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Once again I seek help here with something basic that should be a snap, but when I try to do it the program doesn't seem to be behaving as it should.
In the attached SVG image, I need to remove the dark red background and isolate the "superman" logo as a stand-alone vector (transparency around it). I have tried all the things that seemingly should work, including tracing the path and all that, and it doesn't respond (background and logo stay locked together no matter what I do).
Could anyone help?
thanks,
R
Help with isolating a logo from its b/g
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Rhizomorph
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Help with isolating a logo from its b/g
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Re: Help with isolating a logo from its b/g
Hi,
the logo you attached is not vector,
but a rectangle with a fill of an embedded image in the size of 1035/748 pixels.
You can make it a stand-alone raster image, with transparency in gimp.
Manually tracing the image would produce the vector result you want,
which is about 1-3 hours of node editing, based on how accurate you want the result to be.
You could try auto-tracing, but that would definitely mess up the gradient in the fill.
Edit:
Here is the original raster image:
and the same image with transparency added:
the logo you attached is not vector,
but a rectangle with a fill of an embedded image in the size of 1035/748 pixels.
You can make it a stand-alone raster image, with transparency in gimp.
Manually tracing the image would produce the vector result you want,
which is about 1-3 hours of node editing, based on how accurate you want the result to be.
You could try auto-tracing, but that would definitely mess up the gradient in the fill.
Edit:
Here is the original raster image:
and the same image with transparency added:
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Rhizomorph
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Re: Help with isolating a logo from its b/g
Thanks but I was unable to use that info with GIMP.
I was almost able to use the one you made there, except in Inkscape I can't get it to sit behind the main image (a text object).
It's difficult to believe there isn't some way in Inkscape (or something else) to simply trim the logo from its background and make it have no background, and thus be able to place it in a layer in a project with two images (as the underneath layer)...?
I was almost able to use the one you made there, except in Inkscape I can't get it to sit behind the main image (a text object).
It's difficult to believe there isn't some way in Inkscape (or something else) to simply trim the logo from its background and make it have no background, and thus be able to place it in a layer in a project with two images (as the underneath layer)...?
Re: Help with isolating a logo from its b/g
Of course you can do that with the image.
It just won't be vector.
You can trim it better with a clipping mask than that second png, to add transparency.
However simple trimming won't turn the raster image to be vector, you will get pixelation when printing that in a reasonable resolution.
By the way to move it behind any object, use PgDown/End, or, if all objects are on separate layers, reorganise the layer's order.
Not that I see why would you add new layers for three so simple objects though.
It just won't be vector.
You can trim it better with a clipping mask than that second png, to add transparency.
However simple trimming won't turn the raster image to be vector, you will get pixelation when printing that in a reasonable resolution.
By the way to move it behind any object, use PgDown/End, or, if all objects are on separate layers, reorganise the layer's order.
Not that I see why would you add new layers for three so simple objects though.