Pick Tool - 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).
4. Click anywhere outside the rectangle. It will get deselected.
5. Click on the like of the rectangle. It will get selected.
6. Keep the pick tool within rectangle it will change the cursor into move icon (marked with green circle).
7. Press and drag the mouse button to move the rectangle.
Import
We will try to import bitmap using Import command in Corel DRAW. You can try to import any bitmap i.e. JPG or tif image of your choice.
1. Open Corel DRAW.
2. Go to File > Import
3. Locate any jpg or tif image on your pc and import any jpg or tif image.
4. You will get the cursor with the information about the image and how to place the image on the page.
5. First the name and the size of the image. Read the next instruction carefully. It says "Click and drag to resize".
6. Click and drag the cursor in the window and resize the image according to your requirement.
7. Delete the image and import it again to follow the next instruction that says" Press Enter to center on page".
8. Press Enter key of the keyboard. The image will be placed in the center of the page.
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Pick Tool - Rotate
1. Open Corel DRAW. Draw rectangle. Keep it selected. If deselected by mistake, select it using pick tool
2. Click it once again on the rectangle. Observe the difference carefully. Basic selection points are turned into arrows (marked with green circle).
3. Let us work on the corner points. Place the cursor on any corner point. The cursor is changed from pointer into circular arrow that represents rotation movement (drawn separately and marked with green circle).
4. Press on any corner point and rotate. Rectangle rotates around its center.
5. Drag the center outside the circle using pick tool (marked with green circle).
6. Press on any corner point again and rotate. Rectangle rotates around its newly positioned center.
Pick Tool - Skew
1. Open Corel DRAW. Draw rectangle. Keep it selected. If deselected by mistake, select it using pick tool.
2. Click it once again on the rectangle. Observe the difference carefully. Basic selection points are turned into arrows. This time, we will work with the middle points. You will find straight arrow points in the middle of the four lines of the rectangle (marked with green circle).
3. Place the cursor on the middle point of the top horizontal line. The cursor is changed from pointer into double straight line arrows with opposite left right direction. That represents Skew movement (separately drawn and marked with red circle).
4. Press and drag to the left or right. Rectangle gets skewed in a horizontal direction.
5. Go back to normal rectangle using Edit > Undo
6. Place the cursor on the middle point of the left or the right vertical line. Press and drag to the up or down. Rectangle gets skewed in a vertical direction.
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Preview Selected Only
You may draw lot of objects on the page but like to preview just the object you have selected. It's a great command because you get to see the preview of the object separately without being clustered with others even it is surrounded by many.
1. Open Corel Draw.
2. Select Ellipse tool and draw the circle within the page area and fill it with any color. Select Rectangle Tool and draw rectangle, fill it with some other color.
3. You can draw few more objects and fill the color.lace them near each other on the page.
4. Select circle.
5. Go to view > Preview Selected Only.
6. You will see the full screen preview of the circle which you have selected.
7. If you select two object pressing Shift key and using Pick tool, you will get the preview of the two objects what ever you have selected.
8. We selected two stars shown in the above image. We get only those object in the preview when we go for Preview Selected Only option.
Order/Forward/Back One
Let us start with the order command where we will send the object back and front of other object. There are some more interesting options in this menu that we will study in the related lessons.
1. Open Corel DRAW.
2. Draw rectangle using rectangle tool and fill it will red color.
3. Draw another rectangle, which will overlap the part of the first rectangle and fill this rectangle with green color.
4. 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.
5. Keep the Blue color rectangle selected. If it is deselected by mistake, select it using pick tool.
6. Go to Arrange > Order > Back One
7. The blue rectangle goes back one step. It means it goes behind green rectangle. Now it lies between red and green.
8. Go to Arrange > Order > Back One
9. Blue rectangle goes one more step back. Now it is behind red rectangle.
10. Keep the blue rectangle selected.
11. Go to Arrange > Order > Forward One
12. Blue rectangle comes one step forward and comes in front of the red rectangle.
13. Go to Arrange > Order > Forward One
14. Again blue rectangle come one step forward and comes in front of the green rectangle.
15. Select all three rectangles using pick tool. Just drag it around all the rectangles to select them all.
16. Remember the present order of the object. Its red at the back then green in the middle and blue in the front.
17. Go to Arrange > Order > Reverse Order
18. The order of the object reverses.
19. It means now its blue at the back, green in the middle and red in the front.
Pick Tool - Resize
1. Open Corel DRAW. Draw rectangle. Keep it selected. Select Pick Tool. The rectangle will have total eight points, four points at the four corners and four in the middle of the four sides.
