I needed to learn this so my CNC software can know how to do 3D cuts on my CNC machine. It's honestly the main reason I have Inkscape. I needed to learn this feature, but decided to start at Lesson 1 of yours and work my way here. I have enjoyed it so much, I'll continue to the end of the series and likely more for other software as well. Thanks for taking the time to do this -- you're a great teacher!
This is what I’ve just learned how to use to create svgs for use with my Cricut cutting machine. I did a monster truck for my grandson. Trace bitmap is a fabulous tool. Thank you for sharing all these great tutorials..
Это видео было выложено на YT уже 6 лет назад, но не потеряло актуальности. Спасибо за уроки, благодаря вашим видео я открыл для себя замечательный мир векторной графики и узнаю все функции приложения Inkscape
These Tutorials are wonderful. Thanks Mate. My wife and I are about to head to Norfolk Island and manage my late father's T-Shirt business. Your Tutorials have been inspirational.
Bruh this is the best beginner tutorial seeries i've ever watched, usually beginner tutorials are very uncomfortable to get through but yours just flow like water.
Man your a great teacher, what I like is that I can watch over and over until I get it. I am just learning with absolutely no experience. And i am actually following and learning. That most certainly said something about your teaching.
Before I watched your videos I didn't know about illustration and inkscape but when I started watching videos I'm in love with inkscape. Thank you for sharing information about inkscape. You simply amazing.
Just amazing! Great content and pacing, fantastically shown (I actually learn what you teach, not getting confused as so many other videos out there). Best tutorial video serie I've watched in a long time! Binge watch!
I've seen a lot of silhouettes used as cut files for adhesive or iron on vinyls. This looks like a very easy way to produce those. Thanks! I'm enjoying these tutorials and learning a lot about this complex program.
The "trace bitmap" tool has come a long way, this is glorious! As someone who draws by hand, I gave up on auto-tracing because a black ink drawing on paper always used to produce grey artifacts which were a hassle to get rid of. And I certainly didn't want to have to draw the whole thing, only to have to re-trace it on a PC. Thanks!
I wish I could give this a like twice, because it's saved my bacon before. Both Inkscape as a program, and your lessons saved my relationship with vector graphics as a whole. I went to art school, and was taught Illustrator, which is a very capable program that was unfortunately very user-unfriendly during the time that I was taught it. I've heard it's gotten much better, since, but during that time, it was an uphill battle and a lot of things I can achieve swiftly in Inkscape took many more steps than needed. So, thanks!
TJ, I wanted to thank you for the great tutorials you are offering. I've watched the tutorials #1 to #10 and they are refreshing and interesting. Especially for a person like me who has an engineering background. I want to be able to engrave art shapes with a cnc router and I need to learn how to import pixel images and conver them to vector forms. Your videos are definitely helping a lot!
I've been looking for something like this for ages. In highschool, we did screen printing using that technique of separating it into distinct sections and cutting the shapes out of lino for each one, then printing onto a sheet one after the other. Hard to explain but it's a sick look and I wanted to replicate it
OMG. You are AMAZING! I’ve been trying to do a shirt for my brother of a steampunk lamp he made for a show this weekend using Cricut Infusible Ink and I couldn’t figure some things out. You taught me more in less than 10 minutes than multiple other videos put together. THANK YOU!
Mate I have been trying to learn Inkscape by myself to make decals under 15MB for Gran Turismo sport. This series has opened my eyes to the whole process! Big up your chest!
You really do clear up the learning - There’s just enough in each vid. Appreciated is both the learning, and that you choose to share your abilities thus enriching all - both those who learn and those who enjoy the results. I finally produced a simple drawing to laser cut a shield. Love from here and good health
this is the reason i have inkscape. i was in charge of getting signature images into an adobe stamp for folks to use. i found a chicago state bar site that showed me how to trace bitmap to get just the line of the signature so the thing could be see through when brought into adobe and stamped.
Pre-processing an image prior to vectorization helps a lot. I recommend a fuzzy-select on the darker part of the background, and delete. Then, you can vectorize with ease
The Guy is not falling, the back of the jacket, among other things, indicates he is being subjected to some force from his front. If you turn him vertical it is more obvious. for some reason the idea that he was falling just bothered me. Excellent video, it showed me a lot of info about the tool and further stimulated thought in a direction beyond inkscape which is what a good video should do. Thank You...
