
Creating, navigating, and manipulating documents 61
Corel Painter does not support LZW compressed TIFF file format. Only
uncompressed TIFF files can be opened in Corel Painter.
To open a document
1 Choose File Open.
Corel Painter displays the folder of the last file you opened.
2 In the Open dialog box, locate the file that you want to open.
For each image, Corel Painter lists the dimensions (in pixels), file size, and file
format. Files saved in Corel Painter include thumbnails for browsing.
3 Click Open.
The File menu also offers you a shortcut to previously opened documents.
You can find your file in the recently opened files list by choosing File
Recent, and clicking the filename to open the file.
To browse for a document (Mac OS)
1 Choose File Open.
2 Click Browse.
The Browse dialog box shows thumbnails for all the RIFF files in a folder.
3 Double-click the filename, or select a file, and click Open.
To place a file
1 Choose File Place.
2 Select an image file, and click Open.
The Place dialog box appears.
3 Perform a task from the following table.
If the placed image contains a mask and you do not enable the Retain Alpha
check box when placing, the image mask is discarded.
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