If your image have a lot of colors, then you must select the configuration shown below: the most important is select COLORS, SCANS (is the numbers of color that have the image, in this case 4), check box REMOVE BACKGROUND, and uncheck STACK SCANS (this is done to prevent the layers from overlapping, ideal when you are cutting vinyl, because you are not interested in mounting one color of vinyl on another.).Once the image is vectorized or traced, you can select from the left sidebar the option FILL BOUNDED AREA, then pick a color below To give color to each area of the new image.

After clic in OK and ready, the obtained result is a vectorial image That you can cut with your cutting machine.If your image is black and white select the options, that are shown below: Color quatization 2 Everything else you can leave by default, because it is not important for this type of images.From the top toolbar, select: PATH/TRACE BITMAP, a new window will open.Open Inkscape copy ( Ctrl+c) any image that want to trace and paste ( Ctrl+v) this image in inkscape.I will not explain the installation because it is a simple process, it is just a matter of selecting next…. If you don’t have this software, then download HERE. But in this tutorial you’ll learn how to trace color images too. When you use google image you can select additional options, in TOOLS, then select in size the option LARGE and in Color tab select BLACK AND WHITE.īlack and white images are the easiest to trace or convert to svg. This is the key to get a good result, so I’ll give you some tips You can search in: Pixabay, unsplash, google image This last one is the most popular. I know that many people do not like to read I have noticed every time that receive an email asking me for the password to access my free digital library And this key is received in the welcome email once subscribed to my newsletters.

Images are included for easy tracking of each step. After you can open this svg file for example in Design space Then cut in vinyl, HTV or anyother material. In this tutorial you will learn how to do all of the above, step by step in a very simple way. Inkscape is a free and complete software of design You can create easily SVG file from any image. Trace image with inkscape and convert to svg

Convert an image to vector inkscape