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get outline of logo

Asked by Phaedra Bushby

I would like the background of my logo to be transparent, so I just get an outline of my logo to put onto advertising - I drew my logo onto a piece of paper then scanned into my laptop, when i try to outline it it outlines the 'paper' not the logo, giving it a solid white background, help please!

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Edouard (edouardst) said : 		#1

Hi,

I guess your logo is in bitmap format (PNG / JPG...). You have to convert it to vector first to be able to delete the background, see http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL_v14/html/Trace.html.

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Phaedra Bushby (yourhealthylife) said : 		#2

Thank you, this sort of helped - I'll explain what i did because there are a few similsr questions about this... i managed to save it to .gif then with a lot of phaffing about found if i copied and pasted to word doc, when i clicked on the picture i could select from the top bar 'picture tools format'
then selected 'colour' which gave me a drop down menu at the bottom of which is 'set transparent colour' which gives you a pen that you can use to click on the colour you want to go transparent ( in my case it was the white background)
to test it had worked i wrote some text below the picture, then right clicked back onto the picture to get the drop down menu and selected 'bring to front' (or wrap text - bring to front) then when i moved the picture over the text i could see behind the logo outline --- SUCCESS!! Yippee, been trying to sort this out for hours! Thank you