CIT-344 Graphics Designing Instructor Name: Ms.

Saba

Chp.06 &07 Introduction to CorelDRAW

6.1.What is CorelDraw?
It is a vector graphics editor developed and marketed by Corel Corporation. It is
also the name of Corel's Graphics Suite, which includes additionally the bitmap-
image editor Corel Photo-Paint as well as other graphics-related programs .The
latest version is marketed as CorelDraw Graphics Suite 2018 (equivalent to
version 20), and was released in April 10, 2018. CorelDraw is designed to edit
two-dimensional images such as logos and poster.
CorelDraw is one of the most popular and powerful graphics programs and gives
designers a most rewarding and enjoyable work experience. It is built and
designed to meet the day-to-day demands of working designers.
Window Components in Coreldraw :
The various window components in CorelDraw are:
• Title bar • Menu bar • Property bar • Tool bar (Standard) • Tool box • Rulers •
Drawing page • Drawing window • Colour palette • Docker • Status bar •
Document navigator • Navigator
What Kind of Designing in Coreldraw?
You can design logos, posters, panaflex, invitation cards, clip arts, images etc.

Coreldraw ToolBox and its Functions:

Pick tool - Select, position, or transform objects.
Freehand Pick tool - Select objects by using a freehand selection marquee.
Position and transform objects.
Shape tool (F10) - Edit a curve object or text character by manipulating
nodes.
Smudge Brush tool - Change the shape of an object by dragging along its
outline.
Roughen Brush tool - Distort the edge of an object by dragging along its
outline.
Free Transform tool - Rotate, skew, mirror, and scale objects.
Smear tool - Change the edge of an object by dragging along its outline.
Twirl tool - Add swirl effects by dragging along the outline of an object.
Attract tool - Reshape objects by attracting nodes to the cursor.
Repel tool - Reshape objects by pushing nodes away from the cursor.
Smooth tool - Smooth object by dragging along its outline.
Crop tool - Remove the areas outside a selection.
Knife tool - Slice an object to split it into two separate objects.
Eraser tool (X) - Remove unwanted areas in a drawing.
Virtual Segment Delete tool - Remove overlapping segments in objects.
Zoom tool (Z) - Change the magnification level of the document window.
Pan tool (H) - Drag hidden areas of a drawing into view without changing the
zoom level.
Freehand tool (F5) - Draw curves and straight line segments.
2-Point Line tool - Draw a straight line by drawing from the starting point to
the endpoint.
Bezier tool - Draw curves one segment at a time.
Artistic Media tool (I) - Add artistic brush, spray, and calligraphic effects by
using freehand strokes.
Pen tool - Draw curves in segments, and preview each segment as you
draw.
B-Spline tool - Draw curved lines by setting control points that shape the
curve without breaking it into segments.
Polyline tool - Draw connected curves and straight lines in one continuous
action.
3-Point Curve tool - Draw a curve by dragging from the starting point to the
endpoint and then positioning the center point.
Smart Fill tool - Create objects from overlapping areas, and apply a fill to
those objects.
Smart Drawing tool (Shift+S) - Convert freehand strokes to basic shapes or
smoothed curves.
Rectangle tool (F6) - Draw squares and rectangles by dragging in the
drawing window.
3-Point Rectangle tool - Draw rectangles at an angle.
Elipse tool (F7) - Draw circles and elipses by dragging in the drawing
window.
3-Point Elipse tool - Draws elipses at an angle.
Polygon tool (Y) - Draw polygons by draggig in the drawing window.
Star tool - Draw uniform, outlined stars.
Complex Star tool - Draw stars that have intersecting sides.
Graph Paper tool (D) - Draw a grid.
Spiral tool (A) - Draw symmetrical and logarithmic spirals.
Basic Shapes tool - Draw triangles, circles, cylinders, hearts and other
shapes.
Arrow Shapes tool - Draw arrows of various shapes and directions.
Flowchart Shapes tool - Draw flowchart symbols.
Banner Shapes tool - Draw ribbon objects and explosion shapes.
Callout Shapes tool - Draw labels and speech bubbles.
Text tool (F8) - Add and edit paragraph and artistic text.
Table tool - Draw, select, and edit tables.
Parallel Dimension tool - Draw slanted dimension lines.
Horizontal or Vertical Dimension tool - Draw horizontal or vertical
dimension lines.
Angular Dimension tool - Draw angular dimension lines.
Segment Dimension tool - Display the distance between end nodes on
single or multiple segments.
3-Point Callout tool - Draw a callout with a two-segment leadingline.
Straight-Line Connector tool - Draw a straight line to connect two objects.
Right-Angle Connector tool - Draw a right angle to connect two objects.
Right-Angle Round Connector tool - Draw a right angle with a rounded
corner to connect two objects.
Edit Anchor tool - Modify the connector line anchor points of objects.
Blend tool - Blend objects by creating a progression of intermediate objects
and colors.
Contour tool - Apply a series of concentric shapes that radiate into or out of
an object.
Distort tool -Transform objets by applying Push and Pull, Zipper, or Twister
effects.
Drop Shadow tool - Apply shadows behind or below objects.
Envelope tool - Change the shape of an object by applying and dragging
the nodes of an envelope.
Extrude tool - Apply 3D efect to objects to create the illusion of depth.
Transparency tool - Partially reveal image areas underneath the object.
Color Eyedropper tool - Sample colors, and apply them to objects.
 Outline Pen (F12) - Set outline properties sucj as line thickness, corner
shape, and arrow type.
Outline Color (Shift+F12) - Choose the outline color by using color viewers
and color palettes.
Uniform Fill (Shift+F11) - Choose a solid fill color for an object by using
color palettes, color viewers, color harmonies, or color blends.
Fountain Fill (F11) - Fill an object with a gradient of colors or shades.
Pattern Fill - Apply a preset pattern fill to an object or create a custom
pattern fill.
Texture Fill - Apply preset texture fills to objects to create the illusion of a
variety of textures, such as water, clouds and stone.
PostScript Fill - Apply an intricate PostScript texture fill to an object.
Interactive Fill tool (G) - Create a fill dynamically by using markers in the
drawing window and property bar to change the angle, midpoint, and color.
Mesh Fill tool (M) - Fill an object by blending multiple colors or shades
arranged over a mesh grid.