2. Place the cursor on any corner point. Pointer changes into the cursor showing the direction at which the rectangle will be resized.
3. Drag the cursor outside, it will increase the size of the rectangle proportionally (blue rectangle). Drag the cursor inside, it will decrease the size of the rectangle proportionally (red rectangle).
4. Similarly you can drag the middle points on the horizontal lines.
5. Also drag the middle points on the vertical lines.
Fountain Fill
Let us learn the details about the basics of fountain fill in Corel DRAW.
1. Open Corel DRAW. Draw rectangle. Keep it selected.
2. Click on Fill Tool from toolbox. The second option is "Fountain Fill Dialog". Click it and you will get "Fountain Fill" dialog box.
3. Let us observe the default values in the dialogue box. Black and white colors are selected for fill. "Two Color" is selected in the color blend. And the fill type is "Linear" Please do not change any settings.
4. Click ok. The object is filled with black and white linear gradient fill.
5. Open Fountain Fill again and change Linear Fill type to Radial. Click ok. Observer the result. Try Square and Conical fill types. In the following image we have (from top left, clockwise direction), Linear, Radial, Square and Conical fill.
6. Select Linear fill type and Two Color is selected by default. Select two different colors from "From and To" drop down menu under color blend
7. Click ok and observer the result.
8. Try rest of the fill types and use different color combinations.
Corel Text Basics
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.
Outline
Let us learn the details about the basic editing of outline which includes changing of color, thickness and removing outline.
1. Open Corel DRAW. Draw rectangle. Keep it selected.
2. Right click on any color in the color palette situated at the right side. The outline color will change to that color.
3. If you right click on white color the out line may seems to be disappeared. But its still there because you won't be able to see white line on white background.
4. Right click on any color other than white. Try to experiment with different colors.
5. Press the cursor on Outline Tool (marked with red circle).
6. It will display the options available. Click on 24 Point Outline (Thick). The outline of the rectangle becomes thick.
7. You can right click on any color in the color palette to change the color of this thick outline. Tryout different thickness available in the outline tool.
8. Observe the color palette carefully. There is a cross with no fill on the top.
9. Right click on the cross mark. The outline of the rectangle will get disappeared.
10. Again color it by right clicking on some color. Go to Outline Tool and click "No outline" option (marked with green circle).
11. Again the outline is disappeared.
Duplicate
We will make duplicate of the object using Duplicate command. We are using text as an object. You can draw some shape and follow the instructions. There are three simple ways of duplicating the object.
1. Open Corel DRAW. Type the text and fill it with any color. Keep it selected.
2. Go to Edit > Duplicate
3. The text is duplicated giving another copy.
4. You can even press CTRL + D to duplicate any object. Remember to select the object with pick tool which you are going to make a duplicate of.
5. There is another way of duplicating the object using mouse. Follow the procedure carefully.
6. Select the object and drag it using mouse to the location where you want to place the duplicate.
7. DO NOT RELEASE the left mouse button.
8. While the left mouse button is still pressed, click Right Mouse button.
9. This will create the duplicate of the object.
Fill Color
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.
3. If you right click on the some color, outline will be colored with same fill color. Now you will see the object with no border as the border is merged with the fill since we have used same color for both.
4. Try different colors for fill and outline.
5. Click on the cross mark at the top of the color palette. The color is removed and you again get the object with outline.
6. Please remember that cross filled icon on the top of the color palette is used to remove fill when clicked normally and it removes outline when clicked with right button.
7. Click on Fill Tool from toolbox (marked with red circle).
8. The first option is "Fill Color Dialog". Click it and you will get "Uniform Fill" dialog box. Click on any color or the shade. Please do not change any settings. Click ok.
9. The object is filled with the color you have selected.
Full Screen Preview
While working with Corel draw, you may need to see the full screen preview to judge the object how will it appear on the full screen without surrounded by tools or selection points or even the software environment. This will help you to get the idea of a whole picture without any visual limitations and disturbance.
1. Open Corel Draw.
2. Select Ellipse tool and draw the circle within the page area and fill it with any color.
3. Go to view > Full Screen Preview
4. You will see the full screen preview of the circle along with the page.
5. Press any key to come back to the desktop.
6. Select the object with pick tool if it is not selected.
7. Now try shortcut key with F9 for full screen preview.
8. You will notice that even the object is selected; full screen preview won't show the selection.
9. Come back to the desktop by pressing any key.
Corel Fill Types
We can create our own patterns in Corel draw. Let us first learn to fill the objects using patterns.
