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Fit Text To Path Basics
1. Open Corel DRAW. Select Ellipse Tool. Press Ctrl and draw the circle.
Type the text using Text Tool.
2. Select the text with pick Tool.
Text > Fit Text To Path
Select the circle as a path with the pointer.
3. Select the Effect properly again to get the options of Fit Text To Path on Property Bar.
3. There is an option of "Distance from Path" on the property bar (Green marked). Increase the value to increase the distance between text & path.
4. Arrange > Break Text Apart
5. This will detach the path from the text keeping the text in circular manner and the path is again ready for another text.
6. Type the text and apply Fit Text to Path.
7. This time take the text at the bottom of the circle using Text Placement (Red Marked) and invert it by pressing Place on Other Side (Orange Marked.)
7. Increase the distance using Distance from Path.
Making Symbol
1. Create a symbol of the object you need to use frequently. It is easier to use symbol than to copy paste.
2. Open Corel DRAW. Use any drawing tool and create a drawing for making symbol. It can be created with single object or more than one complex objects.
3. Select the drawing.
Arrange > Combine
Note:
a) Symbol can not be created until all the objects in the drawing are not combined. This rule is not applicable for single object.
b) The object has to be closed.
a) Symbol can not be created until all the objects in the drawing are not combined. This rule is not applicable for single object.
b) The object has to be closed.
4. Tools > Create > Symbol
5. Name your own category to save the symbol. We have named it as "Artwork". Click OK.
6. If you want to use the symbol
Tools > Symbols and Special Characters
7. Select the "Artwork" category in the drop down menu. The symbol will get displayed in the list. Drag the symbol on the page.
Fit Text To Path Intermediate
The same command if you are using with advance version of Corel Draw, say Corel Draw X3, you will find the text is getting fit around the circle instantly as you bring the cursor to the edge of the circle. Let us see the options available for the effect.
1. Open Corel DRAW.
2. Carry out the effect as described in the basic lesson.
3. Keep the effect selected.
2. Carry out the effect as described in the basic lesson.
3. Keep the effect selected.
4. The extreme left drop down box shows the option of "Text Orientation".
5. Text orientation is the manner text fits on the path.
6. Start selecting the options one by one and check out the effect.
7. When all the options for text orientation are over, select the first option to come back to original effect.
Once you fit the text on the path you can adjust the distance of the text from the path.
8. Go back to 2nd step. Keep the effect selected.
8. Go back to 2nd step. Keep the effect selected.
9. Second option from the left is used for adjusting the distance.
10. Increase the distance.
11. You will find that text is moving away from the circle.
12. Decrease the distance.
13. You will find the text is coming near to the circle.
14. Go on decreasing the distance so that you start getting negative value.
15. You will find that the text crosses the border of the circle and enter in the circle.
13. You will find the text is coming near to the circle.
14. Go on decreasing the distance so that you start getting negative value.
15. You will find that the text crosses the border of the circle and enter in the circle.
Horizontal offset decides the horizontal position of the text along the path.
16. Go back to 2nd step. Keep the effect selected.
17. Third option from the left is used for Horizontal offset.
16. Go back to 2nd step. Keep the effect selected.
17. Third option from the left is used for Horizontal offset.
18. Increase the distance.
19. You will find that text is moving right side along the path of the circle. It's a clockwise movement.
20. Decrease the distance and go further.
21. You will find the text is moving left side. Its anticlockwise movement.
Fit Text To Path Intermediate
The same command if you are using with advance version of Corel Draw, say Corel Draw X3, you will find the text is getting fit around the circle instantly as you bring the cursor to the edge of the circle. Let us see the options available for the effect.
1. Open Corel DRAW.
2. Carry out the effect as described in the basic lesson.
3. Keep the effect selected.
2. Carry out the effect as described in the basic lesson.
3. Keep the effect selected.
4. The extreme left drop down box shows the option of "Text Orientation".
5. Text orientation is the manner text fits on the path.
6. Start selecting the options one by one and check out the effect.
7. When all the options for text orientation are over, select the first option to come back to original effect.
Once you fit the text on the path you can adjust the distance of the text from the path.
