Want to learn more about how Adobe Illustrator works? Check out my Illustrator Explainer Series - a comprehensive collection of over 100 videos where I go over every tool, feature and function and explain what it is, how it works, and why it's useful. Video Tutorialįor a more in-depth explanation of how to save transparent PNG files with Inkscape, watch the video tutorial below where I demonstrate exactly how to do it: Since the red circle is intersecting with the boudning box around the logo, that intersecting area will also be exported. If you’re exporting your PNG based on the selection option, be forewarned that everything within the bounding box of the selection will be exported with it, so make sure your graphic is moved far enough away from all other objects. Your Transparent PNG file should now be ready to go! Check the folder where you saved it for confirmation. Here is the video version of this tutorial.Finally, choose a destination to save your transparent PNG to by clicking the Export As button, name your file whatever you’d like, then click Export. Source file from this tutorial can be downloaded from this link: Thats it! Now from File menu you can save it as svg file and then export it as bitmap.Follow steps similar to fill color for rectangle. Select first half and change its fill color to white. This will let you select any portion of the text. Adjust its position and place it in the center of the rectangle. Keep an eye on the window that shows what you’re changing as you change it. You’ll want to adjust the rest of the settings according to your image.

In the dialog, select Color Quantization, and set your Colors to 2. Again using selection tool, click on text. With your raster image selected, go to the Path menu and select Trace Bitmap (Shift+Alt+B).Now click on text tool from left menu panel (shown above).Select any color (preferably dark) by adjusting Red, Green Blue (RGB) components. This will open the color selection ui as shown below.

Now select rectangle and click on fill color icon at the botton left.

Make sure selection tool is highlighted.

Click on rectangle tool (highlighted above) and create a small rectangle large enough to serve as background for logo.

First create a new document with default settings.

Here is how Inkscape ui looks like with some of the tools highlighted we’ll use in this tutorial. Inkscape is free open source vector graphics tool and works on Windows, Mac and Linux. The purpose is not to create a professional logo but to do a quick Hello Word beginner tutorial to get familiar with Inkscape UI. It is a quick tutorial on creating a very simple svg (scalable vector graphics) logo using Inkscape and then later export it to png format.

How to save inkscape logo as a vector