Please Help? (CorelDraw X3 newbie question)

Piscosour · 05-09-2007, 10:27 PM

Well, if you don´t know how to use PhotoPaint, why don´t you just use Photoshop and then import it into Draw if you need to do that. Although that is something that you can easily do using CorelPhotoPaint if you really want to do it using X3 Graphics Suite.

I recommend you to stick on Photoshop and then open it in Photopaint and save it as a CPT file if you client needs that format. That will do it.

Anyways.. you should sign up on Yahoo Groups, they have this group called cdug(Official CorelDraw Users Group) . They are very helpful.

**Drazan** · 05-09-2007, 10:43 PM

Illustrator has a one-up on corel for it's clipping mask.

And I've actually used Illustrator for the clipping mask, export it as a psd with a transparent background. Then import it in to corel draw.

Seems convoluted, but it works.

As far as I know there is nothing like a clipping mask in Corel Draw directly. In Corel Paint you can mask off the area (just double click the image if you have suite installed). Else photoshop is another option.

As for smooth edges when scaled, if the jpg has a monotone edge, I place a small border around it to sharpen the edges - just one pixel past the rasterized edge.

Bob · 05-11-2007, 02:47 PM

First off, Corel has always supported it's own version of clipping mask: it's called PowerClipping. Second, if you save your clipped Photoshop work as an EPS with a clipping mask defined and import the file into Corel using it's PS-Interpreted filter it comes into Draw-- though sometimes, seems to depend on the version of Pshop you save to EPS, it'll come in with the masking reversed. And watch out if you're using CMYK that the image doesn't change to RGB.

That said, you can also simply bring in your work as a PSD file with transparency as the mask. This might sound hard for most Adobe-only folks to accept, but CorelDraw introduced Photoshop PSD layer and transparency masking many years before AI ever did.

Piscosour · 05-11-2007, 06:26 PM

Originally posted by Drazan

Illustrator has a one-up on corel for it's clipping mask.

And I've actually used Illustrator for the clipping mask, export it as a psd with a transparent background. Then import it in to corel draw.

I didn't notice you said that.

astarte7 · 05-16-2007, 03:00 PM

thanks for the suggestions everyone!

here is something that I found that walked me through my issue - hop[e it helps someone else with the same problem!

http://www.unleash.com/articles/whitebox/

Bob · 05-16-2007, 03:21 PM

The bitmap colour mask has its limitations-- particularly in prepress and especially with imported JPGs (largely due to the conflict between colour tolerance settings and jpg edge artifacts). Personally, I'd stick with PSD or PowerClipping if it's going to print.

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