8. Go back to 2nd step. Keep the effect selected.
8. Go back to 2nd step. Keep the effect selected.
9. Second option from the left is used for adjusting the distance.
10. Increase the distance.
11. You will find that text is moving away from the circle.
12. Decrease the distance.
13. You will find the text is coming near to the circle.
14. Go on decreasing the distance so that you start getting negative value.
15. You will find that the text crosses the border of the circle and enter in the circle.
13. You will find the text is coming near to the circle.
14. Go on decreasing the distance so that you start getting negative value.
15. You will find that the text crosses the border of the circle and enter in the circle.
Horizontal offset decides the horizontal position of the text along the path.
16. Go back to 2nd step. Keep the effect selected.
17. Third option from the left is used for Horizontal offset.
16. Go back to 2nd step. Keep the effect selected.
17. Third option from the left is used for Horizontal offset.
18. Increase the distance.
19. You will find that text is moving right side along the path of the circle. It's a clockwise movement.
20. Decrease the distance and go further.
21. You will find the text is moving left side. Its anticlockwise movement.
Fit Text To Path Advance
Mirroring the text either horizontally and vertically can be achieved with Mirror Text option. This is a simple option but need to study carefully to understand exact use of it. Let us first try the basic things.
1. Open Corel DRAW.
2. Carry out the effect as described in the basic lesson. Keep the effect selected. 
3. There is an option called Mirror Text on the property bar.
 4. To the right of Mirror text there is an icon of Mirror Horizontally. 5. Click this icon. 6. You will get the horizontal mirror image. 
7. Come back to original position by clicking the same icon again.
8. There is another icon besides, called Mirror Vertically. 9. Click this to get vertical mirror image.  10. You will get the vertical mirror image inside the circle as the original image is outside the circle just on the edge.
11. Come back to original position by clicking the same icon again.
Tick spacing is some thing provided for the ease of work while you adjust the distance between the path and the text. Once you mention the tick spacing, the text will move with that increment.
12. Go back to 2nd step. Keep the effect selected.
13. Add 1.5 inches for tick spacing.
14. Select the text using pick tool. 15. Move the text away from the circle. 16. You will notice that you get the snapping at the increment of 1.5 inches when you move the text.  17. Off the Tick Snapping 18. Start moving the text again. 19. You will notice that the text is moving smoothly without any snapping.
Once you apply the text and you wish to change the font and/or the size, its possible within the effect itself. You don't need to start from the beginning.
20. Go back to 2nd step. Keep the effect selected.
21. You will get the drop down menus to change the font and font size on the property bar.
22. Change the font and see the effect first.
23. Then change the size and observe the effect.
24. Try to apply Bold and Italic options also.
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Blend Acceleration
1. Open Corel DRAW.
2. Draw square using rectangle tool. Fill it with red color.
3. Draw another square using rectangle tool. Fill it with green color.
4. Select both the shapes.
5. Go to menu.
6. Effects > Blend
7. Keep the rest of the settings as they are.
8. Press “Apply”
9. You will get the blend effect.
10. Select Blend Acceleration tab in the blend docker (marked with green circle).
11. Drag “Accelerate Objects” slider towards extreme right.
12. Other slider also getting dragged automatically along with the first one as they are linked.
13. Press Apply.
14. You will observe that the intermediate blend steps are gathered towards the green square.
15. Now drag the slider towards extreme left.
16. The intermediate steps are now gathered towards red square.
Color Blend Acceleration
1. Open Corel DRAW.
2. Draw square using rectangle tool. Fill it with red color.
3. Draw another square using rectangle tool. Fill it with green color.
4. Select both the shapes.
5. Go to menu.
6. Effects > Blend
7. Keep the rest of the settings as they are.
8. Press “Apply”
9. You will get the blend effect.
10. Select Blend Acceleration tab in the blend docker.
11. Uncheck the “Link Acceleration” box.
12. Drag “Accelerate Objects” and "Accelerate fills/outline" slider towards extreme right.
13. Press Apply.
14. You will observe that the intermediate blend steps are gathered towards the green square.
15. Red color is accelerated towards green square. The spread of red color is increased in the intermediate steps.
16. Now drag the accelerate fill slider towards extreme left.
17. You will find that fill is also changed. The distribution of the color changes. This time green color spread in the intermediate steps.
