I would very much appreciate help with creating a signature only seen (signed in black ink,) with a transparent background. I'm a small business owner with employee ID cards. The card background has lines and a few images that I would like the signature to go over with the background being seen as is. When I try importing or copy & paste a gif signature from one of my employee’s onto the business card, the white background still shows. I am using CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4.
If someone would be kind enough to explain to me in "baby talk", i.e. step by step, how I can accomplish this, it would be greatly appreciated.
Much thanks in advance
TRTI
There are two options:
1. After importing your employee's signature, click on the "Trace Bitmap" button. This will convert the bitmap to a vector. CorelDRAW is a vector program, much like Adobe Illustrator. After converting to vector, ungroup it and delete the white background.
2. Do the same as step one, but instead of clicking on the "Trace Bitmap" button, click the one next to it that says "Edit Bitmap" This will open Corel PhotoPaint, a bitmap editing program. This is similar to Adobe Photoshop. Here, use the Crop tool to crop out the background of the bitmap, leaving only the picture. Save and close, and the bitmap in CorelDRAW will reflect the changes.
Many thanks for your help. However after converting to vector and then after I "ungroup" it, I am unable to find out where and how I DELETE the background! When I go to TRACE BITMAP, there are three options with sub options, i.e.
· Quick Trace
· Centerline trace with Tech Illustrations and Line drawing sub titles and
· Outline trace with sub titles line art, logo, detailed logo, clipart, low and high quality images.
Which of the above do I use? I selected Quick trace then ungroup, but have, so far, been unable to see where I DELETE the background?
Once again your help is greatly appreciated.
You can try QuickTrace first. It has default settings which might be appropriate for your job. If the result suits you, then you're done. If not, choose Outline/line art and play with the settings until you are satisfied. There's an option not to trace the background, although I cannot use Draw now in order to tell you exactly where. (FYI, the Centerline only draws some sort of "skeleton" of your image with no chance to give it a fill, so it is not what you are looking for).
To delete the background, simply ungroup your trace, press the Esc key on your keyboard and then click on the place where you suppose the background is. If you clicked right, an object will be selected, presumably with a white fill. Then delete it with the Supr key.
A huge thank you indeed! To delete the background I fooled around until I selected;
Outline Tracea. low quality [sub heading,] thenb. I made sure “REMOVE COLOR FROM ENTIRE IMAGE” was TICKED in the pop up menu, then I c. clicked the Esc button, then thed. Supr or delete key and viola! The background magically disappeared when I pasted the signature onto the employee cards!
Once again very much appreciate your time and kind assistance. Hope I can reciprocate one day.
Kindest regards
I saw your post and have a solution for you.
Did you get it figured out or do you still need help?