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Transparent cut out Jpeg background question

Posted by Russell Pavey on 27 June 2008 at 15:31

Hi

I am trying to create a brochure in Corel X3, using Photoshop to trim images etc, and then bring them into Corel to do the layout etc.

In Photoshop I have managed to use the magnetic lasso tool to cut round the parts of the image I want and then delete the background so I can then bring them into Corel with no background but when I do bring them into Corel the image I want is there ok but has a square/rect white background – not the transparent backing I was after.

Any one got a sec to tell me how to acheive this.

Thanks

Russ

Simon Strom replied 17 years, 4 months ago 10 Members · 12 Replies
12 Replies

Tim Painter

Member
27 June 2008 at 15:37

What file type are you saving them as in PS?
Russell Pavey

Member
27 June 2008 at 15:39

thanks for the reply Tim – just a jpeg – is that right?
Alan Drury

Member
27 June 2008 at 16:16

You have essentially the same tools in Corel PhotoPaint and because it interacts with Draw your problem is solved, or could draw your path in Draw and Power clip it or use the cut out lab or use the usual masking tools – these are all in X3. If you want to stay with Photoshop save as psd and Draw will import that.
Alan D
Harry Cleary

Member
27 June 2008 at 16:39

the cut out lab in X3 is brilliant for doing this.
Russell Pavey

Member
27 June 2008 at 17:09

thanks very much guys I’ll give it a go.

Russ
Graeme Harrold

Member
27 June 2008 at 19:13

Try saving as a Gif as you have the option to pick a transparency colour on export.
Steve McAdie

Member
27 June 2008 at 19:31

Hi Russ,
You can’t save a jpg with a transparent background. You could do it as Graeme says and save as a giff. When I cut an image out in PS I find it better/easier to use the extract option saves quite a bit of time. You can find it under filter near the top of the drop down list

Steve
Mike Grant

Member
27 June 2008 at 20:07

Don’t just save it to a file, you have to EXPORT the file as a PHOTOPAINT image, then import it back into corel from that file.

I pulled my hair out recently trying to solve that one.
David Rowland

Member
29 June 2008 at 10:54

Corel Draw will read a photoshop file very well…

just make the images with a checkerboard background/transparent
Martin Armitage

Member
29 June 2008 at 11:46

Or even save as a tiff, in photoshop just make sure that the save transparency option is selected.
Alan Drury

Member
30 June 2008 at 07:24

Just sticking with Corel for the moment, you can either do your work in Photopaint save/export as a cpt file and import it into DRAW or i[b]mport[/b] your original file into DRAW – click on the edit bitmap buttom, this will launch PhotoPaint where you can do whatever – on close you will be prompted to saved the file and on OK it will be placed back into Draw for you to continue.
When working with bitmaps there are also some basic tools under the bitmap tab and these include the excellent ‘image adjustment lab’
alan D
Simon Strom

Member
30 June 2008 at 16:39

I’m not sure about Corel, but I usually make a .png file with a transparent background for use in FreeHand MX and Illustrator.