Thank you!! I am super appreciative for all your tutorials. You break it down and make it simple to understand. Once I make it through Inkscape tutorials I will have to check out your gimp videos
Yep I love it. I use it all the time to create 3D stl files to print from drawings. I simply draw the shape I want or trace around a real life object or take a photo of it then bitmap trace it, export as svg, import into Tinkercad then extrude, modify and print. Brilliant.
I was so discouraged from doing my own editing and then I found your videos!! Thank you so much everything is super cool! And you are great explaining everything easy to understand! Thank you!
Thank you for these wonderful videos!! Not overly long, straight to the point and you keep reminding us to play around with what we've learned. You are the best!!!!
I'm learning this programm in school, but after waching only few of your tutorials I learn much more than with our teacher! I hope he knows about incscape more than me, but actually I asked some questions that he could not answer. Maybe he teaches only the basics...
Thanks alot man you are a real star for making these videos. I have recently broken my collar bone so had a lot of time and started watching your videos. Amazing learning a new skill just watching your videos. Much appreciated. Big thank you.
Thank you SO MUCH! Been working hard at building out my Free Guitar Lessons videos, and I wanted to have some photos of my guitar neck converted to Vector based so I could animate them. This will help me a great deal. Much appreciated!
I love your discovery videos way more than your rushing through building a thing videos, I went back to your earlier Inkscape vid's to get some more "wonder". I hope you will put some more of that in tour videos again.
I did that for my guitar site - I have a few versions in different colors - such a cool feature. I'm now using it for some featured images for my blog posts
I' ve just started learning Inkscape, but this is the coolest option ever. Just what I needed for my project. Thank you for this lesson! Greetings from Poland :D
Also....GREAT series. I've watched since video 1, been learning this app and its powerful applications, and I'm thankful for your teaching style. Thanks!!
I can't wait to play with this one. I was thinking of doing a black & white portrait of myself for my About Me on my website. No one does that so I will. But now /I can get some nice colors for different thresholds and get something really interesting - thanks!
I know your busy so no rush but how do you merge two of the tracings? I wanted to upload a pencil drawing for my profile pic on my website since no one does that. But this is cool - I did a blue version of a pic of myself and my guitar. But I wouldn't mind trying to do a few colors - maybe 2. But I'll need them to match up exactly. I couldn't find the merge option. I'm going to try a gradient overlay.
new to this. I am having bit of a problem finding some stuff. my computer looks a bit different. WOULD FIGURE IT OUT. This lesson is challenging but I'm enjoying every minute of it
Hi! Thank you very much for these fantastic tutorials! It's so easy to follow your videos. I've a question. I imported images into Inkscape but they all turn to black & white images. Would you please tell me if there's any option I need to check in order to have those images color? Thank you!
Helpful Tutorial Thank you very much. I have a question about after tracing the bitmap. I am using a laser to cut the image out and I would like to know how to combine the nodes down to one layer after the trace bitmap is done. When I upload the image to my laser it reads each one of the color layers as a different section to print. Is there a way to combine all those nodes down to one layer so the laser see's the image as just one layer? Thanks again for the great tutorials. A+
Nice stuff!!! But so what is the easy way to erase the black part of the bottom? If we don't use the eraser. Is it possible with one of the exclusion tools in the next video? Could you explain how to best get rid of parts of images? Thanks!!!
hello guys, i have a problem. I click trace bitmap > multiple scans>colors and select 4 colors and hit update and ok. after hitting ok, it takes almost 5 minutes and sysy not responding and closed. I am using Lenovo laptop with 8gb ram and r gb Nvidia MX150 graphic card. Is my laptop not able to handle that work??
Thanks for the video. One question: I scanned 3 separate line drawings on a single page, converted to pdf, but could not un group the objects. Any suggestions? Thx!
Good question Louis. Trace bitmap only groups different colors. Colors are created as one path even if they are not touching. You can select the path and try from the top menu Path > Break Apart to separate parts of path that are not touching. Hope that helps!
