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Please help! I have a scanned picture that I have to clean up to make a transfer for shirts. I am NEW to CorelX3. When u scan u get like a blue in the background. I cannot seem to get rid of it. Don't understand the tools, and I don't see how to break it apart to recolor. It is all 1 object. Does anyone have any ideas? I have spent HOURS trying.
Thanks!
When you scan an image into your computer, it is a bitmap. You need to vectorize it to be able to break it apart for color seperation. If it is realitively clean you can use the image for transfers without vectorizing.
No, Corel Draw X3 is a vector program. You will need to trace the image. Either with the Power Trace feature or use the pen tool to manually draw around the image.
Thanks for the heads up on X4. What tool do you use to break apart the colors once you make it a vector? I cannot for the life of me find anything to use. the only thing I get is millions of nodes everywhere.
Ok when you say you are going to make a transfer exactly what type of transfer? If all you need is to change the colors and print an inkjet tranfer you do not need to break anything apart like you do for screen printing. For a printed transfer all you would need to do is highlight the graphic and click on bitmaps. You may need to convert it to a bitmap and then go into the image adjustment lab. From there you can make a series of adjustments to your image and save the final adjustment. While you can make adjustments in Corel for me it is not the best program for photo enhancing.
The transfer would just be a heat transfer on paper. It was a contest for a parochial school and a child drew it. They want it to look close to the actual drawing, but because it was colored with markers, there are light and dark spots in the filled in areas and I would like to make the colors uniform, because as you look at it in Corel, there are different shades of blue in the blue area, etc. I would like to make all the blues the same, yellows the same. I actuall bought the smart design program which has corel drawx3. When I saw them do it at the show, it of course looked so simple, but I guess that they were working with perfect vectors. So I can't just pick a spot and add color to the scanned image I have found after days working on it.
If you have Corel Photo Paint with your program you might be able to use that to do what you are after. It comes with Corel Draw X3 so you should have it. My only question would be why would you want to make any changes to the artwork at all? Once you change it, it is no longer what they drew it is what you drew. The beauty in childrens art is that it isn't perfect it simply is what it is and to a parent that is what will give it meaning. I think if you print and press what they made versus what you can do with a computer program the parents would pick theirs everytime.
change the mode to greyscale, use your magic wand tool set it at 32. click and delete the background. make sure your bkgd color is white. do a save as greyscale 300 dpi. blowup to size you will need when you import it into your page layout. now you can make it a flat color in your page layout program. i use photoshop, then sent up all my templates in quark and print from there. enjoy the learning curve. mario at silverhorse
try the auto adjust. in corel click bitmaps--auto adjust. if the background is supposed to be white you could also try effects--adjust---contrast adjustment. then use the white dropper and select the background. then click ok.
cleaning up scanned picture 
