eye dropper

hello,

i'm having problems changing the eye dropper color  retouching a bitmap when clicking on another color. i tried to hit the spacebar between the dropper and the brush after changing a color...nada  then clicking on the icons... zip. what am i doing wrong? new to corel gsx4. 

The eyedropper "catches" the color you touch on your image and will display the RGB numbers in the lower right corner of your workarea.  Left double-click on the color swatch in that corner will open up the "Uniform Fill" screen to modify the colors if you want.

BUT the eyedropper will not change the color on your image.

wrote in message news:75744@coreldraw.com...
> hello,
>
> i'm having problems changing the eye dropper color retouching a bitmap
> when clicking on another color. i tried to hit the spacebar between the
> dropper and the brush after changing a color...nada then clicking on the
> icons... zip. what am i doing wrong? new to corel gsx4.
>

Which app are you using? The group you posted to is rather generic and not
specific to a single app - are you using Draw or Photopaint? What are you
trying to accomplish with the eyedropper (as I've never used a spacebar for
the eyedropper, I don't know what you are actually trying to do).

actually in photopaint. do i have to duplicate the bitmap in object properties to make "object one" to work in order to use the eyedropper and paint brush? i was able to start retouching with the first color which was a brown in the bitmap then i need a pinkish color in the bmp and clicked on it to change the color with the dropper (the dropper swatch changed to the new pink color) but when i used the brush it was still brown. i couldn't get the pinkish color. no matter what color i clicked on it remain the first brown color. i adjusted the transparency, feathering etc. no go.

 i use the space bar to interchange between the two tools instead of clicking on the icons in the tool box all the time during a session, it's faster. 

wrote in message news:75776@coreldraw.com...
> actually in photopaint.

as an FYI, you might want to post in the X4 Photopaint group next time as
it's (obviously) more focused on PP rather than Draw.

>do i have to duplicate the bitmap in object properties to make "object one"
>to work in order to use the eyedropper and paint brush? i was able to start
>retouching with the first color which was a brown in the bitmap then i need
>a pinkish color in the bmp and clicked on it to change the color with the
>dropper (the dropper swatch changed to the new pink color) but when i used
>the brush it was still brown. i couldn't get the pinkish color. no matter
>what color i clicked on it remain the first brown color. i adjusted the
>transparency, feathering etc. no go.
>

I'm still not following what you're trying to do in terms of retouching...
are you trying to add something? remove something? recolor something? etc,
etc. Are you using the Clone brush, etc? Can you show us a pic of what
you're working on and describe better what you're wanting to accomplish?

I can't remember which does which, but you can right and left click with the eyedropper. On is used for the paintbrush and one is used for the paint bucket. It always seemed backwards to me.

 

wrote in message news:75779@coreldraw.com...
>I can't remember which does which, but you can right and left click with
>the eyedropper. On is used for the paintbrush and one is used for the paint
>bucket. It always seemed backwards to me.
>

the reason i was asking is that a great majority of my retouch work has
involved the clone brush... and if i was recoloring areas, i might use a
regular brush with the merge mode of color, or i may mask off the area and
use various color tools (like the adjust hue, selective color, etc)... or
use one of the various color/hue lenses.

but to steer someone in the right direction, we all need more info from
him/her so we can suggest easier/better ways for him/her to use

sorry,

i was "drawing or painting" ontop of the bitmap to add my own object or rendering to the image. then transport it back in c drw gsx4 to complete a project.

here's another problem or correction i need.  i have a line of type that is gradient filled  ontop of a power clipped vector object that has a lens and a transparency added to it. the image on the page looks correct and you see the type ontop of the object (bitmap of vector art below), but when it is printed, the line of type cuts off the top of the power clipped vector art(above image). how do i fix? (sorry about the quality used an old webcam in a pinch)

Any chance of temporarily converting your whole image to a bitmap and then printing it?

Sidenote: I would advise not to stretch type like this: the results normally tend to look odd. Take a look at the curved stroke of your capital S: in my opinion, it could be enhanced if you manually made this segment vertically shorter.

if i do that mosh, what resolution etc. should i convert the vector art? this is for a business card.

thanks for the type tip