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.
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.
Ahmad Ajlouny said: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)
Concept211 said:That was sarcasm...and yes it does export to PNG, but not correctly.
I think your posts do not answer the question, and you are missing the point though you started it, Concept211.
I can export to transparent PNG even from PHOTO-PAINT 11 (I haven't used older versions).
You are closer to the point of the question here:
Concept211 said: Understood, but when you when you actually need a PNG as the final output, exporting to a TIFF doesn't quite solve that problem. And I appreciate the forum members providing alternative methods. I just wish Corel would take notice and fix the PP issues once and for all instead of forcing us to find ways around their bugs.
Understood, but when you when you actually need a PNG as the final output, exporting to a TIFF doesn't quite solve that problem.
And I appreciate the forum members providing alternative methods. I just wish Corel would take notice and fix the PP issues once and for all instead of forcing us to find ways around their bugs.