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Blank Animated GIF’s with SwishMax 2 – Solved
This is a problem that hounded me and took me what seemed like forever to figure out. The problem was using SwithMAX 2 and exporting an animation as an animated gif. It would appear to go through the motions during export, but upon viewing the final gif, all I’d see is a blank graphic with a solid color and no animation. I trolled forums, tried re-installing, and always found the same result upon export of … Read entire article »
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CorelDraw X5 Crashing Issue Solved… For me.
I waited quite a white to purchase CorelDraw X5, because that’s how I roll. I let the other graphic artists find all the bugs on their watch. Besides, X4 was working perfectly fine for me. So I recently made the plunge during my slow season to pick up X5. My immediate reaction? Two major issues! I’m happy to report that both of those major issues were quite easy to fix. So I’m not rolling along … Read entire article »
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CorelDraw X3/X4 to X5 Color Issues: Solved (For Me)
I recently decided to pull the trigger and upgrade from CorelDraw X4 to X5. One issue that immediately jumped out at me was that of color display. Over 90% of the graphics I produce are for the web, so I don’t need, nor care about, color management, paper type, spot colors, etc. All I wanted were my graphics to look on the screen in X5 the same as they did in X4. But they didn’t. … Read entire article »
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Getting Picasa to Re-Scan Faces in Photos
Picasa is the innovative photo organization software now backed by Google which scans your hard drive for photos and automatically detect faces in the photos. When you start identifying the faces, it will start trying suggesting matches. It had moments of complete geek heaven. But it’s not quite perfect yet. Especially when you have an “Unnamed Faces” folder full of what should be obvious matches. … Read entire article »
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CorelDraw: So Easy a 9-Year-Old Can Use It
I’ve had the privilege of working from home for the past 7 years. My twins, who are nearly 10, have virtually grown up seeing me at my computer with CorelDraw on the screen. And the older they get, the more technically capable they get every day. Lately they have both taken more of an interest in my work and in CorelDraw. So I’ve started to let them experiment with the program. My daughter created a colorful image of her name, warped slightly with an envelope. My son created a sports-looking image with a manually-drawn baseball on it. … Read entire article »
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Corel’s Kindred Spirit: Apple
It seems that most graphic artists can be categorized in two ways. (Yes, I’m already generalizing, and yes there are always exceptions – let’s get that out of the way upfront). There are the schooled artists and the non-schooled. I don’t know if I’ve ever met a schooled graphic artist who wasn’t deeply embedded in the Adobe school. Many schooled artists don’t even consider other software. Is it too soon for an aside already? Yes? Well bear with me. I always thought it ironic that so many graphic artists used a Mac and Adobe products. They complain about how the Mac is superior to Windows yet it’s far behind in sales and popularity. And how those unenlightened Windows users would be convinced of the Mac’s superiority if only they’d give it a serious … Read entire article »
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Using CorelDraw in an Illustrator World
From 1992 until 1996, I used Adobe Illustrator exclusively. I used at my job, so this was not low-end hobby use. It was full-time, high end output. Daily. In late 1996, my boss took it upon himself to hire a graphic artist who I would train, but I wasn’t consulted on who was hired. The new guy showed up to work on his first day with a copy of CorelDraw 6 under his arm and a goofy grin on his face. I told him I had used version 5 and really felt it was far behind Illustrator 6 that was currently on the market. To be fair, I let him install it and show me what it could do. A month later, we had Draw on all of our computers and … Read entire article »
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