: How to make clipart out of my watercolor paintings I'm trying to figure out how to make clip art out of my watercolor drawings. For example, I have a watercolor drawing of a pumpkin scanned

@Samaraweera207

This is a difficult question to answer, because without seeing the image, I just have to guess what you really want.

Clip art doesn't usually need to have a transparent background - most just has a plain white background. Is the existing background not white? If so then you could just paint it white. You can use the Paint Brush tool in both GIMP and Photoshop.

Are you planning to put the clip art onto a non-white background? Then you could create a layer mask in Photoshop or GIMP - both have that capability, or you could simply use the eraser tool on the background. You could export the resulting image as a PNG, which allows for transparent pixels. Both GIMP and Photoshop can do this.

Perhaps you want to recreate the image as vector art, using a vector image editor? That's possible in Adobe Illustrator, and also in the free software Inkscape. It's also possible to auto trace raster images into vectors using these pieces of software, however the results are never as good as recreating the vector art manually.

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