Thank's for your video. Except that update does not preview for me. I installed potrace. Scale the page size to the image size. (don't know if this has to do with...) But it does not work. 😕
Great videos! I took an image that we put on Inkscape I traced it with the bitmap. Can you please tell me why I can’t get a duplicate to come down out of the original picture like you did with the man falling? I am trying to do this image to send it to my embroidery machine. Thanks
Hi TJ, great tutorial on Inkscape, i've been following all of them up to this one. Sometimes I pause to play around in Inkscape myself. After watching this one I had a question though. So, when using the trace bitmap to create, let's say, an 8-coloured grayscale of a picture, and then shift-ctrl-G to ungroup them, I'm left with 8 objects. What I really want is not to have 8 objects in 1 layer but 8 separate layers with one object each. Any chance of doing this automatically? I've been searching around but so far couldn't find anything. Just wondering whether it was possible or not. Thx for any feedback from you or the community. Greets from Belgium & thx again for your great work.
Great Videos, thankyou! How do you reset the path - trace bitmap properties? I cannot move forward on my project as the trace bitmap always starts where it left off. Is there a way to reset this to default? Your feedback would be appreciated.
Before I discovered this god given tool I was tracing things myself with vectors. So much work for sub par results. Good video.
Thanks, it really is an amazing tool!
I needed to learn this so my CNC software can know how to do 3D cuts on my CNC machine. It's honestly the main reason I have Inkscape. I needed to learn this feature, but decided to start at Lesson 1 of yours and work my way here. I have enjoyed it so much, I'll continue to the end of the series and likely more for other software as well. Thanks for taking the time to do this -- you're a great teacher!
This is what I’ve just learned how to use to create svgs for use with my Cricut cutting machine. I did a monster truck for my grandson. Trace bitmap is a fabulous tool. Thank you for sharing all these great tutorials..
Это видео было выложено на YT уже 6 лет назад, но не потеряло актуальности. Спасибо за уроки, благодаря вашим видео я открыл для себя замечательный мир векторной графики и узнаю все функции приложения Inkscape
These Tutorials are wonderful. Thanks Mate. My wife and I are about to head to Norfolk Island and manage my late father's T-Shirt business. Your Tutorials have been inspirational.
Bruh this is the best beginner tutorial seeries i've ever watched, usually beginner tutorials are very uncomfortable to get through but yours just flow like water.
Happy to hear that!
You're amazing! It's almost 1 am and here I am -watching one lesson after another! Thanks for the tutorials!
Me too
What a coincidence, me too here in Mexico (01:21 am) XD
@@joksantelles1297 coincidence?it is 1:21am here too usa
me too
1:49 Danmark hi hi
Man your a great teacher, what I like is that I can watch over and over until I get it. I am just learning with absolutely no experience.
And i am actually following and learning. That most certainly said something about your teaching.
Before I watched your videos I didn't know about illustration and inkscape but when I started watching videos I'm in love with inkscape. Thank you for sharing information about inkscape. You simply amazing.
This is pure magic! Thanks for the clear, concise explanations (without annoying music in the background). This is exactly what I was looking for.
Just amazing! Great content and pacing, fantastically shown (I actually learn what you teach, not getting confused as so many other videos out there). Best tutorial video serie I've watched in a long time! Binge watch!
I've seen a lot of silhouettes used as cut files for adhesive or iron on vinyls. This looks like a very easy way to produce those. Thanks! I'm enjoying these tutorials and learning a lot about this complex program.
Trace bitmap is actually the only thing I know how to use in Inkscape 🤦♀️ so I am learning so much from you. Thank you so much!!!
The "trace bitmap" tool has come a long way, this is glorious! As someone who draws by hand, I gave up on auto-tracing because a black ink drawing on paper always used to produce grey artifacts which were a hassle to get rid of. And I certainly didn't want to have to draw the whole thing, only to have to re-trace it on a PC. Thanks!
You're welcome. I appreciate the insight.
I wish I could give this a like twice, because it's saved my bacon before. Both Inkscape as a program, and your lessons saved my relationship with vector graphics as a whole. I went to art school, and was taught Illustrator, which is a very capable program that was unfortunately very user-unfriendly during the time that I was taught it. I've heard it's gotten much better, since, but during that time, it was an uphill battle and a lot of things I can achieve swiftly in Inkscape took many more steps than needed.