Add Perspective Basic
Add perspective is one of the most simple and effective commands that we can start with. Observe it carefully and you will have lot of fun.
1. Open Corel DRAW.
2. Type " Inside" using text tool. Stretch it to bigger size using pick tool. Keep it selected.
3. Go to Effects > Add Perspective
4. Observe carefully. You will get four points at the four corners of the text.
5. Drag top left point, which is on the top of "I" towards topside.
6. You will find that text is changed into the design that has perspective.
7. Drag bottom left point that is at the base of "I" towards downside. This will add spice to the perspective effect.
Blending Different Shapes
1. Open Corel DRAW.
2. Draw circle using ellipse tool.
3. Draw square using rectangle tool.
4. Select both the shapes.
5. Go to menu.
6. Effects > Blend
7. You will get the Blend docker attached to the right side. And the blend steps tab selected.
8. Keep the default setting as it is.
9. It may say number of steps 20 and rotate angle 0.
10. Press “Apply”
11. You will get the blend effect.
12. Circle is gradually changing to square using intermediate steps.
13. You try different shapes.
Simple Blend Effect
1. Open Corel DRAW.
2. Draw circle using ellipse tool.
3. Hold Ctrl key to draw perfect circle.
4. Either duplicate the same circle or draw another circle.
5. Make the second circle bigger than the first one.
6. Select both the circles.
7. Go to menu.
8. Effects > Blend
9. You will get the Blend docker attached to the right side. And the blend steps tab selcted.
10. Keep the default setting as it is.
11. It may say number of steps 20 and rotate angle 0.
12. Press “Apply”
13. You will get the blend effect.
14. Both the circles are connected with the intermediate circles blending them smoothly with the number of steps mentioned earlier.
15. Please make a note that small circle is blended with the big one with intermediate gradually increasing bigger size circles.
Blend Rotation
1. Open Corel DRAW.
2. Draw square using rectangle tool. Fill it with red color.
3. Draw another square using rectangle tool. Fill it with green color.
4. Select both the shapes.
5. Go to menu.
6. Effects > Blend
7. Change the rotate angle to 90.
8. Keep the rest of the settings as they are.
9. Press “Apply”
10. You will get the blend effect.
Color Blend Counter Clockwise Path
1. Open Corel DRAW.
2. Draw square using rectangle tool. Fill it with red color.
3. Draw another square using rectangle tool. Fill it with green color.
4. Select both the shapes.
5. Go to menu.
6. Effects > Blend
7. Select blend color tab.
8. This time select the next option that is counter clockwise path.
9. Please make a note that counter clockwise path from red to green covers less colors than clockwise path.
10. But it will cover the colors from red to green, accommodating more colors than direct path.
11. Press “Apply”
12. You will get the blend effect with intermediate colors of counter clockwise path in the intermediate steps.
Add Perspective Shapes
Let us try Add Perspective command on shapes.
1. Open Corel DRAW.
2. Draw circle and fill it with some color. Keep it selected.
3. Effects > Add perspective
4. Try to drag all four points to different directions.
5. Try out different shapes.
6. Use polygon tool to draw another type of shape.
7. Use Clear Transformation to bring the shape back to its original form.
Sunset
1. Open Corel DRAW.
2. Draw the rectangle with Rectangle Tool to create the cloud effect. Remove outline.
3. Select Interactive Fill Tool. Drag from Top to Bottom.
3. Select Interactive Fill Tool. Drag from Top to Bottom.
4. Fill Black, Red And Yellow color from top to bottom and adjust the proportion properly.
5. Select the rectangle. Drag it down with Top Center point to get the mirror image of the original. Without leaving left button, click right mouse button to get the copy of the mirror image which will be used as a lake.
