Craft Edge

Hi All,
I have a image of my daughter's school mascot. I have no idea how to get it into SCAL and do whatever I need to do to be able to cut it out. Any direction or advice would be appreciated.
Dana

ps I think I've added an attachment of the image I am wanting to work on.
Thanks so much!

This is the best I could do.

thank you so much. I have got to figure out how you did it!
Dana

Me too :))))))))))))))))

I did something with the trace feature in Inkscape which made it turn black and white...and I can't say what I did because I just don't know what I am doing with Ink for this type of thing and just click here and there till something good happens.

It was far too light a picture for Scal to trace. I tried turning it black and white in Paint but that did not work.
It may have work to make it a black and white picture in another photo type program, but I did not try that.

It is the best I could do...perhaps someone else can do it yet better...

I did take out a lot of the tiny tiny little circles in it...there were MANY!

Did you adjust the brightness cut off?? Adjusted the threshold number?? I know this works ..