Hi everyone,

I have been driving my self crazy trying to change the colors of a traced image after using the corel trace 10.

What exactly I'm trying to do is to change a black color drawing with a white background to a different color where the black is and leave the background white.

I just bought a scanner and much of my hand made drawings are just black and white and would like to add some color. I have no idea how to add color with the corel trace or the corel photo paint. Just know how to use some things on the corel draw.

I will apreciate any help. Oh! and also is there any way to trace just the outside line of a drawing without having to go dot by dot with the Bezier Tool in Corel trace.

Thank you very much in advance and happy holidays!

http://www.inkmyskull.com

Not sure if this will help as I use Corel 9 but all I do is trace the image by outline in Trace. I copy the traced image and paste it back to Coreldraw. Then I ungroup the image. It is then a vector image made up of objects. I am able to change the fill and outline color of any of the objects that Trace created.

I hardly ever trace using the Bezier tool. I just select trace by outline from the trace dropdown. In most cases Trace will create way more nodes than you will want. I just go around the outside of the image and marque select large group of similar nodes along a curve and delete them to smooth the image.

Hope this helps.

It does help a lot. Thank you very much. I just have one more question. How do you ungroup the images after pasted on corel draw?

It sound very interesting and have made me wonder how many thing I cleary can do with corel that I don't know.

I love your bench design. Must took you a long time to do. Didn't it.

Thank you very much Stratman.

Once you have your traced image and pasted it into Draw, you click on it using the select tool (the arrow) then you click on ungroup from the arrange dropdown menu or on the tool bar you should see a button that says "ungroup". You will then have to click somewhere in a white space and then you should be able to manipulate each individual object by clicking on it. Check out this example image of the king of spades. I show the entire image on the left and then I show a copy ungrouped and I sort of scattered the individual objects about to show you what the original vector image is made up of.

CorelDraw is a fantastic tool but it takes time to learn it's interface. The bench graphics are the result of my desire to publish a webcomic. (see here) It took quite awhile to create the original characters but once they were done, I could drop and drag them and create a new toon fairly quickly. I have been so busy with CP I have not had time to keep it up to date.

Thank you very much Stratman. I'm going to try it.
I know the corel draw is a great program but with no school It has been a lot of hours of learning by my self. Thank you again for your help.

Those caracters are fabulous. And the idea is good. I had an idea for that a few years ago to do like a soap opera but with adult content, but I never did it because I can draw and graphic ideas does come to my mind very easy but the stories I can never do. I still writing the story of my life since 2 years ago and have only 23 pages done. This is one of my first person made on corel http://www.cafepress.com/cp/get_latest_product_view.asp...11471&colorNo=0&pr=F I'm using it with a cancer awarness theme.

I think you should do your commics and will be great. You made me laught with just this link. Imagine a bunch of material like that. I don't know if you have heard of a lady that began like that and now works for a cable tv company. She made a blog with bunnies cartoon that recreate the movies. I bealive your caracters are better than the ones are showing on comedy central and other channels.

Thank you again.

You've probably moved on successfully, but in case you're still working on this trace idea, here are some extra tips:

If you have a lot of stray objects, use the eraser on the bitmap (yes, it really works!) before you trace. Ideally, you would want to scan it in Photopaint, so it appears as you drew it, and make erasures there.

If you work only in PhotoPaint, then set up some extra layers. Select color ranges with the magic wand, switch to a blank layer, and then fill with the paint bucket or edit/fill. You can get some custom gradients and complex textures in this way.

Set your layer to "multiply" where you see the word "normal" -- these are blending modes, describing how the light interacts between layers. Multiply will keep the dark lines visible when you fill with a color.

Coloring on separate layers allows you to erase and change freely.

But tracing in Draw works too, and results in a cleaner image quickly.

In this design I scanned a bag and applied Trace Bitmap in CorelDraw.

http://www.cafepress.com/chasing_josiah.207577358

This next image needed cleanup after the scanner left some shadows, so I kept it in Paint.
http://www.cafepress.com/chasing_josiah/4594953