Moini, here is a screen shot of what I get when I do the trace. I have turned the opacity down to zero for the top layer.

Thanks Moini, I did try that but I can't seem to make it work. I'll keep banging away at it and soone or later, I'll figure it out.

Thanks Tyler. I followed along exactly as your gif. I got two sort of gray ghost lines. When I roll over them, they turn red for an instant and then go back to gray. I'm not sure if I have a glitch in my software or what. How do you assign a color to the fill so the line shows green like yours?

Thanks Brynn. I have got two conversations going on and I'm so greatful to both of you for taking the time to help me learn. I have been watching both and trying to follow along with my own Inkscape and mimicking what you folks are doing. I'm having trouble setting the fill to a color that I can see...

Thanks Tyler, that works great. I never would have thought of that but I'm old and haven't had an original thought since WW2.

Ray

Tyler, is there any way to "pause" your videos? That would be really beneficial for watchers like me who are trying to digest a lot all at one time. Thanks again for your wonderful help.
Ray

Tyler, you are amazing. I think I get it now and will give it a try. Thanks so much for your time and efforts.

Ray

My problem seems to be that when I do my scan, I end up with a picture of the entire magazine page with the image that I want to work with inside of it. When I do a select, it selects the entire page. How do I get to the image within the page? I think if I can ever get to that point, I can figure ou...

Yeah, that trace is a bit too sketchy. Hand trace is pretty easy: https://dl.dropbox.com/s/tbw9qk42w7bpsfv/2018-06-24_18-32-02.gif Better if I took more time... :? Plus, for symmetric designs, you only need to do half, and you can mirror to get the other half. Tyler, I want to say thanks for you ta...

I am sorry for being so long in posting again. Something took place in our family group and it was impossible to get my head back in the game. I have another project that seems to require the same methodology. I will try to post it here and explain that all I want to do in this drawing is to widen t...

I'm sorry if I have confused you. I posted here and then went looking for answers whereve I could find them and found the Inkscape community forum. Anyway, let me try to explain. The book I have for scroll sawing has many projects in it. The one I want to work on is a votive holder. It has a top, a ...

Am I not explaining my problem correctly? I can't believe that it has been read 18 times so far and not one reply. What am I doing wrong?

Hello to all, I'm new here and have a question. I have imported a scanned image from a pattern book. I want to break apart the page that I scanned and converted to an .svg format. I have imported the file. I have ungrouped the file to where there are no groups showing at the bottom of the screen. I ...