I've designed an image in Corel Draw 10 and have not found a successful way to save it in any format that eliminates the "white box" from appearing around the image. I have tried exporting in GIF and PNG (where at least I am given some option of transparency) but always end up with a black background upon opening after the save.
I want to be able to give this image to another party to use ontop of their own background without the interruption of a white box surrounding it. Hopefully, someone can walk me through a solution.
I have designed a logo for a person who is going to be setting up a website and, I imagine, setting this logo on top of an existing background there. They don't want to have the white area around the design.
I export GIF, PNG, TIFF regularly with transparent backgrounds. It is just as easy in Photopaint as in Draw.
Most people fall down because they: Don't have a transparent background to begin with/don't mask their non-transparent content/don't check the transparent background option in the save/export dialog.
Save as and Export are both workable.
As before, thank you for your information. And based on your post, I continued this experiment - or troubleshooting - with a trial drawing that needed a transparent background. The results are below. NOTE: PP = Photo-paint and CD = CorelDraw. Presentations = Presentations x4 by Corel.(1) PP = “Save as” and “Export” as TIF in PP do not work - no transparent options anywhere in either process.(2) CD = “Save as” TIF in CD doesn’t work. No transparent option.(3) CD = “Export” as TIF in CD does have a “transparent background” check box. However, when the graphic is inserted into Presentations the graphic’s white background shows.
NOTE: so TIFF doesn't look like it works with my computer.
(4) PP = *GIF* export in PP does have transparent dialogue with transparency, image color and eyedropper options. It looks like it works. However, when the exported file is inserted into Presentations, the dialogue box says “converting document” and then puts the whole thing in - white background and all.So none of these work for me now. I want - need - to find a fix for this. However, I’m in the middle of looking for information that needs to go into a presentation and this glitch Corel products is costing me too much in work time.
Rikk, In past decades of Corel use, I never had to mask the areas of the drawing that I wanted transparent. After I learned the steps to take, all I did was go to "save as" or "export", used the eyedropper to make the background color transparent, and the saved/exported file worked anywhere I used it. That's why I haven't spent time yet to try masking first, before saving. Maybe that 's the key, but if it is, it's a new step in the process.
Now, maybe the problem is that all these trial files I've tried saving *would* have transparent backgrounds on a web page. But they don't in Presentations, another Corel Product. So I wonder what the deal is. Files between older PP and CD and Presentations program versions worked fine.
Moreover, this transparent problem has been around for a long time. For me, it’s gotten worse in the newest versions of Corel Products. Back later if I have new results.
flingwing said:(1) PP = “Save as” and “Export” as TIF in PP do not work - no transparent options anywhere in either process.
Both CorelDRAW and PhotoPaint has the option of save the transparent background... if you have a transparent background !!! if you have the object meged with a white backgroud, the program doesn't create a magic transparent background.
flingwing said:(2) CD = “Save as” TIF in CD doesn’t work. No transparent option.
Of course don't work... you can't "Save as" TIF with CorelDRAW, since it's a vector drawing program. You must EXPORT on CorelDRAW, or SAVE AS on PhotoPaint
flingwing said: (3) CD = “Export” as TIF in CD does have a “transparent background” check box. However, when the graphic is inserted into Presentations the graphic’s white background shows.
The TIF file format uses an Alpha Channel for create the transparent background. it's useful for most programs, such as Photoshop, InDeign, QuarkXPress, and more, for professional printing purpose. But, since it's not a real transparent background, and it's only a mask, it doesn't work on other programs like Presentations. You can use PNG instead
flingwing said: Rikk, In past decades of Corel use, I never had to mask the areas of the drawing that I wanted transparent. After I learned the steps to take, all I did was go to "save as" or "export", used the eyedropper to make the background color transparent, and the saved/exported file worked anywhere I used it. That's why I haven't spent time yet to try masking first, before saving. Maybe that 's the key, but if it is, it's a new step in the process.
If you have CorelDRAW, and you want to export any object (ie a text) just go to File / Export, seelct the file format you need (PNG, PSD, etc) and choose "transparent background". On PhotoPaint you must have a trasnparent object on the "objects" docker. For Presentations, perhaps you need to delete the background layer.
I (and others) have been trying to use any Corel product to create either tif or png images that have fully-transparent backgrounds for use with the ProDAD "RotoPen" tool (an "Effects" tool used in Corel Video Studio X5 Ultimate). So far, it's impossible. Corel products of any kind do not work. Only Adobe Photoshop seems to work. Corel products always leave a solid rectangular block behind the desired image.
Why can't Corel fix this issue? It is long overdue!!
dsignr said:Corel products of any kind do not work.
That statement is simply incorrect.
Transparent PNGs work just fine in Photo-Paint and many people create them on a daily basis. I don't remember them ever not working, but I think the method of creating them may have changed some time back.
Here is a link to a quick video showing you how to create a transparent PNG in Photo-Paint. Look for the file called "TransparentPNG".
HTH.
Thanks, Brian, for the quick reply.
But, have you done the following to test what you said?
Quoted from my previous post:
"...tif or png images that have fully-transparent backgrounds for use with the ProDAD "RotoPen" tool (an "Effects" tool used in Corel Video Studio X5 Ultimate). "
Hi Larry,
I don't have Video Studio (or RotoPen), so I am unable to test the PNG file from Photo-Paint in that software. The PNG opens fine in Photoshop or in a web browser, without issue.
Are you saying that you have been able to create transparent PNGs from Photo-Paint, but they don't work in the mentioned software? I was assuming you hadn't been able to produce a transparent PNG at all.
Best regards,Brian.
Hi Brian,
Yes. I believe I stated it clearly (twice). Just a note; I'm interested in creating TIF IMAGES more than PNG, since TIF is what the RotoPen tool uses. That tool comes with only about a dozen samples, and those examples leave much to be desired. We users of VS ought to be able to create our own x-parent tif images with Corel products, since Video Studio IS a Corel product and we have had to pay extra money to purchase the 'Ultimate' version to get the ProDAD Effects addon. Corel has been totally uninterested in updating Video Studio X5, although they keep promoting it for sale without warning potential customers of it's pitfalls. I had to come to this forum seeking answers since Corel totally ignores its own Corel Video Studio forums!
Thanks again, Brian, for replying.
Your reply has very little, if anything, to do with my comments. Maybe you were replying to someone else's posts in this same topic?
EDITED: December 3, 2012 7:42AM (Pacific time).
Maybe I jumped-the-gun with my statement above. Since you didn't provide any text explanation and I cannot enlarge your attached pictures to read them clearly, maybe you are showing how to setup the Corel Color Management system? If so, and if that's the problem I'm having with duplicating what Photoshop has created, I'd love to have a better understanding.
By the way, I just recently found out that the ProDAD "RotoPen" tool is in reality the ProDAD HeroglyphRoute-4.0 plugin tool. I don't know why the names are in conflict with each other. It's confusing.
On my HDD installation of Corel Video Studio Pro X5 Ultimate, here's the path to where the tif images are that Photoshop created. I'm hoping to find out how to use Corel to create my own images which will work as theirs do, but haven't been able to do so, yet.
[Windows 7 64-bit OS], C:\Program Files (x86)\proDAD\HeroglyphRoute-4.0\clipart\cp2\image