Inkscape Trace Bitmap Tutorial: How to Convert PNG Image or Jpeg to Vector + Remove Background

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Inkscape Trace Bitmap Tutorial: How to Convert Jpeg to Vector + Remove Background | Astronaut Mural
Inkscape step-by-step beginner, intermediate tutorial on how to create a vector image from a jpeg, PNG, raster image in Inkscape using the Trace Bitmap tool. Follow along in this Inkscape screen capture showing a quick demonstration of how to take a NASA image of astronauts, extract a vector, and create a virtual mural on a brick building. In this video you'll learn:
1. How to optimize Trace Bitmap Brightness Cutoff for the best results.
2. How to remove background area from vector image.
3. Recolor a photo to make a virtual mural.
4. Add Trace Bitmap of shadows to composite image.
5. How to use Trace Bitmap to extract lightness using the Invert function.
My goal for this channel is to create a community where we can share graphic design skills, tips and shortcuts with a focus on using free or low cost software and tools available to everyone.
REFERENCE:
Image of Buzz Aldrin collecting rocks. Courtesy of NASA: history.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/ap1...
William Real Photo of Building: search.creativecommons.org/ph...
Locust Insect Trace BitMap Practice: pixabay.com/photos/locust-jum...
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@chrischris9221 8 месяцев назад

Great Great Great!!!

@IronEchoDesign 8 месяцев назад

Thank you!!

@curtiscarlson8958 Год назад

Ive watched at least a couple of these. You do a great job at isolating a topic, explaining it, explaining how to use it and limiting the rabbit holes while still allowing room for enticing us into working more in depth with the topic. Keep up the good work!

@IronEchoDesign Год назад

Thank you so much!! I'll keep at it!

@2easy4marv 2 года назад

Dude I'm absolutley in love with your tutorials and the results. Keep it up!

@IronEchoDesign 2 года назад

Thank you very much!! Will do!

@FilipeDalmattiLima Год назад

Can’t say enough how amazing was this video tutorial! Thank you sooooooooo much

@IronEchoDesign Год назад

Thank you very much!!!

@ghstrder2740 2 года назад

This was dope!!! And that smile at the end.. well earned... We need more!!!

@IronEchoDesign 2 года назад

Thanks!! I'll keep making them. Love doing these!

@guitarbrad 2 года назад

This is an awesome and extremely instructive video! Thank you!

@IronEchoDesign 2 года назад

Thanks so much!!

@Nuguineatru Год назад

You are a great teacher. I love your tutorials. Simple and to the point. Easy to follow.

@IronEchoDesign Год назад

Thanks so much. I'm trying for simplicity and still keep them interesting.

@birdie399 2 года назад

Can’t wait to try this project. Thanks for the video.

@IronEchoDesign 2 года назад

Have fun with it! I tried a couple other buildings too, but liked the blue effect on this one most.

@MuntheDane 2 месяца назад

Thank you. I’m going to try this today.

@Ebonye-xr4bn 2 года назад

OMG! Your tutorials are amazing! I am officially a new subbie!

@IronEchoDesign 2 года назад

Thank you!! I'll keep making them!

@michaelharrison8126 2 года назад

Fantastic tutorial. Thank you!

@IronEchoDesign 2 года назад

Thanks so much! It's a fun tool.

@narciliocosta Год назад

Dudy, that's kind a magic! Awsome!

@IronEchoDesign Год назад

Thanks! Inkscape magic!

@edwardmccarthy7877 2 года назад

Excellent. Thank you!

@IronEchoDesign 2 года назад

Thanks!!

@kaushiksekar845 2 года назад

Lovely Inkscape and inkscape tutorial

@IronEchoDesign 2 года назад

Thank you!!

@RogeliusZ 4 месяца назад

Eres todo un maestro

@Drugvigil 6 месяцев назад

Excellent bro learning a lot.

@charliemancuso5690 5 месяцев назад

Great job communicating the workings of Inkscape. I'm new to the software and am able to pickup what you are explaining without stress lol.

@IronEchoDesign 5 месяцев назад

Thanks so much! Have fun with Inkscape! It has a lot of tricky parts at first, but worth learning I think.

@graphosxp Год назад

YOU GOOD!👍

@IronEchoDesign Год назад

Haha, thanks!

@mohamedshazli6972 8 месяцев назад

That smile at the end 👌👌 Oh man, you are Billiant!

@IronEchoDesign 8 месяцев назад

Haha, thanks!! I love making these so much.

