Importing Images

Its a normal image from the net, save it to my pc then import it to corel, the problem is im doing a booklet containing 16 pages, with images the size of the booklet is so big, so i thought of resizing  those used images, thats it, but it seemed its not working my way...

thx for your reply

wrote in message news:80915@coreldraw.com...
> Its a normal image from the net, save it to my pc then import it to corel,

You didn't read the previous message. "Corel" is a company name, not a
product name. What. Product. Are. You. Using?

As for the image's resolution, well, just because someone says a resolution
is set to a particular value doesn't mean that it's actually set. I can
promise to sell you an autographed baseball ... it's all signed by (insert
pro ball team's name here)... but just because I *say* this doesn't mean
that the signatures are actually valid.


>the problem is im doing a booklet containing 16 pages, with images the size
>of the booklet is so big, so i thought of resizing those used images,
>thats it, but it seemed its not working my way...
>

again, and I can't stress this enough, TELL US THE PROGRAM YOU'RE USING! I
might *guess* what you're using, and I'd probably be right, but you wouldn't
believe some of the situations like this where someone talks about their
program "corel" and not only are they not talking about a graphics app of
some sort, it's not even a product from Corel.

wrote in message news:80918@coreldraw.com...
> Corel Draw X3
>
Thank you.

If the bitmap is displaying in Draw @ 72ppi and it's not a GIF, then there
are only a few things that can cause this:
1) the image was actually saved at 72ppi.
2) the image actually has NO ppi info in its header and so takes its value
from the generic default value graphics apps use for bitmaps: 72ppi.
3) it's a GIF format - and GIFs do not retain any resolution information at
all in their file headers and so graphics apps use that default 72 value.
4) it came directly out of a camera and the camera recorded no ppi info (see
#2)
5) it was edited/resaved in some application which stripped out the
resolution info in the header (see #2) or it stripped out all the resolution
info when it exported the file out (see #2).

If I bring in photos from my D70 into draw, they come in at 300ppi because
my camera actually writes that information into the file header.

All you need do is to click once on the bitmap to select it (with the Pick
tool) and choose to resample the bitmap from the Property Bar. In the
Resample dialog box, make sure the "Maintain Original Size" checkbox is
checked and then go chane the PPI (it says DPI on the dialog, but that is
incorrect as there are no "dots" in an image, only "pixels". This is
non-lossy and isn't really resample the image, it's just re-writing the
header info which will tell the print device to 300 pixels per inch instead
of the 72 pixels per inch it previousl used.

You can also grab one of the handles on the image an drag its shape down to
a smaller size (making sure to keep it in a proportional size). This, too,
will reset the header info for the PPI/dpi values only.

But it's been my experience in the various versions of Draw, and just
doubled checked Draw X3, that bitmaps import in with whatever header
resolution they contain at the time of import.

I use CD X6 and I have the same issue. If I have one or several images that I have been working on in Corel Photo paint and sized each one, I have to resize them again if they are imported into CDRAW. My 5"x4" image - sized in Corel Photo paint - is not 20" x 16" when imported into CorelDRAW. When working with multiple images for a brochure this "doing things twice" issue is time consuming and non-productive. Are there any settings in CD to import images at the size and not by whatever size results from 72dpi or whatever? This is an important issue as time = money in design. Thank you.