Corel Draw DSS - Engravers Network

CorelDraw Training
Back to the Basics and Beyond
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Table of Contents
1. Cover Page
2. Table of Contents
3. CorelCONNECT
4. Getting Started
5. Creating A Document
6. Object Manager
7. Page Sorter
8. Tool Bar
9. Dropping A Copy
10. Transformations
11. Text
12. Artistic Text
13. Paragraph Text
14. Align Objects
15. Controlling the Order
16. Fit to Path
17. Create Boundary
18. Crop
19. CorelTRACE
20. Blend Tool
21. Contour Tool
22. QR Codes
Corel CONNECT
Welcome! After installation of your new software, or when first launching CorelDRAW, a box
will pop up on your screen that asks you to sign into your Corel Account or Create An Account.
Although this is an optional step, Corel CONNECT gives you access to an online community
of users.
Two types of accounts
Standard Membership: Free and guarantees all
the fonts, clipart, and media that you would
receive with a program disc.
Premium Membership: Monthly subscription fee
and comes with a lot more of the “extras” you would
expect to receive with a PREMIUM Account.
Getting Started
Shows the most common options to
choose from when you want to start
a new drawing or open a saved file.
Multiple workspace options:
Lite - limited Toolbox and other features
Classic and Default - Similar to previous versions
Advanced - More customizable to make Desktop
Publishing/Illustrator features more prominent
Other - Interface allows users to set up CorelDRAW to remind
users of Adobe Illustrator[or similar programs]
Enjoy images that have been created by
fellow CorelDRAW users.
Destination to learn about all new features in
a more detailed but brief document
Displays a brief list of resources you can access online
and directly within the program to get started. VIDEO
TUTORIALS can be found here.
Another opportunity to Sign Up for the Standard or
Premium service. Optional, but highly recommended if you
want access to the fills, fonts, and media within
the program.
Stay current. Clicking on this icon allows you
to check for the latest software and product
updates.
Connects you to the CorelDRAW
community and online world.
Creating A Document
When saving a document, you can name it. If you name the document at the
beginning of your session, all you need to do is press CTRL+S at any time
to save your work.
A destination in computer graphics terms means
“where the design you draw will be displayed”
These options are where to set your page size.
There are a number of different units of measurements
you can choose from and select Landscape or Portrait orientation.
You can add, take away, and rearrange a multiple
page document at the beginning of your session,
or anytime throughout.
Color mode for graphics file holds great importance.
It affects how colors are printed and displayed.
You can choose from RGB or CMYK.
The word resolution here means how many dots you want
the printer to use to render your artwork to the desired material(s).
The best option is Enhanced mode. It will provide
the maximum viewing quality.
This is a crucial feature that greatly affects and
protects your artwork when printed.
Tool Bar
PICK TOOL
SHAPE TOOL
CROP TOOL
ZOOM TOOL
FREEHAND TOOL
SMART FILL TOOL
RECTANGLE TOOL
ELLISPE TOOL
POLYGON TOOL
TEXT TOOL
PARALLEL DIMENSION TOOL
STRAIGHT LINE CONNECTOR TOOL
DROP SHADOW TOOL
TRANSPARENCYTOOL
COLOR EYE DROP TOOL
INTERACTIVE FILL TOOL
PICK TOOL
OUTLINE PEN
EDIT Fill
Page Sorter is a view that provides you
with a broad look at your document and
all its pages. In this view, you can add,
delete, move, or copy pages in a single
view. You can also change the Paper/Type
Size and the page orientation of all the
pages or just selected pages.
A CorelDRAW document can contain
pages of different sizes, which can be
very handy when you are designing
matching business cards and letterheads
or other similarly related materials.
To open your document and all its pages
in Page Sorter View,
Choose VIEW ---> Page Sorter View
A single click selects a page. Holding SHIFT
while clicking pages enables you to select or
deselect contiguous multiple pages. Holding
CTRL while clicking enables you to select or
deselect noncontiguous pages.
Object Manager
The Object Manager docker
offers the advantage of mass
editing page names from
within a single docker. To
open the Object Manager, choose
Windows -> Dockers -> Object
Manager. Once the docker is open,
you want to be able to see all the
pages in your document, so first
make sure the Layer Manager View
is set to All Pages, Layers, and
Objects.
Dropping A Copy
Right-click + Drag, Release, use the pop up menu
This is the easiest way to copy an object quickly if
you are just getting used to a point-and-click device
Left-click + drag, then click both buttons, release.
This is considered the traditional “drop a copy”
CorelDRAW technique.
