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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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