Cool, thank you all for your time! I will see if I can find what I am looking for in other programs.

How.PNG Here is how my other program spoils me. It is called Silhouette Studio. Place image on page. Highlight where you want to trace. Select TRACE IMAGE. Drag image away to reveal the traced image. It's a 3 second operation, automatic edge detection, 3 mouse clicks and done. The downsides are tha...

Capture.PNG So here is what i see when trying to TRACE BITMAP. I get this about 75% of the time. Why does my version of Inkscape not recognize pictures? I am thinking that Inkscape is too complicated to do simple tasks. All I want is a solid black silhouette image. I have another program that does ...

Sorry, let me fill in some details here. Win 10 on a Lenovo laptop. To me, a silhouette is a b&w outline of a given image. Below is a link to a couple videos I have watched to learn how to do a silhouette. I have seen about 12 variations of these tutorials. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TA57o...

I have followed all the video instructions that I could find. I have the same buttons, I do the same actions, but get no results. At best, I end up with a copy of the picture, not a silhouette. I have tried TRACE BITMAP, COLOR INVERSIONS and even trying to manually just color the whole picture black...

Greetings! I am brand new to Inkscape and I am looking to really only do one thing with the program, and that is to make silhouettes from existing pictures. I have watched 10 different videos and read many instructions on how to do it, but my version does not allow it. (0.92?). So, where do I find a...