Corel Draw Introduction

 

CorelDraw is still a very popular drawing application with some fairly impressive features. This course, aimed at with no previous knowledge of CorelDraw, will introduce the essential tools and techniques through hands on exercises and theory. Delegates will gain an understanding of CorelDraw’s great features

 

Course Outline:

 

Introduction

What is CorelDraw?

Who uses it?

Overview of its features

Examining the screen

Personalising CorelDraw

 

Page Setup

Starting anew illustration

Setting page size & orientation

Multiple pages

Navigating

Zooming

Setting ruler units

 

Basic Drawing

Standard shapes

Freehand drawing

Altering line styles

Adjusting standard shapes

Basic fills and lines with widths

Selecting multiple objects

Copy and Paste

Duplicating

Copy dragging

Cloning

Sending to Front & Back

 

Bezier Drawing

Using the Bezier tool

Reshaping objects

Manipulating curves

Manual tracing

 

Combining Shapes

Untie, Trim, Weld

Group

Combine

Break apart and ungroup

 

Transformations

Moving

Scaling

Rotating

Reflecting

Skewing

Clearing transformations

Filling Objects

Using the colour palette

Mixing colours

Gradient fills

Patterned fills

Other fills

Copying attributes

 

Framing Objects

Changing line styles

Setting line the colour

Applying arrowheads

 

Basic Text Control

Creating artistic text

Change text attributes

Creating paragraph text

Basic paragraph formatting

 

Special Text Effects

Placing text onto curves

Converting text to shapes

Reshaping text

 

Using Guides

Setting Guides

Snap to Guides

Aligning multiple objects

Clearing guides

 

Basic Effects

Perspective

Envelope

Blending

Extrude

Contours

Powerlines

Lens

 

Saving & Printing

Save as EPS

Exporting a selection

Printing options

Colour considerations

   
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