: Tracing Problems With Inkscape I've created a logo using Fireworks and I'm trying to vectorise it in Inkscape. The problem that I have is that my whole logo has a solid black glow around

@Tiffany317

With Inkscape we can not trace object effects such as glow, drop shadow, stroke properties, gradients, or similar.

If we trace an image with any such effects a fake gradient or glow is simulated on tracing by adding a plethora of objects for each color gradient. This will dramatically increase your SVG's file size, and it will not be rendered with smooth gradients as colors are limited to a maximum of 256.

It is the object's geometry, and optionally it's solid color only that can be traced to a vector graphic. Even all strokes will be traced to separate objects.

If we plan to apply effects to our objects then we will have to create them plain, i.e. without effects, first to add any effects to the created vector objects later. Then it may be easier to create them in Inkscape in the fist place

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