For T-Shirt graphics that can be more forgiving you can work at or near 200dpi – at the final print size. For high quality images, 300 dpi is preferred. (Figure 1) The resolution should be 200 dpi or higher in pixels per Inch. Otherwise you could be working on a very small file and not know it. When working with pixel based file formats like JPG, TIF, PSD, and others, you MUST know the actual resolution and size of the These are steps I do or check on every piece of artwork I work with. These same steps can also be done in Corel Photo Paint. This short article details just a few of the things you can do in Corel Draw to improve the quality of photographic artwork. Even artwork from ad agencies or artists generally need some work. I NEVER leave a piece of artwork untouched.

I am always amazed at printers who take a piece of artwork from the customer and simply press the “print” button to go to their sublimation printer, direct-to-garment printer, color separation program or to make a heat transfer. This article is aimed at those of you who deal with photorealistic images (raster based) that you get from customer taken off their digital camera, their website, pass down from friends, etc., etc. For those of you who use Photoshop, this same basic article is available for you, too.

Note: Click on photos to see larger image. I first wrote this article for Photoshop but had requests to modify it for Corel users. You often think of Corel as only being used for vector/cartoon type of artwork but under the hood it is very powerful and can do wonders with low quality artwork.

In fact, years ago Corel made a great move when they built in more pixel/raster support for images. Never leave a piece of photorealistic artwork untouched.Īlthough Adobe Photoshop is the defacto standard raster/pixel based program that the world uses for pixel based images – many of the tools found in Photoshop are also found in Corel Draw and Corel Photopaint.

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