Path - Object to path to convert it into a normal path. If it still doesn't work, you can test if there is a glitch with your file by using the rectangle tool to draw 2 rectangles of different sizes, smallest on top. Select them both and click, Path - Difference, if that doesn't work. open a new document and try again. You can often copy and paste a design from one glitchy document to another to fix the problem.