Thanks for your responses. This is possibly ridiculously simple for you experts, but all I am trying to do is to extract the red bits from the attached image and use them in various web pages and possibly business cards. Is it possible to store and use the image with a transparent background? Tom Pa...

I'm trying to remove the background to a simple logo, using Path > Trace Bitmap with no success. I can't even see the preview window or use the Update function. What am I doing wrong? I'm using Inkscape 0.48.5 r10040 on Windows 8.1. Also is there a simple method of removing the background to a 2 or ...