So, thanks!
TJ,
I wanted to thank you for the great tutorials you are offering. I've watched the tutorials #1 to #10 and they are refreshing and interesting. Especially for a person like me who has an engineering background. I want to be able to engrave art shapes with a cnc router and I need to learn how to import pixel images and conver them to vector forms. Your videos are definitely helping a lot!
I've been looking for something like this for ages.
In highschool, we did screen printing using that technique of separating it into distinct sections and cutting the shapes out of lino for each one, then printing onto a sheet one after the other.
Hard to explain but it's a sick look and I wanted to replicate it
OMG. You are AMAZING! I’ve been trying to do a shirt for my brother of a steampunk lamp he made for a show this weekend using Cricut Infusible Ink and I couldn’t figure some things out. You taught me more in less than 10 minutes than multiple other videos put together. THANK YOU!
That's great to hear. Best of luck with your project!
Mate I have been trying to learn Inkscape by myself to make decals under 15MB for Gran Turismo sport. This series has opened my eyes to the whole process! Big up your chest!
You really do clear up the learning - There’s just enough in each vid. Appreciated is both the learning, and that you choose to share your abilities thus enriching all - both those who learn and those who enjoy the results. I finally produced a simple drawing to laser cut a shield. Love from here and good health
Thanks so much!
this is the reason i have inkscape. i was in charge of getting signature images into an adobe stamp for folks to use. i found a chicago state bar site that showed me how to trace bitmap to get just the line of the signature so the thing could be see through when brought into adobe and stamped.
Just amasing! I`ve seen images with this kind of effects in the Internet, maybe, thousands of times, and now I know how to do the same! Thanks!
I'm binge watching your amazing videos. I can't tell you how informative you are. Thanks again 🙏
Glad to hear it, Marie. You're welcome!
I didn't watch the whole thing, but this video helped me find the answer to my question in about 30 seconds. Thank you.
Pre-processing an image prior to vectorization helps a lot. I recommend a fuzzy-select on the darker part of the background, and delete. Then, you can vectorize with ease
The Guy is not falling, the back of the jacket, among other things, indicates he is being subjected to some force from his front. If you turn him vertical it is more obvious. for some reason the idea that he was falling just bothered me. Excellent video, it showed me a lot of info about the tool and further stimulated thought in a direction beyond inkscape which is what a good video should do. Thank You...
This is EXACTLY what I have been looking for!!! You are the BEST!!!! Thanks for your time and putting this video together for us! ✨
Great video. I couldn’t figure out how you were getting the different layers. You showed me what I was doing wrong. I appreciate your help.
Thanks for posting... I just stopped paying for A CC and wanted to Vectorize with a free platform, Now I can.... Great Post
Thank you!! I am super appreciative for all your tutorials. You break it down and make it simple to understand. Once I make it through Inkscape tutorials I will have to check out your gimp videos
You're welcome. Thanks for the feedback!
Amazing and informative videos. Started with graphic designing just for fun but now it has totally captured me. Great content for the beginners.
Glad to hear it. Best of luck with your creative projects!
Yep I love it. I use it all the time to create 3D stl files to print from drawings. I simply draw the shape I want or trace around a real life object or take a photo of it then bitmap trace it, export as svg, import into Tinkercad then extrude, modify and print. Brilliant.
I was so discouraged from doing my own editing and then I found your videos!! Thank you so much everything is super cool! And you are great explaining everything easy to understand! Thank you!
Thank you for these wonderful videos!! Not overly long, straight to the point and you keep reminding us to play around with what we've learned. You are the best!!!!
I'm learning this programm in school, but after waching only few of your tutorials I learn much more than with our teacher! I hope he knows about incscape more than me, but actually I asked some questions that he could not answer. Maybe he teaches only the basics...
Thankyou so much for this series!! I am totally binge watching these videos to get inspiration on what to do with Inkscape!!
Nice tutorial. Just wanted to mention that you could check the live preview box while you adjust the settings, to see effects more immediately
Thanks alot man you are a real star for making these videos. I have recently broken my collar bone so had a lot of time and started watching your videos. Amazing learning a new skill just watching your videos. Much appreciated.