6. Draw mountains with Bazier Tool and fill it with black color.
7. Follow the step 5 to get the mirror image of the mountains
8. Send the mountains behind the lake.
9. Select lake. Select Interactive Transparency Tool. Drag over the lake. You will get the reflection of the mountains.
10. You will get the reflection of the mountains.
11. Draw Land with Bazier Tool
12. Draw Coconut tree with Bazier Tool.
13. Group the branches and copy them to create two more trees.
14. The output will look like this.
15. Draw the Boat with Bazier tool and group it. Make the reflection of it using previous mountain steps and send the reflection behind the Lake.
16. The output will look like this.
17. Create Circle with Ellipse Tool fill it with Interactive fill tool using Radial Fountain Fill. This will make Sun. Use the combination of red and yellow color.
18. Send the Sun behind mountains.
19. Duplicate and get the copy of sun. Stretch it horizontally and make it thin vertically.
20. Keep on duplicating and place it one below other.
21. Make the size of the copy small as you go downwards.
22. This will create the reflection of the Sun in the lake.
Using Shape Tool
1. Open Corel DRAW. Select Bezier Tool and draw the following shape.
2. Select the Shape tool and select all three points by dragging shape tool around the shape
3. Click Convert Line To Curves from Property bar which is activated after selecting shape tool.
4. Select top left point using shape tool and click Make Node Symmetrical from Property bar. Edit the nodes using the available options and make the proper half portion of the heart shape.
5. Select Pick Tool.
Arrange > Transformations > Scale
Scale & Mirror > Mirror ( H for Horizontal )
Apply to Duplicate.
6. Position the other half carefully to make a proper shape.
7. Select both the shapes using Pick Tool.
Arrange > Combine
8. Using Shape Tool, select top open points by dragging the Shape Tool around the points.
9. Click Join Two Nodes from Property bar.
10. Repeat the procedure for bottom nodes which are not joined.
11. Fill the shape with desired color.
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Chess Board
1. Open Corel DRAW. Select Graph Paper Tool from Tool Box. Add the number of rows and column using Property Bar. Input the same values for rows and cols.
2. Press CTRL and draw square shaped graph paper. Fill with white color. Keep it selected.
3. Arrange > Ungroup All
4. Press Shift and select alternate square with Pick Tool. Fill with black color.
5. Select the drawing by dragging Pick Tool around it.
Arrange > Group
6. Effects > Add Perspective
7. Drag four points with cursor and create a perspective.
Explode
1. Open Corel DRAW. Select Graph Paper Tool from Tool Box. Add the number of rows and column using Property Bar. Input the same values for rows and cols.
2. Press CTRL and draw square shaped graph paper.
3. Select Ellipse Tool and draw perfect circle by pressing CTRL.
4. Place the circle above the graph paper in the middle. Select the circle.
5. Effects > Lens
Select Fish Eye from drop down menu. Check Frozen. Click Apply.
6. Select the graph paper and delete it.
Select the ball.
Arrange > Ungroup
Select the outside circle and delete.
7. Select any portion of the ball and keep on pressing Tab till one more circle behind the ball get selected. Delete that circle also.
8. Select the ball and fill the color.
9. Move the parts of the ball to create Explode effect.
Making Two color & Full color Patterns
1. Open Corel DRAW. Create some design you want to use for Two Color Pattern. Use black & White colors.
2. Tools > Create > Pattern
Create Pattern Dialog box will be displayed. Select Two Color. Click OK.
3. Cross cursor is displayed on the screen called Marquee. Drag it around the design as follows.
4. Click OK for the following dialog box.
5. Draw rectangle or any shape to fill the pattern. Keep it selected.
It is a simple test to check the pattern whether it is created properly or not.
It is a simple test to check the pattern whether it is created properly or not.
