The linked service performed well with solid lines. Most of them seem at best do the same as Inkscape. Beware: some of them want your image, so read the terms before. There exists several online bitmap tracers. Vextractor (guesses 90 degrees angles and circular arcs if wanted).Just for curios readers I mention a few the tryouts: Unfortunately quite much editing was still needed. As an opposite some of them succeeded pretty well with scanned solid black line technical drawings which are scanned in high resolution without JPG compression and had only circular arcs and straight lines. None of them had made usable results from blurry and vague pencil sketches. I have used some stroke tracing capable programs, but they have been Win-only. I suspect the fault is between my ears, so do not let that be a reason to skip it. Inkscape Centerline Tracing: I haven't got the suggested program to work. You must insert covers to hide some totally wrong part. You can also insert data to them in Inkscape, but edits there are a little complex. They can be edited in bitmap editors such as GIMP. If you can draw onto paper with a pen which makes solid black strokes, you can use the scanned images as bitmap (as said already by others). Quite soon you will notice that pencil sketckes can be quite simple major idea and dimension outlines, if you add finer details in Inkscape. I reduced the opacity of your image to make the handles of the inserted nodes better visible.įor the future: Pencil sketches are useful because the pencil does exactly what is ordered and it needs no electricity. And turn it temporarily off, if it tries to place a new node too eagerly onto an old node. Insert new nodes only if absolutely needed. Then pull the handles out of the nodes with the node tool, hold shift at the same time. With the pen at first click only straight lines: You may now and then notice harmful gaps which require editing with the node tool or inserting a stroke to create some extra width. You can also fill areas with the paint bucket to create closed shapes for coloring, but that works only in screen resolution. Snapping will help to align coincident nodes perfectly and you can draw closed areas for easy coloring. (=Edit > Select same > Stroke color) As well you can insert new layers. Remember to lock it in the objects panel and draw different things with different colors to be able to select them by the sameness. You will get superior results if you take the pen tool and redraw your image. Open the Advanced panel to adjust Paths, Corners and Noise.I agree with others.Switch up the Color Slider to change the Color Complexity.Check out the Presets and in the Tracing Panel.Open your pixel-based file in Illustrator.… You can draw exactly the shape you need. Depending on what and how you would like to draw, you can select the best tool for the task. The freehand drawing tools make it possible to draw directly onto the Inkscape canvas using the mouse or a graphics tablet stylus. Step 3: Save the Image as a Vector Graphics File.Click on the Path menu and select Trace Bitmap. Step 2: Convert the Image to Vector Graphics Format.Open the File menu and select Import from the menu. How do I convert a JPEG to a vector file? Click the Image Trace button in the Control panel or the Properties panel, or select a preset from the Tracing Presets button ( ).Choose Object > Image Trace > Make to trace with default parameters.