Hello,

I'm an unexperienced user of Inkscape and vector programs in general. Today I started doing my first project, and I'd appreciate some help.

I have a PNG image that I'm trying to vectorize. I followed these instructions and got a fairly decent result. My PNG has only 8 colors, but in order to get them all with the tracing, I had to use 11.

The image bellow shows a zoomed part of my image, after the automatic bitmap tracing.



But what I wanted is something like this:



I achieved the second image with the Bucket Fill Tool, but I believe that's not the correct approach.

I'd like suggestions on how to proceed.

Thank you.

iomartin wrote:I achieved the second image with the Bucket Fill Tool, but I believe that's not the correct approach.

The correct approach is the one that gets you the result you want. In this case, I think you've found it with the bucket tool.

The colour stepping you see is likely unavoidable using trace bitmap. If you zoom in on your PNG, you'll see the darker pixels that trace bitmap is picking up. Although, you might be able to just delete those objects and get the look you are after.

I agree with microUgly.

Still, how I'd do it with trace would be to use the trace option "stack scans", then ungroup the result, and delete those layers/colours I didn't want.