I have a cpt image that has a single object with transparency applied as a gradient from 100 to 0 via the interactive transparency tool. I would like to export this as a transparent png for web use. However, photopaint x4 doesn't seem to allow me to do this - I get a message that object(s) will be merged, and then no option to maintain the transparency.
My workaround is to save it as a psd from photopaint, open in photoshop, and then use photoshop's export for the web. But there must be a direct way to do it in x4, right?
From my experience, merging with background is not necessary, but either way, the quality of the export is poor. If I feather the edges of a square, create mask from layer, then export to transparent png, it works, but there's an ugly white haze in the feathered area which makes this unusable in Photopaint. The result is the same flattened or left as layer before export.
Yeah you can tell it automatically sets the background to white when exporting or saving to PNG because the original and preview have the white background in the dialog box (instead of the checkered invisible background.)
If you fool around with the settings and make white the invisible color it seems to only change the pure white pixels to transparent but the image's pixels are still alpha blended with the white background.
I imagine the PNG format is "old-school" where back in the day you had to make your icons or toolbar images with a magenta background and program the settings to make magenta the invisible color. That is to say their color mode is RGB with a specific color used as the transparent color.
Corel doesn't do it right, but a other programs like Paint.NET make the PNG work perfect. It handles all the ugly settings in the background.
That is one big shortcoming with Corel is that they don't have an ARBG color mode, which is surprising considering Microsoft has used it for the last 5 years since Windows XP (and GDI+) came out.
CountZero1942 said:Yeah you can tell it automatically sets the background to white when exporting or saving to PNG because the original and preview have the white background in the dialog box (instead of the checkered invisible background.)
It would be great if someone could write a plugin to allow us to export a "correct" alpha-channel PNG out of Photo-Paint since Corel completely ignores its users.
I've just clicked "Save As" from the Adobe Photoshop's File menu; after I saved as PSD from PHOTO-PAINT :(
Ahmad Ajlouny said:I've just clicked "Save As" from the Adobe Photoshop's File menu; after I saved as PSD from PHOTO-PAINT :(
Yep that works. ;)
I'd be totally kewl in dumbing down PP and pushing Draw as the output system. PP needs losta work and I'd rather that work went into things Draw can't do that to duplicate what it can. (I can hear the screeming about to start)
Essentially I use Draw as a scrapbook for asset management and only use PP for OLE image edits. I'd rather more tools in PP be programed to work at 48bit and plug-ins better supported and RAW more decent. Draw is a great image scrapbook. And since if I'm doing print work I output from there I can get easy accurate proofs before setting up jobs.
Yani
Yani said: I'd be totally kewl in dumbing down PP and pushing Draw as the output system. PP needs losta work and I'd rather that work went into things Draw can't do that to duplicate what it can. (I can hear the screeming about to start)
You bet! I'm going to dumb you down a bit! Just because you don't use PP nobody else is going to need it either?
Hear hear, Alfred! Just glad someone else agrees with me that PP needs to be improved and Corel should add some resources to it.
You know there's a problem when you need to export a CPT file as a PSD and then export out the PNG using PS. Might as well add Adobe to Corel's Graphics Suite.
"Hello, Corel?"
Is PHOTO-PAINT X4 SP2, Corel's all-purpose professional bitmap editing application, incapable of saving transparent bitmaps as PNGs? (Question posted on 11/2/2009)
FosterCoburn said:Not at all, I do it every day.
That was sarcasm...and yes it does export to PNG, but not correctly.