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| Subject | Date Asked | Expert |
| turning images into silhouette | 9/20/2011 | Neal Ziring |
| Q: I use corel graphics suite X3 and I really need some help for a project.... I am trying to create a ... A: Alice, There is no really easy way to make silhouettes in PhotoPaint (or other image editors, for ... | ||
| corel snapfire plus | 8/4/2011 | Neal Ziring |
| Q: this program locks up while loading. Have to use the task manager to close it. All the pictures ... A: Sarah, Sorry, I've never used Snapfire. But it is likely that the images are stored somewhere on ... | ||
| image registration | 7/18/2011 | Neal Ziring |
| Q: I use Paint Shop Pro Photo XI. I have been given the following instructions - - - - "Open the ... A: > >Is it possible to get an answer from someone who is familiar with Paint Shop Pro Photo XI > I'd ... | ||
| image registration | 7/17/2011 | Neal Ziring |
| Q: I use Paint Shop Pro Photo XI. I have been given the following instructions - - - - "Open the ... A: David, This is a fairly tricky task, but one that I could tell you how to do in Corel PhotoPaint ... | ||
| Corel PhotoPaint 12 opens but won't run | 2/5/2011 | Neal Ziring |
| Q: Can you help me figure out how to make Corel PhotoPaint 12 work? It installs but when I open it, it ... A: Miki, I'm sorry, but Corel PhotoPaint 12 will not work in Windows 7. It is too old. Corel ... | ||
| One bit black and white | 9/1/2010 | Neal Ziring |
| Q: A fairly simple function on my corel photo paint 10. I convert and image to a one-bit black and ... A: Gerald, The Jarvis halftone pattern attempts to make smooth areas of gray, so it will often look ... | ||
| Changing attributes of shapes in Photo paint 11 | 8/16/2010 | Neal Ziring |
| Q: I'm trying to figure out a way in paint 11 to change the attributes in Effects/Distort/Blocks to ... A: Barry, Sorry this answer is so late, I had to go out of town for work and forgot to set my ... | ||
| New program always opens | 7/22/2010 | Neal Ziring |
| Q: I am using Corel Photo-Paint 12 and am having issues with a new program opening everytime I try to ... A: Jenny, What has happened is that the binding for the Corel PhotoPaint file types has been changed. ... | ||
| Changing outline color in PhotoPaint | 2/11/2010 | Neal Ziring |
| Q: This is probably a very basic question but it's driving me nuts. I created a rectangle in ... A: Welmoed, PhotoPaint is an image editing program. Once you've painted a rectangle into the image, ... | ||
| pixels versus inches | 2/11/2010 | Neal Ziring |
| Q: A web site development site shows me an image in pixels, in the instance 770px x 140px. I can change ... A: Jimmie, All of PhotoPaints tools allow you to measure images in a variety of units: inches, ... | ||
| photopaint - cutout | 1/19/2010 | Neal Ziring |
| Q: I am an amateur user of PhotoPaint and am struggling with the 'cutout' feature. I get to achieving ... A: Dave - Ah, yes, the cutout feature. That can be a little confusing; I don't use it very often. It ... | ||
| Background Color of Workspace for Photopaint X3 | 11/24/2009 | Neal Ziring |
| Q: Some time ago, I upgraded from Coreldraw 8 to X3. In version 8, the workspace background was a gray ... A: Betty, Okay, in Windows XP and later, the background color around images in Corel PhotoPaint X3 is ... | ||
| Background Color of Workspace for Photopaint X3 | 11/23/2009 | Neal Ziring |
| Q: Some time ago, I upgraded from Coreldraw 8 to X3. In version 8, the workspace background was a gray ... A: Betty, Yes, I know what you mean. In PhotoPaint X3, the unused window area around the image is ... | ||
| clone tool | 9/22/2009 | Neal Ziring |
| Q: I had looked on the web for the answer as to why the clone tool in Corel 14 Paint was not working ... A: Felicia, There are a couple of things you could try before trying to uninstall and reinstall. 1. ... | ||
| Photopaint & windows vista | 7/5/2009 | Neal Ziring |
| Q: I have Photopaint ver. 7.0 (I don't use it very much so an upgrade isn't necessary). I installed ... A: Stephen, I'm afraid you're looking at an upgrade, or else switching to a different editor. ... | ||
| help | 7/2/2009 | Neal Ziring |
| Q: i was wondering if you can help, there's this quy at work, who sent an email to someone and ... A: Wayne, I don't have time to do photo projects for other people just now. The project you've ... | ||
| Corel Draw 7 | 6/29/2009 | Neal Ziring |
| Q: Will Draw 7, especially Photo Paint 7 run on my new machine using Vista? A: Lloyd, I think that PhotoPaint 7 and Draw 7 will not run on Vista. The oldest version that will ... | ||
| corel photo draw 10 | 6/3/2009 | Neal Ziring |
| Q: I have some work to do in corel photo paint 10 and I need to make a short movie,but somehow i just ... A: Djordje, I cannot send you any movies through the AllExperts interface, it has no capability for ... | ||
| lost "save as" funtionality | 5/31/2009 | Neal Ziring |
| Q: I have installed on my machine PhotoPaint 8 and ( and Photo Shop Pro. Recently the save as in Photo ... A: Rpbert, I have not seen any behavior exactly like yours, and I can only think of one reason that it ... | ||
| Creating a letter shaped image | 3/13/2009 | Neal Ziring |
| Q: I have a project I'm working on, and I want the title to be a series of images. I want one ... A: Genevieve, > > I have a project I'm working on, and I want the title to be > a series of images. ... | ||
| creating objects/removing backgrounds | 2/12/2009 | Neal Ziring |