@jss3018 2 года назад

I'm learning so much. I do vinyl and I draw (badly) so I am always trying to fix a drawing with promise to make it better and vector so I can enlarge. Everything you have shown will work for me and I appreciate your input. Thanks again.

@IronEchoDesign 2 года назад

So glad some of these videos may help! Let me know if there is anything you'd like to see.

@MalibuBon 2 года назад

I love your tutorials and would like to see a combo of a person and a dog angel.

@IronEchoDesign 2 года назад

Thank you!! Person, dog, angel combo would be cool. I'll try to see what I can come up with and if I have the skill for a tutorial on it. Thanks!

@designstenerife8606 2 года назад

Excellent Rick. love the shadow idea, making it really look painted on to the wall. Thanks for sharing with us.

@IronEchoDesign 2 года назад

Thanks!! I'm trying to keep up with the pace of your content on IG. I'm slow!

@designstenerife8606 2 года назад

@@IronEchoDesign no worries mate. I need to post more often. You know how life gets in the way some times...

@IronEchoDesign 2 года назад

I most certainly hear you!

@DeadlyInsite 3 месяца назад

Mind blown....

@trscsaeg Год назад

Your steady hand when outlining is insane. I hope one day AI for graphics gets really good at identifying things to just cut things out in one click. I like that you can move your trace line with this though

@IronEchoDesign Год назад

Thanks!! I think you're right about AI. One day a lot of this will be automated. Hopefully there's still a place for designers and our human creativity!

@AlextheENTP Год назад

@@IronEchoDesign There will always be a place for the human spirit! AI can learn, but not revel or appreciate, improvise or see the difference between a bad mistake and a mistake that was meant to be. It understands what we tell it to, but even if we try, and even if we seem to succeed, we haven't really, truly created life. Technological advancement in service of a better future FTW!

@ahmedabdelaalweb Год назад

Wonderful video dude. Thank you! @10:16 is a magical moment! My jaw literally dropped.

@IronEchoDesign Год назад

Thanks so much!! I'll try to do more like that.

@chrish4522 8 месяцев назад

Extremely well presented and easy to follow. You helped me quite a lot in my beginner project, and earned a well-deserved subscriber.

@IronEchoDesign 8 месяцев назад

Thank you so much! I'll keep making these!

@chrish4522 8 месяцев назад

@@IronEchoDesign Please do. I have an interest in graphic design and I have been working on T-shirt designs and logos for our local Special Olympics teams. I'd like to make them more and more professional, and I've already found a lot of great information in the handful of your videos that I've watched. As a suggestion, a video(s) about spacing, making things even/symmetrical, and relative sizing of both words and images would be awesome.

@pawel040408 Год назад

Banksy style. Love it.

@IronEchoDesign Год назад

Thank you!! An inspiration.

@learntorelax3287 2 года назад

What you did was a miracle. I'm always amazed by your work.

@IronEchoDesign 2 года назад

Thanks so much! It was all Inkscape. If I can do it, anyone can!

@learntorelax3287 2 года назад

@@IronEchoDesign Your videos always inspire me. Very useful for improving my skills.

@IronEchoDesign 2 года назад

So glad to help. Thanks!

@hiruliao 2 года назад

very useful tips. thank you for sharing.

@IronEchoDesign 2 года назад

Thanks!!

@jasonroskam8698 2 года назад

Great tutorial, thank you. Too the point on how to do things with out all the extra commentary fluff.

@IronEchoDesign 2 года назад

Thanks!! That's what I'm trying for.

@blanched1192 2 года назад

I second that! There are so many videos out there with maybe good info, but buried inside a lot of not-very-useful rambling. Wastes so much time. This channel is great for getting to the point.

@santiagomarrodan8443 Год назад

Desde España, ¡muchas gracias!

@IronEchoDesign Год назад

Gracias!!

@FuzerMiX Год назад

Subscribed, awesome tutorial 👌

@IronEchoDesign Год назад

Thanks so much!!

@PauloHenrique-kx4of 2 месяца назад

Nice tutorial

@IronEchoDesign 2 месяца назад

Thank you!!

@JohnColgan. 2 года назад

wow, that appears so simple yet effective. Clipping the vectors with Path, Intersection as well as colour tinting the path as you bezier it are so much better than Object, Clip, Set

@IronEchoDesign 2 года назад

Thanks!! There's a lot of ways to do it, but I try to keep it simple.

@JohnColgan. 2 года назад

@@IronEchoDesign Object Clip Set has a flaw that it hides the area outside the clip, and it keeps reappearing on node edit etc

@IronEchoDesign 2 года назад

Yeah, I've seen that too.

