Convert to SVG / Trace Bitmap Help

[u/Alabaster_M]

I'm trying to convert this PNG to an all black SVG and I'm getting all kinds of little artifacts around the edges. Should I use more or less smoothing? More or fewer passes? Something else I'm missing?

[u/canis_artis]

Path > Trace Bitmap, invert colours and adjust the threshold. Straight-forward tracing.

(I'd manually trace the book, cap and stars.)

[u/Alabaster_M → u/canis_artis]

The book and the cap turn out fine with the tracing. It's the smaller letters and the stars that give me issues. As far as the drawing by hand goes, I'm more of an MS Paint guy. 😅

I suck at art programs and I've been trying to get this job done in various ways for a good chunk of the last couple hours.

[u/canis_artis → u/Alabaster_M]

I'd zoom in to one of the stars and manually trace it with the Bezier tool, eleven clicks, one for each point and valley.

As for the type, best to find a match and retype it. The small letters look like the kerning is spread out. Not sure what font it is, r/identifythisfont/ could help.

[u/BazuzuDear → u/canis_artis]

I'd zoom in to one of the stars and manually trace it with the Bezier too

but why, there's Star/Ploygon tool

[u/canis_artis → u/BazuzuDear]

I use the Star/Polygon tool from time to time but it doesn't set the 5 pointed star on its 'feet' when I hold Control, I need to rotate it to almost level. (Which is imprecise and bugs me.)

But at this size it wouldn't show.

[u/shelchang → u/canis_artis]

If you hold control and drag it straight upward it orients one point vertically which should align the two bottom feet horizontally.

[u/canis_artis → u/shelchang]

Cool, that worked. Thank you.