Just go EDIT > Resize Page to Fit Selection. Open Inkscape and go to FILE > IMPORT and find your. You can use something you’ve made in Procreate or Photoshop, but for the sake of this tutorial, I’m using some line art I created in Procreate. Until ADesigner adds its own image trace function, this is my system. While you could exclusively use Inkscape, Affinity Designer has a lot of great features, and I personally prefer using that for fine tuning vector work after tracing it in Inkscape.

It’s not completely necessary to have Affinity Designer to turn raster line art into vector line art, though. There are versions of Affinity Designer for both desktop and iPad, but they have to be purchased separately, so for the sake of following this guide, I would recommend the desktop version if you choose to get it. Hopefully you drew your own! You can do this in Procreate App or Photoshop or whatever program you choose. Just Inkscape or Inkscape and Affinity Designer, and a computer or tablet. So if you’re ready to ditch Illustrator but still hanging on to it for that Image Trace magic, keep reading for a different method. During my search for an Image Trace alternative, I came across a forum discussing Inkscape’s Trace Bitmap ability and immediately tested it with great results. It’s been at least 10 years since I used it, convinced Illustrator was the be-all, end-all of graphics programs and as a respectable designer, I absolutely needed it (file under “Lies I Told Myself”). Inkscape is a free, open-source vector program that’s been around for years. I added in Adobe Capture to the mix, and found results but too many steps and didn’t give me enough control over the results of the tracing. Canceling my sub meant I was giving that up but I was determined to find a solution.Ī combo of Procreate + Affinity Designer (or a solo AD since it has a pixel feature) meant manually tracing each line art graphic. I hate manual tracing, so Image Trace was a godsend for me. That magical, one-click, make your life so much easier feature that turned raster art into scalable vector graphics. It’s great, and I with it can do pretty much everything I needed to do when I was using Illustrator, except for one thing.

I needed a cost effective alternative, so I turned to Affinity Designer.

I’ve used it for years…until this year, when I finally cancelled my subscription (and saved myself over $20 a month). Adobe Illustrator is the go-to standard for vector graphic illustrations.

Turn sketch into vector inkscape