Cutout Lab

March, 2018

• 16 March

  Lasering a Photo onto a Glass Part 1 – Removing the Background In CorelDraw / PhotoPaint

  

  One of the hardest techniques to learn is creating photos on glass. It is not easy and requires you to know how to adjust photos in CorelDraw. To get the best photos requires the use of a mask typically. Although you do not have to use a mask i tend …
• 16 March

  Lasering a Photo onto a Glass Part 2 using CorelDraw

  

  This is the second part of my tutorial on lasering photos onto glass. This example came from a seminar I did with come of my customers. This photo is approximately 50 years old. We had to get rid of some creases to get it looking at least good enough for …

September, 2016

• 11 September

  Using Cutout Lab on a Dark Image

  

  Sometimes when we get a photograph it is to dark and the engraving will suffer not because the images so much are dark but because the background is dark and it causes the images to be dark. In this article we will take a photo that is really dark and …

July, 2016

• 6 July

  Images on Wood are Better with No Background

  

  One of the more popular items to put photos onto is wood or granite. The problem is that wood is really not the greatest medium to work on. For this reason we really need to give ourselves the best opportunity to get the photo right. One technique that should be …
• 6 July

  I want to cut the background out of an image

  

  Using the CutOut Lab in CorelDraw / PhotoPaint to get rid of an images background Open your original image Open your original image in CorelDraw Open the image in Corel PhotoPaint Right click on the image and select EDIT | BITMAP (1). This will load your image into Corel PhotoPaint. …