I have found several Photoshop Tutorial on how to turn a photo into a coloring page which I would like to do but I can't find any tutors for corel photopaint or draw.
Does anyone know of a tutor to change a photo to a coloring page in corel?
Thank youKimberly
The result may be too detailed, but you can try it anyway.
Use draw not paint, import the photo, right click on it and select "Outline Trace > Clipart".
Select the resulting trace group, apply white fill and black outline.
If the original photo had a lot of texture, you may need to experiment with the parameters, and/or simplify the result by ungrouping and deleting surplus shapes.
I have spend hours upon hours playing with draw's trace and nothing really works. It can be done with some picture but it is very hit and miss plus no two picture can be done the same.
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If autotrace doesn't get you where you want to go... perhaps doing a manual trace using a "thick pen" would work better. That way you choose the level of detail you want as you go in order to make it a "colouring book" image. Jeff Harrison has samples of cartoon characters he's created from scratch. It seems to me that what you want to do is along the same lines.
Another method is to trace over it with a sheet of paper on the photo... use a pencil lightly at first (so as not to have bleed through on to the photo) and then a black marker and then scan that in if you want to digitize it for repeat performances by a colouring child. You can use auto trace on the black marker image and it should come in really cleanly, where you can touch it up a bit if needed. You now have a repeatable print image for more colouring adventures.
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Hi, I have been using stencils on paper to help me see (or teach myself) what shapes to weld together using corel draw to make a the easy coloring pages. I have tried drawing class and books but I am not one of those people who can see what shapes to use to draw something. I can mix match stencils shapes to come up with a design on paper. I know I could scan in the drawing but I decided to try and learn to do it myself with shapes in draw.
The only reason I wanted to use pictures is when I scanned my external hard drive I found I have over 9000 pictures I have taken and playing with different way to use them.
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This is an easy method.
Optional. Desaturate image
Duplicate object layer
Invert this object/layer
Change Merge Mode to Color Dodge.
Apply Gaussian blur. Play with settings.