i am trying to do artwork from an image. i want to put my pic on a
shirt to be screened. how do i save the file from .jpg to cdr? PLEASE
HELP!!

"Amanda" <hollister_thomas@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
news:1169651265.586311.26850@k78g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>i am trying to do artwork from an image. i want to put my pic on a
> shirt to be screened. how do i save the file from .jpg to cdr? PLEASE
> HELP!!
>

You buy Corel draw then open the jpg in there and save it as .cdr

Ok If my guess is right the screened means screen printing and the want a 
image split to RGB or CMYK to make the silk screens from so its not just a 
case of importing as jpg and exporting as cdr 

Amanda wrote:
> i am trying to do artwork from an image. i want to put my pic on a
> shirt to be screened. how do i save the file from .jpg to cdr? PLEASE
> HELP!!

To do it properly you'd need CorelDRAW, and because CDR is a page based 
format rather than a simple image file, you'd need to create a document with 
the correct page size and then import the JPG to it.
It might be worth talking to the person who is doing the printing, who 
presumably has CorelDRAW, and see exactly what they want and if they can 
accept any other format. It would be unusual for someone offering a service 
to print shirts to only accept a moderately uncommon file format like CDR. 
They might also need a vector image if they are using an automated laser 
cutter to generate the screens. If so converting the JPG is a much more 
complex operation.

-- 
Tim 

I've done this before.  I simply took the BITMAP image and pasted 
into Corel Draw.  I believe I used a PowerClip.

It worked very well, provided the resolution was high enough.

We did the text and line work in Corel as vector and left the 
bitmap as is.

> i am trying to do artwork from an image. i want to put my pic
> on a shirt to be screened. how do i save the file from .jpg to
> cdr? PLEASE HELP!! 

On Jan 25, 1:26 am, "Paul D. Sullivan" <dudeb...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I've done this before.  I simply took the BITMAP image and pasted
> into Corel Draw.  I believe I used a PowerClip.
>
> It worked very well, provided the resolution was high enough.
>
> We did the text and line work in Corel as vector and left the
> bitmap as is.
>
>
>
> > i am trying to do artwork from an image. i want to put my pic
> > on a shirt to be screened. how do i save the file from .jpg to
> > cdr? PLEASE HELP!!- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

well i tried to put it in corel and do an auto trace but it did not
work. it camer out blurry

On Jan 24, 8:24 pm, "Tim" <timmor...@XremoveXhotmail.com> wrote:
> Amanda wrote:
> > i am trying to do artwork from an image. i want to put my pic on a
> > shirt to be screened. how do i save the file from .jpg to cdr? PLEASE
> > HELP!!
>
> To do it properly you'd need CorelDRAW, and because CDR is a page based
> format rather than a simple image file, you'd need to create a document with
> the correct page size and then import the JPG to it.
> It might be worth talking to the person who is doing the printing, who
> presumably has CorelDRAW, and see exactly what they want and if they can
> accept any other format. It would be unusual for someone offering a service
> to print shirts to only accept a moderately uncommon file format like CDR.
> They might also need a vector image if they are using an automated laser
> cutter to generate the screens. If so converting the JPG is a much more
> complex operation.
>
> --
> Tim

i did all of the above, it came out blurry

"Amanda" <hollister_thomas@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
news:1170792665.691792.127700@v33g2000cwv.googlegroups.com...
> On Jan 25, 1:26 am, "Paul D. Sullivan" <dudeb...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> I've done this before.  I simply took the BITMAP image and pasted
>> into Corel Draw.  I believe I used a PowerClip.
>>
>> It worked very well, provided the resolution was high enough.
>>
>> We did the text and line work in Corel as vector and left the
>> bitmap as is.
>>
>>
>>
>> > i am trying to do artwork from an image. i want to put my pic
>> > on a shirt to be screened. how do i save the file from .jpg to
>> > cdr? PLEASE HELP!!- Hide quoted text -
>>
>> - Show quoted text -
>
> well i tried to put it in corel and do an auto trace but it did not
> work. it camer out blurry
>
Do you need vector's or do you just need CMYK files to make the screens from 

Amanda wrote:

> On Jan 25, 1:26 am, "Paul D. Sullivan" <dudeb...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > I've done this before.  I simply took the BITMAP image and pasted
> > into Corel Draw.  I believe I used a PowerClip.
> > 
> > It worked very well, provided the resolution was high enough.
> > 
> > We did the text and line work in Corel as vector and left the
> > bitmap as is.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > > i am trying to do artwork from an image. i want to put my pic
> > > on a shirt to be screened. how do i save the file from .jpg to
> > > cdr? PLEASE HELP!!- Hide quoted text -
> > 
> > - Show quoted text -
> 
> well i tried to put it in corel and do an auto trace but it did not
> work. it camer out blurry

When you import a JPG image into your CDR project, it will still be a
24bit image with possibly millions of colors.
Whether it is smooth, blurry or sharp depends on its original
resolution as you already experienced with the bitmap file -- the JPG
file is nothing else, a bitmap file, compressed according to the JPG
specs.

If your original image was bitmap and has been compressed as a JPG
image, JPG compression has created new shades along sharp/high contrast
edges that are known as JPG-artifacts.

The autotrace function tries to find areas of the same (or similar,
depending on your settings) color and creates a vector representation
of each area. If your settings allow a high number of colors in the
vector image, almost all shades of color will be represented as a
separate vector shape - giving the same (maybe blurry) impression as
the JPG image.

You can try to remove the JPG artifacts in PSP, save the image in any
lossless format (BMP, TIFF, PNG) and import it in Corel Draw - this
will help if your image is some kind of a drawing and has only a few
colors.
For photographs the only solution is to use an image that has enough
pixels for a sharp print in the size you desire. Vectorizing won't help.

Michael

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