What tool setting is missing in X6?
In Photo Paint X3, the airbrush tool has a setting for transparency and another setting for ink amount. In X6 the ink amount setting is missing and nobody seems to know why (I've asked everywhere I can think of, including on Corel's two Facebook pages.) Without the ink amount setting I can't get the fine mist I like to work with, so I had no choice but to go back to X3.
Thank you Harry. That worked indeed! (I feel like I should be using a more recent version, but what else can I do?)
I only have X6 at the office on one system any longer and have X7 everywhere and no X3 at all however let me ask this, do you work in CMYK or RGB?
Most of the bitmaps I work with are either RGB or grayscale. Does X7 have the ink amount setting?
No but (and I my be a novice here) I can easily control ink density, (color depth in RGB) with the fill and transparency, the ink density seem redundant to me. I just looked across remotely and believe I have X3 loaded on a really old XP system and may be able to directly look at the specific tool on Monday.
A Ok I get it
Ok I may have an answer for you but first I must say that you may be I victim of the improved color management in X5 and newer and for that I most likely need to take some blame.
However try this when in X5 or newer when you use colors for your air brush use the fill dialog, select pallets pantone spot colors and try coated v2, the fill dialog there will allow you to select a color and if you want it to be10% of that color you can set that and spray to your hearts content. Save you work as the CPT file format and when you need to send it some where flatten and convert all objects to RGB and enjoy.
Thanks David. I might reinstall X6 and check that out, although I don't really want to go through that experience again (Draw X3 will default to PhotoPaint X6 while it's installed, and I don't want that...) I suppose I can't just use X3 for the rest of my life. (I'm concerned that future versions of Windows might not support it.) I hate to say this on the Corel forum, but I downloaded Gimp and found it to have all the controls I need and a few more that I find myself now using. The only reason I don't just switch over to Gimp entirely for raster work is that Corel is so much more convenient when you're using it for a combination of vector and raster on the same project.
Ripcord3 said:Draw X3 will default to PhotoPaint X6 while it's installed
No, not necessarily.
Windows is a bit like the army -- when two instructions conflict, it will obey whichever command was given most recently. So yes, if you install X6 then windows will (until told otherwise) make X6 the default for everything that X6 is capable of handling. But if you run the X3 repair install immediately after, without uninstalling X6, then X3 will again be the default.
There are some complications, but they can either be worked around or lived with, and many people run with plural versions installed at the same time. Just remember that only one of them can be the default at any time and don't be surprised that if you want to edit a bitmap in CorelDraw X6, it will now open in PP X3 (because that's what you last told windows to open CPT bitmaps in) unless you open PP X6 first (because windows considers the open PP X6 as temporarily over-riding your previous instruction).