Step 8: The traced image will be on the original image as shown

Step 7: In the Trace Bitmap tab select multiple scans tab in that uncheck smooth and check stack and remove background also uncheck smooth corners and then click OK and then close the Trace Bitmap dialog Bitmap tracing as the name suggest is a process of making vector from the bitmap by redrawing the image. Step 6: Now the first method which we will use is the bitmap tracing which can be done from Path -> Trace Bitmap or press Shift + Alt + B. If you always use the defaults then there is also an option for Don’t ask again which you can tick. Step 5: Then we will be greeted with a jpg bitmap image import dialog in which we keep all the defaults and click OK.

Step 4: Then navigate where for file is in our case it is athletics.jpg which we open from the dialog window. Step 3: Now since we need to remove the background from the image or in other words make it transparent for that we first import the file from the file menu or press Ctrl + I Step 2: Here untick show page borders which will remove the page preview shown and keep other options to the default values. For our purposes we will first go to Document Properties from the file menu or you can press Shift + Ctrl + D. Step 1: When you open the Inkscape application you will be greeted with a blank A4 page. 3D animation, modelling, simulation, game development & others

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