CorelDraw

Introduction:

CorelDraw 12 is a very powerful, vector based graphic design mean vector based images are based on mathematical formula. You have selected on of the most innovative and advanced graphic tools available for the PC. CorelDraw will sharpen you creative edge by allowing you to create and edit any line, shape, or character with ease and precision fit text to a curve auto trace existing artwork create custom color separation and moving animation on presentation produce desktop publishing documents and accomplish many other tasks. You can combine CorelDraw’s features to achieve my different special effects, such as placing a line of text or an object in perspective, folding, Contouring , rotating, or extruding a line of text or an object blending two lines of text or two object and creating mirror images, masks, and 3D

simulations.

How to open CorelDraw 12?

Steps:

About the tool box:

Pick tool

The pick tool is really two tools in one, varying according to the mode. In the select mode you can select objects in order to mode. You can use the pick tool to rotate, skew, stretch, reflect, move or scale a select object.

Shape tool:

The shape tool allows you to modify the shape of an object. Use this tool to smooth or distort any shape add rounded corners to rectangles convert a circle into a edge or arc, modify a curve or kern, leading individual character in a text string.

Knife tool

The knife tool erase tool flies out allows you to cut and erase line, curves and object.

Steps:

1. Cut shapes with knife tool

2. Draw required object with required shape.

3. Select knife tool from the shape tool fly out.

4. Click once at a point on a shape that you want to cut.

5. Click a second time at the end point at the cut.

6. After you cut your shape, use pick tool to select wither of the two new shapes you create.

The eraser tool:

The eraser tool lets you to remove areas of you drawing.

Steps:

1. Select eraser tool from the shape tool fly out.

2. Define required eraser thickness and eraser shape (Square or circle) from property bar.

3. The eraser required pixels by dragging it.

4. You can also separate (cut) any objects by defining first and end point.

The smudge brush tool:

Smudge brush tool lets you distort a vector object by dragging along out line.

The free transform tool:

The free Transform tool lets you transform an object by using to free rotation angle rotation, scale and skew tools.

The Roughen tool:

The roughen tool lets you distort outline of vector object by dragging along outline.

Virtual Segment Delete:

The virtual segment tool is use to delete the selected object.

Zoom tool:

The zoom tool lets you to change the magnification level in the drawing window.

Hand tool:

The hand tool lets you to control which part of the drawing is visible in the drawing window. To zoom in your document view size double click your mouse and to zoom out your document view sizes right click your mouse.

The pen tool & Bezier tool:

The pen tool and Bezier tool can be used to create irregular shape of the straight lines.

The freehand tool:

You can use freehand curves to draw design on you screen in CorelDraw 12. Even skilled artists find it difficult to draw complex design with their mouse, but the ability to add to or enhance a design with freehand curves is a powerful tool creating illustrators.

Free hand tools to be honest no body draws great looking shapes with a mouse or even more sophisticated computer drawing device. The trick is to sketch out crude drawing that is close to what you want, and touch it up by editing result nodes. The process of drawing freehand curve is more freely you simply click on the freehand tool and then click and draw on the drawing area.

Artistic Media tool:

Lets you to apply strokes or object to curve using one of five modes preset, brush, object, sprayer, calligraphy and pressure sensitive.

The interactive connector:

The interactive connector tool lets you connect one object to another with line.

The 3 Point curve:

The three point curve tool lets you to draw a curve by defining the start, end and center points.

Dimension:

The dimension tool lets you draw vertical, horizontal, slanted or angular dimension lines.

The poly line tool:

The poly line tool draws a straight line and freely drawing.

Steps:

1. Select poly line tool.

2. Click and stop the one point and again click stop another point it means it draws the straight line.

The graph paper:

The graph paper tool lets you draw a grid of lines similar to that on graph paper.

Steps:

1. Choose graph tool from the polygon fly out in the toolbox.

2. Double click on the graph paper too.

3. Define required number of cells in wide and height.

4. Click on ok.

The polygon tool:

The default shape for the polygon too is a pentagon a five sided object.

Steps:

1. To draw pentagon, just click on the polygon tool and drag.

2. You can change the number of sides that you draw with the polygon tool.

3. Double click on the polygon too.

4. Give the number of points/ sides and sharpness.

Polygon

Star

Polygon star

Spiral tool:

Spiral tool lets you to draw symmetrical and logarithmic spirals.

Steps:

1. Choose spiral tool from the polygon fly out in the toolbox.

2. Double click in the spiral.

3. Click on properties.

4. chose either symmetrical or logarithmic.

5. Define required number of revolution.

6. Define required expansion value by using slider.

7. Click on ok.

8. Draw as your requirement.

Rectangle tool:

The rectangle tool lets you to draw a rectangular and perfect square.

