Inkscape

trying to get the best quality for screen printing

Asked by rpd325

I am trying to make t-shirts for a church youth group. I have all of the art work in bitmap but after tracing there a holes throughout the image and even using flood fill only fills small parts of the image. I have never used any type of art programs before and I am having a hard figuring out how to get the best image for screen printing.

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rpd325 (rpd325) said : 		#1

I have worked on it the last two days and ended up coloring with the pen and grouping everything together.

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Robin (talvenloppu) said : 		#2

Inkscape probably isn't the best thing to use for what you're want to do. Try GIMP. A non-technical explanatiopn of your problem is that Inkscape is a vector graphics programme meaning it stores mathematical equations to describe lines, areas of colour etc, wherea what you've got is a bitmap made up of thousands of dots (pixels) in a grid each with it's own "identity". What it sounds like you've done is import a photograph or drawing into Inkscape and then tried to edit it. Inkscape isn't designed to do this, although it can still do clever things with bitmaps, as you've discovered. GIMP on the other hand (or Photoshop) is designed for the sort of thing you're describing. Having said that they are not that easy to use! Or that's what I find.