Hey everyone,
We use watercolor images for printing on products (mugs, bags, etc.) While creating the designs, I imported png watercolor images that needed to be traced, so that I can change some parts. In order to keep the watercolor "look", I had to keep the detail slider pretty high when tracing, or else the images lose a lot of color dimension. The problem now is that each watercolor flower bunch is now made up of at least a thousand small individual pieces/curves.
The document holding all of these images is running very slow, and there is about a 2 second lag when dragging a floral graphic across the screen, and a big delay when scrolling in and out of the workspace. I've been trying to figure out how to make these images take up less space so that the document runs smoothly. Does anyone know how to do that? I've attached photos to show the document that I'm working in, along with a closeup of one of the floral graphics after using Power Trace. I've tried to ungroup the flowers, grab all the pieces and Combine under the shaping menu, but every time, I just get the hourglass and eventually have to close the program and restart Corel.
Is there a way to "join" all of these pieces back into one object that might be more simplified that doesn't slow down Corel?
Thank you in advance!! [:D]
Charissa
charissa.leigh said:So I have to break the image apart in order to edit the parts that are lighter in color, because the light colors don't press well on the light canvas bags. For example, if the image is a flower bouquet with one type of flower that is a pale peach color, I Power Trace it. The I ungroup all the pieces so that I can edit that light peach area to darken up some spots (or make them more bold so the printer lays more toner down so it will adhere better when pressed).
After you have gotten one of these images PowerTraced, and have edited the resulting vector content to get the colors "dialed in" the way you want for printing, is that component of your design essentially "done"? Something that you will use over and over again, perhaps rotated or mirrored, but otherwise unaltered?