Hit the Spacebar Key repeatedly while left + dragging a shape to make multiple copies.
This method is used for duplicating when you want a quick way to populate a page with the same object.
Drawing Shapes
CorelDRAW offers a variety
of tools for drawing shapes.
The Rectangle tool gives you the option to apple corner
“roundness” based on a percentage value. Roundness
can be set either manually by dragging a corner with the Shape
tool or by using the Property bar’s Corner Roundness option.
If you unlock the Edit Corners Together toggle button, you can
manually enter different values for each of the four corners.
Corner Roundness is one of three different effects you can apply
and dynamically edit when you’re into rectangles. Corner
Roundness, as well as the Scallop and Chamfer corner styles, can
be applied to rectangle from a value of 0 to about one-half the
overall length of one of its sides.
Text
Text
Text
Text
Text
Text
Text
Object
Size
Object
Position
Font
Angle of
Rotation
Font Size
Bold
Edit Text
Alignment
Italic
Mirror Horizontally OR
Mirror Vertically
Underline
Text
Properties
When you use the TEXT tool, you can produce two different types of
text objects in a document: Artistic Text and Paragraph Text.
Formatting options can be accessed from the TEXT Property Bar OR
from the menu Text --> Character Formatting
Artistic Text
Artistic Text is best for illustration headlines, callouts, and other occasions when you want to create text with a special
effect such as extrusion, an envelope, text on a path, and so on. To add a line of Artistic Text to a document, with the
Text tool, click an insertion point and then type your phrase; alternatively, after clicking an insertion point you can press
CTRL+V to paste any text you have loaded on Windows’ Clipboard. To create several lines of Artistic Text, press
ENTER when you want to skip to a new line and then continue typing.
Paragraph Text
Paragraph text can be used for larger bodies of text that have greater formatting
requirements. It is most often used when creating columns for names on a
plaque, or wrapping text around an object.
Align Objects
Controlling the Order
Object order is another of the basics you need to know to organize shapes. Setting the order of objects
lets you set whether an object appears in front of, or behind another object. When overlapping objects
are ordered, they appear in front of or behind each other, according to their order.
BRIGHT IDEAS
The new Fit Text to Path or arcing option is a major
change in CorelDRAW 7 compared to earlier versions.
It is far more interactive, and it’s much easier to use
multiple paths on the same arc, or path.
Text
Orientation
With Fit Text to Path, you can add artistic text along
the path of an open object (a line) or a close object
(a square).
Tick
Snapping
Distance
from Path
Font List
Font Height
Horizontal
Offset Mirror Horizontally
Or
Mirror Vertically
To Fit Text to a Closed Path Interactively
1. Select a text object using the Pick Tool
Text Properties
Bold
Italic
CORELDRAW X7
2. Click TEXT > FIT TEXT TO PATH. The pointer
changes to Fit text to path pointer. As you move the
pointer over the path, a preview of where the text will
be fitted is displayed. You will also see the distance
between the text preview and the path displayed.
Adjusting Text on a Path
There are several options for adjusting your text on the Text on
Curve/Object property bar shown above.
After you fit text to a path, you can adjust the text’s position relative to that path.
Using the Pick Tool, you can move text along or off the path by dragging the red glyph
that appears beside the text.
Crop Tool
The Cropping Tool works with both vector and bitmap graphics. You could achieve the same with
the Trim Option in the Shaping Tool, but it’s far more time consuming.
Creating Boundary Paths
from Multiple Objects
CorelTRACE
Tracing Shapes
Vector
Bitmap 96 dpi
Bitmap 600 dpi
CorelTRACE allows you to quickly trace bitmap
images with higher precision than in previous
versions.
Blend Tool
.25 inch .66 inch
6” x 8” Frame
Contour Tool
Filled
BEYER HIGH
Outline
BEYER HIGH
Contour
BEYER HIGH
QR Codes
QR code (abbreviated from Quick Response Code) is the
trademark for a type of matrix barcode (or two-dimensional barcode)
QR-Code Data Capacities
Numeric onlyMax 7,089 characters
AlphanumericMax 4,296 characters
How They Work?
Take a mobile phone such as the iPhone in today’s world; nearly every mobile phone has a digital camera.
The camera, along with decoding software, can be used to capture a picture of the QR-Code, for which the
QR-Code software decoder can then transform the data held within the QR-Code to a meaningful action for
the mobile phone to:
Connect to a web address
Download a MP3
Dial a telephone number
Prompt your email client with a sender address
This can all be done within a matter of milliseconds making the transformation from a users mobile phone
to the mobile web instantaneous.