derekmhart Posted January 13, 2019 Share Posted January 13, 2019 What would be a good way in Inkscape to take an image like the one attached "full_image.jpg", and then turn it into a black and white illustration, like "outline.png". I wouldn't want the background. I know I can remove backgrounds in different ways, but is there some way to "lift" just the main outline out to get an illustration. I will use in a whiteboard Videoscribe animation. Not looking for perfect, but not clear at all how to approach this. Thoughts appreciated! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
derekmhart Posted January 13, 2019 Author Share Posted January 13, 2019 What would be a good way in Paint.net to take an image like the one attached "full_image.jpg", and then turn it into a black and white illustration, like "outline.png". I wouldn't want the background. I know I can remove backgrounds in different ways, but is there some way to "lift" just the main outline out to get an illustration. I know there's no way Paint.net would know how to draw inside the animals, but how could I grab an outline? I will use these in a whiteboard Videoscribe animation. Not looking for perfect, but not clear at all how to approach this. Thoughts appreciated on some way to do this with Paint.net layers, or some other way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toe_head2001 Posted January 13, 2019 Share Posted January 13, 2019 Sorry, this is not the place to be asking about the particulars of Inkscape. Try here: https://inkscape.org/community/ If you want an outline in paint.net, there are various methods of tracing. For example the Line/Curve tool, or the ShapeMaker plugin. Quote (September 25th, 2023) Sorry about any broken images in my posts. I am aware of the issue. My Gallery | My Plugin Pack Layman's Guide to CodeLab Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HyReZ Posted January 13, 2019 Share Posted January 13, 2019 (edited) Greetings, This may get you started along a useful path. Open the color image of your dog & cat in PDN. Goto: the Effects/Artistic and use the Ink Sketch option In my one page tutorial I changed the default settings to: Ink Outline = 70 Color = 0 I you like; you can change the Primary color setting to white and the Brush Tool size to ~12 and paint over the sections that you don't need. Or You can goto the Adjustments/Black and Alpha+ plugin by dpy (BlackandAlpha+.dll) and convert your image to black on a transparent background and then use the Eraser Tool to delete the sections that you don't need. You may have to zoom in and also adjust brush or eraser sizes to have precision over your editing of the image! Edited January 13, 2019 by HyReZ inserting additional information Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HyReZ Posted January 13, 2019 Share Posted January 13, 2019 To follow up on toe_head2001's information, here is link to a helpful video: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
derekmhart Posted January 13, 2019 Author Share Posted January 13, 2019 Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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