Corel Photo-Paint

Corel Photo-Paint is an image editing program for processing raster graphics. Manufacturer is the company Corel Inc., a software company headquartered in Ottawa ( Canada).

The program is not sold individually, but is part of the CorelDRAW Graphics Suite. The current version is Corel Photo-Paint X7, which corresponds to the version 17 Photo-Paint is mainly used for image manipulation.

Photo-Paint does not have a large market share, but is in the prepress area with Adobe Photoshop comparable. So has PhotoPaint also a full-featured CMYK support color management as a prerequisite for the implementation of the four- color printing sector. On the one hand, each new version of Photo -Paint was trying to catch up with the capabilities of Photoshop and its tools, appeared on the other side with Photo-Paint and innovations, for example on a graph -oriented text, two years before Photoshop this function offered.

Since almost all editing functions and effects are the same as now in both programs, the newer versions ( called in Photo-Paint " objects") originating from the same year Photoshop files ( with the extension PSD) while retaining all levels open and as such a store again. The version X5 can open and edit accordingly Photoshop CS4 files natively.

In the version X5 color management has been completely rewritten, is now compatible with the worldwide industry standard. This results in part to differences in color when editing files from previous versions.

Photo-Paint can be extended by Photoshop -compatible plugins.

Automation using scripts

How Corel Draw also offers Photo-Paint the opportunity to extend the functionality with programming languages. For a 9 Visual Basic can be used from the version on the other Corel Corel own programming scripts, but is not documented since version 9 and a Basic dialect. Until then, there was also an own script editor with a detailed help on all commands. If you draw in Photo-Paint with the included recorder to a chain of command and stores them so you can easily open this file with a text editor and edit. These scripts can then be integrated into the batch processing of Photo-Paint and therefore apply to many images.

Versions for non-Windows platforms

  • Version 9 introduced Corel Inc. for Linux Freeware ready; However, it is at this Linux version to not a full porting, because it has been implemented with the emulator Wine.
  • Since version 12 offers Corel Inc. at no version for Macintosh.

CPT file format

Corel Photo-Paint provides the proprietary file format CPT with the extension. Cpt to. Up to version 6, it involves TIFF files. In later versions, the files can be viewed only with tools from Corel, be converted and edited.

The format version can be found by a text or hex editor. For files that have been written, for example, Corel PhotoPaint 9 or 10, CPT9FILE is in the first or second line.

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