To create a vectorized sketch from a photograph for a brochure or for use as a logo: 1. Open the photograph in Gimp and create a sketch of it as described in the following. Please understand all values as suggestions only. Feel free to experiment. 😊 * Image/Scale image (150–300 dpi) * Ctrl-Shift-D (duplicates the layer) * Filters/Blur/Gaussian Blur (typically 2% of the dimension of the image) * Colors/Invert * set opacity to 50% * right-click on layer, Merge Down * Colors/Levels, set to 100–155 * Colors/Desaturate * Colors/Levels, set max to 128, play with Gamma * Save. A script called [quick-sketch](http://registry.gimp.org/node/5921 "quick-sketch") is available, but the above gives you a higher degree of control. 2. To vectorize this sketch, open it in inkscape via the File/Import feature. Then: * resize page to selection via Ctrl-Shift-D (Document properties) * Shift-Alt-B (Trace Bitmap) * Mode: Grays, check stack scans * Options: suppress speckles 25, smooth corners 1, optimize paths 5. Here's an example created by the above procedure:  PS: If you don't see an image above, try another browser. Opera 11, IE 9 and all current Webkit incarnations (Chromium, Safari, Konqueror, Uzbl, Midori …) support svg as image format. Firefox will support it in the soon-to-be-released version 4.