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.
Not everything should be vectors but most should I guess.
Corel trace is good but there is also a online trace that is credited with being better then anything on the market.
http://vectormagic.stanford.edu/
It gets an amazing wrap.
Yani
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.
this is what i do for a living, its safe to say that 85% of what customers bring (customers being screen printers) i have to completely redraw in corel. mainly because most images have to be six or less pantone colors to print seperations, and most images we get are all kinds of crazy. it just takes time, but you get real familiar with the app!
Hello Omargaron, I'm a beginner with Coreldraw, and I'm studying Coreldraw 2018 to create Vector files to be sent to the CO2 Laser cutting using RDWORKS software, exporting and reimporting the DXF file. If I understand correctly you are telling us that it is better to redesign with the BEZIER curves and various, the JPG image to have high quality of the vector drawing, consider that I work practically in black and white, just to export the cutting lines, because the various software (see https://vectormagic.com/) do not offer such a qualitative answer?