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I am trying to move from illustrator to Coreldraw and I am starting to love Coreldraw by now! But...
There is a problem. I have made the design in CD with buttons, graphics and all(is going to be my topbar). And now I want to export it to gifs. As I can't export every object separately I thought 'publice to the web - HTML' would help but no..How do you guys do it?
I have tried to export it to photo-paint and then slice it, which is really easy to do and the way to go I think - but, when I open the saved photo-paint file I can't slice in the document!? Why not? Works great with a normal photo but not with my newly exported item.
And - what about size in CD? How do I do it so I get the same size in the CD window as for in the browser? Any tips?
Many questions I know but I would be so greatful if you could answer any of them..
Thanks,
Snobba
I am trying to slice a website image that I have made in coreldraw in photo-paint. I have saved it as a photo-paint file in CD and open it in PP. But there the top slice buttons are not active?! Do I have to do something to the image to be able to start slicing? It works great when I open a normal image! And I have also tried to export-import as a tiff without success..
Please help! I have a great website on the way but I can't finish it! :o(
Thanks for any help or hints...
Greetings from Snobba
And - what about size in CD? How do I do it so I get the same size in the CD window as for in the browser? Any tips?
One tip: Don't think size when designing vector graphics. "Size" is more a metaphor to help people relate to vector based images than hard and fast "(some thing) is this or that size" concept.
A vector image uses coordinates as reference points.
Here's an easy understand example:
Your canvas is 12" x 12", a line is drawn from (0,0) to (12,12) rendering a diagonal line from corner to corner....
If you were talking 12' x 12', the line would still go from (0,0) to (12,12), but the rendered size would be in feet not inches... same data, different size -- thus the concept of "scalability" in vector graphics versus the fixed size of raster images where a pixel is a pixel is a pixel.
another example is relative co-ordinates:
Regardless of canvas size, a "point" rendered at 50%(x) and 50% (y) will be centered on the page, regardless of the size of the page...
What you are looking for is "output" size, not drawing size... CorelDraw images are scalable.
Not sure what version you're using, but it should be something like-
- draw image
- click "Export"
- pick file type (.GIF / .JPG / other)
- set size
- save
