When I post a .jpg image on Mac/Facebook, it is grainy and the color isn't too good. Very new to Corel, a beginner! Any tips?
CarterMom said: Thank you for helping! It is RGB in Corel Draw X6 (which seems to be the default). The design is clear when I design in Parallels. When I save as export for Mac either "fit to page" or smaller % - either .jpg or png - the processed image remains blurry and the white background turns grayish. I am very new to Corel - Would you have any tips for importing additional fonts?
Thank you for helping! It is RGB in Corel Draw X6 (which seems to be the default). The design is clear when I design in Parallels. When I save as export for Mac either "fit to page" or smaller % - either .jpg or png - the processed image remains blurry and the white background turns grayish.
I am very new to Corel - Would you have any tips for importing additional fonts?
The main causes of blur jpeg images for Facebook may be following two reasons. One is the image size which you you can find detailed demensions in Facebook guide and the other is the file size. When the image uploaded is larger than 100 kilobytes, then Facebook will re-compress the image.
As I am also a newbie for Corel, so I can not still recommend some good fonts for you. But hope above information can help you a little.
A few questions:
1. What Corel X6 program are you using, DRAW (vector) or PhotoPaint (pixels)?
2. You mention fonts, is there text in your image?
3. If you are using text, what font and text size are you using in your image?
4. Do you know what resolution (DPI) your export is set at (e.g. 72 (default for Mac), 96, 150, 300 or something else.
5. If possible, could you share the file that has your original image?
CorelDRAW X6 comes with lots of fonts, you can look in CorelConnect to see what fonts are availabe (requires a Corel account) and try out the fonts.
Regarding fonts, there are basically three types of file formats for fonts:
1. Postcript (more common on Macs, less on Windows and sort of being phased out in favour of OpenType fonts)2. TrueType3. OpenType.
OpenType fonts would be preferred as they work on both Mac OS X and Windows (and Linux as well) without having to buy separate Mac and Windows versions as you would have to do with Postcript fonts and often with plain TrueType fonts too.
OpenType fonts come as .otf (Postcript flavour) and .ttf (TrueType flavour) but will work on both Mac OS X and Windows Vista and up without problems. On Mac OS8 and 9 .otf fonts will be more compatible than OpenType .TTF fonts.
With free fonts the quality varies enormously from really bad to very good.You may want to subscribe to the newsletters of major font companies, they often have a monthly offer at greatly reduced prices and if it is a font you like you could consider buying them:e.g. www.linotype.com. and www.myfonts.com are two possibilities.
I don't use facebook, but google found this article which gives the correct image sizes: http://www.ragan.com/Main/Articles/Image_sizes_on_Facebook_A_cheat_sheet_46635.aspx
So, the first thing you need to do is to identify which type of image you want to create in that guide and note the correct size in pixels for that type of image.
If you are designing in CorelDraw, go to file > new and choose preset destination of Web.
If you are designing in photopaint go to file > new and choose preset destination of Web.
I also got same issues.
thanks for asking.