I have used a photo in an art design that I converted in Corel Paint to a black and white image with a Jaris grayscale to be used in a screen print t-shirt design. The problem is that the image will be Maroon when it is printed. I want to show the customer how the image will look in maroon before it is printed. How can I convert the black in the gray scale to show up as Maroon in the image? The image is surrounded by other color so I can't just print in a monotone. Is there a way to just convert the black dots to a colored (maroon) dot? Thank you.

in corel photopaint 12

first save as copy of ur original

as customer_demo file,

the click on image, color mode , rgb color

click image, adjust, replace color

then select old color as black and new color as maroon

i hope it will help u...

hi, my name is  ajit  and i am from india

 Ajit:

It worked! Thank you.

David

USA

One bit monochrome files can be assigned colors in CorelDRAW (for over 10 years).

1. select the bitmap

2. right click on maroon in coreldraw's palette.

dengland:

I have used a photo in an art design that I converted in Corel Paint to a black and white image with a Jaris grayscale to be used in a screen print t-shirt design. The problem is that the image will be Maroon when it is printed. I want to show the customer how the image will look in maroon before it is printed.

 Jeff:

I had tried that previously and this would not work. I suppose because I had converted the photo to a black and white grayscale first, prevented this method from working. Ajit's method of replacing the color under the "adjustment" tab worked. Thank you.

 P.S. - Great caricature. Another subject off topic: I note that you are a Corel instructor. I am old school artist that did everything by hand prior to computors and get around now quite well in Corel. However, I get frustrated in that I know what I want to draw, but getting Corel to do what I can do with pencil and paper is something else. I do not have a digital drawing tablet, and wonder how much of Corel professional artwork is produced with or without a digital tablet. Would purchasing this help me, or would I be better served plodding through Corel without it? Thank you.

David

It seems your final art is grayscale, and not black and white then? They are 2 different things...

A monochrome file (true black and white) will work as I described.

dengland:

I suppose because I had converted the photo to a black and white grayscale first

I started using a tablet because my right forearm was feeling like limp spaghetti from mousing 16 hours a day. I'd bought it many years earlier, but it sat in a drawer because it seemed awkward compared to a mouse.

It took awhile to get used to, but I had no choice...

Now, it feels strange to use a mouse. The pen feels more natural and lighter. I have Graphire series - pen is only 10-15 grams it seems. When freelancing at print shops, I now bring it with me.

So I recommmend getting one, and consider this technique to try some simple ideas which will feel natural.

BTW, my tablet is 3.75" x 5" area. This is good, since you can navigate your whole screen quickly without having to move arm very far.

dengland:

However, I get frustrated in that I know what I want to draw, but getting Corel to do what I can do with pencil and paper is something else. I do not have a digital drawing tablet, and wonder how much of Corel professional artwork is produced with or without a digital tablet. Would purchasing this help me, or would I be better served plodding through Corel without it? Thank you.

 Jeff:

Thank you for the information in the digital tablet and the video clip. I didn't know that they were available on the web. I viewed some others and picked up some tips.

David

Another way would be to convert the grayscale image in photopaint to a monotone -- image -> convert to -> duotone, then select monotone from the dropdown (the default; could also be duotone, quadratone, etc.) and select maroon as the color.