User Guide

Chapter 5: Painting And Image Editing
The Render Image dialog box lets you specify resolution and other settings for the resulting
paint object.
2. Click OK to render the selection.
Canvas creates a paint object containing an image of the original objects. The paint object appears in
front. The Render command does not change the original selected objects.
To see the original objects:
Drag the paint object away.
Pasting into images
You can render objects by copying them to the Clipboard and then pasting them into paint objects in
edit mode. When an image is in edit mode and you paste into it, the Clipboard content is rendered
and appears as a selection in the image.
Anti-aliasing blurs edges while rendering to make the edges of text characters and vector
objects appear smoother in the resulting image.
If you select the “Anti-aliased Clipboard” option in the Configuration Center, Canvas anti-aliases
vector and text objects that you paste into paint objects (see "Setting preferences" on page 97).
Rendering exported files
If necessary, Canvas renders selected objects or an entire document when you use the Save As
command to export to a raster file format; e.g., if you select vector objects, and then save in GIF
format, Canvas renders the selected objects because GIF files store raster images.
When Canvas is saving a file, some options might not be available in the Render Image dialog box
because the file format doesn’t support them.
Render Image settings
Specify image mode, resolution, and other settings in the Render Image dialog box.
Dimensions Displays the width and height of the paint object Canvas will create.
Choose the measurement for the Width and Height values in the
Dimension area; inches, centimeters (cm), points, or picas.
Mode Choose the color mode for the resulting image: Black & White,
Grayscale, Indexed Color, RGB Color, CMYK Color, or LAB Color.
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