Combine
Combine command is used to make the objects treated as one single entity. It cannot be selected separately.
1. Open Corel Draw.
2. Using Rectangle and Ellipse tool, draw rectangle and ellipse. Fill them with different colors. Select both, the rectangle and ellipse using pick tool.
3. Go to Arrange > Combine
4. You will observe that both the objects are filled with one color as they are treated as a single object.
When the base objects are overlapped, the overlapped part becomes hollow after applying combine command.
5. Using Rectangle and Ellipse tool, draw rectangle and ellipse. Overlap the objects. Fill them with different colors. Select both, the rectangle and ellipse using pick tool.
6. Go to Arrange > Combine
7. You can observe that the object becomes the single entity and filled with one color. The overlapped part becomes hollow.
As we used ungroup to separate the objects that are grouped, we use Break Curve Apart to separate the objects that are combined.
8. Using Rectangle and Ellipse tool, draw rectangle and ellipse. Fill them with different colors. Select both, the rectangle and ellipse using pick tool.
9. Go to Arrange > Combine
10. The objects are combined and filled with single color.
11. Now we need to separate the objects.
12. Go to Arrange > Break Curve Apart
13. Click anywhere to deselect the object. Select any object using Pick Tool.
14. You will observe that now you can select any object separately and fill the color of your choice.
Upgroup
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.
Guidelines
Let us start with the basics of guidelines that will help you white drawing in Corel draw.
1. Open Corel DRAW.
2. Go to View and check Guidelines.
3. Select pick Tool place it over the horizontal ruler. Drag the pointer down. It will bring the dotted line on the page called Guideline.
4. Follow the same procedure using vertical ruler and bring vertical guideline.
5. You can use these guidelines for reference and draw the object when require. You can remove these guidelines temporarily.
6. Go to View and uncheck Guidelines. This is off the guidelines. You can check it to bring them back.
7. If you want to remove them permanently, select the guideline you want to remove using pick tool. Once you select it, it will turn into red color.
8. Press Delete key to delete the guideline.
Truly amazing facility provided by Corel draw where you can rotate the guideline for the reference of drawing something angular.
9. Drag the horizontal guideline using pick tool. When it is dragged it is red colored that means it is selected.
10. Click the guideline again with pick tool. This will display the rotating handles with center points as we get in any object when clicked twice with pick tool.
11. Place the cursor on any one of the two handle and start rotating the guideline. You can observe that you can rotate the guideline.
12. Press CTRL + Z to UNDO.
13. Once the guideline is selected by pick tool, the property bar displays the properties of the guidelines. Put 60 in the "Angle of Rotation" box and press enter.
14. The guideline is rotated by 60 degrees. This way you can be precise with the rotation of the guideline.
15. Drag the few horizontal and vertical guidelines using pick tool.
16. Go to Edit > Select All > Guidelines
17. They all turn to red as they are all selected. You can rotate them all by adding the angle in the property bar.
18. Add 60 in the angle of rotation. All the guidelines are rotated by 60 degrees.
19. Click anywhere other than guidelines to deselect them.
20. Press Shift key this time and select 1-2 horizontal and vertical guidelines.
21. This proves that now guidelines can be selected like any other object.
Guidelines Details
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
5. Try to move the guideline using pick tool, it will not move. It won't even get deleted.
6. Select the locked guideline with pick tool.
7. Go to Arrange > Unlock Object
8. Now it can be moved or deleted.
Let us go into the deep of guidelines using Guidelines Setup.
9 . View > Guidelines Setup
10. By default, show guidelines will be checked, if not, check it.
11. Change the default guideline color to Green and click OK.
12. Drag the guideline on the page.
13. It will have green color and when selected will turn into red.
14. Go to View > Guidelines Setup
15. Uncheck Show Guidelines
16. The guidelines will disappear.
17. Bring them back by either checking the same box or View > Guidelines
There is another way to access Guidelines Setup and clear the guidelines on the page.
18. Drag the horizontal and vertical guidelines on the page.
19. Double click on the horizontal guideline using pick tool.
20. This will open guidelines setup box with Horizontal option opened.
21. If you click on vertical guideline, it will open the guidelines setup box with Vertical option opened.
22. The number in the box indicates the position of the selected guideline.
23. Press clear, the number will vanish and the guideline will disappear.
24. You can press delete to delete the guideline.
Let us see how to move and add the guideline at the precise distance using guidelines setup.
25. Open Corel DRAW.
26. Drag the horizontal and vertical guidelines on the page.
27. Double click on the horizontal guideline using pick tool.
28. This will open guidelines setup box with Horizontal option opened.
29. Add some figure in the box other than what is present by default, if suppose it is 6, then add 10.
30. Click Move.
31. The selected guideline will be moved at 10.
32. Now add 2 in the box and click Add.
33. You will get new guideline at 2.
Crop Tool
Let us work with the crop tool to crop the object. Always remember that it work with the object particularly if you have selected it else without selection it works for all the objects present in the window.
1. Open Corel Draw.
2. Select Rectangle tool and draw 3 rectangles. Fill it with different colors and place them near by. Select any one rectangle with pick tool.
