When you have finished with one color, you can union all of the parts. It doesn’t have to be perfect because the rough edges will be hidden behind the lines.

To color with the pen tool, zoom into the area you want to color and start tracing the outline. I have some tutorials that explain how to convert diffrent kinds of raster images for different uses, but I would need to know more about your specific situation, to decide which one would help you the most. Check Last used style, and close the window. Or if you're talented enough, you could draw the artwork in Inkscape using various Inkscape tools. If you have a raster graphic, it can be converted by vector by either auto-tracing (using Inkscape's Path menu > Trace Bitmap, or another trace engine) or tracing 'manually' using Inkscape's Pen tool. I don't know if that's how all of them do it, but it sounds like some do.īut if yours doesn't, which it sounds like it doesn't, raster graphics (such as PNG) don't provide vector paths. Some machines (or their software) seem to be capable of cutting from a raster graphic, but recently I've learned that some of them actually have their own trace engines. Generally, cutting machines need vector paths to cut along.

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