Steve Litt said on Thu, 8 Aug 2024 01:59:13 -0400

Hi all,

I have a sketch .jpg whose lines are green. I want to convert the green lines to #FF86F8. Is there a way to do this in Inkscape?

I know this is really a job for a pixel editor, but now that Gimp requires a PhD to operate, and all the rest of the Linux pixel editors are junk, I'm hoping to get Inkscape to do it.

Thanks,

SteveT

Steve Litt

I selected the bitmap image, did a trace bitmap with 8 color passes, and then I removed the background (remove background on the trace didn't work), and changed all the green to #ff86f8, put a correctly sized black background at the bottom, and boom, I had what I needed.

This wouldn't have worked for a drawing that wasn't so braindead simple, though.

SteveT

Steve Litt

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On Thu, 8 Aug 2024 02:49:49 -0400 Steve Litt slitt@troubleshooters.com wrote:

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I know this is really a job for a pixel editor, but now that Gimp requires a PhD to operate, and all the rest of the Linux pixel editors are junk, I'm hoping to get Inkscape to do it.

Besides GIMP, there is Krita, which is very much the opposite of junk. I think your task would have been easier in either of them, probably using select-by-color, but there is of course the issue of familiarity.

I selected the bitmap image, did a trace bitmap with 8 color passes, and then I removed the background (remove background on the trace didn't work), and changed all the green to #ff86f8, put a correctly sized black background at the bottom, and boom, I had what I needed.

That’s along the lines of what I would have suggested.

If you need to do something like this again, Imagemagick might be worth a look. https://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/color_basics/#replace