Corel Draw Introduction

CorelDraw is still a very popular drawing application with some fairly impressive 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