Hi Everyone! I'm entirely new to inkscape and just love this program So for my new project I am making some black shapes with and outline I have a question regarding the fill and contour function. So I select for fill black and now I want to make a contour not normal (color) but image for example http://canvascorpimages.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/19004-Precious-Stone-Turquoise-C.jpg.I am aware of the function of converting an image to vector image, so my very question is how should I do that, if possible ?

Welcome aboard!

Such fills can be added to object by clipping, but drawing them alone is a different story.
That is, implemented in filtering effects.
V1nce is the best with those here, you will love his topic:
http://www.inkscapeforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=12678

Hi

For correct viewing of attached svg (turquoise.svg), the image "19004-Precious-Stone-Turquoise-C.jpg" should be placed in the same dir.
(I can't upload here coz it's too big)



> Such fills can be added to object by clipping, but drawing them alone is a different story.

Or you could simply use your reference image as a source for the stroke (see star on the right)
add your background image.
click on it then object/pattern/object to pattern
click on the object you want to strike
in the pattern sources for your stroke (or fill) you should see a new entry at the top with a name like patternXXXXX

> That is, implemented in filtering effects.

On the attached svg you'll see a pure "procedural" pattern (basically it's just a stack of turbulence more or less grainy that are blend with the background).
(this is just a quick exemple. I didn't add dark dots coz I think you're interested in the turquoise pattern only)

use bitmap as a pattern vs filter
PRO : easy (,probably faster)
CON : need to use a seamless image for large object, file would be bigger

or you can combine both : create a filter that use a small bitmap pattern combined with displacement map and turbulence to "hide" the repetitive pattern

Thank you very much
That helped a lot!