How Do You Edit a Bitmap in Corel ?

We have just purchased X6 and are having difficulty editing a bitmap. Its unable to be selected.

After reading your posts here we have tried the following which we find quite annoying for a new program.

Surely this is something simple we have missed. All we have done is installed the X6 and run the program , clicked on a bitmap and nothing ??? This has really left a bad experience especially when we just purchased this program and it cant even edit an image. The customer support was terrible , I had to ring back becasue the person couldnt hear me about 8 times. It was only a search on the web that led me here.

I dont think we will be recommending corel to anyone soon. Hopefully someone can help us.

Do you tray to reinstall a program?
If you resolve your problem,which i hope, i be glade to hear what was happening?

I do not know any program that edits bitmap file formats, just the same as with jpg and gif these are raster based files. You can not select elements in a bitmap to edit unless you do this with re drawing the design as a vector, once the file is a vector then you can edit the elements of the design otherwise you are limited to using a raster program and painting the elements or background removal ect

Friend in most professional programs Drawing and creating art , they work with files that have extensions like: . Corel CDR - . They Illustrator AI and so on .

To get you open a file . BMP ( bitmap ) in corel , you can IMPORT the file and you can vectorize it or make changes.

Open image that you want in a JPEG file format and go to Bitmap-Convert to Bitmap in a Corel Draw. The option is a active for all version of Corel Draw.

It work with no problems, and everytime you can use this options. You will see other options for Bitmap, you can use some effect etc.

JPEG is the best from BMP images formats, BMP is not always the best

You can use the BMP image for Web

edit with pothoshop very easy

In the package you will found Corel Photo-Paint for bitmap editable. But I think Photoshop most better then Photo Paint