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The best method is to Powerclip the background image into the circle. This removes everything outside the circle, but only visually. You can edit the contents at any time. Powerclipping works with...

Personally, I would recommend a vector app for this sort of thing. Not only much quicker, but the fine lines will not need antialiasing and will therefore print crisply. It really would be a breeze...

Edit...OOPs...That should have read RAM, not HD.

Have you checked your preferences to see how much of that free space you are allowing PS to use. Scratch disk is just temporary ram. If you run out of memory it uses your hard disk as ram instead of...

Actually, I gave your image a go in Knockout and it was not too successful due to the lack of edge definition. I then gave the Edge eraser a go and found I could get quite good results quite quickly....

You can buy it boxed and perfectly legal for a little over a hundred pounds. You just have to be a student.

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If you have a lot of this kind of work to do in the future, Knockout 2 would be worthy consideration.

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Exactly. I have no brand loyalty, I use Draw, Photoshop and Flash. If Xara did something that I needed that was not practical in Draw I would install it.

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One other point.

CorelDraw is primarily geared towards multi page layouts and the print industry. It is far more featured than Illustrator and considerably more so than Xara. Not everybody...

Install this Macro in your GMS folder and apply it with a keystroke. Speeds things up a little.

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A quick method would be to create a grid 5 x 3 and increase the outline thickness to give suitable spacings between each photo. Scale the grid to match your postcard size and align to the page then...

It's a quirk of Draw. A lot of what I would expect to be defaults are hidden functions.

I work with Photoshop so need to export anyway, but like you I upgraded from CD9 (to CD12) to use the...

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My previous version of Draw before I got X3 was 9. There was no support for PNG files at all. I don't know in what version that changed. The PNG support is one of my favorite...

Oops. Missed the CD9 reference. Thanks Sally.

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The reason they're suggesting the two apps is... I just want to be able to make decent personal pics and layouts as a hobby...Pics as in photos (bitmaps) are best edited in Photoshop (Elements 5 is...

Try using the 3 point curve tool to make half a heart shape, then duplicate and flip over before aligning to the first half.
Next, combine the two halves and select an end node of one half and...

Yep, I agree with Sally. On XP you will definately benefit from an upgrade. CD9 is a big improvement on CD8 and is very affordable on ebay. If you are willing to pay a little more, I'd go with...

Very clever.

The only problem with this tool is it basically just stretches the created stroke along a path. This has worked well for most of your examples except the letter A, where the...

Blending along a path has some strange idiosyncrocies. To get it to work reliably use the following approach after applying the blend to the path.
First check "Blend along full path", then uncheck...

Hmmm. I'm on PS 7, but would have to say this is a really nice addition to CS (or is it CS2). Something I would definitely find myself using. Not quite sure I can afford to upgrade just yet though,...

Wecome to the forum Kamran.

You need to Powerclip your image into your text. Do a Help search on Powerclipping for a full step by step for your version of Draw.

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You can buy sticker paper for your own printer (Don't think he intends creating comercial stickers). Although I'm not sure on the personal use rules.

As for tracing, try Vector Eye. It's great at...

I think your question has already been answered, but to go back to your original post and problem, the following is an explicit step by step approach to achieve your goal.

1...Create a single box...

If the pic is a jpeg the text is no longer text, just part of the image. You can't remove this easily without removing the background image.

If the text is on a plain area of the image just add a...

Yep. Sally's right. This is the only practical method because Adobe refuse to allow normal import of .ai into PS as paths. I guess it's to encourage the use of AI, which you can drag and drop from...