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Creating Complex Shapes with Corel DRAW

This tutorial will show you how to create complex shapes in Corel DRAW! I used Corel DRAW! 7.0 for Windows. Some things may be done differently with other versions. It's fairly easy to create simple shapes with a vector drawing program such as Corel DRAW!. There are built-in tools for creating circles, ellipses, squares, rectangles and polygons, etc... You may wonder, though, how to create more complex shapes. The tools to help with this are there, as well, they're just not as obvious. In this tutorial I'll demonstrate how to center objects, how to "combine" more than one shape to cut one shape from another and how to "weld" several shapes into one. I'll also show you how to duplicate objects while changing their size and how to rotate an object with its center of rotation changed so as to duplicate shapes around a single point that you determine. Before we begin, let's take a look at the shape we'll be creating

You may recognize this shape as the shape that's used to signify radioactivity. I had this shape in mind for a new design that I wanted to use here at GrafX Design. You'll see it showing up here-and-there at the bottom of various pages. At first glance you may not see how this shape can be created with circles and triangles. Take a look at though, and you'll note that the radioactive symbol is made up of an outer circle (shown in blue), an inner circle (in red) and three triangles (in yellow).

Start out by opening a new image.
NOTE: If you don't see the rulers at the top and left of the main window--choose View, Rulers. This will turn the rulers on.To help with the exact placement of the different objects that make up the final shape you can set the guidelines. Simply click-and-drag down from the ruler at the top to create a horizontal guideline, and click-and-drag from the ruler at the left to create a vertical guideline

You want the quidelines to dissect the image in the center so set the vertical guideline at 4.25 inches (half of 8.5 inches, the width of the page) and set the horizontal guideline at 5.50 inches (half of 11 inches, the length of the page). You can see the coordinates of the guidelines change, as you move them, in the lower left of the screen. Now you're ready to begin drawing. Select the Ellipse tool and, while holding down the CTRL key to constrain the ellipse to a circle, draw a circle about 2.5 inches in diameter. Choose Arrange, Align and Distribute. This will bring up the Align and Distribute dialog box. Choose the Align tab, select Center of Page and click OK. Your circle should now be centered over the guidelines. Choose Arrange, Transform, Scale and Mirror to bring up the Scale and Mirror dialog box

Make sure there's a checkmark in the Proportional checkbox and enter 80% beside the H in the Scale window (with Proportional checked you won't need to set both the H, horizontal, and the V, vertical. Click on the Apply to Duplicate button. Change the 80% to 20% and click the Apply to Duplicate button again. You should now have 3 centered circles.Select the Pick tool and click away from the circles to de-select them.

Click on the outside circle, to select it, and then SHIFT-click the second circle to select it as well. Choose Arrange, Combine. Nothing seems to have happened, but the inner circle has been cut away from the outer circle leaving a donut shape with a large hole in it. If you select a fill color now you'll see that this is true because the second circle doesn't fill in

What you've just done is you've created a new shape from two separate shapes. Double-click the Polygon tool to bring up the Options dialog box. Set the shape to polygon and the number of points/sides to 3. Place the cursor in the middle of the circles and click-and-drag up and to the left to create a triangle. It should be big enough to span the distance between the small circle and the new circular shape

Choose Layout, Snap to Guidelines. You may want to zoom in to about 400% to help with the following steps. Select the Pick tool and use it to select the triangle shape. Move the shape into position with its bottom corner at the center of the circles

With the Pick tool still selected, click on the triangle again to get the rotation arrows. Move the center of revolution to the same point as the bottom of the triangle

The center of revolution is a small circle with a dot in it. It will originally show up in the center of the triangle. You can click-and-drag it into place. Since the snap-to-guidelines is set it will snap into place in the center of the guidelines. You should still have the Scale and Mirror dialog box open. Choose Rotation. Set the Angle to 120 deg. and click the Apply to Duplicate button to create a second triangle. Click the Apply to Duplicate button once more to create a third triangle

Click anywhere to clear the selection and then click-and-drag a marquee around all of the shapes to select all of the objects. Near the top-right of the screen you should see the Weld icon

Make sure you keep a copy of the vector drawing i.e. save the image as a CDR file so you can go back and make changes easily later on. Of course, this final image was only really half of the design I had envisioned. To complete the design I exported the image as an EPS file and opened it in Photoshop. I then added some texture using Auto/FX. I played with the color, contrast and brightness, and lighting until I had the exact texture I wanted. I also added an Inner Bevel using Alien Skin's Eye Candy. Finally, I added a custom radial gradient behind the shape. There was still something missing, though, so to finish up I went back to Corel DRAW! and I created some text along a circular path and exported that, too. I then opened the text in Photoshop and cut-and-pasted it over the radioactive image to arrive at the completed design you see below

