Hello there,

I'm trying to create some sports logos, and I'm a real rookie on this. Ideally I want to create them in vector, in order to do this, I need a basic logo with a transparent background.

What I'm doing so far is this
1. pasting the bmp/jpg image into xara
2. using the region masking tool to select what I want to keep
3. using the eraser tool to indicate what I want to delete
4. at this point I enter the bitmap tracer, but the output seems to have a background
5. when I try to remove this new background, I get the following error

http://i59.tinypic.com/v41o5s.png

is there a better way to do this?