1. Open Corel DRAW. Draw rectangle. Keep it selected.
2. Click "Pattern Fill Dialog" from Fill Tool. "2-color" pattern type is selected by default.
3. You can select any pattern from drop down and select different colors for Front and Back. Click ok. Please do not change any other settings.
4. We can create full color pattern in Corel DRAW. Let us learn to fill it in the object. Go back to first step. Draw rectangle and keep it selected. Click "Pattern Fill Dialog" from Fill Tool. Select "Full Color" option.
5. You can select any pattern from drop down. This time you won't get any color option to change. Click ok. Please do not change any other settings.
6. Bitmap fill is more smooth looking real design than other two. Go back to first step. Draw rectangle and keep it selected. Click "Pattern Fill Dialog" from Fill Tool. Select "Bitmap" option.
7. You can select any pattern from drop down. This time also you won't get any color option to change. Click ok. Please do not change any other settings.
8. Corel DRAW comes up with the wide range of texture fills useful for
backgrounds and may other purposes. Go back to first step. Draw rectangle and keep it selected. Click "Texture Fill Dialog" from Fill Tool.
backgrounds and may other purposes. Go back to first step. Draw rectangle and keep it selected. Click "Texture Fill Dialog" from Fill Tool.
9. Select any texture from the texture list. Click ok. The rectangle will be filled with texture. Please do not change any other settings.
Fit in Window
While working with Corel draw you go for zoom, preview, you may scroll the page and do lot of things. There is a time comes when you want to go back to fit in window view. We have a shortcut for that also.
1. Open Corel Draw.
2. Select Ellipse tool and draw the circle within the page area and fill it with any color
3. Scroll the page using scroll bar to shift the page away from its original position or You can even zoom the object using zoom tool just to change the default page view.
4. Now you want to go back to fit in windows view.
5. This is the view where the page comes to its default place. It means the place when you created the new page. Try the shortcut key.
6. Press Shift + F4
7. The page comes back to its default position.
Zoom All
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.
4. Press F4 key.
5. All the objects will appear in the window at once.
6. This can be useful occasionally to check out where you have placed your objects.
7. While working with Corel draw we can use the area around the page and place our objects there. These objects can be brought into the window with the total picture using this command.
Zoom Selected
This is not the preview but while working you may want to concentrate on particular object. You can zoom it using zoom tool but there is a shortcut.
1. Open Corel Draw.
2. Select Ellipse tool and draw the circle within the page area and fill it with any color. Select Rectangle Tool and draw rectangle, fill it with some other color. You can draw few more objects and fill the color. Place them near each other on the page.
3. Select circle.
4. Press Shift + F2
5. Only circle which is selected is zoom in the window to its maximum extend and you can work on it without the disturbance of any other object.
Angle & Edge Pad - Fountain Fill
Angle option affects the direction of the fill. It's not available for Radial though. Edge Pad affects the smooth mixing of two color and continuous gradation.
1. Open Corel DRAW. Draw rectangle. Keep it selected.
2. Click "Fountain Fill Dialog" from Fill Tool. Select "Square" fill type and also select Red color for "From" and Yellow for "To" under color blend. Keep midpoint value 50.
3. In the option, change angle to 45.
4. You can observe change in the fill. It rotates.
6.Try Linear and Conical types with different angle values. Please do not change any other settings.
5. Go back to the first step where we have plain rectangle. Select "Linear" fill type and also select Red color for "From" and Yellow for "To" under color blend. Keep midpoint value 50. Keep default angle value 0.
6. In the option, change Edge Pad to 49 (It's a max value).
7. You get two distinct colors, Red and Yellow in the fill.
8. As you go on decreasing the value, you get smooth gradation. At 0, you get the uniform fill of the two properly blend colors. Please do not change any other settings.
Corel Text Fill
We are covering fill in the text. It's not different than filling any other object but filling the text using fountain fill makes great difference with respect to the effects.
1. Open Corel DRAW. Type the text. Use thick font to get better effect.
2. Select Fountain Fill from Fill Tool. You have four options i.e. Linear, Radial, Conical and Square. Select one by one. Change the color and apply the fill to
the text.
the text.
3. Remove the outline and check the difference in the result.
4. We have three options in the pattern fill i.e. Two color, Full color and bitmap. Select Pattern Fill from Fill Tool. Try using all the three options.
5. Try to use different colors in two color pattern fill.
6. Remove the outline and check the difference in the result.
7. Realistic fill using texture applies different dimensions to the text. Apply different types of textures. Try to use different colors for outline. Select Texture Fill from Fill Tool.
