I Hate Bitmap Trace Tutorials!
Apr. 7th, 2025 11:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
itsemHaiiii! Rosie again! I think I've found the first thing in the past few days that's capable of making me genuinely angry.
Bad tutorials.
As a system, we've been learning inkscape more. Moth's been using it for flags, Em used it a long time ago for emotes, and now I'm trying to use it just as a way to draw. And I figured - people can do some wild things with inkscape and vector graphics, so why not look at tutorials?
Well, it was a waste of time. Because every single tutorial was just "use bitmap trace!" Not a single tutorial for making things from scratch, either. Just tutorial after tutorial telling you to slap on a bitmap trace and pretend you're done. None of them even touched up the output.
That is like making a tutorial for replicating oil painting styles in digital art, where you just run the oil painting modifier over an image in paint.net and call that done!
Bad tutorials.
As a system, we've been learning inkscape more. Moth's been using it for flags, Em used it a long time ago for emotes, and now I'm trying to use it just as a way to draw. And I figured - people can do some wild things with inkscape and vector graphics, so why not look at tutorials?
Well, it was a waste of time. Because every single tutorial was just "use bitmap trace!" Not a single tutorial for making things from scratch, either. Just tutorial after tutorial telling you to slap on a bitmap trace and pretend you're done. None of them even touched up the output.
That is like making a tutorial for replicating oil painting styles in digital art, where you just run the oil painting modifier over an image in paint.net and call that done!