6.2.Pick Tool Overview:

Choose the Pick Tool

Click on the Pick Tool in the Toolbox. The Pick Tool is the main selection tool in
CorelDraw. When using any other tool, you can change to the Pick Tool by
pressing your keyboard spacebar (CTRL spacebar when using the Text tool in
Edit Mode).

Resize Object with Pick Tool

Draw a rectangle and fill with any color. Click and drag on the corner handles to
change the size of the rectangle proportionately. Click and drag handles in the
middle of any side to change the size of the rectangle in that direction
only.
Move Object with Pick Tool
Click and drag anywhere the rectangle to move. The outline of the object will
follow the mouse on the screen for easy positioning. Release mouse button
when object is in desired position.

Resize Text with Pick Tool

Choose the Text Tool from the Toolbox. Type the word "Sample." Choose the
Pick Tool. Click and drag on the bottom right corner handle to increase the size
of the text. Note the Property Bar as you resize the text. The Object Size,
Position and Scale Factor changes, but toward the right end of the Property Bar,
the Font Size changes as well. You can also change text size with the Text Tool.

6.3.Freehand Tool Overview:

Choose Freehand Tool

Click on the Freehand Tool in the Toolbox. This is your freehand drawing tool
and is used to create drawn objects that are not variations of rectangles, spirals
or circles.

Draw Curved Line

Choose Freehand Tool. Click and drag to draw the shape you desire. You can
release the mouse button and still continue with the same object, by clicking
close the the last node in the section you have just completed. The new line will
automatically join to the end of the last one. In the sample above, the yellow
rectangle highlights where the line was stopped and then started again.
Draw Straight Line
Click and release your mouse button to place the initial node for your line. Move
your cursor to the desired end for your line. Click the mouse to place the end
node. You can constrain the line to 15 degree increments by pressing your CTRL
key as you position the end node (use this to create a straight line). You can also
join a new line to this object as in step 2.
Change Outline
Find the Outline section of the Property Bar above your workspace. Click on the
fly-outs to select desired outline size or
style.
Freehand Tool Fly-out
Click on the triangle in the bottom right corner of the Freehand Tool to open the
fly-out tool options. This presents other freehand tools, but all are outside the
scope of this basic tutorial.

6.4.Spiral Tool Overview:

Choose Spiral Tool
Choose the Spiral Tool from the Toolbox. Note the position in the Toolbox. The
Polygon or Graph Paper Tool may be showing, and you will have to click on the
triangle in the bottom right corner to open the fly-out. Choose Spiral Tool.

Draw a Symmetrical Spiral

Choose Spiral Tool. Choose number of revolutions for your spiral from the
Property bar above the workspace. Click on the Symmetrical icon. (A
symmetrical spiral has equal distance between spiral revolutions.) Click and drag
on the workspace to create spiral of desired size. Hold your CTRL key down as
you drag to create a spiral with a circular shape. Hold your SHIFT key down to
have the spiral drawn from the center.

