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Here’s another text based portrait, and in this case a self portrait<\/a>. For this technique, I start by placing a photo in Inkscape<\/a>, and doing a bitmap<\/a> trace. Then, I place a string of text, convert it to a path, copy it, and use the pencil tool with shape set to “from clipboard<\/a>“. Then, I draw until the dark shapes from the bitmap trace are filled, at which point I remove the trace, leaving just the text. Underneath is simply a rectangle of contrasting color.<\/p>\n

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    Here’s another text based portrait, and in this case a self portrait. For this technique, I start by placing a photo in Inkscape, and doing a bitmap trace. Then, I place a string of text, convert it to a path, copy it, and use the pencil tool with shape set to “from clipboard“. 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