| Q: I have only just bought Corel and am not familiar with any other graphics packages so am in real ... A: Lorelie, > > So far I have been doing this in the cutout lab and then saving > the files as CPT ... | ||
| Issues changing opacity | 2/7/2009 | Neal Ziring |
| Q: I've been using Corel Photopaint 9 for years, but recently I've been having problems applying ... A: Angela, I don't know exactly why your object transparency and merging might suddenly fail. There ... | ||
| Corel Photo-Paint erawer tool | 2/4/2009 | Neal Ziring |
| Q: Normally the eraser tool shows the shape (round, square, etc.) on the screen as it's used, but I ... A: Patric, Yes, that is a feature of PhotoPaint. On slower machines, the shape cursor can be very ... | ||
| Menus | 1/28/2009 | Neal Ziring |
| Q: I suddenly lost all my Corel Photo-paint 11 menus. I even donīt have file and edit menu. How I can ... A: Nublu, > I suddenly lost all my Corel Photo-paint 11 menus. > I even donīt have file and edit ... | ||
| Corel Draw - Cloning tool | 1/21/2009 | Neal Ziring |
| Q: do you know why my cloning tool will not work in corel draw 14? thank you mandy A: Mandy, I'm sorry, but you haven't given me enough details. There are lots of reasons why the clone ... | ||
| Opening in New Window | 12/17/2008 | Neal Ziring |
| Q: I use Corel Photo Paint 11 in Windows XP. I've recently re-installed XP and all my other apps. Now ... A: Bernie, Well, I could not find anything like this referenced in the Corel forums or anything. I ... | ||
| Putting music to digital pictures | 12/17/2008 | Neal Ziring |
| Q: I am looking for a user friendly program,that I can put music to my digital pictures and burn a CD ... A: Lisa, Corel PhotoPaint is good for editing images, but cannot be used to create DVDs from images, ... | ||
| t-shirt transfers? | 12/13/2008 | Neal Ziring |
| Q: I have recently been working on an advertisement project, and have chosen street-marketing, ads by ... A: Reed, I did not know that dark transfer paper prints didn't need to be flipped. Weird. Anyway, I ... | ||
| Photopaint 8 | 12/10/2008 | Neal Ziring |
| Q: First a little background...I've been using Corel Paint/Draw professionally since version 3. I own ... A: David, It sounds like there is something corrupted in the personal configuration of Corel Paint on ... | ||
| File path for inserted image | 12/10/2008 | Neal Ziring |
| Q: Is it possible to print the file path for an inserted image in a corel picture. For e.g. i need to ... A: Deepak, That script should work in Corel PhotoPaint 12. You just need to rename the file from ... | ||
| File path for inserted image | 12/9/2008 | Neal Ziring |
| Q: Is it possible to print the file path for an inserted image in a corel picture. For e.g. i need to ... A: Deepak, There is no simple, trivial way to do what you have asked. There are a couple of ways, but ... | ||
| outline | 12/8/2008 | Neal Ziring |
| Q: I do not know how to create an outline around a text in corelDRAW x3. A: Brad, > > I do not know how to create an outline around a text in > CorelDraw X3. I'm not sure ... | ||
| RGB colors | 12/1/2008 | Neal Ziring |
| Q: This is a Corel Draw question, but I'm hoping you might help since you know Photo Paint I have ... A: Mark, Color management is a very complex topic. CorelDraw has a lot of color handling features, ... | ||
| Paint shop pro | 11/30/2008 | Neal Ziring |
| Q: i was sent a photo from a man i met on a dating site. when i went to open it, the message read photo ... A: Brenda, Sorry, I do not know exactly what PaintShop Pro is trying to tell you. You haven't ... | ||
| Corel Photo Paint | 11/29/2008 | Neal Ziring |
| Q: I have over 1000 images in different size - same resolution is there a way to make them all the same ... A: Mark, PhotoPaint has a feature called "Batch Process" that you can use to apply the same processing ... | ||
| Corel Pofessional Photos CD library | 11/29/2008 | Neal Ziring |
| Q: I have the Corel Stock photo library 3, a set of 200 CDs with photos, since 1996, but I never used ... A: Hugues, If you have disks that old, the installer was probably built to run on Windows 95. It ... | ||
| Exporting images | 10/24/2008 | Neal Ziring |
| Q: I am wondering how to export an image from coral draw into gif for use on a web page. now I have ... A: Misty, There are a couple of ways to export images from CorelDraw, but the simplest is to just use ... | ||
| Corel Draw 12 no longer works on my PC | 10/20/2008 | Neal Ziring |
| Q: Corel sent me an update in regards to X3 and as soon as i opened this Corel Draw 12 no longer works. ... A: Kath, It sounds like the X3 update you installed hosed up something on your Windows XP ... | ||
| corel draw | 9/24/2008 | Neal Ziring |
| Q: I work in corel draw to create screen printed designs and I am having trouble creating a "splattered ... A: Chris, Hmmm, this is not easy. There are a number of plugins that can do this sort of thing for ... | ||
| default | 8/19/2008 | Neal Ziring |
| Q: how do i restore photo paint 7 to default, or how to get program to restore redo A: David, I don't have any versions of PhotoPaint as old as 7 left around. At a guess, you need to go ... | ||
Neal Ziring
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Experienced user of versions 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, and X3 mostly for web page graphics, some photo retouching, some technical document illustration. Right now I only have versions 12 and X3 available to me, so I'll be best at answering questions about those.
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