Steps:

1. To create a rectangle click on the rectangle tool in the toolbox.

2. Then simple click and drag anywhere in the drawing area.

3. To draw perfect squares hold down Ctrl while you draw the rectangle.

The 3 point rectangle tool:

This tool lets you to draw a rectangle by dragging to create the rectangle baseline and clicking to define its height.

Ellipse tool:

The ellipse tool lets you to draw an ellipse and circle.

Steps:

1. To create ellipses (also known as can oval) choose the ellipse tool in the toolbox then simple click and drag anywhere in the drawing area.

2. TO draw a perfect circle, hold down Ctrl while you draw the ellipse.

3. To change ellipse with Pie or Arc, select the required ellipse and the click on pie or arc button in the property bar or double click on ellipse too, you can also change and starting and ending angles by using the starting and ending angles button.

The 3 Point ellipse:

3 point ellipse tool lets you to draw an ellipse by dragging to create center line of the ellipse and clicking to define its height.

Text:

CorelDraw defines text in two ways paragraph text and artistic text. Paragraph text is better suited for editing long blocks of text. Artistic text offers you more freedom to assign artistic effect to letters.

Interactive blend:

Blends are an amazingly intelligent effect and as such it’s often hard to predict the exact effect you will create using them. The blend effect enables you to fill space between two different objects with a set of new objects that change, step by step from the first object to second. Not only do the size and shape of blended image evolve from one object to another, but the color evolves as well.

Steps:

1. Draw a circle and draw a square assign different color fill to each.

2. Click on the interactive blend tool in the toolbar.

3. Click and drag to connect the circle and the square.

Interactive contour tool:

The contour effect enables you to create concentric lines inside or outside selected object.

Interactive drop shadow tool:

Interactive drop shadow tool enables you to draw shadows directly selected object.

Steps:

1. Select the object.

2. Then click the interactive shadow tool from the blend fly out in the toolbox.

3. Drag on your object to draw a shadow.

Interactive envelope tool:

The envelope effect gives you even more control vanishing points and perspective. Envelopes provide a frame for whatever object it’s inside them.

Steps:

1. Type some text.

2. Convert to artistic text.

3. Click on the interactive envelope tool.

4. You can modify the shape of text as your requirement and also you can do the object.

Interactive extrude tool:

Extrusion is another way of adding perspective to a selected object extrusion effect gives text curves or shape a 3d looks.

Steps:

1. Types some text or create required shaped object.

2. Select interactive extrude tool from the bland fly out in the toolbox.

3. Select the vector extrusion mode button in the property bar.

4. Click and drag from the center of your selected object up and to the left or at required direction.

5. Click on the color button in the property bar and select use color shading button.

6. Select required color (light color) for the color and required color (dark color) for the two colors.

7. Click on the vanishing point in the extrusion and drag it around the drawing window.

Interactive Transparency tool:

This effect works a bit like lens effect because it is applied to one object that is then place over another object. The interactive transparency tool enables you to apply varying degrees of transparency to selected object.

Steps:

1. Type a word in artistic text.

2. Create a closed object a rectangle will define. Move the rectangle so it partially covers text.

3. Select the rectangle and click on the interactive transparency tool. Click and draw across the rectangle from right to left. Starting at what will be the less transparent end of rectangle.

Eye dropper tool:

The eyedropper tool lets you to select a fill from an object on the drawing window.

The paint bucket tool:

This tool lets you to fill and object on the drawing window after selecting a fill using the eyedropper tool.

Mixing up fills:

CorelDraw12 enables you to assign five basic types of fill to any selected closed objects.

Uniforms Fills:

Single color fills, although that single color can be applied

Pattern Fill:

Fills mode from bitmap or vector files

Texture Fills:

Fills (That can be edited) mode from bitmap image fills.

Post script fills:

Fills that use the post script programming language to generate patterns.

Interactive Mesh fill tool:

When you fill an object with a mesh fill you can create unique effects. For example you can create smooth color transitions in any direction without having created blends or contours. Lets you apply mesh object to simple object, curves and bitmapped image.

Steps:

1. Select an object.

2. Open the interactive fill fly out and click on the interactive mesh fill tool.

3. Type the number of columns in the top portion of the grid size box on the property bar.

4. Type the number of rows in the bottom portion of the grid size box on the property bar and press enter.

5. Adjust the grid nodes on the object.

6. Lets you apply fills to the selected object.

Import:

You can bring files from other program into CorelDraw files either by importing them or open them the main difference is that opening foreign file creates a new drawing where as importing brings the file content into your drawing.

Exporting files:

You can also export files to other program from CorelDraw either by exporting them or saving them.

Clone:

A copy of an object or an area of an image that is linked to a master object or image area most change made to the master area automatically applied to clones.

