Hi
Does anyone know how a drawing in CMYK can be converted to RGB ? At present i am selecting each element of the drawing and manually converting it.Tried the Visual Basic 'File Converter' option, but it doesn't work.
I hope there is a better way as i have many images to convert. A solution to this will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks Jaya
Hi Jaya,Being a illustrator myself, drawing a lot, could you please let us know why your drawings take long time to convert to RGB?You wrote this question in CorelDRAWX3. Does this mean you have a bitmap scanned image or anything else in your CorelDRAW document?If your line drawing is a bitmap, jpg, tiff and so on?
For example when I have a linedrawing, sketch without several colours, that I like to convert from example RGB to CMYK or Grayscale and so on, I useally do like this.If you have your image inside CorelDRAW then select your image and press the button called "Edit Bitmap" which will open Corel Photo-Paint. Or you open Corel Photo-Paint from start and from there open the image, drawing.When you have your image in Photo-Paint, go to the Menu bar and via IMAGE > Convert to RGB or whatever colour you like.And then SAVE.
Hi Stefan
Thanks very much for your reply.
I guess i should have been more elaborate. I have this set of images which are vector drawings in the .cdr format. There are no bitmap images in them. Actually i have to convert them into the .svg format. However since they have CMYK color, it shows up as an error while saving to SVG. It says that there are 'Non RGB' colors in the file.Therefore i have been converting each color in each drawing manually into RGB. So, was looking for a way in which i can convert the whole image to RGB as then i can save them as .svg without errors. Cannot 'select all' and save as there are line drawings in the image which get filled up. Also, there are different colors in a single drawing.
Do let me know if you have a solution to this.
RegardsJaya
Hi,
Thanks for the answer- ugh what a long time I spent uploading tifs!
Consider saving from CorelDraw as RGB PDF
Convert that PDF file to EPS using Acrobat Pro. RGB can be preserved in EPS that way.
EricB said: Hi, Thanks for the answer- ugh what a long time I spent uploading tifs!
I am flagging your post so that next time I have to go through this, I will have a way out.
Thanks so much for helping,
Eric
Hi there,
i have similar problem. I import some jpg files and i want to convert them from rgb to cmyk mode. I try to use the find and replace option but it doesn't work. I choose find rgb models and change them to cmyk but it can't find any (but there are jpg bitmaps in RGB).
I'm using X3 corel.
Any help?
Thanks
Are you making an encapsulated post-script file from Corel Draw, or is Corel Draw just not changing the properties of your jpeg?
If the former, you may be stuck in the same boat as me- I ended up having to use the Adobe pdf workaround mentioned by another poster, if the latter, I think you have to go in to a photo editor like Corel PhotoPaint, open each RGB jpeg, convert it to CMYK, save it, then go back to Corel Draw and re-insert the converted jpeg- I don't think CorelDraw will directly convert a jpeg's color scheme for you.
Hope that helps,
-E
Thanks for replay
there is a problem. sometimes i have about 60 bitmaps. click each one and convert it in photo paint is out of sense. In Corel 9 i had selected all then in menu chose bitmaps / type / CMYK and it converted all. Now if i select all / cmyk option in menu is disable.
I can think of 3 commercial macros that can solve this for you. All have the option to down-sample too.
Macromonster.com Bitmap Manipulator
Sancho CDR Preflight 5
wOxxOm.TOOLS.package
Eppers said:there is a problem. sometimes i have about 60 bitmaps. click each one and convert it in photo paint is out of sense. In Corel 9 i had selected all then in menu chose bitmaps / type / CMYK and it converted all. Now if i select all / cmyk option in menu is disabled.