6. Select Fill Tool and Pattern Fill Dialog. Select 2-Color
7. Click OK.
8. The Procedure is similar for full color pattern with little difference.
9. Create a design for full color pattern use any colors.
10. Follow the steps from 2 - 4
11. Full color pattern has to be saved in 'Pattern' folder of Corel DRAW.
The dialog box for saving the pattern will get displayed. Name the pattern and save it.
The dialog box for saving the pattern will get displayed. Name the pattern and save it.
12. Follow the steps from 5 - 7
Cracked Text Effect
1. Open Corel DRAW. Type the text. Try to use thick font if possible.
2. Fill the text with the desired color and keep the black outline.
3. Select Eraser Tool from the toolbox. Keep the Eraser thickness 0.05". It can be adjusted according to the size of the text. Keep the text selected.
4. Erase the text in such a way so that it looks like cracked.
5. Select Interactive Extrude Tool. Drag the cursor and create the extrude effect. Choose the extrusion type from property bar.
6. Deselect the object
Cracked Text Effect
1. Open Corel DRAW. Type the text. Try to use thick font if possible.
2. Fill the text with the desired color and keep the black outline.
3. Select Eraser Tool from the toolbox. Keep the Eraser thickness 0.05". It can be adjusted according to the size of the text. Keep the text selected.
4. Erase the text in such a way so that it looks like cracked.
5. Select Interactive Extrude Tool. Drag the cursor and create the extrude effect. Choose the extrusion type from property bar.
6. Deselect the object
Making Rings
1. Open Corel DRAW. Draw perfect circle with the help of Ellipse Tool and CTRL key.
2. With Shift and Drag method, make a copy of the circle inside the main circle and right click to get the copy.
3. Select both the circles
Arrange > Combine
4. Select Interactive Fill Tool. Drag the pointer on the object. Select Radial Fountain Fill from property bar.
5. With the proper combination of two colors create the ring effect. White is chosen as a mid color in the following ring.
6. How to entangle the rings? Make another copy of the ring. Place is over other.
7. Draw the shape which you want to remove to get entangled effect on the top cross section of the rings.
8. Select the newly drawn shape.
Arrange > Shaping > Trim
9. Click on the top circle to trim. Delete the shape after trimming.
Page Curl
1. Open Corel DRAW. Draw the following shape using Bezier Tool. Take the help of Guidelines if require.
2. Draw another shape for curl, in the line with the edge of previous shape as shown below. Keep the shape selected.
3. Select Shape Tool. Drag around the second shape. Click "Convert Line to Curve" in the property bar. Edit right edge of the shape into curve using Shape Tool.
4. Add Fountain Fill using Interactive Fill Tool.
Basic Collage
1. Open Corel DRAW.
2. Window > Dockers > Symbols & Special Characters
3. Select the symbols you want to use for collage
3. Select the symbols you want to use for collage
4. Arrange the symbols in desired order.
5. Change the sizes if require.
6. Fill the colors
7. Select each symbol. Select Interactive Transparency Tool and drag over the symbol in different directions.
8. After applying Interactive Transparency Tool, symbols will be partially merged and you will get collage effect.
9. Deselect the collage
Making Precious Stones
1. Open Corel DRAW and select Polygon Tool. Draw the polygon with 7 sides. Use property bar to fix the sides.
2. Select Interactive Extrude Tool and create extrude. Drag the guide lines and place them as shown below.
3. Select Bazier Tool and create triangles from the sides of the stone to the intersection point of the guidelines.
4. Select Interactive Fill Tool. Select any triangle and drag the tool over the triangle.
Select Linear Fountain Fill from property bar and select the colors of your choice.
5. Copy the same fill in all the triangles by following method.
Right click and drag the filled triangle to the unfilled one. When they will get overlapped the cursor will turn into cross mark with circle. Release mouse button. Click 'Copy Fill Here'.
6. Select the extrude (back portion)
Arrange > Separate
Fill the small rectangles by the same method.
