We have just purchased X6 and are having difficulty editing a bitmap. Its unable to be selected.
After reading your posts here we have tried the following which we find quite annoying for a new program.
Surely this is something simple we have missed. All we have done is installed the X6 and run the program , clicked on a bitmap and nothing ??? This has really left a bad experience especially when we just purchased this program and it cant even edit an image. The customer support was terrible , I had to ring back becasue the person couldnt hear me about 8 times. It was only a search on the web that led me here.
I dont think we will be recommending corel to anyone soon. Hopefully someone can help us.
When you say editing, what are you trying to do? Change colors, convert it into a vector artwork, delete sections, etc...?
It says in the manual, that if you want to edit a bitmap in corel, selct the bitmap then select the edit bitmap button , but the edit bitmap button is not selectable. It says by selecting this you cen edit in Photo Paint , easy but doesnt work.
SoCa;i Graphics said:All we have done is installed the X6 and run the program , clicked on a bitmap and nothing ???
Looking at the image above, it looks as if you do not have the correct associations for photopaint. In fact, it looks like the associations for CorelDraw.
In photopaint's associate screen, you should ensure that all the common bitmap file types (at least bmp, jpg, jpeg, tif, tiff and any other file types you commonly use) are associated to photopaint -- as well as Corel's own image format CPT.
Now try double clicking on one of those bitmaps in windows explorer and it should open in photopaint.
If that does not work (but it should do) then you should at least be able to get started on an edit, by opening photopaint X6 and dragging a bitmap filename from windows explorer into it.
Note: The options that you do have (CDR, CDX) should not be associated to photopaint -- they should be associated to CorelDraw.
SoCa;i Graphics said:It says in the manual, that if you want to edit a bitmap in corel, selct the bitmap then select the edit bitmap button
That sounds like the instruction for editing a bitmap that is part of a CorelDraw document. But I think either you're not editing a CorelDraw document at the time, or the object you've selected is not actually a bitmap.
My work-around was to go to "My Computer" through the "Start" icon and find any bitmap image I had; right-click the image and select "Open With":
chose Corel PHOTO-PAINT and then locked it in:
Now every time I click on a bitmap it opens in PP