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.
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.
Aleem, thanks. That other thread was a book of good stuff <grin>. For me it offered some vindication because it shows others out here are having similar problems. The truth is, I'd be happy getting a transparent background with white haze if I could just get the background not to show <g>.
Let me repeat what (I think) I read in that thread:
(1) Corel Draw (CD) does better than PhotoPaint (PP) for making transparent backgrounds. For me has always been the case with other graphic work between the two programs. Probably because CD is vector graphics and PP is raster graphics. Still, PP is good for heavy editing like cropping, cutting and pasting elements together.
(2) Someone in that thread mentioned TIFF formats. Last night, during the heat of my problems, I read that TIFF graphics could have transparent backgrounds. I never knew that before. I tried doing that with PPaint and, during the save process, I never saw transparent background dialogue options. I clicked on the first TIFF save options screen and that was it - drawing directly saved. I never tried with CD because my time was running out.
IMO, someone - preferably the company that makes these programs - should make a definitive list of instructions to do this often-need feature. First off, are the steps EXACTLY the same for CD and PP? If yes, one instruction sheet will do. If not, make two.
Next, tell us: do we use the "Save as" or the "Export" option, or will both do the same work?
Then set up a page with some screen shots wtih showing step-by-step instructions. If users follow these steps, one-by-one, and don't see the same things on our computer screens as Corel has in its instructions, or get the same results Corel says we should get, users can look elsewhere for their problems. That includes ditching Corel for some other - probably screwier - graphics set.
COREL - IS ANYONE HOME?
Meanwhile, thanks for the help in this forum.
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.