Change the directions of the two colors by moving and dragging Interactive Fill Pointer.
Combine Effect
1. Open Corel DRAW. Type the text with any type of font.
2. Draw rectangle with rectangle tool on the top half of the text.
3. Select both objects (text and Rectangle) by double clicking on the pick tool.
Arrange > Combine
4. Fill the color.
5. Draw another rectangle with rectangle tool at the bottom half of the text. Fill it with desired color. Keep it selected.
6. Send it to back
Arrange > Combine > To Back
7. Stretch it up to the top edge of the text.
Making Flower
1. Open Corel DRAW. Create a petal shape you want to use for making flower
2. Following shape is created by converting ellipse to curve by pressing Ctrl + Q and then edited with shape tool.
3. Double click the shape to get the points for rotation as follows
4. Drag the center of the shape at the bottom
5. Arrange > Transformation
Select Rotate tab
6. Input the value 12 for angle or some value which will divide 360.
7. Click Apply to Duplicate. Duplicate will be created at an angle of 12 degrees
8. Go on clicking till you get the following shape.
9. Double click on the pick tool to select all the petals and fill with desired color.
10. Arrange > Combine
Simple Web Buttons
1. Create the shape for button.
2. Select Interactive Fill Tool from toolbox and drag the cursor from top left to bottom right corner. Change the colors from the property bar.
3. Select Pick Tool.
Select the shape.
Press Shift and drag the shape little inside from any corner point. Without releasing left mouse button click right mouse button.
You will get the offset copy of the original shape exactly at the center.
Select the shape.
Press Shift and drag the shape little inside from any corner point. Without releasing left mouse button click right mouse button.
You will get the offset copy of the original shape exactly at the center.
4. Select the second copy which is inside.
5. Select Interactive Fill Tool
6. Turn the mark of the tool (dotted line with small black & white rectangles) in opposite direction. It should look as if it is dragged from Bottom right to upper left corner.
7. Double click the pick tool so that both the shapes will get selected simultaneously.
8. Right click on the cross mark at the top of the color palette. The out line will disappear.
9. Create the following buttons with similar method.
Extrude Project
1. Open Corel DRAW. Draw a rectangle with Rectangle Tool
2. Select interactive Extrude Tool and Extrude the rectangle as shown below to make a rectangular plate.
3. Type the text and place it at the edge. Make a copy of the text and keep it aside.
4. Extrude the text with Interactive Extrude Tool.
5. Fill the black color in the copy of the text. And send it to the back of extrude one.
Arrange > Order > Back One
6. Skew & scale the text for shadow effect. Check out Skewing in Shadows project.
7. Select the Extrude text. Fill the color.
8. Go to Property Bar. Click Color flyout menu.
9. Click the third option "Use Color Shading. Select the colors for shading.
10. Use color shading for the rectangular plate also.
11. Type the text at the front side just to add the flavor.
Grid Effect
1. Open Corel DRAW. Select text tool and type the text.Use thick font to get proper Grid effect. Fill it with desired color.
Note: It is expected that you have finished with the beginners projects when you start with intermediate, as we do not repeat the small instructions.
2. Select Graph Paper Tool (8th from the top in the Flyout menu of toolbox)
3. Taking Rows and column 20, 20 drag it over the text.
4. Keep the grid selected and make it thicker using Outline Tool.
5. Change the line color to white by selecting the grid and right clicking on the white color in the palette.
Adding Texture
1. Open Corel DRAW. Select text tool and type the text preferably using thick font. We have used Impact.
Note: It is expected that you have finished with the beginners projects when you start with intermediate, as we do not repeat the small instructions.
