adding colors

Hi Sid,

I'm not sure I understand what you are trying to do.
If the following does not help, please post a comment here with a step-by-step description of what you did, and what you expected to happen.

For tutorials:
Please look into the menu: Help -> Tutorials. Start with 'Basic' to learn how to make shapes and change the color of objects.

About that question mark:
If you hover over it with your mouse, you will see a tooltip. For the question mark, it says 'Unset paint' - so this is not a help icon, but an icon that changes the color of a vector object to 'not set'.

About changing colors of a jpg with Inkscape (not sure I understood this correctly):
jpg is a raster graphics format (image consists of a grid of colored dots).
Inkscape is a vector graphics editor (for images consisting of curves and objects).

Inkscape has only limited capabilities of changing the colors of bitmap images using Filters from the Filters dialog.
This might be what you have done....?
(they will change the whole raster image, and not allow changing only selected parts of it).

If you want to remove a filter effect, select the object, and then do Filters -> Remove Filters.

If you need more advanced editing options for jpg images, please take a look at a raster graphics editing program, like the Gimp (http://gimp.org).

If this does not help, please describe your problem in more detail.

Kind regards,
 Maren

Thank you for your reply. I found out what I was doing wrong. I was trying to take a jpg image and convert with trace bitmap. My settings were not high enough to make my lines clearer, therefore not allowing me to use fill and put colors in some areas.

Glad you found it out :)