You may have recently started using CorelDraw to mix photos and text/vector clipart. Good for you!
However, if you are resizing your photos by just dragging the bounding box within CorelDraw, you are not getting the best quality. You've probably noticed that the images look blocky or pixelated when printed.
As a couple of severe examples, the first is part of a bitmapped texture, the second is a closeup of a photo: click thumbnail for image click thumbnail for image
The one on the left was click-dragged to 800% larger size. The one on the right is exactly the same area of the same image resampled within Corel Photopaint to 800%.
The good news is that you can still import the image as-is, click-drag to size it just right, and -then- resample from within CorelDraw. Just select the photo in CorelDraw and from the Bitmaps menu select Resample. Change the selector to show size in inches.
Now change the inch size to match the size you drug the image to, and change the DPI to at least 100. click thumbnail for image
Here is the original size of the face, used as a thumbnail. It is only 103x114 pixels. Click on image to see 800% resampled image 824x928 pixels in size
Please note that although there is no substitute for getting the image at a higher resolution, you can resample to a suprising degree.
You can also use the Bitmaps/Resample to speed printing if you imported very large bitmaps that you then click-dragged to a smaller size. Same steps, except I suggest a DPI of around 100 to 200dpi for T-shirt imprinting, 200 to 300dpi for printing on high res paper or photo paper.
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