@phamster18 2 года назад

dude.. this tutorial is out of this world !! lol love it

@IronEchoDesign 2 года назад

Thanks!! Haha.

@phamster18 2 года назад

@@IronEchoDesign bus seriously I am learning SVG using inkscape, I grew up with Photoshop and photography but now want to learn vector graphic... Thank you for having a channel on inkscape

@IronEchoDesign 2 года назад

That's awesome. I followed the same path. I love Inkscape and still use Photoshop on some stuff.

@deejaudible Год назад

Thanks!

@IronEchoDesign Год назад

Thank you so much! I appreciate it!

@JohnCarter-hm8pv Год назад

FYI the image "William Real Photo of Building:" has been removed..... AWESOME tutorial... love your work!!!

@IronEchoDesign Год назад

Thank you very much! And thanks for the heads up on the image. Hope they bring it back to the site someday.

@imdxpertm 2 года назад

Nice tutorial Rick. Suggestion for next vid: Rainy day scene.

@IronEchoDesign 2 года назад

Thanks! And, you're good! I'll start playing around with rain effects. Thank you.

@mannythemvrk 9 месяцев назад

My photo isn’t even duplicating. I’m following these instructions and when I select the photo and drag nothing happens. It just moves the original over and the page is still blank

@inayachanelle4789 2 года назад

Thank you, this tutorial has been very helpful! I'm interested to learn more about "composite" when you want to combine results of two traced bitmaps. What would be the best phrase I can use to search for more information on that process?

@IronEchoDesign 2 года назад

Thanks! I'll show an example in the next tutorial. Another way to say it would be to layer the results. Sometimes there is a detailed area on one that I like to combine with another.

@jerrymcewen9902 2 года назад

So much to learn, thanks for sharing with us. How can you move the tool bars? My screen has two different tools bars on right side, but nothing on top.

@IronEchoDesign 2 года назад

Thanks! I believe the newer (and older) versions of Inkscape have a different default setup than the version I'm using. I'll be moving to 1.2 shortly to accommodate this. To get the right tool bar on top, go to View on top menu, and towards the bottom of the dropdown you'll see Default, Custom, and Wide. Choose Wide and that should put the toolbar on top. Can you let me know if that stil works?

@Kelly-yo2yk 3 месяца назад

Great tutorial! I am having a problem once I click on the trace bitmap file to open. On my Mac it opens for a second image but on my Asus notebook ...no image !

@mzabs1871 2 года назад

wow

@IronEchoDesign 2 года назад

Thanks!

@stevo6572 2 года назад

Amazing work! How long did it take you to get this good with inkscape? TY sir!

@IronEchoDesign 2 года назад

Thanks!! I still have a lot to learn, and it took me a couple of years to figure parts of Inkscape out. I started the channel with the hope of helping others get ramped up faster than I did.

@relaxingzone369 4 месяца назад

HI - I JUST FOUND YOUR CHANNEL - I WATCHED A FEW VIDEOS AND I WAS STUCK HERE TRYING TO DO STEP BY STEP AS IN YOUR INSTRUCTIONS . I CAN'T WORK WITH 18 COLORS - IT OPENS TO 17 AND AT THE BOTTOM IT IS WRITTEN - FROM ALT, ROTATE THE IMAGE TO THE OPPOSITE CORNER, FROM CONTROL PRESS AGAIN AGAIN ???? I TRY AND TRY AND NOTHING WORKS - HEEEELP !!!!! ANYWAY, YOU'RE DOING A GREAT JOB - MEANWHILE, I'M GOING TO TRY WITH 3D SUBTITLES . THANX

@Goliath190 Год назад

I am a new subscriber and also new to Inkscape. Is there a certain order to your videos that I can watch so I don’t get totally overwhelmed?

@IronEchoDesign Год назад

Thanks so much! I like the two QuickStart videos for starting points. The Bezier Pen tutorial I made with absolute beginners in mind. The Trace Bitmap video with tiger in the thumbnail is a good starting point too, but it’s outdated now. I should make a new video to help people get started.

