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Hi, you wanted to know how to crop And take the background off
And put it into Inkscape You'll see all the various things
On the tutorials that you've got A quick one now
To show you how to do it I have brought the wings into Gimp
This is the best place to crop I am going to the crop tool
And click And then crop
That has got rid of one of the wings I'm going to make it a bit bigger
Now we are going to Take this white background out
First, we need to add an Alpha Channel To get the transparency
Click on the background layer Go to Layer and down to transparency
And add an Alpha Channel You will see what happens in a minute
I am going to take the background out By using the Fuzzy Select Tool
We talk about this tool in the tutorials Click on there
And click on the image You will see a selection
All the way round It has selected the background
We then press delete There it is
It has removed the background And you have got your transparency
I noticed when I did it before There are bits still left
It is not very tidy If we go up to 400
You can see So while it is selected
I am going to go to Select > Grow the selection
By 2 pixels It is going to move in
Which is quite nice All this in the middle is protected
Now I am going to take the Eraser Tool And go and clean up
All the way round If it is too small
Press the right bracket key A couple of times
To make it bigger Because it is protected
The selections will come back This is a nice quick and easy way
I am going over it all But only rubbing out the background
I also noticed is These black lines here
And when I put it through Inkscape It did not look very nice
What I would suggest is You go to Select and press on None
So you lose all your selections Blow it up a bit bigger
To do that use the Zoom Tool A couple of times
That should do it And taking the Eraser Tool
You can see the brush is too bit So use the left hand bracket key
To reduce it and Gently go and take
Some of these black lines out It will make quite a difference
When you put it through Inkscape To get it back to the ordinary
Lets click on 100 We can't see it very well, 200
As you can see This looks a lot neater
I am not going to do that now As I want to show you what happens
When we put it into Inkscape You have your wing there
And what you need to do now Is save it
Save as and call it Wings But I want it as a png
To preserve the transparency There it is and I am going to save
I am now going to take you over to Inkscape And we will have a look at the next procedure
We are now in Inscape And I have uploaded it, imported it into Inkscape
It is a small image So I am going to make it a bit bigger
All I am doing is Holding the Control key down
And dragging the handle And you can see this black line is better
What we want to do now is To make this into vector
Because it is a raster at the moment We do this by going up to
Path > Trace Bitmap Your options here
We haven't done a tutorial on this But very quickly
There is only 2 colours black and white We are going to do it in grey
As there is no colour Click the stacks one and remove background
Just in case there is any We only want 2 scans anyway
If you click update It will bring it in there
And press OK When we get rid on that
That is the traced one If you compare the two
Lets just go in a bit A much neater line here
Than that one Because that one is pixilated
And this isn't Do you see what I mean about the black here
It is entirely up to you if you want that Get rid of this one
That is your image To work with as per the various tutorials
I hope that has helped Bye bye for now