Need help with Inkscape and faces

[sherrintxs]

I am trying to make a "stencil" of a face, can someone please tell me what I am doing wrong? I am not getting what the trace bitmap box shows me when I move the oringinal photo out of the way. Here is a pic of what I am trying to say..I am confused on how to fix this. Can anyone help?

[papasue]

Sherri, You are not doing anything wrong, you just need to find the correct settings for your trace. This pix is hard for me to see but I looks like you are missing the eyes or other facial features, here are a few things you can try. It's a try it until you get it game.

* Increase the number in the brightness cuttoff or
* Use the Edge Detection instead, play with those numbers

If you want to post the .jpg/png image someone will give it a try for you if this doesn't work. There are a lot of folks here who do this kind of image so I'm sure you will find the answer.

[HeatherM]

I like to do a grayscale series, then you can ungroup them and use the trace that gives the best results. Laura has more on this on her blog. http://thealliancetrader.blogspot.com/2 ... scape.html

[papasue]

I found this video that might be helpful. I watched it a couple of months ago. the volume is really low so be in a quiet place to hear all Amanda has to say.

http://creativeamandak.blogspot.com/201 ... o-svg.html