Importing pictures is the basic operation of coreldraw editing works, in fact, you can import them by using the file menu. But if there are many pictures to be imported, you can improve the editing efficiency by activating the shortcut key. This article will introduce you to the shortcut keys for importing pictures in coreldraw, and will also teach you how to remove the white background when importing pictures in coreldraw.
1. Shortcut keys for importing pictures in coreldraw
CorelDraw is a software that can edit bitmaps and vector graphics, so the function of importing pictures is often used. If it is not too troublesome, as shown in Figure 1, use the import function in the file menu to complete the operation of importing pictures.
Of course, if there are shortcut keys, it will be more convenient to operate. In fact, on the right side of the import option in the file menu, the shortcut key has been marked as Ctrl+I.
Figure 1: Import pictures
After coreldraw imports the picture, the picture will not automatically appear on the canvas, and further operations are required to determine the position and size of the picture.
As shown in Figure 2, click the left mouse button on the canvas to place the picture at any position with its original size; press the space bar to place the picture at its original position and size; and left click and drag on the canvas to Resize and position the picture.
Figure 2: Adjusting the picture
2. How to remove the white background of imported pictures in coreldraw
If the imported image is in a non-transparent background image format such as jpg, there will often be a white background and the image cannot be used directly. So, how does coreldraw import pictures to get rid of the white background? We can remove it by the following two methods.
1. Bitmap mask
Bitmap masking is a function of hiding and masking the specified color, which can be used to remove specific color elements. For white background images, it is possible to easily remove the white background as long as there is no white content on the graphic (if any, it will be removed as well).
The specific operation is, as shown in Figure 3, click the bitmap menu of coreldraw in turn, and click the bitmap mask option.
Figure 3: Bitmap mask
As shown in Figure 3, the bitmap mask includes three parts: preview area, color picking area and setting.
First, use the eyedropper tool in the upper right corner to absorb the white background. After a white color bar appears in the color bar below the eyedropper, check the white color bar to use it as the specified color.
After assigning a color, in the color options below, select Hide Selected.
Finally, click Apply to remove the white background.
Figure 4: Hide selected items
2. Outline tracing
Outline tracing is a function of re-tracing graphics in the form of lines and points. During the tracing process, you can set to delete the background color or specify a color to achieve the purpose of removing the white background.
The specific operation is, as shown in Figure 5, click the bitmap menu-outline tracing-high-quality image in turn.
Figure 5: Outline tracing
Then, as shown in Figure 6, coreldraw will automatically recognize the background color and delete it.
Outline tracing is actually a remapping function, so you can set the detail, smoothness, etc. of the cartography. The higher the detail value, the closer to the original image; the lower the detail value, the more the graphic tends to be a watercolor painting. As a result, tracing loses some graphic detail compared to bitmap masks.
Figure 6: Removing the background color
3. coreldraw imports pictures and puts them into graphics
When coreldraw imports pictures, in addition to directly adding them to the canvas, it can also put the pictures into specified graphics. The specific operation is as follows:
First, use the graphics tools on the left to draw graphics on the canvas. In this example, a star graphic is drawn.
Figure 7: Drawing graphics
Next, import the picture that needs to be placed into the graphic into the canvas, and keep the picture selected. This step is very important, you need to select the picture instead of the graphic.
Figure 8: Import pictures
After keeping the selected state of the picture, as shown in Figure 9, click on the object-powerclip-inside the frame option in turn.
Figure 9: powerclips
Then, coreldraw will automatically place the selected picture in the star graphic.
If you want to adjust the presentation part of the picture in the graph, you can set it through the quick tool at the top. As shown in Figure 10, expand "Adjust Content", you can choose to center the image, fit proportionally, fill proportionally, and stretch to fill. For the content presented by different options, you can try one by one to see which one is better.
Figure 10: Complete embedding
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The above is about the shortcut keys for importing pictures in coreldraw, and how to remove the white background from importing pictures in coreldraw. Compared with the menu options for importing pictures, the shortcut key operation of Ctrl+I is more convenient. For the white background of the picture, it can be removed through the functions of bitmap mask and outline tracing.