@rroe5718 Год назад

Rick, enjoying your video's in my learning of Inkscape. Do you have a specific video that shows how to convert human portrait pictures to an image that I can cut out with my scrollsaw. Not sure if these would be called Vector or Bitmap images. The portrait would sort of have the look of the Astronaut in your video above......Thanks

@IronEchoDesign Год назад

Thanks! I’ve been thinking about this, and the latest video I posted has an Edge Detection tip that might work for the portrait image to scrollsaw application. Might still need more refining or a manual trace to get lines clean enough. Here’s the link and it’s the fish example if you want to skip ahead: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Lr-Wd0v5_Io.html

@rroe5718 Год назад

@@IronEchoDesign Thanks and will check that out

@154Colin 2 года назад

I need your help. All of a sudden when I draw a rectangle the stroke has rounded corners on the outside. I did not change any of the stroke values, the only one I change is the Width. What happened!?!

@yuklingtse9451 2 года назад

Hi Rick, thank you so much for your tutorial. I'm following the steps and trying to trace the astronaut. It was amazing! I was a bit lost with the invert image though. I managed to use trace bitmap and make a black vector with the invert image setting. But when I changed to white, the whole picture changed to white, not the astronauts. Did I miss something? Would be greatly appreciated if you could let me know. Cheers

@IronEchoDesign 2 года назад

Great question. Was the inverted brightness threshold on Single Scan set to .50? When the inverted image black vector is formed, drag the still black version away from the source image so its in its own part of the workspace. For easy visibility make a large rectangle and color it anything (red for example), as a temporary backdrop. Now with your still black vector on top of the red temp background, change the vector color to white. Now you can easily see what parts you will clip out to isolate the astronauts. (4:37 in the video). Does this help?

@TomPearce 2 года назад

@@IronEchoDesign Yeah I had the same question, kind of looked like it just automatically changed both in the video, following your instructions did the trick, thanks! Also, great tutorials, being going through your tracing ones and find them very helpful!

@IronEchoDesign 2 года назад

Nice! Thanks, and I'll keep making more!

@tyheller287 Год назад

love the tutorials. cant get this to work using color bitmap for some reason it wont remove the traced image from the bitmap copy. any ideas as to why?

@IronEchoDesign Год назад

Thanks! Let's fix this. Sometimes the original image sticks underneath the new Trace Bitmap vector. Can you select the vector that was created and drag it off the original or is it stuck?

@tyheller287 Год назад

@@IronEchoDesign it can be freely moved. everything was going great until the path intersection step. highlight the area i want to keep with the pen, shift click the full picture so both are selected, but after i click intersection nothing happens. when i try to move the part i wanted its still attached to the whole image. hope that makes sense :) still verry new to this

@elkielonnkvist8962 Год назад

Hi, I've been following along some of your videos. In trying to cut a piece out of a photo with the bezier then use clip, then make a trace bitmap from that but it still acts as though the whole original photo is still there. I'm totally lost. Please what have I done wrong?!

@IronEchoDesign Год назад

Great question! You’ve found the Trace Bitmap quirk I wish they’d address. One solution is to create your Bezier clipping shape first, based on the original photo. Put it aside and then do Trace Bitmap. Now you can clip the area you want from the full Trace Bitmap result. Hope this helps!

@darrellB. Год назад

In several of your trace bitmap videos, you mention using multiple results to composite them together. I have not been able to find a video on this. Would you put a link to a video for it or make one. Thank you.

@IronEchoDesign Год назад

Thanks for the great question Darrell. You're right- I think I mention composting them but have never shown it. There may be a better way, but I take a darker threshold setting for the main part, and if there are any details that get muddled, I take another lighter threshold version. Then lay them on top of each other and delete the nodes that washed out the details so the better lighter part shows. Finally delete the nodes of the lighter version that are not needed. I tried including the steps in a video but it got wordy and confusing. I can send you screenshots if it helps. I probably should work on the video too though since it's a great question.

@darrellB. Год назад

@@IronEchoDesign Thank you for the reply and the explanation but for me, a video helps more in that I am able to pause, go back, and even slow it down as much as I need. I have been trying to figure it out on my own using a photo of my service dog that passed away without much success at all. Thank you for all the great videos that you have put out, I know they really do help a lot of people like me.

@IronEchoDesign Год назад

This is a very special project. Can you send me the photo? I'll test a few methods. If I get the steps down we'll enough for a video, would it be okay to post it on the channel? My email is my last name "johanson" dot "rick" at Gmail.

@BlackCat_2 2 года назад

Very interesting! I was looking for something to make a custom vector t-shirt design to take to a printer to have them printed. Would this work for me and export the image into a vector format the printer could use? I am still undecided about getting Inkscape but subscribed to your channel assuming I figure out that yes this program will work for me. - Heidi

@IronEchoDesign 2 года назад

Thanks Heidi! Good luck on your projects, and yes- Inkscape is great to use for T-shirt design. It's free and comes with some really strong tools built in. Usually the printer will tell you what file type, size and settings they want and you can always export your Inkscape work to a PNG file and modify to CMYK if it's a screen printer. POD you can go straight from Inkscape. Enjoy!

