Working with Colors - VIII

Let us learn the details about the basics of fill in Corel DRAW.

1. Open Corel DRAW. Draw rectangle. Keep it selected.

2. Click on any color from the color palette at right hand side. The object is filled with color. We have increased the thickness of the outline to see the difference in the colors prominently.

Guidelines & Outlines - VII

As we have seen that now Corel draw treats the guideline like a normal object that can be selected, deleted even can be rotated. While working in Corel draw sometimes its advisable to lock the guideline so that it will not move while working with the objects. You can select and lock or unlock the guidelines.

1. Open Corel DRAW.

2. Drag the few horizontal and vertical guidelines using pick tool.

3. Using Pick Tool, select any guideline.

4. Go to Arrange > Lock Object

Group & Ungroup - VI

Let us learn to ungroup the group.

1. Open Corel Draw.
2. Using Rectangle and Ellipse tool, draw rectangle and ellipse. Fill it with different colors.

3. Select both, the rectangle and ellipse using pick tool.
4. Go to Arrange > Group
5. If you select any object using pick tool, the group will get selected. Keep the group selected.

6. Let us Ungroup this Group.
7. Go to Arrange > Ungroup
8. Deselect by clicking the pick tool outside the objects.
9. Try to select any one object using pick tool.

10. You will observe that now you can select single object as they are ungrouped.

Check out Group lesson carefully before proceeding further. We need to create two groups and group them again into one. With Ungroup All command you ungroup everything that is grouped.

11. Group the previous rectangle and ellipse again.

12. Follow the same procedure and create another group. Just fill the objects with different colors.

13. Select both the groups using Pick tool.

14. Go to Arrange > Group

15. Now we have a group which is made up of two different groups.

16. Keep this group selected.

17. Go to Arrange > Ungroup

18. With this, the two groups are ungrouped. You still have two different groups that have two objects grouped within.

19. Go to Edit > Undo to group the both groups again.

20. We are back to the final group step. We again have the group that has two groups within.

21. Go to Arrange > Ungroup All

22. Deselect by clicking the pick tool outside the objects.

23. All four objects are separate. There is no group remained. Try to select any one object using pick tool. You will observe that now you can select each single object as they are ungrouped.

Zoom & Fit in Window - V

This command is useful to get the view of all the objects scattered on the page or outside the page at once.

1. Open Corel Draw.

2. Select Rectangle tool and draw 3 – 4 rectangles. Fill it with any colors and scatter them on the page and even away from the page.

3. Select Ellipse tool and draw the circle within the page area and fill it with any color.

Behind/In Front Of - IV

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Concept: The lesson is designed using CorelDRAW, the world fame vector program used by artists, illustrators and designers. CorelDRAW is a very user friendly software and you can learn fast for the basic level. Try to explore more commands using these lessons as guideline. CorelDRAW has best of the drawing and editing facilities with the astonishing range of effects. Please try to go further than these tips and tricks by drawing your own shapes and applying effects with different options. If you want to shift the selected object behind particular object, Corel draw provides the command called "Behind" in the order menu. Similarly, if you want to shift the selected object in front of particular object, Corel draw provides the command called "In Front Of" in the order menu. 1. Open Corel DRAW. 2. Draw rectangle using rectangle tool and fill it will red color. Draw another rectangle, which will overlap the part of the first rectangle and fill this rectangle with green color. 3. Draw third rectangle in such a way that will occupy some space of the both red and green rectangle. Fill this rectangle with blue color. 4. Draw fourth rectangle that will occupy some space of the last three rectangles and fill it with yellow color. Keep yellow rectangle selected. 5. Go to Arrange > Order > Behind 6. The cursor changes to thick black arrow. 7. Suppose you want to place the yellow rectangle behind green. You will click the arrow on the green rectangle. 8. The yellow rectangle is shifted behind the green rectangle. 9. You can draw few more shapes and try this command. 10. Now select the red rectangle, which is at the back of all the rectangles. 11. Go to Arrange > Order > In Front Of 12. The cursor changes to thick black arrow. 13. Suppose you want to place the red rectangle in front of Blue. You will click the arrow on blue rectangle. 14. The red rectangle is shifted in front of the blue rectangle. 15. You can draw few more shapes and try this command.

Simple Wireframe - III

Wireframe mode used to display the intermediate steps in the blend
though it will not display the colors in it.

1. Open Corel DRAW.

2. Draw two rectangles filled with different colors while you are in the normal Wireframe mode.

Corel Text Basics - II

Working with text in Corel DRAW is really interesting experience because you can edit the text in so many ways.

1. Open Corel DRAW. Select Text Tool (marked with green circle). The icon is A (Capital A).

2. Click the cursor on the page and type the text. It may be very small so stretch it by pulling its corner point using Pick Tool.

3. Move it anywhere using Pick Tool again.

4. Pull other points using pick Tool, to stretch the text horizontally and vertically.

5. Filling text with color is just a click away. Keep the text selected. Click on any color from the color palette at right hand side. The text is filled with the selected color.

6. If you click on the cross icon in the color palette, there will be no color in the text.

7. You can apply outline to the text in Corel DRAW. Different types of effects can be created using outline. Click the cursor on the page and type the text. Stretch it to bigger size by pulling corner point. Keep it selected. We have removed the color from the text.

8. Now right click on any color in the color palette.

9. This will apply the outline to the text of the same color you have right clicked.

10. If you Right click on the cross icon in the color palette, there will be no outline to the text.

11. Let us try to change outline thickness of the text. It creates astonishing effects. Keep the text selected.

12. Press Outline Tool. In the fly out menu click on 2 point outline (Thin). The outline is thicker than the default. Try different types of available thickness.

Pick Tool - I

Move

Pick Tool is one of the most important tools used in Corel DRAW for selection and for editing of the graphic.

1. Open Corel DRAW. Select Rectangle Tool from the toolbox (marked with red circle).

2. Draw rectangle. Once you draw it, it is selected by default.

3. Now select Pick Tool (marked with green circle).