4 Creating SVG files in Inkscape using simple images

hi everyone this is Ann and I'm creating this tutorial for one of our members that struggling to trace of Nicki Carrie Linderman so Carrie just follow this and I think that it will help you out with some of the tracing of the coloring book images like the Mickey Mouse so all I did was I brought this in I did a copy and paste it into an empty document in Inkscape and with it highlighted I'm just going to go to path trace bitmap and I'm leaving this threshold here at 45 I don't do anything at all with fans down you to the bottom doesn't matter to me if this color is black and white I leave all of that out I work strictly with the threshold and 45 says that this should be a good trace for you without problems sometimes you have to increase it the number to get things to be darker sometimes you have to decrease it in order for it to lighten up but this 45 is probably going to work for the images that are you will want to trace so all you do is just say okay and then you can X out of the preview and now it's traced it so all I have to do is just move it over to the side this is the original I know that because I see the Blues down there so I'm just going to move it over to the side and bring this many back to the canvas area which rectangle or square sometimes it's more of a rectangle shape and with it highlighted now that I've traced it and everything looks good I want to break it apart I want to break it into a lot of pieces because I'm going to cut it and I'll make layers with it so with it highlighted I'll go back to path and break it apart everything turns black and that's exactly what it's supposed to do because that lets you know that all these pieces are now separated and let's see if I can zoom in a little all of these little dotted boxes that you see are bounding boxes and what they're doing is they're telling you that every little box that you see is a piece that you're going to be cutting with your machine and so with all of this selected everything looks good you just click off of it and now with what you want to do is just start clicking on the pieces where all those little bounding boxes were so you can give an individual color so you click on a piece less this piece right here for Bo and let's just make it red it's typically the color we will click around here I think that's the other side of our bowl and so we'll make that red and then in the center it's red her face we see this wider box here that's going to cover her face and so I ought to look like the flesh tone here and so the next thing I'm going to do is click in here to try to find her eyes so I'm going to click once hold my shift key down and I'm going to click over here to look for the other eye now that I have both eyes selected I'm going to go down to the color palette and just click on white a little time probably this color yeah let's call it so let's go back to the face and maybe give her displaced homes so now make our tongue a little bit darker it really doesn't matter because we could make her tone green it's all about what the physical piece of hcv or vinyl that you're going to put into your color this only this is only important when you're going to do a print and cut so let's see we have our cute little dress here so let's say that I'm not like yelling you always going to be addressed and then this is one of her collars I'm holding the shift key down clicking on the other one and so I guess I just can make that white and then I have a little hands so I'm holding the soupy down now to click on the other one and make little hands white and so let's see we've got two off I guess those are her gloves so this is the cuff of the glove clipping off of it and all I'm doing is looking for these various pieces that I can highlight in color if it takes color then that confines that it is going to cut perfectly in your machine so now I have her little shoe and so that's this piece right here and I'll just click some Brown and if I don't remember the exact brown again it really doesn't matter this is printing and cut but if for some reason I'm doing a print and cut and I don't remember which one of these Browns I used with it highlighted all I have to do is click on my dropper tool and this was in color I could just click on it and it would give me that color or brown so we'll just leave that as is and let's see what this is oh and we're going to say that she's wearing red shoes let's just click in here and make that red and so all I'm doing is just coloring these are pieces and your adult want to make sure it's the same color heel so I'm clicking there and that was this little piece here going back to my select so now I'm going to color the other part of her shoe so with it highlighted I'm clicking over here so that I have the exact same color and then I know that that is this color red and I chose red in here let's see looks like with a little legs I'll hold my shift key down and I flip over here for this other leg and I'll go back to the dropper and just put on a face so I have a color of her legs it looked like it was another little piece here so I need to click over here for a leg and I'll go back to my dropper and then I'm just clicking anywhere that that color exists on this and so this looks like a little piece of her dress and then this inside seams right here and this ends I think somehow I clicked it hold the shift key down I'm clicking here and I'm clicking the other piece and I'm going to make them yellow inside since her little dress is yellow and I think I've colored everything that's with her the name dollar to the bottom I'm just going to highlight it and hit my delete key so now little many just give little once over I think that I have colored all of the pieces in for her so now I can delete the original and at this point I'm just going to highlight the entire little baby mini you see all the bounding boxes show up again and I'll go to objects I could have did right-click and group and since this group now and it's inside of the canvas box I'll go to file save as and I'll call her hitting and I I'm just going to save it to my desktop or wherever you save yours down here at defaults to indicate you want to click on the down arrow and select plain SVG and click Save and now you have an SVG I'm going to upload this to the group and I'll upload the video as well if you follow this you will not have any problem at all tracing any coloring book type image that you find out there on the Internet I hope this helps you all

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Length: 8min 10sec (490 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 02 2017