With CoaMaker PRO, you can upload images. These images are stored in your browser and can only be accessed by you. You can delete these images from the upload section again by clicking the Trash Button that appears when you hover the uploaded image. Deleting the image from your browser does not affect your saved designs.
You find the upload tab in the Charges panel. In the past, it was located in Tools but it is better to have all the symbols close when designing.
The total size of uploaded images that you use in your designs is limited because of technical restrictions. If you add too many uploaded images to a design, you might not be able to open it again. As of now, the option to upload images is a tool to add on the existing images in CoaMaker that are optimized and have a small file size.
Create a CoaMaker Symbols (beta) #
CoaMaker symbols are vector graphics that have been optimized for the use in CoaMaker. When you use the new “Create Symbol” function, you can upload an svg Or pixel image and convert it into a CoaMaker symbol. If the image is a pixel image, it will be automatically converted into a vector image. It is best to have few colors Or even black and white symbols. Background will be automatically removed by the system (if it is white).
It is important, that all areas that shall have different colors in the resulting symbols are separated by closed black lines. This way, our tracing tool creates shapes that you can recolor. The colors you can use are the standard CoaMaker colors. The reason for this is that it allows you to automatically recolor your symbols based on the Color family you chose in CoaMaker. Example: If you set a shape as CoaMaker blue, it will be converted into Forgotten Realms blue if you have chosen this Color family and it the symbol to the canvas.
Upload an image (legacy) #
You can still upload images in the legacy mode. If they are an svg file, you can recolor all areas that share the same Color at the same time. However, you won’t be able to Color these areas differently.
The legacy upload is the best option for uploading pixel images with a lot of colors.
Automatic downsizing for all images #
All files that are uploaded to CoaMaker are automatically downsized and compressed so that you can use them easily on the canvas and in save files.
The best way to use the upload images feature is to upload small and compressed images in the first place.
Example for a website to resize images: https://imageresizer.com/
Example for a website to compress images: https://compresspng.com/