An image is all black and I want to change parts of it to another color. How do I isolate those parts?

Hard to say without seeing it. Maybe you can post a link to the original?

In the meantime you could try Menu: View>Display Mode>Outline to see if the objects are there. You can select objects in outline mode and switch back to normal and apply another fill color.

attached is the svg file I bought. I would like to make the axes and
emblem red and make the words, ladder and hydrant white. But it is all
one color and becomes all red or all white. I tried break apart and it
becomes all black. Thinking I need to save it as an image and then
trace it?

On Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 5:18 PM, TylerDurden wrote:

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> Hard to say without seeing it. Maybe you can post a link to the
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> In the meantime you could try Menu: View>Display Mode>Outline to see
> if
> the objects are there. You can select objects in outline mode and
> switch
> back to normal and apply another fill color.
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You might need to upload to dropbox or similar, and post the link. I didn't get the attachment because I replied via the webpage.

I'll subscribe to this topic and see if I can get attachments, but in the meantime, a link might be a good idea.

TD

https://www.dropbox.com/s/lr29cg62q3ktp9h/badgetemplate.svg?dl=0

Yeah, all the elements were actually a single path. After breaking it apart all paths had a black fill. The process is basically going through and selecting the paths with the node tool and filling the ones with white.

Here's a version with stuff you can more easily work with :
https://www.dropbox.com/s/6x7vofcpaqfl0n1/FixedEmblem.svg?dl=0

More community support at : http://www.inkscapeforum.com/

TD

Thank you so much!

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-------- Original message --------From: TylerDurden <email address hidden> Date: 4/29/17 7:13 PM (GMT-07:00) To: <email address hidden> Subject: Re: [Question #630360]: An image is all black and I want to change
  parts of it to another color. How do I isolate those parts?
Your question #630360 on Inkscape changed:
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TylerDurden proposed the following answer:
Yeah, all the elements were actually a single path.  After breaking it
apart all paths had a black fill. The process is basically going through
and selecting the paths with the node tool and filling the ones with
white.

Here's a version with stuff you can more easily work with :
https://www.dropbox.com/s/6x7vofcpaqfl0n1/FixedEmblem.svg?dl=0

More community support at : http://www.inkscapeforum.com/

TD

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