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.
Thanks so much for walking me through this, step by step. It seemed to work out just fine, though the precision of the PNG format isn't the best. Still, I believe this will work and I so appreciate all your time in helping me find the solution. Many, many thanks.
Hi, I've used CorelDraw products to make business graphics for 15 years. With earlier verisons of Corel and Win98SE things at least limped along and worked. Recently I upgraded my computer, use XP Pro, and loaded Corel x4 (including WPerfect and Presentations).
Tonight I need an image to place in a Presentations slide show but I can't make a transparent background with PhotoPaint. I tried gif and png, 24-bit color, and every time it looks like the background is transparent (checkered) is saved, when I insert it into Presentations, it retains its white bounding box.
It shouldn't be this hard to do such a basic graphics maneuver across two, supposedly compatable Corel products. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.
You can try to export yur image as a PSD with transparent background
Thanks, but nope, that doesn't work. I tried "save as" and "export" as PSD in both CorelDraw and PhotoPaint. Nothing worked.
Now, if everyone else can do it and I can't, then I really do have a problem - with my computer. However, I remember that this trick of saving drawings without a white background has always been a problem in CDraw. Only about 15 years ago when the internet got rolling well, did lots of people start explaining how to do this transparent background thing with idiot-proof instructions. Then we all started catching on. As I remember it, Corel never did go out of its way to make it easy.
Now, this isn't the only thing I've noticed about the newest CDraw products that make you rant. Even the newest WordPerfect - that I' ve used successfully since DOS days - has some landmines in it. It used to be that, above all, WordPerfect never did any harm. It could be counted on the act "responsibly". Now, however, I find differences in Help instructions and the actual menus and other pretty poisions that really increase your blood pressure when you're working at, say 1 AM and trying to get something ready for the next morning at work.
Thanks again, and pardon the rant. I hope Corel people stop by these forums once every few years so they can see what their clients are saying. This transparent background thing should not have to be this hard. Thanks.
Hi Flingwing, I hope this thread can help you.