Contour on a bitmap shape

Hi George.

Weird, I really thought it was there. It must of been something else I was using, like a little create square behind macro.

I just updated my click It Contour and Shadow macro to handle bitmaps, as well as bitmaps and shapes together at the same time. It seems to work fine now.

Shoot me an email and I'll send you a free copy. You can be my tester.

~John

John, 

What about when someone uses the shape tool to to edit the shape of the bitmap?

Like this (didn't go around the entire car because of time):

The Workaround is to add a small vector object in the center of it (preferably behind). Select both the bitmap and vector object and apply a boundary with a fill. 

This way you can add a contour that follows the reshaped bitmap using the boundary.

So the process is:

1. Reshape Bitmap using Shaping Tool
2. Create small vector object in the center of that bitmap
3. Select both Bitmap and Vector object
4. Create boundary from the selection
5. Fill Boundary and send to back
6. Create Contour. 

Hi Adrian.

Why do you need the extra shape?

~John

Hello John; What would be nice for me is one that would do the bitmap after Cutout Lab was done. The screen shots below are two of the last one I've had to do. I tried to get them smaller to post but no go. ( Corel should let ME post at LEAST a 50 GB file, even if everybody else only gets 1K.) ( DARN )

My email is george@vasigns.net if you want to send the macro for me to play with, but include a mail address in case it works.

George

TheSign Guy said:

 Corel should let ME post at LEAST a 50 GB file, even if everybody else only gets 1K.) ( DARN )

I agree, it should be at least 5mb and an option to view full size file by clicking on a preview.

TheSign Guy said:

Hello John; What would be nice for me is one that would do the bitmap after Cutout Lab was done. The screen shots below are two of the last one I've had to do. I tried to get them smaller to post but no go. ( Corel should let ME post at LEAST a 50 GB file, even if everybody else only gets 1K.) ( DARN )

My email is george@vasigns.net if you want to send the macro for me to play with, but include a mail address in case it works.

George

Hi George.

Convert a copy of your cutout lab result to black and white. Use Bitmaps > Mode > Black and White. Use the line art option and adjust the threshold slider  almost all the way to the end until as much black is filling the item as possible. Then trace the black and white bitmap and you should have an almost complete and perfect contour of the result

Or do you already do it like this?

I am emailing now.

~John

Mike in Canada said:

 Corel should let ME post at LEAST a 50 GB file, even if everybody else only gets 1K.) ( DARN )