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.
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 think the problem is that we're dealing with 2 different sets of users. Print designers and Web designers. Obviously, for print work DRAW is great, but 80% of my work is all raster-based graphics since I design graphics for web sites, therefore I rely on Photo-Paint. There's just so many little quirks about it that have existed since I started on version 6 that never get fixed...just a little frustrated that Corel never addresses issues that designers have complained about for years now.
Most of what I do is web based. Draw is great for it.
The only issue is antilaising and I get over that by putting a non image box around exported objects. It's become by preferred method as I know exactly how much white space I get.
If you work with the tool as opposed to in a way it doesn't like Draw is excellent. That is the key.
Corel do address the issues, sometimes it's not in the order that we like, but it's not for lack of pressure. ;)