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    Step 7: Bitmaps & objects (Fig 8)                     •  If you have an object (perhaps some text or a complex
                                                                        set of shapes you’ve created) you can convert it to a
                  Fig 8
                                                                        bit map by selecting it and then the Bitmap->Convert
                                                                        to bitmap menu option (see image). Be sure to have
                                                                        everything you want converted selected when you do
                                                                        that.
                                                                      Step 9: Converting bitmaps to objects (Fig 10&11)
                                                                       Fig 10

                •   A bitmap is a collection of pixels in a rectangular
                   shape. On your computer it may be a “jpeg” or a
                   “tiff” or a “png” or a “gif” or any of a whole collection
                   of other types. In CorelDraw all those are converted
                   to a bitmap. You can apply various filters and other
                   effects to a bitmap which you can’t do to an object.
                   But bitmaps always look kind of funky, especially if
                   you change their size.
                •   An object is a collection of curves that are defined
                   in such a way that they can scale well. Objects will
                   generally look better even if you generated the object
                   from a bitmap. There are a wide variety of things you
                   can do to objects that are quite distinct from what you
                   can do to bitmaps.

                •   Sometimes I find it useful to change objects or
                   bitmaps to the other kind of thing so that I can do
                   some operation. Sometimes I even change them back
                   again (see https://www.instructables.com/id/Make-A-
                   Wooden-Spiral-Pendant/).
                Step 8: Converting objects to bitmaps (Fig 9)
                 Fig 9

                                                                       Fig 11

                                                                      •  Converting bitmaps to objects is a lot more complicated
                                                                        but  CorelDraw  has  a  collection  of  tools  which  do
                                                                        a pretty good job. You access these tools by right
                                                                        clicking on a bitmap and selecting the tool you want
                                                                        to use (see image).

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