Big thank you.
Mee too watch and learn from your videos till late night from India thanks a lot
Thank you SO MUCH! Been working hard at building out my Free Guitar Lessons videos, and I wanted to have some photos of my guitar neck converted to Vector based so I could animate them. This will help me a great deal. Much appreciated!
This tool alone will help me in so many projects! I'm loving your tutorials-thanks so much :)
You're welcome, Donna. I'm glad to hear that!
Mind blown!
Cool tutorial! Makes me want to go back and play around with Inkscape again.
Btw, welcome back! :)
Thanks so much. Glad to hear you appreciate my work!
I love your discovery videos way more than your rushing through building a thing videos, I went back to your earlier Inkscape vid's to get some more "wonder". I hope you will put some more of that in tour videos again.
Super useful! I'm going to use a photo of myself as part of the branding for my website!
I did that for my guitar site - I have a few versions in different colors - such a cool feature. I'm now using it for some featured images for my blog posts
As a recent release from the hoards, Thank You. Not enough stars in the sky to count my words of gratitude. Thank You.
What a cool feature, I never knew Inkscape had it until today, thanks!
So excited to play around with this tool! Super cool stuff. Please keep these videos coming
This will be very useful for carving on a CNC router or vinyl cutting. My world is growing exponentially. :)
That's true. I'm hoping to get into this someday.
I' ve just started learning Inkscape, but this is the coolest option ever. Just what I needed for my project. Thank you for this lesson! Greetings from Poland :D
Also....GREAT series. I've watched since video 1, been learning this app and its powerful applications, and I'm thankful for your teaching style. Thanks!!
Really good tutorial! Clear, to the point, and very actionable.
Thank you! I appreciate the feedback.
7:44 You can actually get 50 shades of grey in here.
nice meme
Demonitized
@@fukcg00gle95 WORTH IT
@@shillionaire
Totally 👍
More than in real life, then!?
Super useful!! I use this to change jpeg or png's into svg's for my cricut! Works amazingly!! Love your videos!!
Awesome!
I like this trace bitmap, gezzz, saves a lot of time,, thanks for showing how this works....
This is great!❤️ I would love to see a demo tutorial on scaling a small grainy logo like you mentioned
TJ Thanks, love your tutorials. So appreciate how clear you explain. Thanks again
I can't wait to play with this one. I was thinking of doing a black & white portrait of myself for my About Me on my website. No one does that so I will. But now /I can get some nice colors for different thresholds and get something really interesting - thanks!
I know your busy so no rush but how do you merge two of the tracings? I wanted to upload a pencil drawing for my profile pic on my website since no one does that. But this is cool - I did a blue version of a pic of myself and my guitar. But I wouldn't mind trying to do a few colors - maybe 2. But I'll need them to match up exactly. I couldn't find the merge option. I'm going to try a gradient overlay.
VERY THOROUGHLY INFORMATIVE; I no longer feel soooo lost!! Thank You,
This is awesome!! Exactly what i was looking for. But I'm still going to continue wathcing your tutoials:)
Thanks Mayank!
From a noob to a designer, you made me the one!
learning 2d animation. found i have to learn to design a character first. and internet threw me here. very happy. love
Thanks a lot buddy!!!!😄😄😄
I am very glad that I found your channel. Keep going....
Thanks for the tutorials!! I'm learning so much and have been so inspired!
Wow. Love it! Thank you! I am new to inkscape so all this info is very helpful. Happy New Year!
You're welcome Robin. Good luck!
TJ: "The sky's the limit. "
Dude in image: Reached the sky and now in free fall.
Great video. Just getting my head around Inkscape and this is a really great video for what i'm trying to do. Thanks
thank you for the tutorials :) Damn it 's long but so worth it ! thank you for going through it all in such a detailed way!
new to this. I am having bit of a problem finding some stuff. my computer looks a bit different. WOULD FIGURE IT OUT. This lesson is challenging but I'm enjoying every minute of it
This is just what I needed! Thanks a ton for the video mate:)
This is so cool. I tried it and it works very nicely.
