j michaelson wrote:
hello everyone,
i've been dabbling with svg cartoons. i've been scanning black and white line drawings and converting them to svgs with the trace bitmap tool. i then colour them in by drawing blocks of colour and lowering them behind the outline. this is an incredibly time consuming way of doing things and i was wondering if there is a quicker way of doing it that i'm missing.
i've tried exporting to a bitmap, using the gimp to bucket fill the gaps and then tracing it back to an svg again, but it's not the most elegant way of working.
Here is an idea: Can you bucket fill in GIMP while using a second layer?
Then you could do this:
1. Export as bitmap (Inkscape) 2. Put the bitmap in layer 1 (GIMP) 3. Create layer 2 4. Create the fills in layer 2 5. Delete layer 1 6. Save the new image (just the fills) 7. Put the image behind the outlines