So tracing is good, tracing, bitmap in Inkscape is so easy and fun and.
It helps you to achieve your goals faster.
So when do I use it?
I use it when I want to achieve faster results and when my drawing is something like this with brush
strokes and nice organic lines and edges, I use these because it's a bit hard to achieve this in Inkscape
alone.
I mean, it's easier to do this and get this dynamic nice flow of lines on paper and then trace it here,
then try to build it in Inkscape.
Inkscape is great for creating Lynott, which is cleaner.
Also, you can do brush like things like this.
I will show you on the end of the course, but sometimes it just flows easier on paper and that's good.
So also I am using it, as I said before, when I have big plans for my drawings.
So I just want to have a tiny drawing on paper.
Fine.
But if I need it as a part of a bigger drawing or I know I want to recalibrate, for example, and this
is not Lynard, but.
I give you the background.
And they make it white.
I could print it as a card and as a mother Mother's Day card or whatever, I.
So it really opens up a lot of possibilities how to edit this drawing, so I just threw a square behind
it, a rectangle to give you the background.
Now, ideally, the rectangle and put this back into black.
Also, I can clean up my drawing this way or change it.
As I said, I can take the path, anything to the node two and move some parts of my image.
So if I for example, I want to put this flower a bit higher, then I select the path.
And select these nodes holding shift to select additional nodes.
And.
Here is a part which is not selected, ASI.
And I just grab it here.
And Paulita.
I already changed the dynamic of the drawing and it's a small change, but you cannot do that on paper,
so this is why we digitize.
Also, what if I want to clean this up?
I like this because it gives some movement for my drawing.
But what if I'm not satisfied?
What if I don't want to use this part at all?
I want to lose this part.
Then I take the pencil to.
And I just draw a sharp.
A ship above the peace I want to cut, let's say this one, I want to cut.
Then I saw like this shape I drew.
I make it visible, make it red, so it's a shape here.
Received click I like the drawing itself and then I go path differenced.
And you see, the part I don't need is cut off if it's a small thing, for example, this little dot
I don't want, I just select those nodes and hit delete.
So it works very well if you just want to change it.
That's why you digitize it.
And I promise I will talk a bit about a bit more about tracing.
So let's put these aside and I show you one more thing which I really like and is sometimes can be used.
And I this is why I say sometimes because you can only trace remember, you can only trace if you have
a good quality image, not small images downloaded from one from the Internet because they are like
very bad.
And when you trace it, all the details are lost.
Also, it worth tracing when there are brushstrokes like this.
And it's interesting, but when you want strict straight lines or nice sharp curves, sharp edges,
then it's better to trace by hand and the rest of the course is about that.
I will show you how to trace and how to create original lynott meaning scape.
Following your sketches or your own ideas, but not by ultimately tracing.
But still, first, I want to show you something more, so let's go to import.
And there is this little guy.
You know the drill, I just link it.
OK, and you see it's quite high resolution image.
Now, this one I was taking with my phone, you see there is a big difference here.
Quality wise, this part is darker despite his lighter.
Well, altogether, it's nice and high quality, like high resolution.
And the background is not perfect.
So if I want to trace it.
To use this character in a video game, for example, or printed on a T-shirt, you know, so I go to
pathway's trace bitmap.
And from a single scan, I can see, it's nice.
I need a bit.
May be higher.
What if it's lower?
No, definitely higher.
Yeah, here, it's already starting to darken up because this part of the image was dark, but here
are some nice thickness around the lines, so a bit lower.
And OK.
So here is the original, here is the traced one looks OK, has a lot of nodes.
This is what happens with tracing.
And just to practice, we can clean these parts.
I just select the nodes I don't want there is some dust here and there.
And I can go on and clean it up and have this little character as.
You know, I mean, any cartoon or anything, but.
It's good.
Only if I want to have him like this rough on the edges and have these totally hands feel, but if I
want to edit it because I don't like the edge here, it takes a huge effort to not use the considerable
effort to move these parts, move them up and down and like delete some nodes, you know.
Like it would be the same amount of work, like it would be on the poppy flowers before that.
Yeah, I just need to work a lot with the notes.
What if it's easier to do it?
So here is distrait.
And there is a great stuff in the new Inkscape, which is trace bitmap.
Singers can and this one centerline line tracing now what I love about central and tracing what it does,
it does the same, look the same, but it goes with every line and it gives you one path, not the two
edges, not like here, but it gives you one path you will see in a second.
He took.
And here is what it is.
And give me some more.
Thickness.
It looks weird, I know it has some parts because centerline tracing, for example, with this one,
it cannot really work.
Little bubbles, little black shapes or this part.
It cannot really understand that.
But still.
Candidly, these.
I can delete all, delete all the little parts I don't need, but also I can make it much thicker.
Also, I can move this part much easier, why?
Because it only has.
One line in it, so if I want to give him one more little hair here or little horn or whatever it is,
I can I just pull out a note and edited.
It seems very complex now, but in the coming lectures, I will show you how to edit it better.
Also, you see where tracing is working and I hope you see that now that it works and a lot of places,
but not everywhere, it's still a lot of work to edit this.
So sometimes it's just easier to delete the notes and do your own work.
Another thing you could do after tracing is simplify the image, which means I deleted the original.
Now, here is my central line.
Here is my normal trace and I can select it.
And you see there is a million of nodes in here.
And if you hit control el.
It will make it easier, it will make the nodes simpler, it simplifies now suddenly you can set up
how much more simply you want your images because it's optimizing and it's calculating the simplicity,
but it seriously reduces the amount of nodes.
You lose a lot of detail and it has this strange look here and there, but it's easier.
Let's see what happens if I do it with the centerline, the thickness of the lines is there, I only
have like two notes here, for example.
So here.
I can edit it nicely.
It's up to you to use it.
I'm just showing it because sometimes we line art or handwritten text if I want to digitize to use it
in some images.
This one central line tracing is amazing.
Again, what I say use tracing, but it's not the solution for everything.
And I hope I can cover the rest of the line needs in the following part of the course.
And I hope that you will see the point in each of the projects we will accomplish together.