Re: Cuting out a portion of a picture in Corel9

"Bill Hillmar" <billh65@3riversdbs.net> wrote in message 
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> The type of product photos I am looking for are the type you have on you 
> site.
> Since I am very new to using this program I am not sure what you mean by 
> just plopping a background into the image.  Do I not have to cut out or 
> mask out the area first?
> Bill

well, first, you wouldn't do it in Draw. You'd do it in Photopaint.
I do have a tutorial in unleash.com for colorizing b/w photos that utilizes 
how to do a clipmask - http://www.unleash.com/hunter/colorize/index.asp; I 
have another colorizing tute over on retouchpro.com that also shows how to 
do clipmasks: http://retouchpro.com/tutorials/?m=show&id=43
The colorizing part of those tutorials aren't what you need, but the info 
about clipmasks should help.

After you have a clipmasked object in your file, it's just a matter of 
putting another layer with the color or texture underneath said clipmasked 
object. A solid color is probably best as using a textured background, well, 
you're never going to be 100% sure that the image will be placed on your 
site in such a way that the texture in your file will line up with the 
texture of your background.

Thank You all very much for your help.  I think I can do what I want now.

Bill


"Hunter Elliott" <nospam@gatewaycity.com> wrote in message 
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> "Bill Hillmar" <billh65@3riversdbs.net> wrote in message 
> news:472a548d_1@cnews...
>>
>> The type of product photos I am looking for are the type you have on
you 
>> site.
>> Since I am very new to using this program I am not sure what you mean
by 
>> just plopping a background into the image.  Do I not have to cut out or

>> mask out the area first?
>> Bill
>
> well, first, you wouldn't do it in Draw. You'd do it in Photopaint.
> I do have a tutorial in unleash.com for colorizing b/w photos that 
> utilizes how to do a clipmask - 
> http://www.unleash.com/hunter/colorize/index.asp; I have another 
> colorizing tute over on retouchpro.com that also shows how to do 
> clipmasks: http://retouchpro.com/tutorials/?m=show&id=43
> The colorizing part of those tutorials aren't what you need, but the info 
> about clipmasks should help.
>
> After you have a clipmasked object in your file, it's just a matter of 
> putting another layer with the color or texture underneath said clipmasked

> object. A solid color is probably best as using a textured background, 
> well, you're never going to be 100% sure that the image will be placed on 
> your site in such a way that the texture in your file will line up with 
> the texture of your background.
>
>
>
> 

"Bill Hillmar" <billh65@3riversdbs.net> wrote in message 
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> Thank You all very much for your help.  I think I can do what I want now.
>

I'm writing up a new tutorial on this and it should be available on Foster's 
site very soon.