Yeah cheers for that folks will give that a go. Yeah on other programme you do need the right photo so you dont just get black blobs but can look good with the correct photos.Yep it is for t shirt printing

I was looking to convert photos into silhouettes. I have a similar programme to inkscape and do this by cutting the background out and hitting trace button. Its very easy and can be done in seconds....struggling to do this on inkscape though so wondered if someone can talk me through it ....please??

Yeah I did initially download it direct from inkscape but couldnt get it to work properly so deleted it and downloaded it from someone else...dont know if deleting inkscape again would solve this..then download it again direct???

Wasnt sure where quite to post this but when I downloaded inkscape it downloaded Bandoo(whatever that is) and I keep getting a pop up and slows me down quite often and its really getting on my tits! I ve searched under All Programmes and cant find it under that. Just wondered if anyone else has expe...

Yep thats a good idea as this is obviusls the setting it downloads in as I tried deleting it and loading it elsewhere and was still locked in this....so it may stop someone else throwing their laptop out the window!!Thanks alot again!!!

Yeah cheers I ve managed to do this by altering the setting on preference page. Each shape was set individually so managed to change some and not others(driving me crazy), but think I ve got there now .......THANKS GUYS!!!! Thought it might be something really basic....I m sure you ll here from me s...

Yep sorry I ll try keep it short and sweet folks(thanks so much for the help). Using laptop,version 48.2 which I downloaded from inkscape.org,when I meant click and drag yes I meant clicking left button on mouse and dragging cursor to pull the shape open. I have advanced now(a little) from just gett...

Cheers for your help Inkspots....have since tried left clicking on fill and stroke indicator but cant seem to get it off N/A I m afraid. I ve managed to pull Hoops out now but never yet a filled shape though I ve read and followed tutorials...theres something basic I m not doing. Managed that by cli...

No I mean when I m on selector tool and I click onto a shape then I click and pull it doesnt pull the shape. I wondered if theres a setting or something thats preventing this. Like I say I have drawplus which is basically the same and it does it no problem??

Hi downloaded inkscape a while back and having severe problems. Cant seem to get started...watched numerous tutorials...still no luck! Basically when I select a shape say a circle and then try and pull out the shape all I seem to get is a dotted line(square) for adjusting the dimensions! I ve tried ...