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.
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)
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?
Alfred said: I'm going to dumb you down a bit! Just because you don't use PP nobody else is going to need it either?
Oh I do use it. Mostly for OLE edits from Draw where I hate the single session edits as you know. But I've given up on waiting for it to improve now all I care about is the essentials that make it work with Draw. If PP had very little wank and was even a good Image editor to Draw I'd be happy.
Every time I use it I feel underwhealmed and disapointed.
When it pretends to be Photoshop it lets the team down and when is pretends to be an internal editor for Draw it's disintergrated intergration.
So since the one job Photoshop can't do well is be an editor to Draw that is the role I need plugged.
But naturally I want everything and then some. However if we only get a little I thnk it needs to be focused.
Hi Yani,
I truly believe you cannot know PP very well to hold such a low opinion of it. I have both PP and PS and use them both, but I use PP 90% of the time and PS 10%. There is a reason for this. I know both programmes well enough, but I can do things a lot quicker in PP due to being able to put everything where I want it and due to having less steps to make in some cases. There are things, of course, which can be done quicker and simpler in PS too.
I will be the first to say that PS has rapidly pulled away in many ways, but most of the ways are of no importance to me whatsoever (such as 3D capabilities, web features, etc.) PS processes and renders many things a lot faster than PP, and runs the same plug-ins a lot quicker too. I still end up working faster in PP though due to having things logically placed where I need them.
I really ought to visit an uncle of mine in the Gold Coast, and when I eventually do I would love to contact you at that time and maybe "show" you what I am talking about.
Best regards,
Hi B,
You're totally right. After customizing PP, one can really get to work.
Recently in front of an audience I'd edited 100 photos in 2 hours, including fixing color casts and cloning out distractions etc. It would have been faster, except that I wanted the explain reasons why I was doing certain things as I went along.
The point of the session was to show people that PP can be enormously productive. Sometimes I sense Corel users freaking out if they are handed 20 photos to fix - they think that "Oh my, this will take me all day". The only reasons it would take all day:
1. User is uncertain of which tools/effects to choose in order to solve problems
2. Their workspace is set to the default from Corel. (sorry Corel)
3. They are using Photoshop (LOL, had to throw in)
Brian said:I really ought to visit an uncle of mine in the Gold Coast, and when I eventually do I would love to contact you at that time and maybe "show" you what I am talking about.
"They are using Photoshop (LOL, had to throw in)"
U bad... U bad! Hee, Hee, Hee.
Nothing like a good laugh when the Canucks are in a bit of a hole against Phoenix.