The first step is to get your bitmap, whether you create it yourself, or download it, and trace it into a set of vectors using the Inkscape ‘trace bitmap’ tool.

Some advanced Inkscape users even trace the bitmaps that they generated from original vector drawings. The reason for doing this is that the unavoidable degradation may be exactly what is missing to ...

Convert sketches into vectors Traditional artists who prefer sketching on paper or in raster software like Photoshop can easily convert their work into vector art using Inkscape's Trace Bitmap ...

Inkscape allows you to perform Boolean, shape, builder, path simplification, path insetting, path outsetting, and bitmap tracing operations. There are also over 20 live path effects available.

Inkscape also supports Creative Commons metadata, node editing, layers, complex path operations, bitmap tracing, path-based texts, circumfluent object text, direct XML editing and much more.