Image Poly

Trace a reference image into shapes that carry pieces of that image as their fill.

Hexagons tiled across the canvas, each filled with a traced iris, with the traced shape in the palette below

Open it from Create Image Poly… in the Polygon tool's panel, or press I. Like New Poly, it authors a shape rather than being a mode you stay in, so it has no toolbar button.

Tracing an Image

Load a reference image and it appears on its own layer beneath your work. Your canvas is hidden while you trace, so nothing competes with the reference.

Draw shapes over the parts you want to keep. Each one takes the image beneath it as its fill, clipped to its outline — so a traced shape carries real image detail rather than a flat colour.

A hexagon outline placed over the iris of the reference image

Saving the Result

Saving adds the traced shape to the polygon palette, where it behaves like any other shape — drag out copies, snap them edge to edge, and clone them into patterns, image fill and all.

Image fills survive export: PNG renders them directly, and SVG embeds them as clipped bitmaps, so a traced pattern exports faithfully in either format.