Transformation:

If you wish to position an exact measured distance from its current location at a specific location using co ordinates, use the transform position roll-up that you open from arrange menu. The transform roll-up has fife sets option selected from the list box at the top of the roll-up. The position option allows you to enter horizontal and vertical measurement with which to position the selected object.

1. Position

2. Rotate

3. Scale

4. Size

5. Skew

Align and distribute:

The “align and distribute” command from the arrange menu offers you another quick and easy method for aligning selected objects without having to spend your drawing task measuring. To align object you simply select object, click on the “align and distribute” command and then adjust the horizontal and vertical alignment setting in the “align and distribute” roll-up.

Shaping:

Combine:

Combing is a more complex operation that is used in the following situation when you want multiple objects to become to single object that you can reshape with the shape tool. When the object contain many modes and curves and you want to reduce the total amount of memory they consume. When you want to create special effect such as transparent mask, behind which you can place other object.

Weld:

The outline of the two objects becomes one and the common border removed.

Intersection:

This command lets you to join two or more overlapping objects to create a resulting object that takes on the border of the intersection of the original objects.

Trim:

Create a new object that is the part of the last selected object that is not common to other overlapping objects.

Convert to curve:

Steps:

1. Draw a required shape.

2. Go to arrange menu.

3. Click on convert to curves or direct click on convert to curve button on the property bar.
4. Then modify the shape as per requirement by using shape tool by adding or deleting required nodes.

Lenses:

Lenses can apply many different effects. Lens effects are used in connect with an object below the le4ns. The only objects that are not affected by placing lenses over them are object that have extruded, contour or blend effects applied to them.

Steps:

1. Type some artistic text or import required graphics or create required object.

2. Draw required shape like rectangle, circle, or polygon etc at required location.

3. Select the shape.

4. Go to the effect menu.

5. Click on lenses.

6. Choose required lenses style.

7. Define needed option like red color etc.

8. Click on apply.

Perspective:

Adding perspective enables you to transform object to create three dimensional look. You can apply perspective many ways including extrusion, envelopes and the perspective effect itself.

Steps:

1. Select required shape/object as artistic text.

2. Go to effect menu.

3. Click on add perspective.

4. Drag required perspective handles as per requirement.

Power clip:

Power clips take one selected object and places the inside another object.
Steps:

1. Draw an object or create any artistic text in which you want to insert another object of graphics.

2. Import or draw required graphics or shape which you want to insert

3. Go to effect menu.

4. Choose power clips.

5. Click on place inside container.

Bitmap color mask:

Steps:

1. Click on the first bar in the bitmap color mask docker window.

2. Then click on the color selector.

3. Move your cursor, in bitmap image, over the color you want to remove.

4. You can see color in the rollup matches the color you want to delete.

5. To delete only the exact color you selected leave the tolerance slider set at near.

6. Push the slide as your requirement those effect include using color mask to strip any unwanted color out of an image.

Insert character:

You can insert character easy way into your opening document.

Fill text to path:

Steps:

1. Draw required shape or curve to which you will be fitting the text.

2. Select object.

3. Go to text menu.

4. Click on fit text to path.

5. Select required font and size.

6. Start typing.

Using the scrapbook docker window:

Object stored in the scrapbook are easy to find and place in colreldraw design.

Setps:

1. Go to tools menu.

2. Click on scrapbook.

3. Click on browser and choose the required location.

4. Drag the pre-designed drawing into the scrapbook from drawing window.

5. Rename the object by clicking the mouse button on the icon and choosing renames option.

Layers:

You can have more than one layer on a page why would you want to do that. There are number of uses for multi layers pages. You can view one layer at a time, so you can see only part of your illustration. Sometimes that makes it easier to work with a complex drawing.

LOCK

This command is use to lock the selected object so that we can not able to modify or edit, delete it.

Steps:

1. Draw anyone object.

2. Select it.

3. Click on the modify menu.

4. Click on lock command.

Unlock

Provides the change or does not affect the object size or position.

Steps:

1. Apply the lock command.

2. Now click on the modify menu.

3. Click on the unlock command.

Group (Ctrl + G)

Change into one object to the selected objects.

Steps:

1. Draw more than two objects.

2. Select the all objects.

3. Click on the modify menu.

4. Click on the group command or press ctrl + G from keyboard.

Ungroup (Ctrl + U)

Creates separate paths to the closed path or grouped object.

Steps:

1. Apply group command or draw any one object.

2. Click on modify menu.

3. Click on the ungroup command or Press ctrl + shift + G from keyboard.

Blend (ctrl + shift + B)

This command lets you to create a number of intermediate steps between two paths.

Steps:

1. Create any two objects such as rectangle box.

2. Select these objects

3. Click on the effect menu.

5. Click on the blend command.