Of all the images that you showed, I didn't find the original - at least not by their titles. Can anyone please tell me what I'm doing wrong? Your help will be much appreciated! I feel like this should be pretty straightforward and I can't figure out why I'm having so much trouble. I tried many, many other things as well but what I've described here is what got me closest to what I wanted. Tracing the black image in Inkscape using Brightness Cutoff then changing it to white in Inkscape by selecting from the swatch, but this again resulted in lines that were thicker than the original black version (see toothickswatch.png). Tracing the black image in Inkscape using Edge Detection (see blackaftertrace.png and blackaftertrace.svg) then changing it to white in Inkscape using the bucket tool (only filled small areas) and by selecting the image and selecting from the swatch (which at most reduced the thickness of the lines as seen in reducedlines.png). For the thick lines see toothick.png it's particularly noticeable between the pupil and lower eyelid on the right eye. In particular, the top of the left eye has a big grey line that I think is the result of a fuzzy line from using the brush tool on the black version (see top of left eye in blackbeforetrace.png). For the grey splotches see, see greylines.png (you might have to zoom in to see). However, the main little glitches I had were all these grey lines/splotches where it was supposed to be white, or all the lines became way thicker than the original black image. I tried so many different settings that I can't remember which ones had which problems. Then I traced the new white image in Inkscape. I changed the untraced black image to white in GIMP (using a brush size larger than my image and the Lighten Only mode).

So I've tried several different ways to change this logo to white. Also, I'm very new to Inkscape and GIMP and all that so I'm sure this is an easy fix but I can't for the life of me figure it out. I've tried to find the answer in the manual, on this forum, and on the web, but I've had no luck. I'm trying to change a solid black logo I made to solid white, but everything I've tried has yielded a different problem.

Inkscape image trace