Then take ‘Fill Bounded areas’ tool from tool panel for dropping our picked color into our desired area of traced image. We will move dropper tool cursor on the skin color of this cartoon character which is yellow color. Then move cursor on the color which you want to trace. Once you click on arrow button you will have pop up list, choose Dropper from this list.īefore taking dropper make sure nothing is selected on our document area. Now we will fill color into this traced image and for that to go bottom of the User interface and click on arrow button. You can move your traced image next to original image and this traced image will be in vector format. This option has Threshold limit and by changing its value you can have different result in tracing of bitmap.Ĭlick on Update button of this dialog box for seeing preview of tracing result.Īnd in preview section of this box you can see result but we just want to trace outline of this character so we will adjust threshold limit for tracing just outline.įor image threshold value will be this. Here we have many ways to trace a bitmap (if you want to know each and every way of tracing bitmap of this dialog box then you can search for ‘Inkscape trace bitmap’ article of mine) but we will go with first one which is Brightness cutoff. Or you can make right click then choose Trace Bitmap option from pop up list.

Click on Trace Bitmap option of drop down list of this menu or you can go with short cut key which is Shift + Alt + B keys of keyboard. So for tracing it, go to Path menu of menu bar then click on it. Now select this image and we will trace it.

Inkscape character design