Draw a Logarithmic Spiral

Choose Spiral Tool. Choose number of revolutions for your spiral from the
Property Bar. Click on the Logarithmic icon. (A logarithmic spiral increases the
spacing on each revolution.) Choose the Spiral Extension Factor from the
Property Bar. A lower number reduces space difference between revolutions.
Click and drag on the workspace to create spiral of desired size. Hold your CTRL
key down as you drag to create a spiral with a circular shape. Hold your SHIFT
key down to draw spiral from the center.
6.5.Polygon Tool Overview:

Choose Polygon Tool

Choose the Polygon Tool from the Toolbox. Note the position in the Toolbox.
The Spiral or Graph Paper Tool may be showing, and you will have to click on
the triangle in the bottom right corner to open the fly-out. Choose Polygon Tool.

Create Polygon
Choose Polygon Tool. Click and drag on the workspace to create a polygon of
the size and shape desired. Locate Number of Points on Polygon button on the
Property Bar. Increase or decrease number as desired. The changes in point
numbers are instantly reflected on your object

Create Star
Choose Polygon Tool. Click on the Polygon/Star button in the Property Bar
(highlighted with yellow rectangle). Click and drag on the workspace to create a
star of the size and shape desired. Locate Number of Points on Polygon button
on the Property Bar. Increase or decrease number as desired. The changes in
point numbers are instantly reflected on your star.
6.6.Graph Paper Tool Overview:

Choose Graph Paper Tool

Choose the Graph Paper Tool from the Toolbox. Note the position in the
Toolbox. The Spiral or Polygon Tool may be showing, and you will have to click
on the triangle in the bottom right corner to open the fly-out. Choose Graph
Paper Tool.

Create a Grid
Choose the Graph Paper Tool. Determine the number of columns and rows you
require for your grid and enter number in the Graph Paper Column and Rows
box in the Property Bar. Click and drag to create a grid of the size and shape you
desire.

Color One Cell

The grid is created from several small rectangles grouped together. To fill one
cell, choose the Pick Tool and, with the CTRL key pressed, click on the cell. Note
how only one cell is selected. Click on any color in the color palette to fill the
cell.

6.7.Bezier Tool:
Bezier tool Click to add a node to the line. Dragging the mouse instead of just
clicking results in smooth curves. The Bezier tool is not easy to learn, but very
effective when mastered. It gives precise control over the resulting line.

The Bezier tool is closely related to the Shape tool, the Shape tool is used to edit
the nodes of the objects you create with the Bezier tool. The Bezier tool and the
shape tool share the same property bar.

After selecting a node with the shape tool, it can be moved, or manipulated
using the property bar.

6.8.Artistic Media Tool:

It Works like the freehand tool, it follows your mouse movements. But instead
of a simple curve complex objects are created, in a variety of styles. This is
supposed to make shapes looking like they were drawn with a calligraphic pen,
paint or even special effects. The type of shape can be determined with the
property in the top left of the screen. This tool can be used for creating effects.
The figure below illustrates some of the possibilities of the artistic media tool.
6.9.Pen tool :
A variety of the Bezier tool, very similar, but each line segment is already shown,
before clicking. Using this tool might be slightly easier to learn than the Bezier
tool.

6.10.Polyline tool :
A variation of the Freehand tool, this tool adds the possibility to make straight
segments in between curved segments.

6.11.Three point curve tool:

This tool can only make simple arcs, which you can also do with either the
Bezier or the pen tool. Click at the starting point, hold the mouse button and
drag to the ending point. Next move the mouse to bend the line into an arc, and
click again to finish.

6.12.Interactive connector tool :

This tool can be used to create dynamic connection lines, connecting two
objects. Dynamic means that the connection lines moves with the objects if you
move one of the objects. To do so, choose the tool, and click on a node of the
first object, drag to a node of the second object and release the mouse button.
You can now move the objects and the lines will automatically move along. You
can choose between a diagonal line and angled connection lines.

6.13.Dimension Tools:
The Dimension tool creates size labels. The sizes are automatically calculated
and represent the size of the objects in Coreldraw, it is not possible to enter
sizes yourself. Different tools exist for horizontal, vertical and diagonal lines, you
can choose them from the property bar.

6.14.Complex Shape tools:

These tools can be used to draw more complex shapes, such as polygons, stars,
spirals and graph paper.

 Polygon tool The polygon Tool draws 3 to 500 sided polygons. Select the
number of sides in the active property bar, and click and drag to draw the
polygon. After drawing the number of sides can still be changed.
 Star tool The Star Tool draws stars with 3 to 500 points. Select the number
of points in the active property bar, and click and drag to draw the star.
After drawing the number of points can be changed. Also the sharpness of
the star's points can be changed with the active property bar. This
sharpness can also be changed with the shape tool
 Complex Star Tool The Star tool draws stars with 3 to 500 points. A
complex star differs from a star in the way the arms are connected, leaving
a hole in the middle. Select the number of points in the active property
bar, and click and drag to draw the star. After drawing the number of
 points can be changed. Also the sharpness of the star's points can be
changed with the active property bar.

