Corel PHOTO-PAINT Help

Open 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 Import files.

You can use the clipart and photos that are included with the application. You can search for images by different criteria, such as filename, title, subject, keyword, comment, and other properties attached to the file. For more information about searching for files, see the Windows Help. For more information, see Find clipart and other local and network assets.

Open 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 Objects docker. To ensure that text is correctly displayed in the image window, you need to use encoding settings. For more information, see Modify encoding settings.

To open an image

1 Click File

Open.

2 Locate the folder where the file is stored.

3 Click a filename.

If necessary, you can search for an image by using the search box.

4 Click Open.

You can also
Detect a watermark	Enable the Check for watermark check box. This option is not available for all file formats.
Remove unwanted areas from an image as you open it	In the Open list box, click Crop and load.
Decrease the dimensions of an image as you open it	In the Open list box, click Resample and load.
Search for an image	Type a word or phrase in the search box. The search box looks for files only in the current folder and subfolders. To search for an image in another location, you must first navigate to the folder where the image is stored.
Access a previous version of a file	Right-click a file, and click Restore previous versions. You can access a previous version of a file only if System Protection is turned on. For detailed information about accessing previous versions of files, see the Windows Help.
Display object names and notes correctly in an image that was created in an earlier version of Corel PHOTO-PAINT	Choose the corresponding option from the Select code page list box. This option is not available for all file formats.

To open a file you have recently worked on, click File Open Recent, and click the filename. To clear the list of recently opened files, click File Open Recent Clear Menu.

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

Corel PHOTO-PAINT.

2 Click General.

3 Enable the Open documents in floating windows check box.

To insert a file into an active image

• Drag the image or sound file to the image window.

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