OpenOffice Draw as an image editor?

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Man-wai Chang

Can it do that? It seems it can't. Must be in Draw's format, not the raw
image format.

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Richard Kistler

Man-wai Chang said:
Can it do that? It seems it can't. Must be in Draw's format, not the raw
image format.

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No.

Draw is drawing program. It produces files that contain mathematical
descriptions of the images shown. The best known drawing program is Adobe
Ilustrator. Corel Draw and Freehand are other drawing programs.You need a
painting program to do photo image editing. A painting program lets you
adjust the properties of pixels in the image. Adobe Photoshop is the best
known painting program.

Try one of these:
http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/2006/PL2006GRAPHICS.php#Editor:Photo-Paint.
GIMP has capabilities that rival Adobe Photoshop. The others have fewer
capabilities, but are easier to use.
 
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Bebop & Rocksteady

Can it do that? It seems it can't. Must be in Draw's format, not the raw
image format.


Draw as its name suggests is a draw program that uses a vector format not a
rastor based format...

Vector uses objects like lines squares and other shapes to draw your required
image, wmf, wpg, cmf... Rastor based is photos and uses indiviual pixels to
make an image. ie jpg, psd, gif, tiff and the older bmp, pcx etc

Each have there uses, advantages and disadvantages, but it depends on what
you want to achieve. New versions of the various applications can import a
the various different formats and be saved in its native format, and most can
usually export out as a either vector or rastor, (depending on what imports
you have)

ie a rastor is slightly more difficult to export out as a vector and usually
needs to be converted using a trace program. But a vector is easier to
convert to a rastor or jpg

These trace apps work in varying degrees of success again depends on what you
want to achieve, ie its not advisable to try and trace a full photo jpg
(though it possible) the resulting file will become too big and a waste...
and it becomes difficult working with the file even on the faster suystems
but tracing a jpg or a gif image of say a simple "company logo and slogan"
can work well giving you and editable vector version

To edit a photo or a jpg you need a paint application like PhotoShop, Corel
PhotoPaint, etc.. (Freeware equal would be The GIMP)
 

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