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@forteller@tutoteket.no  ·  activity timestamp last week

Tell me there's an easier/faster way to make a solid svg object out of an element in a photograph, that is not in one solid color?

#vectorize #inkscape

The photo of three graphical arrowheads is open in Inkscape. White boxes of varying sizes has been put on top of the middle one, to make it into a vector element, by hand.
The photo of three graphical arrowheads is open in Inkscape. White boxes of varying sizes has been put on top of the middle one, to make it into a vector element, by hand.
The photo of three graphical arrowheads is open in Inkscape. White boxes of varying sizes has been put on top of the middle one, to make it into a vector element, by hand.
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@papiris@fribygda.no  ·  activity timestamp last week

@forteller i run it rough and shabby, using "trace bitmap" iirc, and using the multicolor submenu. Often looks dashing on laser cuts and 3D prints, where tiny details are lost anyways. Tends to get 'the gist' of an object, but also tends to get various small anomalies.

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@doctormo@floss.social  ·  activity timestamp last week

@papiris @forteller

This is a pixel image, so this is a multi-step process.

1. Bring it into gimp, not inkscape
2. Rotate and skew it until pixel edges align well with all 4 sides and there are no half-pixels
3. Resize the image to the count of the number of pixels. 43 wide in this example (can't see what's off screen) and DO NOT use any subsampling, so change Cubic to None.
4. Now use the pixel brush with a 1px size to just blip over the pattern to clean it up with a solid fill.

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@forteller@tutoteket.no  ·  activity timestamp last week

@doctormo @papiris Thank you! I really appreciate you taking the time to explain this! But unfortunately that seems so complicated, I think I'll probably just rather keep manually covering the photo with boxes in Inkscape. I think that'll probably be faster for me with this simple design.

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