CorelDRAW Help | Edit bitmaps with Corel PHOTO-PAINT

Edit bitmaps with Corel PHOTO-PAINT

To access Corel PHOTO-PAINT by double-clicking a bitmap

You can access Corel PHOTO-PAINT, a complete image-editing application, from within CorelDRAW. When you finish editing a bitmap, you can quickly resume your work with CorelDRAW.

To send a bitmap to Corel PHOTO-PAINT, you can click the Edit bitmap button on the property bar, or you can use the Edit bitmap command from the Bitmaps menu. You can also enable an option that lets you access Corel PHOTO-PAINT by double-clicking a bitmap.

You can copy selected objects from Corel PHOTO-PAINT and then paste them into your drawing. The selected objects are pasted as a group of bitmaps.

For more information about editing images with Corel PHOTO-PAINT, click Help Product Help from the Corel PHOTO-PAINT menu bar.

To edit a bitmap with Corel PHOTO-PAINT

1 Using the Pick tool

, select the bitmap that you want to edit.

2 On the property bar, click the Edit bitmap button to start Corel PHOTO-PAINT.

The selected bitmap is displayed in the image window of Corel PHOTO-PAINT.

3 Edit the bitmap.

4 On the standard toolbar, click Finish editing to quit Corel PHOTO-PAINT.

The edited bitmap appears on the drawing page of CorelDRAW.

You can also use this procedure to edit groups of bitmaps. Corel PHOTO-PAINT opens the group of bitmaps as separate objects. If the bitmaps in the group have different color modes, you are prompted to change the color mode of all bitmaps in the group to the color mode of the bottom-most bitmap.

You can also open Corel PHOTO-PAINT by clicking Bitmaps Edit bitmaps.

To access Corel PHOTO-PAINT by double-clicking a bitmap

1 Click Tools

Options

CorelDRAW.

2 Click Edit.

3 On the Edit page, enable the Double-click to edit bitmaps in Corel PHOTO-PAINT check box.

Enabling this check box lets you access Corel PHOTO-PAINT by double-clicking the bitmap in CorelDRAW.