shirt.cdr
I'm trying to make a monotone piece of art, so i can do something like this.My problem is i can get it to LOOK like this on the screen But i can't get it to print like this.
What I am mainly trying to do, is layer a greyscale over a color and print just the color behind it,so the greyscale accually gives the background color halftones.
I can change a greyscale to a black/white and use halftones or jarvis, but it looks so, so grainy.
I want a greyscale so i can left click and add color, while a right click changes not the pen line, but the greysclale color.
I know this can't be done or can it? i have this file for you to see how i want my monotone to react.
when i open the shirt in corelpaint you can see it's just a solid black monotone.
You just need to translate the different grays to transparencies.Transfer your already inverted wolf image to Photopaint. If it's a background, turn it into an object. Copy the object to clipboard.Create a mask from object.Enter the paint on mask mode, right click and paste the image as new selection.Exit paint on mask mode by selecting the object in the object manager.Invert the mask - you want the black to be masked.Cut the object to mask.Remove the mask and save the image back to Draw.Now you have an grayscale image with only one color - Black. All the grays you can see is just black with different levels of tranparency.Turn the grayscale image into black/white (use mode, not convert), select lineart with maximum threshold (ignore the preview, transparency will not show there).Now you have monochrome bitmap - left click to color or remove the whites, right click to color or remove the blacks.
7868587.cdr
Well done, Walb!
I was trying to think of some way to use the Gradient Map Lens in PP to accomplish something similar, but since it exists only as a lens layer, I hit a road block as to how to get it back into CorelDraw.
I was also amazed at the result when converting the image to Black & White. How did you figure out the preview in the Black & White mode dialog could be ignored?
Patti
And speaking of Gradient Maps...they are such an overlooked feature. Being able to colorize based on the lightness/darkness of an image would be so nice! It would be wonderful if we could use Fountain Fills with them!