Interactive Transparency Tool
A bit tricky tool gives you transparent object. It provides the transparency in terms of gradation where the black gives full transparency and the white gives opaque object. We need to draw two different colored objects to check out the transparency.
1. Open Corel DRAW.
2. Select Rectangle Tool and draw rectangle. Fill it with red color.
3. Draw another rectangle which will overlap the large portion of the previous red rectangle. Fill this new rectangle with green color. Keep the top green rectangle selected.
4. Select Interactive Transparency 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.
5. Place the cursor at the top left corner of the green rectangle and drag it to the bottom right corner.
6. You will get the dotted line with small white and the black rectangle at an end.
7. You will notice that the portion around white rectangle is opaque and the portion around the black rectangle is transparent where you can see red rectangle through it.
8. Try to drag the cursor in any other direction.
Star Tool
1. Open Corel DRAW.
2. Select Star Tool (marked with green circle).
3. Drag the cursor on the page. You will get star.
4. By default it may have 5 points. If you want to draw star with even sides, press CTRL and drag the cursor.
5. Please keep the star selected. Change the points of star in the property bar to 7.
6. The 5-point star is changed to 7 points.
7. Keep the star selected and change the sharpness to 75.
8. This will create pointed, sharp star.
9. Experiment with star by increasing and decreasing the points. Fill the color and check out the effect.
Complex Star Tool
1. Open Corel DRAW.
2. Select Complex Star Tool (marked with green circle).
3. Drag the cursor on the page. You will get complex star.
4. If you want to draw star with even sides, press CTRL and drag the cursor.
5. Please keep the star selected. Change the points of star in the property bar to 16.
6. The star is changed to 16 points.
7. Keep the star selected and change the sharpness to 6.
8. This will create pointed, sharp star.
9. Experiment with star by increasing and decreasing the points. Fill the color and check out the effect.
10. Please make a note that with Complex Star Tool, the sharpness value is decided with respect to the points. If the points are 6 or less then the sharpness box turns gray.
Interactive Envelope Tool
Its an interesting effect where you can stretch and compress the object using eight available points and give desired shape to the object. We will apply this effect on the text.
1. Open Corel DRAW.
2. Select Text Tool. Type something, stretch it to bigger size, fill any color and keep it selected.
3. Select Interactive Envelope 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. Once you select Interactive Envelope Tool, the text will display dotted line around it with eight points.
5. Take the cursor to any point and stretch it outside. We will stretch top middle point.
6. Now take the cursor to some other point and drag it inside.
7. You will notice that the text get stretched and compressed as if it is made up of elastic material.
Corel DRAW Shapes
Corel DRAW provides five tools for different types of shapes. They are, Basic Shapes, Arrow Shapes, Flowchart Shapes, Star Shapes and Callout Shapes. You will find all these tools at 9h position from the top in the toolbox.
1. Open Corel DRAW.
2. Select Basic Shapes.
3. Drag the cursor on the page. You may get skewed rectangle by default. Keep it selected.
4. You can change the line style from the property bar.
5. You need to zoom in the subject to find the change of line style.
6. You can select different shapes from the property bar for Basic Shapes tool and draw it on the page.
7. Select different tools, (Basic Shapes, Arrow Shapes, Flowchart Shapes, Star Shapes and Callout Shapes) which are mentioned above.
8. You will get the drop down menu for different shapes within that tool in the property bar.
9. Draw and fill the shapes with different colors.
Polygon Tool
1. Open Corel DRAW.
2. Select Polygon Tool (marked with green circle).
3. Drag the cursor on the page. You will get Polygon.
4. By default it may have 5 points. If you want to draw polygon with even sides, press CTRL and drag the cursor.
5. Please keep the polygon selected. Change the points of polygon in the property bar to 7.
6. The 5-point polygon is changed to 7 points. It means it has 7 sides now.
7. Experiment with polygon by increasing and decreasing the points. Fill the color and check out the effect.
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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