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Kay at cleversomeday posted this quickie tip video on how to trace very light or transparent images in Inkscape. This came up as a problem earlier in the week and when I saw this I knew it would be helpful

Here's the link to Kay's video (you do not have to join screenr to see the video)
http://www.screenr.com/1rQ8

In Kay's example she uses "alpha" an option for the paintbucket, but my image was a transparent color and I used "blue" or "lightness" and it worked beautifully.

Thanks Kay.

This is helpful! I just learned how to lighten a background in Inkscape to be able to trace something. There is so much I don't know about Inkscape. I'd love to buy one of the books that are out now but they are so darned expensive! Plus I don't know if they would be written in computereeze or plain English so I could understand it.

for myself if I find an image is wayyy too light I always take it into my photo program and adjust the brightness of the image.. I set it to a darker level and it turns out perfect every time..

She makes everything look so simple. Thanks for posting.