Trying to CUT out

[rbtdanforth]

I put this together a while back and it is still what I do. You can also max out the Contrast to get all black and white and even thicken those bits where the leaves need some support.

Using Gimp to get a better trace in Inkscape

Looking to trace this image in Inkscape there are several colors that could interfere and as it is a JPG even the solid colors are not solid but messed with by the JPG compression, Inkscape trace will try to follow those, but Gimp masking can do a cleaner job. (you will note I am using a dual-screen to keep track of everything, and perhaps it will help justify your getting one too) [Clipboard01] [Clipboard02] So Starting out we take a copy of the original by visible rather than just copy the…