Hi,

Please bear with me, I'm brand new to Inkscape and not all that accomplished with Gimp either. I'm reading through various tutorials and help files on IS but none seem to answering what I'm looking for: it seems that selecting things only selects objects. How do I select a block of screen? Is this even possible? On a similar note, is it possible to work on pixels? erasing or just penciling in individual pixels. I know nothing about vector drawing in general, any tutorials recommended to get going there?

Thanks

1. How else should selecting behave?
2. What is "a block of screen"?
3. One to get you started

1) In Gimp if you use the selection tool it highlights a part of the image. There are no objects
2) Any section of an image
3) Thanks but I don't have bandwidth for videos

I've got a bitmap image that I've converted to vector. There are some pixels that I need to erase. How do I do this? If I put it back in Gimp it's no longer a vector. The erase tool in IS is quite confusing!

Hi.

• What you are looking for, is a raster image editor.
• Inkscape is a vector drawing program.
• To cut out parts of a raster image in inkscape, you can set clipping.
• Though that way the right part appears from the image after clipping set, you have to keep in mind that all the elements of the drawing will get rasterised if you export it to png.
  Which will use anti-aliasing.
  That, if you not set the pixels fit, will end up in your raster image part blurred.
• By opening a raster image in inkscape and saving it as an svg, it won't be a vector.
• Vector image means there are no pixels -no pixels to be erased.
• To convert an image to vector, you would need the auto-trace option at least.
• if you want to erase pixels, better do that in gimp, then use the edited image in inkscape if necessary.

Hope I didn't missed a point.
Good luck!

Thanks that did clear up a few things
(I'm not having trouble so much with the tools as with the conceptual differences, but I'll get there)

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