![]() In addition to employing an interface similar to CorelDraw’s and sharing some of that program’s drawing tools, RAVE 2 lets you import Photo-Paint and CorelDraw objects for use in your Web animations. With it, you can create interactive Flash movies without having to use Flash itself. RAVE, or Real Animated Vector Effects, is Corel’s answer to Macromedia Flash. The application does so much so well that it would be wrong to overlook it as a powerful design program in its own right. With the symbol library, you can make global changes and adjustments easily if a particular symbol occurs 100 times in your document, you need only change the source symbol to change them all.ĭon’t hate CorelDraw because it’s beautiful. It also imports Illustrator files along with their layers, as long as they have the PDF option embedded.ĬorelDraw’s new support for symbols allows you to create objects and reuse object instances without greatly increasing a document’s file size. It exports to PDF, as well as Photoshop or Photo-Paint formats, with layers intact. ![]() Saving and exporting files from CorelDraw is especially flexible. ![]() ![]() Photo-Paint includes a variety of preset images, but you can create your own and add them to its Spraylist. The Image Sprayer tool acts as an effects hose, similar to the Image Hose in Procreate’s Painter, letting you apply patterns and objects across your canvas. You can optimize whole images or slices of them in Web-friendly formats, including GIF, JPEG, and PNG. The Web Image Optimizer is a mirror of Photoshop’s Save For Web option. Photo-Paint also lets Web designers create image slices and optimize their graphics for the Web, as well as assign rollovers and output images to HTML. Photo-Paint’s new CutOut tool is the equivalent of Photoshop’s underused Extract tool, and just like that tool, CutOut lets you extract an image from its background simply by drawing around the object, instead of applying a path point by point. Fortunately, you can turn off the mask view and opt for the familiar marching ants marquee, or turn off evidence of selection altogether. Make a selection, and everything else on your canvas is covered with a semi-opaque, Rubylith color, leaving editable areas clear. But when you drag a selection across an image, you’ll find that Photo-Paint sees any selection as masking. You’ll find what looks like a marquee tool, as well as a lasso.
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