I don't know if this is a problem or by design. My default color palette is CMYK. When I open the Vignette Effect (both in Draw and Paint) the color palette comes up as RGB. I change it to CMYK, adjust my vignette settings and close out of the dialogue. If I decide to change those settings and open Vignette on that same image, the existing Vignette settings do not come up. Rather, it reverts back to RGB and I have to change to CMYK and choose my correct color all over again.
What is worse is that I can't even tab between the C, M, Y and K to fill in my values. I have to click in each one with my mouse and type the changes in. Normally, in other areas of the program when working with palette colors, I can tab between those values, and when I am done, I can hit "Enter" to complete. Inside Vignette, I cannot hit enter to complete. The only way to get out of the Palette dialogue box is to click the mouse back into one of the values. Then the preview will update with those settings and I can click on the "x" to close the color Palette closes and "OK" to finish Vignette.
This is a tedious process and seems to me like it is not behaving correctly. Has anyone else experienced this and if so, did you find a way to fix it?
This is a known issue
I"m hoping it will be addressed in an update sooner rather than later. Do you know if it's on their radar or if it's a priority to fix?
My wife still has X8 on her system and I got some time on that machine and X8 does the same thing. The color palette of the effect follows the color model of the image not the document.
Thanks David. I did discover that yesterday. However, I still can't tab between the color values. Is that fixed in 2017?
No
What is the "vignette effect" you are talking about do you mean a circular Fountain Fill?
The bitmap effect
Just realized another very annoying thing about the Bitmap vignette, and I believe this is the behavior in all the bitmap effects in Paint and Draw. That is, if you have applied an effect to an image with particular settings, then you go to do the same thing or something similar to a different image and you decide you want to go back to the first image to tweak it, the effect does not open with the settings that you originally saved for that image. It opens with whatever settings you just used on the last image. So trying to get it back to the original is tricky . . . the settings are applied so quickly when you first open it that you can't even see your original settings. This is causing me no end to grief.
it seems that your correct
Do you know if there's any *foolproof* way to get a bitmap with transparency on a colored background to export out of Draw without the "ghost" rectangle? I've tried to place them in Draw as PSD, PNG, TIF w/ clipping mask enabled, etc. But the only one that looks true is the CPT, and it doesn't maintain total transparency when saving as PDF, nor does it work to export to EPS or AI. I'm out of ideas.
Yes we do it all the time, the rectangle is a problem with the output device not CorelDRAW, we have the same problem with Adobe products, if you're outputting to a top of the line PDF RIP it works fine but in wide and grand format printing they don't make those RIPS.
Place the transparent bitmap on the colored background, if it's a drop shadow right click and break the shadow group apart. Select the shadow and the background color while holding the shift key and convert all to an image without a transparent background. Use your color model and use a resolution that suits your output device.
If it's not a drop shadow you can just select the entire transparent image. Without seeing it absolute instructions are difficult
It's dawning on me that the rectangle on the vignette from Draw is appearing a slightly different hue than the background because I have taken the background into Paint and applied a Gaussian Blur to it. It still reads 50% black though . . . might that be an issue? The background is solid 50% black in the middle where the images sit, but at the top and bottom there is a fountain fill going from 50% black to white to 50% black. The banding was quite noticeable so I applied a blur to the entire background to soften the banding and then brought it back into Draw to place the images on.