Now, as you know, it is not always so simple nor is the background uniform. It’s important to remember that the weight of the image does not change, since the background is no longer visible, but the image has been cropped. That will return you to CorelDRAW, with your edited image ready to apply other effects if needed (for example, with the Drop Shadow Tool). You will be prompted to save your changes, click Yes. Once you’re happy with your selection, we simply click Finish Editing button in the Properties Bar to close the program.

You can refine the selection using the different Mask tools if necessary. But since you need to select everything except the background go to Mask > Invert Mask (Ctrl + Shift + I).

If the background is a uniform color, just select it with a click. Tip: if you press the W key, the Magic Wand Tool is automatically activated. Once PHOTO-PAINT opens, take the Magic Wand Tool, which we find within the Mask Tools group on the Toolbar. The advantage of doing it this way is so when you finish the editing the image in PHOTO-PAINT it will be in the same position and with the same size in CorelDRAW. To quickly open your image in Corel PHOTO-PAINT from CorelDRAW select the image and in the Properties Bar click on the Edit Bitmap icon. Since Corel PHOTO-PAINT is the image editor included in CorelDRAW Graphics Suite, it’s the best option when you have more complex images to remove the background from. With that you will have eliminated the background of the image, but also perfected the edges of it, helping to increase the quality. The result will be an object in the shape of your image, it can be adjusted if you need to make corrections or modifications.Īgain, we select the original image, we go to the menu PowerClip > Place inside frame, an arrow will appear, then click on the outline you created. Next, we go to the Object > Shaping > Boundary to automatically draw the outer of your image. The result is a group of objects, you can work with. I recommend using the High quality image option because it gives you more flexibility and it can remove the background, either automatically or by selecting the color to eliminate. You can find it by right clicking and selecting Quick Trace, or in the Properties Bar Bitmap > Quick Trace. In this case you are only using the vector to create your frame, so you could also use Quick Trace. There are different configurations according to the type of image, either a high-contrast image (Line Art), a logo, clipart, etc to a high-quality image. To open PowerTRACE you can right click on the image and select Outline Trace > High Quality Image, or in the Properties Bar Bitmap > Outline Trace > High Quality Image. In that case, I have a little trick: vectorize the image and then use the vector as a frame to create your PowerClip. Drawing the outline can sometimes take a lot of time and effort, especially for beginners. Now just like before you can add a new background to the image. The steps are similar to the previous example: select the image, go to the menu Object > PowerClip > Place inside frame, an arrow will appear, and you’ll click on the outline you’ve drawn. There are different pencil options (Freehand, Bézier, Pen, etc.), feel free to use the tool you’re the most comfortable with, the final result is exactly the same with each one. You can use the Pencil Tool (F5) and trace it. This flower is a great example, the simplest solution for creating the outline is to draw it. Of course, it’s not always that easy, since objects are not always so geometric.

From here you can remove the ellipse outline and add another image to use as the new background. When you click it will remove everything outside of the object you created.

Next, select the image, and go to the Object > PowerClip > Place inside frame, an arrow will appear and you will click on the ellipse to indicate it is a container. This is especially useful if the image that you want to remove the background from has well defined edges.Ī good example would be a photo of the Earth, which would be enough to draw an ellipse and adjust it to the shape of the planet. Here you will be placing one or more objects 'inside' a vector object. This is one of the easier and most popular ways to remove the background of an image. Today, we are going to explore different ways to remove the background from images in CorelDRAW and Corel PHOTO-PAINT.

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