I have just started using corel draw12. i am extremely familiar with all of the adobe products. Corel however is taking me a bit longer to get the hang of. Any who, i am about to start workign at a print shop and he tells me that all of the graphics have to vector images. How would i take something from photoshop and smooth out all of the pixelation in Corel Draw12? I have used Corel Trace and traced by advanced outline to smooth out the lines, but they are not straight. Outlines pose me an immediate problem as well.
Any help would be greatly appreciated and i promise i will return the favor somehow.
Hi Daziur,
Of obvious reason not all kind of bitmap images can instantly become high quality vectors. So to really know how to do it best, it would be good to see a sample of an image that is a bitmap, a jpeg or gif file, and then why not show how it was done in CorelTRACE.
Sometimes I use CorelTRACE, or the new Corel POWERTRACE (in the new X4).Sometimes the quickest way is to simply redo the whole image by re-draw, like importing to CorelDRAW, make a new layer/object and then work with rectangels and bezier and so on. But sometimes its perfect to do it from within CorelTRACE. In my opinion it really depends on the quality of the bitmap.
And one can use online trace in the new X4. Yani came before me :-)
There is a trick you can open vectormagic inside the Web Connector.
You could maybe even build a web page that was local that let you work with that from inside Draw. You can do it now but it really isn't the right format for that.
Wish I had more time this week to play with it.
Yani