Hi.
Contour on a bitmap shape.
I thought this was doable. Today I found it's not, or stopped working. Bug, or ideas?
~John
Hello Johnl; For a LONG time I have had to manually apply a outline to a bitmap. Ver.11, X4 and now X6 wont do it. It sure would be nice if you could. The screen shot below is of a car window decal I did yesterday. Would you PLEASE look at this for maybe X7 Corel?
George
Hi George.
Weird, I really thought it was there. It must of been something else I was using, like a little create square behind macro.
I just updated my click It Contour and Shadow macro to handle bitmaps, as well as bitmaps and shapes together at the same time. It seems to work fine now.
Shoot me an email and I'll send you a free copy. You can be my tester.
Hi Adrian.
Why do you need the extra shape?
Hello John; What would be nice for me is one that would do the bitmap after Cutout Lab was done. The screen shots below are two of the last one I've had to do. I tried to get them smaller to post but no go. ( Corel should let ME post at LEAST a 50 GB file, even if everybody else only gets 1K.) ( DARN )
My email is george@vasigns.net if you want to send the macro for me to play with, but include a mail address in case it works.
TheSign Guy said: Hello John; What would be nice for me is one that would do the bitmap after Cutout Lab was done. The screen shots below are two of the last one I've had to do. I tried to get them smaller to post but no go. ( Corel should let ME post at LEAST a 50 GB file, even if everybody else only gets 1K.) ( DARN ) My email is george@vasigns.net if you want to send the macro for me to play with, but include a mail address in case it works. George
Convert a copy of your cutout lab result to black and white. Use Bitmaps > Mode > Black and White. Use the line art option and adjust the threshold slider almost all the way to the end until as much black is filling the item as possible. Then trace the black and white bitmap and you should have an almost complete and perfect contour of the result
Or do you already do it like this?
I am emailing now.
RunFlaCruiser said: Hi George. Convert a copy of your cutout lab result to black and white. Use Bitmaps > Mode > Black and White. Use the line art option and adjust the threshold slider almost all the way to the end until as much black is filling the item as possible. Then trace the black and white bitmap and you should have an almost complete and perfect contour of the result
Na John I do mine the old way, draw a box around the bitmap, convert it to curves and add nodes and go to work making them fit. I'll try what you are saying, but if that works I'm going to be SO MAD.............
Like this. Unfortunately I couldn't get the zoom on the little B&W preview to zoom out so I had to guess threshold.
I do it a different way which may help others here
Use cutout lab, or whatever masking plugin you have
Select Mask>Mask from object
Smooth mask, ( by two or three) if necessary
Mask>Mask outline>border>5'ish pixels
Just be careful for mask softness, which can be adjusted of course
Fill Black.