@BlackCat_2 2 года назад

@@IronEchoDesign they want a vector of my design that can be resized up or down. Right now it's just a pixel design. Thank you for your reply. I will likely install Inkscape tomorrow. It's nearing 2am here so going to try to sleep. :) -Heidi

@IronEchoDesign 2 года назад

That's great! It's a great program and design tool.

@watchersmedia9512 Год назад

I will appreciate anyone who can help. I downloaded inkscape, tried vectoring an image which I didn't succeed and along the line, I couldn't access the image any more. I mean, if i import an image, the image doesn't show up rather it display an envelop shape. If anyone has encountered such problem and later solved it, please help me and let me know how. Thanks

@madeleine7887 Год назад

How can I break apart a photo? For instance, separate the legs from the torso Thx

@IronEchoDesign Год назад

Great question. It's easier outside of Inkscape, like with Photoshop or other raster software. You can still do it with clipping but its cumbersome. Take photo and duplicate it. Create a shape around the torso and select the new shape and the photo. Go to Object on the top menu bar and in the dropdown choose Clip- Set Clip. Then repeat the process go get the legs. Hope this helps.

@trscsaeg Год назад

Can inkscape completely replace photoshop

@alaskahomesteading Год назад

I found that the "intersection", technique did not work on color scan (4 scans)... I ended up exporting the clipped single scan bitmap as a png, then re-import it, rescan in color and then change color of the layers.. Is this a good way to do this? I seriously could not get a color trace to work with the interestion.. maybe I'm missing something?? Anyway.. the way I did it worked and really didn't take much time. So if anyone has this issue my way works until Mr Rick does a tutorial!!

@IronEchoDesign Год назад

That's a great workaround. If the design I'm working on is too complicated or crashes Inkscape when trying to do Trace Bitmap sometimes its easier to export part of it and bring it back in as a PNG. Another approach if youre doing multiple scans is to do get the vector version of your art first and then clip out the exact shape you ultimately want. Less options that way but it keeps the workflow in Inkscape.

@gauravjoseph4831 Год назад

Yes this is for vector but how do you remove a white or grey background from an image without vectorizing the image itself ?

@IronEchoDesign Год назад

There are few different methods for that. Here is a video that shows how: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zLuQSBXWpt0.html

@blanched1192 2 года назад

Very helpful, yet again. But you lost me at 4:57 when you said "hold shift and collect your vector". Can you help a newbie understand what that means? Thanks so much.

@IronEchoDesign 2 года назад

Thanks Blanche! Great question! I saw your other comment too and tried to explain my understanding the best I could. Can you let me know if that answer helps? This could be a good topic for a video: vector graphics vs. raster

@blanched1192 2 года назад

@@IronEchoDesign Yes, I saw that. Thanks for taking time to give such a thorough reply. I clarified my question over there. I'm still not sure what "collect your vector" means, though. Vector I understand (mathematical, scalable image). It's the "collect" part that threw me. I'm not sure what you were doing there.

@robertclare8496 4 месяца назад

Just can"t get intersection clipping to work

@leeannlambert6229 2 года назад

Do you have a video on G code?

@IronEchoDesign 2 года назад

I haven't used it yet. Are you looking for something to to help program CNC machine projects? I can research it.

@dustinsmith9064 Год назад

Please, for just one video intro could you wear a black Jerry curl wig and yell, I'm Rick James and this is the IronEcho.... Thanks for the video btw.

@IronEchoDesign Год назад

Haha. Thanks, love Rick James!

@simplyscripture5030 2 года назад

I scanned a copy of the US Constitution and every time I try to trace bitmap my computer crashes

@simplyscripture5030 2 года назад

I'm still trying to figure it out, I don't think I'm doing something right. Seems like it should be pretty simple

@IronEchoDesign 2 года назад

Let's see if we can fix this. What are you looking to do ultimately? Are you looking to make a stylized graphic of the constitution? Trace BitMap could do that pretty well. Just resize the source image to something under 10MB. That may help avoid a crash. If you want a legible vector copy of the constitution, that may take a ton of computing power, so there are some workarounds you can try. What is your goal?

@simplyscripture5030 2 года назад

@@IronEchoDesign I have a laser engraving business and I want to make an engraved rendering of the Constitution on a nice slab of wood. I would rather buy a file than do it myself…….. but I can’t find one