cutting an image perminently from inkscape

[nickl333 0]

Hello, i use inkscape and signcut X2/signblazer Elements.

i am having a problem with cutting.

for instance you open an image.

cut around it using the bazer and select both the image and the back ground and then clip and set.

at this point the background disapears.

BUT.

if you now save this image and import it into signcut X2/Signblazer it opens in its origional state (full image you origionally opened in inkscape)

not the clipped small image you want???

also if you TRACE BITMAP after you have cut this smaller image it will pick up the old full unclipped image that you origionally opened in inkscape)

please help 

Lucy.

[mars 45]

Are you using signcut x2 OR Sign Blazer Elements? These are 2 different programs.

What format are you saving your vectored image as?

I usually delete the bitmap before exporting the vector from Inkscape.

-Mike

More experienced folks will be more help than I have been -

[JP Auto N Design 36]

Can you post the image you are trying to cut? It may help give a better idea of what you are tryin to do or what may be going wrong.

[nickl333 0]

http://img3.visualizeus.com/thumbs/07/11/05/b7w,folhinhas,icon,leaf,leaves,natural,nature,plant,plants,silhouette,vector-610ade5521787b9228e6699344cff93a_m.jpg

[nickl333 0]

sorry i tried to upload the image but no joy.

basically its just a GIF image from the net.

it has 12 images on it.

i use Signcut X2 mars

and i save them as eigther inkscape formatt or EPS.

its not just this image its the whole process of deleting the old background.

it may be my software. however i have uninstalled and reinstalled both.

the process i do is this if someone could confirm this is right then its clearly my software.

1. open image in inkscape.

2. draw round the part i want to keep and select both using shift

3. clip and set the image.(leaving me with the image i want to keep and no background)

4. save image as EPS

5. import image into signcut X2 (at which point it imports the entire image as if i had never clipped and set it)

thanks for any help you guys can give have a lovely day

[mars 45]

nickl333,

If you are tracing (or drawing manually - I can't tell from your step 2 which you are doing) the next thing you want to do it select and drag the drawn outline away from the original .gif image and DELETE the original image there!!  Then you can select (and under path use break apart command to make each individually selectable) and pick and export the one you want as an .eps (and also .svg if you ever want to work on it again in Inkscape - Inkscape doesn't import .eps but will import the .svg.)

-Mike