: Hmmm, doesn't look too good. I take it that you drew directly on the original image/photo layer? That was a basic mistake. It is not possible to cleanly extract the drawing from the original

@Ravi4787994

Hmmm, doesn't look too good. I take it that you drew directly on the original image/photo layer? That was a basic mistake. It is not possible to cleanly extract the drawing from the original image anymore. Instead, you should have created a new layer above the original image first and draw on that from the beginning.

So, what you normally would do to trace an image manually is:


Create a new document with transparent background.
Place a copy of the original image.
Create a new layer above the layer with the placed image, and then happily trace/draw away. Later, you may set the layer containing the original image to be invisible (click the eye icon)...


All you could re-use now are paths, if you used the Paths Tool, which you probably didn't.

So, apparently, you will have to do it again. If you are tracing a logo or similar graphics, a vector graphics application like Inkscape, Illustrator, CorelDraw, etc. is generally the better choice.

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