Images are included for easy tracking of each step. After you can open this svg file for example in Design space Then cut in vinyl, HTV or anyother material. In this tutorial you will learn how to do all of the above, step by step in a very simple way. Inkscape is a free and complete software of design You can create easily SVG file from any image. When asked if you want to link or embed the image, choose embed and leave the rest of the settings as their default.įor this demonstration I will be using the following image: Import the image you’d like to cut by dragging and dropping it onto your canvas or pressing Control + I to import it.Īlthough this example image was created as a vector illustration, it is indeed a rasterized image, meaning it’s made of pixels and is in PNG or JPG format.Trace image with inkscape and convert to svg Now we will create the shape you’d like to use to cut out your image with.įor this demonstration I will be using a silhouette version of the Inkscape logo. You can use whatever shape you’d like though.

Make the shape a color that contrasts with the image.In fact, you can even use text if you’d like! This will make it easier for you to distinguish your shape from the image.

This will make it so that you can see the area of your image that will be cut out with the shape over it. Otherwise you have to guess where they line up. For my example I made the shape green because it contrasts nicely against the colors used in the image.

Inkscape crop shape out of image