 Graph paper tool The graph paper tool creates grids. Set the number of
rows and columns in the active property bar. Next click and drag to draw
the grid.

 Spiral Tool The Spiral tool draws spirals. Set the number of revelations in
the active property bar, and click and drag to draw the spiral.

6.15.Text Tool:
The text tool is used add text to illustrations. There are two kinds of text in
Coreldraw; artistic text and paragraph text.

Artistic text is used for small amounts of texts, usually just one or two lines, it
works well for things like headings, text effects and captions. The appearance
and placement of artistic text can be thoroughly manipulated, character per
character if necessary.
Paragraph text is used for adding large amounts of text. Instead of editing the
lines and characters, you determine the shape of a container for the text to
reside in. These containers are normally rectangular, but can be any shape you
want.

6.16.Effect tools:
The effect tools can be used to add special effects to objects, at first glance
many of these effects will seem too pronounced to be useful. But with some
trial and error many of these effects can be applied subtly and actually improve
the illustration.

1-Interactive blend tool The blend tool blends two objects by drawing
intermediate shapes. At first glance this seems to be useless for anything but
simulating evolution.

Fortunately this first impression is very wrong, it is actually the most powerful
tool Vector illustration packages have for making photorealistic illustrations. By
blending similar objects on top of each other, which differ only slightly in shape
and color, all kinds of complex shading effects can be created.

2-The Interactive Contour Tool. This tool is related to the blend tool, but
instead of blending two shapes, it blend the outline of a single object to a larger
or smaller version of the object. It adds a series of evenly spaced copies of the
outline inside or outside of the outline. Since these added contours also blend in
color, a lot of contours closely spaced together result in a smooth effect.
The effect is applied by selecting the Interactive Contour Tool, and clicking and
dragging on the object to which you want to apply the effect. Dragging to the
inside of the object results in contours added inside the object and dragging
outwards from the object, results in contours added to the outside. The exact
number of contours added and the spacing in between contours can be set
using the property bar. On the property bar it is also possible to select the color
for both fill and outline where the contour blends to.

3-Interactive Distortion Tool. This tool distorts the outline of objects. When
applied without care, it completely alters the shape of objects, but when
applied subtly, it can make objects look less geometric and appear more natural.
To use it, select a type of distortion from the active property bar, and click and
drag on the object to which you want to apply the distortion.

There are three main types of distortion; Push and pull distortion, Zipper
distortion and Twister distortion, they are illustrated in the example above

4-Interactive Drop Shadow Tool. This tool adds drop shadows to objects. Drop
shadows are very useful, they give the illusion of depth and quickly make a
drawing look more 'finished'. A drop shadow behind text, makes it easier to
read over a noisy background.

Select the tool, and click and drag on the object to which you want to apply the
shadow. The way you drag the mouse determines the type of shadow. The type
of shadow can also be selected from property bar, from the presets list. The
drop shadow effect can also be used for glow effects, for the strongest effect,
choose 'outside direction' in the 'Drop Shadow feathering direction' .
5-Interactive Envelope Tool. This tool bends entire shapes or groups of shapes,
by modifying their enveloping shape. It is useful to manipulate the entire shape
of complex objects such as text objects, or groups of objects. Choose the
Interactive Envelope tool, and select the object you want to alter. An enveloping
rectangle with eight nodes appears. Drag the nodes to alter the shape of the
envelope, and the object itself will change shape, to match the envelope.

6-Interactive Extrude Tool. This tool is used to extrude 2-dimensional objects

into 3-dimensional objects. Select the tool and click and drag on the object you
want to extrude. Different types of perspective and shading are available from
the property bar.

7-Interactive Transparency Tool. With this tool it is possible to make objects

(partially) transparent. Besides making it easy to draw transparent things like
glasses, transparent objects can be used to simulate all kinds of effects like
smoke, reflections and complex shading effects. Transparency effects can be
applied to objects by selecting the objects with the interactive transparency tool
and then choosing the type of transparency from the property bar.
6.17.Eyedropper tool flyout:
The Color eyedropper tool lets you select and copy a color from an object on
the drawing window or the desktop.

The Attributes eyedropper tool lets you select and copy object properties, such
as line thickness, size and effects, from an object on the drawing.

6.18.Outline Tool flyout:

The Outline tool opens a flyout that gives you quick access to items such as
the Outline pen dialog box and Outline color dialog box.

6.19.Fill Tool flyout:

The Fill tool opens a flyout that gives you quick access to items such as the fill
dialog boxes.