8. Try using different type of textures. Go for different types from Texture Library.
9. Remove the outline or give different colors to outlines and check the difference in the result.
Select within Group
We have learned that once we form the group of two or more objects, they are selected together. In fact that's the basic purpose of forming of the group. It is for the ease of selection. But if you with to fill the color separately to particular object in the group, there is a way to do this.
1. Open Corel Draw.
2. Using Rectangle and Ellipse tool, draw rectangle and ellipse. Fill it with same colors.
3. Select both, the rectangle and ellipse using pick tool.
4. Go to Arrange > Group
5. Select the group using Pick tool.
6. Fill some other color.
7. As a group both the objects selected together and they are fill with the same color.
8. Now we want to fill the rectangle with different color than ellipse. At the same time we do not with to break the group.
9. Press CTRL and select rectangle with the pick tool.
10. The rectangle is selected.
11. Fill it with any color other than the color in ellipse.
12. You can even stretch, scale and rotate the object in this mode separately without breaking the group.
Interactive Blend Tool
Let us start with the first effect in Corel draw. Interactive Blend Tool blends two objects. We are learning just the basics about blend effect in this lesson. There are lots of details which will be covered in the advanced level.
1. Open Corel DRAW. Select Rectangle Tool and draw rectangle at the top left
corner of the window. Fill it with red color.
corner of the window. Fill it with red color.
2. Select Ellipse Tool and draw circle at the bottom right corner of the window. Fill it with green color.
3. Select Interactive Blend Tool (marked with green circle).
4. Now please observe the changes in the cursor carefully.
5. Move the cursor inside the red rectangle. There is a difference between the cursor outside and inside the rectangle.
6. Once the cursor is changed when it is inside the red rectangle, press and drags it. Take it to the inside area of the green circle.
7. A dotted line will form while you drag the cursor and once you release the mouse button, the blend will form between the rectangle and circle.
8. Observe carefully that the rectangular shape is smoothly converted into the circle with the gradual steps.
9. At the same time, the red color is also transformed into green using the same steps.
Behind/In Front Of
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.
Interactive Contour Tool
Contour effects add evenly spaced shape inside or outside the border of the main object. In the advanced level you can specify the numbers and the distance between outlines.
1. Open Corel DRAW. Select Rectangle Tool and draw medium size rectangle in the middle of the window. Keep it selected.
2. Select Interactive Contour Tool. It's in the same menu that of Interactive Blend Tool (marked with the green circle). You need to press the menu to display the tool.
3. Now please observe the changes in the cursor carefully.
4. Move the cursor inside the rectangle. There is a difference between the cursor outside and inside the rectangle.
5. Once the cursor is changed when it is inside the rectangle, press and drags it. Take it to the center of the rectangle.
6. It will form the even spaced shapes inside the rectangle
7. If you drag the cursor outside the rectangle, it will form the shapes outside.
Interactive Distortion Tool
Distortion effect actually distorts the border of the object. If you are using distortion on the text, you have to be careful to use very little effect else you can't read the massively distorted text. We will use text to apply Interactive Distortion Tool.
1. Open Corel DRAW. Type the text, stretch to make it bigger. Fill any desired
color. Keep it selected.
color. Keep it selected.
2. Select Interactive Distortion Tool. It's in the same menu that of Interactive Blend Tool, eleventh from the top in the tool box. You need to press the menu to display the tool.
3. Bring the cursor inside the text. Press and Drag a bit to distort the text.
4. Fill the text with different colors.
5. Try to drag the cursor more and see the result. (We have reduced the image size).
6. Draw rectangle or any shape.
7. Apply Interactive Distortion Tool
Draft
Draft mode displays bitmaps and drawing fills on low resolution. It is one step behind the normal mode as far as the display is concerned but since it uses low resolution, it is faster than Normal mode.
1. Open Corel DRAW.
2. Import any colored bitmap picture.
3. Zoom the pictures and toggle between Normal and drat mode. The previous picture was in Normal mode. The following picture is in draft mode.
4. You will find that the picture is bit pixilated in the draft mode as it uses low resolution.
5. There is another way of finding the working of the draft mode.
6. Draw two rectangles while you are in the Normal mode. Fill the first with green color.
7. Select Interactive fill tool and fill the second rectangle with fountain fill using the combination of red and white colors with Linear fill.
8. Apply blend effect using those two rectangles. Observe the blend carefully. The green color is blended with the combination of red and white gradient smoothly.
9. Go to View and change the view to Draft mode. You will find that the rectangle which is filled with red and white linear fill has changed the fill color to the shade of pink that is intermediate of red and white and blended to the green color.
10. This way the draft mode refreshes the drawing with the low resolution.
11. If you switch back to the Normal mode, you will get back the original red and white fountain fill in the second rectangle.
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