Very cool tool. Excellent tutorials. Thanks a ton!
You're welcome!
This has better tools than my PSCS4.
I love all the video and I would love to thank you very for upload such a great video for education and teaching us. Thank you.
You. Are. The Absolute GOAT.
absolute gem
Thanks for this video. Im new to inkscape
I like this tool better than the Bezier tool. Much faster and easier. :)
Excellent tutorial. Thanks for uploading.
Thank you for your great tutorials! I subscribed and look forward to learning more. Great job!
Thanks Christopher.
Buen tutorial, amigo, te ganaste mi “Like” y mi suscripción a tu canal. Saludos desde Mérida, Yuc., México.
Thanks Juan!
Hi! Thank you very much for these fantastic tutorials! It's so easy to follow your videos. I've a question. I imported images into Inkscape but they all turn to black & white images. Would you please tell me if there's any option I need to check in order to have those images color? Thank you!
Helpful Tutorial Thank you very much. I have a question about after tracing the bitmap. I am using a laser to cut the image out and I would like to know how to combine the nodes down to one layer after the trace bitmap is done. When I upload the image to my laser it reads each one of the color layers as a different section to print. Is there a way to combine all those nodes down to one layer so the laser see's the image as just one layer? Thanks again for the great tutorials. A+
Nice stuff!!! But so what is the easy way to erase the black part of the bottom? If we don't use the eraser. Is it possible with one of the exclusion tools in the next video? Could you explain how to best get rid of parts of images? Thanks!!!
I have a brother cut and scan. I use this all the time. IMport the SVG into my CnS s/ware
Nice!
Thanks TJ, this was helpful...and useful.
You're welcome, Peter. Glad to hear it!
traced a unicorn for plasma cutting, great set of videos.
That's awesome! Thanks.
Ok Maestro. I'm not worthy lol. That was incredible.
hello guys, i have a problem.
I click trace bitmap > multiple scans>colors and select 4 colors and hit update and ok. after hitting ok, it takes almost 5 minutes and sysy not responding and closed.
I am using Lenovo laptop with 8gb ram and r gb Nvidia MX150 graphic card. Is my laptop not able to handle that work??
Very helpful and instructive! Thanks!!
You're welcome! I appreciate the feedback
As always...👍👍two thumbs up!
I use it for creating signs to carve wood on a 2D CNC machine. Fusion 360 uses vector if i want to import something.
That's awesome, thanks for sharing!
i think you just made me a living
Thanks for the video. One question: I scanned 3 separate line drawings on a single page, converted to pdf, but could not un group the objects. Any suggestions? Thx!
Good question Louis. Trace bitmap only groups different colors. Colors are created as one path even if they are not touching. You can select the path and try from the top menu Path > Break Apart to separate parts of path that are not touching. Hope that helps!
Thank's for your video.
Except that update does not preview for me.
I installed potrace. Scale the page size to the image size. (don't know if this has to do with...)
But it does not work. 😕
Great videos! I took an image that we put on Inkscape I traced it with the bitmap. Can you please tell me why I can’t get a duplicate to come down out of the original picture like you did with the man falling? I am trying to do this image to send it to my embroidery machine. Thanks
Thank you. Subscribed. I was hoping you would show how to save in a format that Cinema 4D would accept.
thank you so much for your all video.
Hi TJ, great tutorial on Inkscape, i've been following all of them up to this one. Sometimes I pause to play around in Inkscape myself. After watching this one I had a question though. So, when using the trace bitmap to create, let's say, an 8-coloured grayscale of a picture, and then shift-ctrl-G to ungroup them, I'm left with 8 objects. What I really want is not to have 8 objects in 1 layer but 8 separate layers with one object each. Any chance of doing this automatically? I've been searching around but so far couldn't find anything. Just wondering whether it was possible or not. Thx for any feedback from you or the community. Greets from Belgium & thx again for your great work.
You mentioned my fave website for free pictures. Love pixabay! And trace bitmap? Good Lord I could do a LOT with that. Muahahaaa... Lol
Great Videos, thankyou! How do you reset the path - trace bitmap properties? I cannot move forward on my project as the trace bitmap always starts where it left off. Is there a way to reset this to default? Your feedback would be appreciated.