3:55 And a little box will come up with a picture of your last image.

3:40 So you select your image with the selection tool.

3:05 So you import your bitmap (pixilated) image into Inkscape and use embed rather than link.

png it goes back to being a bitmap or pixel image. To save your work in Inkscape as a vector graphic you have to save it as a. In a vector graphic, all the colors are solid colors. svg files to use in other programs or projects.

This tutorial shows how to use Inkscape trace bitmap to turn pixel based photo into a vector image which is useful for making clipart, vector art and saving. Inkscape Tutorial How to Convert Image to Vector Graphics (Trace Bitmap) by VscorpianC Published on Jul 6, 2013:

To see some notes about this tutorial as well as other YouTube videos on removing the background (rendering) see my post Removing the Background From A Photo With Gimp – YouTube Videos. Although this is a good explanation, he does presume a lot of knowledge about GIMP. To remove backgrounds see GIMP Tutorial: The Best Way to Remove a Background (5:16) by Learn GIMP Published on Jul 5, 2013. This YouTube video in this post does not show you how to remove backgrounds.

Inkscape vectorize photographs