3. Select Crop Tool (marked with green circle in the image below).
4. Define the cropping area. Drag the tool to cover the half area of all the rectangles.
5. Double click inside the cropping area.
6. You will find that only selected rectangle is cropped. Rests of the rectangles are intact.
7. Repeat the same procedure but do not select any rectangle.
8. All the rectangles are cropped.
Eraser Tool
You can use eraser tool to remove unwanted portion of the object. The object automatically closed the path after the portion is erased.
1. Open Corel Draw.
2. Select Rectangle tool and draw rectangle. Fill it with any color. Keep the rectangle selected. If its not then select it using pick tool.
3. Always remember that Eraser Tool only work when the object is selected.
4. Select Eraser Tool (marked with green circle in the image below).
5. Drag the cursor from the middle area of the rectangle.
6. The portion is erased where you drag the cursor.
7. The path is closed and it again acts as a single object.
8. Repeat the same procedure but do not select rectangle.
9. It will give the message that it requires selection.
Simple Wireframe
We will discuss about the different modes of working in Corel DRAW. The drawings in Corel Draw can become heavy and takes time to open. Sometime it takes longer duration to refresh the drawings where the blend effect is exclusively used. We can use different modes to watch different levels in the drawing. Simple wire frame is used to see the basic elements in the drawing quickly.
1. Open Corel DRAW.
2. Import any jpg or tif file. Just take care that it should be colored and not black and white file.
3. Go to View and select Simple Wireframe. The image turns to grayscale.
4. Go to View and select Normal. The image turns to original color. Delete the image.
5. Now draw two rectangles filled with different colors while you are in the normal Wireframe mode. Apply blend effect using those two rectangles.
6. Go to View and select Simple Wireframe again. You will find that the intermediate steps of the blend are disappeared along with the colors inside. And you get to see the basic elements of the blend which are just two unfilled rectangles in this case.
7. Go back to view and select Normal mode again and you will see the blend with steps and colors.
8. Please make a note that you don't need to select any object to apply Wireframe mode. It is applied globally on all the objects present in the windows.
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Interactive Drop Shadow Tool
Shadow can be applied to any object, including text. There are different methods of applying shadows. Corel provides the tool for applying beautiful shadow effect. It's pretty simple as compared to other effects. We will apply it using rectangle.
1. Open Corel DRAW.
2. Select Rectangle Tool and draw rectangle of a medium size. Fill it with some color. Keep the rectangle selected.
3. Select Interactive Drop Shadow Tool. It's in the same menu that of Interactive Blend Tool (shown with green circle). You need to press the menu to display the tool.
4. Bring the cursor inside the rectangle somewhat near to the center. Press and Drag a bit outside the border of the rectangle towards bottom left. Shadow is created at the back of the rectangle.
5. You will notice that the shadow is created to the side where you drag the cursor.
6. Draw any shape and apply Interactive Drop Shadow Tool.
Interactive Extrude Tool
Corel Draw provides the facility of applying 3d effect on the object. This is bit complicated effect of Corel draw but we will cover just basic at this stage. Creating proper 3d effect is a matter of experience as it also includes proper color, perspective and lighting. Let us understand how to use Interactive Extrude Tool. We will apply it on the text.
1. Open Corel DRAW.
2. Select Text Tool. Type something, stretch it to bigger size, and fill some bright color say yellow. Text must have black outline and keep the text selected. Please try thick font for better effect.
3. Select Interactive Extrude 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.
4. Bring the cursor inside the text. The cursor will change. Press and drag the cursor to the top left corner.
5. You will notice that the text is converted into 3D.
6. Try to drag the cursor in any other direction.
Knife Tool
Knife tool can be used to slice the object. Learn this carefully as it may be a bit confusing. Always remember that you need to start and end the cutting on the outline of the object.
1. Open Corel Draw. Select Rectangle tool and draw rectangle. Fill it with any color.
2. Selection doesn't affect this tool.
3. Select Knife Tool (marked with green circle in the image below).
4. Position it on the outline of the rectangle where you want to start cutting. We started from the point that is marked with red circle.
5. Once you position it will snap upright if the position is correct.
6. Drag the tool to the outline at the other end. We finished at the end on the outline which is marked by the yellow circle.
7. Release the cursor when it snaps again upright to indicate that the end position is correct.
8. The rectangle is sliced into two parts.
9. They are two different objects now that can be selected separately and fill different colors.
Interactive Fill Tool
Interactive Fill tool can be used as a quick option to fill the object.
1. Open Corel DRAW.
2. Select Rectangle Tool and draw rectangle. Keep it selected.
3. Select Interactive Fill Tool. It's at the bottom most position in the tool box.
4. Drag from top left to bottom right. You will get the dotted line with the two small squares at the end. By default, the colors filled with black and white gradient.
5. Below menu bar, you will notice that the property bar is changed showing the properties of Interactive Fill Tool. Its showing black and white fill colors with Linear type of fill.
6. Change the colors and the type of fill using property bar. Experiment with colors and type of fill.
7.You can even go for patterns and texture fill using the same property bar.
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