Opening images

You can open most bitmaps in Corel PHOTO-PAINT. Each image you open appears in its own image window.

When you open documents in Corel PHOTO-PAINT, by default they are displayed in tabbed view. You can customize the application so that documents are opened in floating windows.

You can also import images. Importing allows you to add a new image to the active image window. For more information, see Importing files.

You can use the clipart and photos that are included on the Corel DVD. If you are using Windows 7 or Windows 8, you can search for images by different criteria, such as filename, title, subject, author, keyword, comment, and other properties attached to the file. For more information about searching for files with Windows 7 or Windows 8, see the Windows Help. You can also browse and search for content by using the Get More docker. For more information, see Finding content with the Get More docker.

Opening earlier versions of multilingual files

You can open or import an image from version 11 or earlier of Corel PHOTO-PAINT that contains text in a language different from the language of your operating system. To do this, you can use code page settings to ensure that object names and notes saved with the image are displayed correctly in the Object manager docker. To ensure that text is correctly displayed in the image window, you need to use encoding settings. For more information, see Modifying encoding settings to display text correctly.

To open an image

1 .	Click File Open.

You can also open an image by clicking the Open button on the standard toolbar. If the standard toolbar is not displayed, click Window Toolbars Standard.

To open documents in floating windows

1 .	Click Tools Options.

To insert a file into an active image

You can also open a file in a new image window by dragging the file to the application window.

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