Creating Contoured Text with Corel DRAW

This tutorial will show you how to create Contoured Text in Corel DRAW! I used Corel DRAW! 7.0 for Windows. Some things may be done differently with other versions. I've had a number of people write and ask how the title on the Corel DRAW! box is done. You know the look. It has black text surrounded by a gold gradient. The process is quite simple and, using it, you can achieve some really cool effects. Open a new graphic. Choose the Text tool and enter some text. I used the Bedrock font at 200 points (see figure3.1 ).
figure 3.1

Choose Effects, Contour which will bring up the Contour roll-up (see figure3.2 ).

figure 3.2

Choose a color for the outline and the fill of the contour. Use a color for the fill that's different than the color of the text. This will make it easier to select the contour object later. Choose the other tab in the contour roll-up and set the type to outside, the offset to 0.07 and the steps to 1. Select the Pick tool to highlight the text and activate the Apply button in the contour roll-up. Click Apply. This will give you an outline, or contour, around the text (see figure 3.3).

figure 3.3

Choose Arrange, Separate. This will break the contour away from the text and enable you to apply effects directly to the contour object. De-select the text by left-clicking outside of the current selection. Select the contour by left-clicking on it with the Pick tool.

{ NOTE: If you have trouble selecting the contour and find that you keep selecting the text, send the text to the back after selecting it. This will make selecting the contour much easier. You can move the contour to the back after selecting it. }

With the contour selected it's time to lay some effects on it. Click the Fill tool icon and select the Fountain Fill Dialog option. This will bring up the Fountain Fill Dialog box (see figure 3.4)
figure 3.4

Set the left end point to a pastel blue and add another white point and a brown point next to each other somewhere towards the middle. Set the Angle to -90.0 degrees. Click OK. You should now have something like figure 3.5.

figure 3.5

You can add a border around the contour by selecting the Outline tool and selecting a size for the outline. I chose a slim outline as seen in figure 3.6.

figure 3.6

You can apply many different effects this way, including the gold outline seen on the Corel DRAW! box.

Figure 3.7

demonstrates a bitmap fill applied to the text.
figure 3.7

Play around with this and see what you can come up with and, above all, have fun. Export the final image as a web-ready JPG or GIF and make sure you keep a copy of the vector drawing i.e. save the image as a CDR file so you can go back and make changes easily later on.

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Just Abt Corel Draw

CorelDRAW has been enhanced to offer greater usability, interactivity and productivity than earlier versions. Some of these improvements permeate all aspects (both basic and advanced) of CorelDRAW, for example, screen rewrite is vastly improved over earlier versions.
Most of the new features enhance the basic features:
Accelerator keys can now be used in place of dialog box functions. For example, diagramming objects can be aligned with a single keystroke!
Enhanced Import Options allow you to import multiple files and specify their placement and size on the page interactively.
The workspace has added features! A new type of window called a Docker allows you to dock roll-ups together. Multiple users can create their own customizable personal workspaces. Even the Color Palette has undergone a change in personality. It is no longer a passive component of the workspace merely waiting to be clicked! You can now mix colors interactively on the color palette. And, if you hold the mouse button down on any color swatch, a new palette opens revealing related tints of the parent color.
New tools have been added including an interactive drop shadow tool, an interactive extrude tool, an interactive distortion tool.
3D Text effects can be applied with lighting effects inside CorelDRAW.
And much, much more!
Amazingly, the list of improvements is quite long. Every year Corel comes out with a new program...and every year, we at Retlab wonder, "What can they possibly add to the previous version?" But, we must confess, every year we are impressed with the improvements, and this year is no exception.

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Corel Draw Blend tool Tips & Tricks

Let us start with the first effect in Corel draw. Interactive Blend Tool blends two objects. We are learning just the basics about blend effect in this lesson. There are lots of details which will be covered in the advanced level.
1. Open Corel DRAW. Select Rectangle Tool and draw rectangle at the top leftcorner of the window. Fill it with red color.
2. Select Ellipse Tool and draw circle at the bottom right corner of the window. Fill it with green color.
3. Select Interactive Blend Tool (marked with green circle).
4. Now please observe the changes in the cursor carefully.
5. Move the cursor inside the red rectangle. There is a difference between the cursor outside and inside the rectangle.
6. Once the cursor is changed when it is inside the red rectangle, press and drags it. Take it to the inside area of the green circle.
7. A dotted line will form while you drag the cursor and once you release the mouse button, the blend will form between the rectangle and circle.

8. Observe carefully that the rectangular shape is smoothly converted into the circle with the gradual steps.
9. At the same time, the red color is also transformed into green using the same steps.

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