Have you tried selecting all and ungrouping before deleting anything?
I think the whole tracing bitmaps is a quagmire for beginners - and I am still a beginner so I am bowing out of this discussion. Once the bitmap is traced, then you have the whole clipping path thing to work past. This is why I use the premium subscription images and keep it simple.
well for the tracing Iāve found silhouette way way easy with sliders just way easy to use but for alot of stuff it just doesnāt have the functions . (this from a new guy) but thats what ā Iāve found so far anyway on that front.
thats what it was somehow i āthinkā I had worked on one small part of the tail feather several times and instead of working on that small part it must have duplicated the entire bird first then made a new layer then I flattened the layers at some point working on other stuff and it kept each layer so I went back in to the layers and ungrouped and deleted the layers that had the extra birds.
Good lord I want to thank everyone for there help ready to throw this one out the window lol
The way we learn is to make misteaksā¦
In Inkscape, I often repeat a process and try different approaches. You can just hit āZ to back up.
Another thing I do often is make multiple copies on a worksheet, try one thing, but keeping others. When I am finally satisfied, I will copy just what I want into a new document.
Thereās rarely one ābestā way to crack a nut. Iāve taught classes and thatās one of the first lessons, donāt expect to be taught ātheā way but rather one of many.
This is exactly what I do; I have a master image on my workspace, and then make a copy to edit. When Iām happy with that and I want to make another large edit, I make another copy. When I get an edit I like, I delete the previous copies and narrow them down until Iām happy with the last one. I do it this way because Iām a visual person and it helps me to see all the different iterations on one page.
(ā¦ and I paste my final version into a new, blank document, because Inkscape tends to leave a lot of artifacts/junk inside the āworkingā file, even if they donāt necessarily show up on the screenā¦)
Yep, I make sure I have a final clean version too, but luckily Corel seems pretty good at not leaving extra junk floating around.
Hey @allen-deckard, it looks like our amazing community members were able to help you figure out the cause of the trouble, Iām glad to hear it. Thank you everyone!
Since the issue looks to be resolved now, Iām going to go ahead and close this thread. If you still need help with this issue or anything else please start a new thread or email us at support@glowforge.com. Weāre happy to help!