If everything goes right, the document (the white square behind your photo) will snap to the size of the picture, which is what we want. If your button is disabled, try clicking on the image first. See the button marked “Fit page to selection”? Tap it and the job is done. Open the Document Properties dialogue with File > Document Properties. If you presized your image like I did, the next step is easy - fitting the document to the image (or vice-versa really). It should be impaled on the document, in a rather haphazard fashion. From a blank page, click on File > Import bitmap, and select your photo. The first thing I do - and of course, there are probably plenty of ways to do this, so tell me if you have a better method - is to open Inkscape and plop that image down in the center. It’s shot at 1600×1200, just so you know. You’re free to download that one and experiment with it, if you like. The contrast between the sunset on the rocks and the blue in the sky and the deep greens in the foreground is going to be quite beautiful. Here’s another image that looks quite nice when finished - these are the mountains outside Paarl, South Africa. Presizing does make things a little quicker though.
You’re free to do that too if you like, although you’ll end up with a traced version of the photo, so it can be scaled to any size you like. If you’re running a fairly modern machine, you can probably have the entire job done in the time it takes to open a can of Fanta.Īnyway, here’s how you can do the same thing … and trust me, it’s quite simple.įirst, I cropped the photo to the size I wanted for the monitor. That was built in Inkscape, and vectorizing an image like that takes only a few minutes, even at 1Ghz. That one works in particular because of the natural sun flare behind the towers, which makes an interesting gradient through the upper right of the picture. Vector images like that can be more striking than an original photo, depending on the subject and the composition. It is a rather interesting image, don’t you think? I know because I can track links through WordPress, and two hours after I posted that last screenshot, I had double-digit clickthroughs.
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