Lasering a Photo onto a Glass Part 1 – Removing the Background In CorelDraw / PhotoPaint

One of the hardest techniques to learn is creating photos on glass. It is not easy and requires you to know how to adjust photos in CorelDraw. To get the best photos requires the use of a transfer mask typically. Although you do not have to use a transfer mask I tend to find the best results are achieved when you use a transfer mask. For more info on the actual lasering technique of lasering on glass go to my Lasering a Photo on Glass video. The photo we are using is a old “black and white photo from 50 years ago. It had to be scanned and fixed up (repair creases) before I could laser it. I like this photo because this is a very indicative type of photo that one would receive in a retail environment. Sometimes when we use laser suppliers photos they are to good and sometimes do not give us a good actual example. This photo was given to me during a training tutorial I was giving and these are the actual files we created.
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Working with Cropping Photos – Creating an Oval Crop

April 27, 2010 CorelDraw, CorelDraw Help, Lasers 7 Comments

A lot of times when you are working with photos you need to crop the photo so that you can focus in on a certain part of the photo. Typically what we are trying to do is to get rid of certain parts of the photo that we do not want. Cropping is the way to do this. There are a number of ways you can crop in CorelDraw. Sometimes it depends on the version that you are working in. For example a rectangle proper cropping tool was not available in CorelDraw until X4. In this article we will look at Power Clipping an image to do an oval crop in CorelDraw. To take it one step further we will look at doing an oval crop in Corel PhotoPaint

Changing the Zoomed View in CorelDraw

April 27, 2010 CorelDraw Help No Comments

How many times have you brought an object into CorelDraw only to see a low resolution rendition of the image. I know I have have and there is a reason. Typically to try and get all the objects on the screen our default view is 100%. 100% view is based on the document not the image. To be able to view the image and see a good quality image we will need to zoom in it. Note: this is different in Corel PhotoPaint where the zoom view is based on the object not the document.

CorelDraw Suite X5 Review

April 23, 2010 CorelDraw Help, CorelDraw Versions 3 Comments

Title: X5 Review – General Review

Blurb: In this article we will start our review of the new Corel X5 Graphics Suite.

Well well. It has been just over two years and our friends at Corel have finally followed up their flagship version of CorelDraw to a new version, Dubbed X5 the new version carries on with the previous naming conventions of the last two versions. So you can be sentimental and call the new version CorelDraw 15 or go with Corel and call it X5. What ever you want to do is fine.
I have had the new version for the last 3 months and must admit the movement from Beta to Released candidate was welcomed. The one thing you can always count on with beta software is that it is a work in progress. And when it comes to software “work in progress “ means a lot of crashes.
The purpose of this article is to do a general review of the new release. In future articles we will be dissecting the new version feature by feature. So let us get started and let us review this new version.
As with any previous versions of CorelDraw the new version has more than one program that is included in the release. In this version Corel has included the following programs.