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| Subject | Date Asked | Expert |
| 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 don´t have file and edit menu. How I can ... A: Nublu, > I suddenly lost all my Corel Photo-paint 11 menus. > I even don´t 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 ... | ||
| PhotoPaint | 7/28/2008 | Neal Ziring |
| Q: I've had to reinstall CorelDraw 9 and I've noticed that in PhotoPaint the file toolbar isnt not ... A: Melissa, In every recent version of CorelDraw and PhotoPaint, the toolbar with the file buttons on ... | ||
| Export issues | 7/21/2008 | Neal Ziring |
| Q: I use Corel Photopaint for digital art, and in order to upload it to my web page on Deviantart, the ... A: Angela, > when I try to export my file as a JPEG, the only file > types available are CPT, PSD, ... | ||
| Corel Phoyo Paint 12 | 6/2/2008 | Neal Ziring |
| Q: I would like to know how to take a color photo, make it a B&W then add color to select parts of the ... A: Denny, > I would like to know how to take a color photo, make > it a B&W then add color to select ... | ||
| corelphotopaint 12 | 5/29/2008 | Neal Ziring |
| Q: l'outil clone et l'outil peintur ne fonctionnent pas..pas de probleme sur le reste. merci A: Serge, [Désolé, je ne parle pas français. Voici une réponse en Anglais.] There are a couple of ... | ||
| Photo Paint | 5/27/2008 | Neal Ziring |
| Q: On regular basis I have a lot of images that I have to turn 90% (High resolution tiffs) - is there ... A: Mark, There is a way to do this, but it can be a little cumbersome the first time you use it. ... | ||
| Paint tool trouble | 5/27/2008 | Neal Ziring |
| Q: My Paint Tool and Clone Tool are not working. I choose any of the available kinds of points but they ... A: Douglas, There are a couple of situations that could cause this. I can't tell which one might ... | ||
| cloning - resize source | 3/14/2008 | Neal Ziring |
| Q: I am attempting to clone an individual's face onto another photo. There is just one problem. I ... A: Tracy, > ... When I get to the step of clicking it on the destination > photo, the clone is WAY to ... | ||
| LOST MY TOP TOOL BAR IN PHOTO-PAINT | 3/11/2008 | Neal Ziring |
| Q: I have lost the top tool bar in Corel Photo-Paint 9. I can't do anything once I open it and can't ... A: Frank, Yes, I know about the issue you're experiencing. It is easy to accidentally hide a toolbar ... | ||
| Text to path photopaint 8 specific | 3/8/2008 | Neal Ziring |
| Q: I looked and looked, but couldn't find out how to make my text follow a path. I seen a lot of pages ... A: Mike, I'm sorry, I was confused about versions. Fit Text to Path is a feature in Corel PhotoPaint ... | ||
| Text to path photopaint 8 specific | 3/6/2008 | Neal Ziring |
| Q: I looked and looked, but couldn't find out how to make my text follow a path. I seen a lot of pages ... A: Mike, Yes, Photopaint 8 can do this, but the menu entry isn't necessarily where you'd expect. You ... | ||
| Corel Painter 9.5 | 3/1/2008 | Neal Ziring |
| Q: If I save a file in another format (tiff or psd) from Painter 9.5 it looks flat. A: Heather, There are a couple of possible reasons for this. 1. Painter may be using color management ... | ||
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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