The image will break down into more parts, don’t deselect any of them and click MENU - PATH - UNIONĬolor will be changed into the color of one of the layers and it will become one single path. Select the top image by clicking it (despite both pictures being in the same place, the computer will select only the top layer which is the one we just traced.)Ĭlick MENU - OBJECT - UNGROUP. Result image was stacked on the top of my original image. My picture will now look something like this: Because In my settings I had number 8 selected, the program has made my SVG to be made out of 8 colors. By doing this step you changed PNG image into an SVG file. Your image has been traced and it will slightly change depending on the rest of the settings your window was set to. When you are done click the little cross at the top of the window to close the window down.

You could click the live preview window which will show you what image will look like after tracing, but because we are doing the tracing only to get the shape out of the image, I don’t really care about the settings much. Select the colors, tick “smooth”, “stack scans” and “remove background” and click OK. Select image you just opened by clicking on it and click MENU - PATH - TRACE BITMAP Open Inkscape and then click MENU - OPEN and find a location of PNG file you want to work on.

We are going to add a small border to the png images so that they look better and more like an embellishment you can buy in craft stores.

This tutorial is for the PNGs which are truly transparent and have no background at all. Sometimes a designer just saved his work as png but haven’t actually removed the background, or just simply wanted the background to be white, black or another color. But, not always the images have a transparent background.

PNG is a picture on a transparent background. From a good designer, the images should always come as PNG. In this Inkscape tutorial, I will show you how to make an extra border for the image so that you never need to buy any scrapbooking or card making images again. But sometimes they are not quite ready to be cut with the Cricut machine. There are so many gorgeous PNG images out there.

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