Quote Originally Posted by Albacore View Post
Instead of using the bitmap tracer why not just hand trace it above the original jpeg in a new layer?
yes Peter I agree - but sometimes that is a lot of work

Quote Originally Posted by Rik View Post
when I created a bitmap copy, my bitmap copy did not have a white background? Then my iamge had too many jagged edges and so on.
thats because as I said in the notes:
a) it needs to be a 'true colour' bitmap
b) it needs to be a high res image to give best results

if you do not have high res image, hand trace will be better