inkscape making transparent image png to vector

Inkscape making transparent image png to vector how to#

but when I do this, it appears to also have a white layer under the background that still matches up with my whites (and if I remove it, I once again end up with transparency in place of my whites.) I would be happy to walk through a skype desktop share on this with anyone who would be so kind as to see what I am running into. I have also tried coloring my background a different color (blue) so I can select and remove it. When I try using a 3 scan gray, it appears to make the background and my whites both white, which then means that if I select and remove the background, it also removes my whites. When I try a 'brightness cutoff' it makes the whites transparent rather than white. The issue I am having is that when I 'trace bitmap', I have tired two different ways.

Inkscape making transparent image png to vector how to#

Thank you!!Īs to the second part however, I'm not sure how to upload a file here, but you can see the file at this url. I will try that (along with the background color in document properties to get the transparency. I guess that there are really 2 parts to my question:ġ- How to save the file out with transparenciesĢ- How to Trace my bitmap, and have the whites white (not transparent) and the transparency transparent.Īs to the first part, Thank you both for your comments! I have been using 'save as' rather than 'export'. But when I save out my image, I once again have an image on a white background. While in the Inkscape program it looks like both of these things likely work. I then tried selecting this blue object in the inkscape XML editor and removing it (as well as tried lowering its opacity to 0). The background does not come out transparent.Īs a note, I tried going back into gimp, and giving my background an actual color (blue). My issue appears to be that the white in my image looks like it is being considered transparent (at least as I move the object in Inkscape, I can see the whatever is behind the Vector 'through' my 'white' areas.) But when I try to save the image out from Inkscape, it appears that my whites are once again white. I have tried to use the brightness cutoff, colors, and grays. I have imported my PNG file, and done a 'Trace bitmap' from Path.

I have been banging my head on the wall trying to get this to work in Inkscape. In Inkscape you cannot select a part of a single raster image for edits, as you have already noticed. Inkscape has very limited raster image editing possibilities. A good friend of mine seems to be able to convert them very easily by using Adobe Flash (simply tells it to trace them.) The images he ends up with save out great from the vector into other formats, or even PNG again, and retain the black, the white, and the transparency. PNG is a raster image format, like JPG but PNG is popular because it allows transparency and doesnt have JPG compression noise except in case the image was originally JPG. I have created some black and white graphics with transparent backgrounds in Gimp.

If so, please know that I did search like heck for an answer on the internet (and from friends) before posting here. What would be the best way to turn this into an SVG and retain.

I truly hope this has not already been covered in depth. I have a design which the background has been cut out and saved as transparent in a PNG file.