Select the discrete paths and color them by selecting the desired colors in color palette at the bottom. You can now, deselect the black path by clicking on top of it with shift pressed. I made a copy by the side or you can keep the original image to know what you have to color.Ĭlue: When the image is broken apart, all paths become selected as a result of the process. You have an outline view mode as well you can use to click the paths and shapes. Now you can select the different paths and start coloring by clicking the color palette that is at the bottom. The truth is that the paths composing the image went filled in black. Then the image looks like it disappeared. Select the new generated vector image and break paths apart. Now we have to separate the different paths and shapes of the image to color it. Select it by clicking in any black part and dragged it side by side. Now you have a copy of the image which sits on top of your original image. This is more or less the characteristics of the tracing process.
Create the vector image by tracing the original image.
Your are in Inkscape now and have dragged the image created in GIMP into Inkscape main window. XCF the native format of GIMP will not work with present versions of Inkscape. Your image should be in a format compatible with Inkscape, such as gif or tiff. Open your image, prepared with GIMP, in inkscape. Select all, shrink to 5 pixels and then invert selection, create a new layer aver active layer, and fill with black. How to create the border around the image. This border helps to delimit you image which will be useful when coloring with Inkscape. Open gimp, crop you image to desired length and height. This is a tutorial to work with both programs to color an image in black and white and that was scanned in the computer. But later I met Inkscape, a program to work with vector-based images. This program is useful to work with bitmap images.
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