User Guide

Corel Painter 49
click the Background is WWW Gray
option. You can also choose to use the
background color of your Web page by
clicking the option button for
Background is BG Color.
For programs that support
transparency, your selection will
determine which areas are transparent
and which are not. The Threshold
slider determines what selection
(loaded mask) value becomes
transparent. You can see how the
Threshold slider is affecting the
transparency of your image in the
preview window in the dialog box.
Transparency is displayed in the
preview window by a rectangular
lattice. You can toggle between the
Preview window and your Save As
GIF options to get exactly what you
want. Enable the checkbox for
Interlace GIF File if your image will
be displayed on a Web page.
For information on creating masks,
refer to “Using Selections” on
page 203.
Saving RGB TIF and CMYK TIF
Files
TIFF facilitates exchange between
applications and computer platforms.
It’s a widely supported bitmap image
format, allowing you to save with
either CMYK or RGB color space
information. When you save a file as
CMYK TIF, Corel Painter creates a
color separation, which can then be
used for four-color process printing.
Saving Adobe Photoshop
Files
Corel Painter can save files in Adobe
Photoshop format. For optimum
compatibility, shapes are rasterized
and masks are placed in channels.
When you save, you have RGB and
CMYK options as you do when saving
TIFF files.
Saving Encapsulated
PostScript (EPS) Files
The encapsulated PostScript® (EPS)
files in Corel Painter conform to the
Desktop Color Separation (DCS) 2.0
format (EPS-DCS 5 file format).
Although Corel Painter saves files in
EPS-DCS, it can’t read EPS-DCS. If
you plan to save an image in
EPS-DCS, it’s a good idea to save it in
another format first so you’ll have a
copy of it that you can reopen in Corel
Painter.
When you save an image as EPS-
DCS with Output Preview turned on,
Corel Painter uses the loaded
International Color Consortium
(ICC) profile to prepare the
separation files. If you’re using the
Hexachrome® ICC profile, Corel
Painter prepares six separation files—
Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Green,
Orange, and Black. For more
information on Output Preview and
color management, refer to “Printing”
on page 445.
Although you can save your images as
CMYK EPS separations, Corel
Painter can’t open or edit CMYK files.
When you save a file in EPS-DCS,
Corel Painter opens the EPS Options
dialog box, with these options:
• Hex (ASCII) Picture Data
provides another way of storing