Lock Object in Corel PHOTO-PAINT – to protect reference images
As an artist and illustrator, or anyone working with images, it is very common to first draw a draft pencil sketch in a sketchbook and scan or in another way bring the draft sketch in to Corel Photo-Paint, and use as a reference image. For example you might like to use your Wacom pen tablet to to draw new outlines on a new object and have the reference draft underneath.
Use the LOCK Object feature in the Objects Manager Docker in Corel PHOTO-PAINT. By locking the object you wont accidentally draw new outlines on the reference object. Many are the artists and illustrators who have done just that – drawn and painted on the reference object by mistake, and then having to redraw the entire thing.
So go to: Objects Docker > Right Click the reference object > Choose LOCK
Hope this helps keeping the stress level to a low…
Stefan Lindblad
Illustrator, artist and graphic designer
Appointed CorelDRAW Master by Corel
www.canvas.nu