2. Select Interactive Extrude Tool from the flyout menu from the tool box. Its 10th from the top.
3. Create the 3D effect using Interactive Extrude Tool. Keep the text selected.
4. From the Property Bar at the top select Lighting.
5. Try out different options for lighting and create following effect.
6. From the Fountain Fill flyout menu select the Texture Fill Dialog.
7. Apply the desired texture to the text.
Pendant
1. Open Corel DRAW.
2. Draw the out line of the basic shape using Bazier Tool.
3. Edit the basic shape using Shape Tool with Node Edit Options.
4. Create the offset shape inside the original shape using Interactive Contour Tool.
5. Fill it with Golden shade using Fountain Fill > Preset
6. Make different shapes according to requirement.
7. Use Shift + Pick Tool and Right click to get the smaller copies. You can try Interactive Contour Tool.
8. Try the combination of the shapes.
9. After filling the golden shade, change the direction of the fill by shifting the arrow using Interactive Fill Tool.
10. Place the shapes in a proper symmetry
Contour Effect
1. Open Corel DRAW. Select text tool and type the text preferably using thick font. We have used Impact.
Note: It is expected that you have finished with the beginners projects when you start with intermediate, as we do not repeat the small instructions.
2. Select Interactive Contour Tool from the flyout menu from the tool box. Its 10th from the top.
3. Create the Contour effect using Interactive Contour Tool. Drag it over the text. Keep the text selected. Using following properties edit the effect properly. Remember to use Inside Contour.
4. You will get following effect. keep the text selected.
5. Open fountain Fill window. Change the angle to 90. Click on the step icon to select it and add 2 for the steps. Choose the desired colors.
6. Click OK to get the following effect.
Shadows
1. Open Corel DRAW. Type the text. Try to use thick font if possible.
2. Duplicate the text by pressing Ctrl + D
3. Fill the backward text with black color and arrange the shadow with pick tool
4. Double click on the black Text
5. Drag the upper middle point with the cursor towards left. The Process is called skewing. The angular stretching of an object.
6. Select the text with Shape tool
7. With he help of bottom node move each character separately as shown below
8. Repeat the step 5
9. Arrange the shadow properly with Shape Tool again. Move them and place then behind the original characters.
10. Select Interactive Drop Shadow Tool. Drag the tool on the text slightly.
Big Text
1. Open Corel DRAW. Type the text of size 70.
2. Select the text using Shape tool and click the point left bottom of P.
3. Double click on the selected point which will open the box. Change the size to 200 points.
4. Change the color of the character at the same time when it is selected.
5. Deselect the character by clicking anywhere on the page and drag the Shape Tool over the bottom points of HOTO. The points get selected.
6. Press Ctrl key and drag HOTO towards P by keeping the cursor on any selected point.
Sliced Text
1. Open Corel DRAW. Type some text. Try to use thick font.
2. Select Rectangle Tool. Draw Rectangle at the lower half of the text. Select the same rectangle.
3. Arrange > Shaping > Intersect
Shaping Docker will get displayed. Select Third one which is Intersect.
4. We are going to cut the text into two pieces.
5. Keep the rectangle selected. Click "Intersect With"
6. Click the pointer on the upper half of the text. The lower half of the text will be intersected. Keep it aside. Drag the same rectangle to the upper half and repeat the same procedure. You will get the intersected upper part.
7. Delete the rectangle and the original text.
8. We got the two sliced pieces of the text. Select the lower half.
9. Select Interactive Extrude Tool and drag the pointer on the lower half of the text to apply the effect.
10. Select upper half.
11. Effects > Copy Effect > Extrude From
12. Click the pointer on the extruded part of lower half. The same extrude effect will get copied on the upper half of the text also.
13. Shift upper half slightly to get proper sliced text.
Ray Effect
1. Open Corel DRAW. Select text tool and type the text.Use thick font to get proper line effect. We have used Impact font. Fill it with desired color.
Note: It is expected that you have finished with the beginners projects when you start with intermediate, as we do not repeat the small instructions.
2. Drag the guide line and using it draw vertical straight line with Bazier Tool.
3. Make it thicker using Outline Tool.
4. Double click on the line and drag the center of rotation to the bottom.
5. Change the line color to white by selecting the line and right clicking on the white color in the palette. Keep the line selected.
6. Arrange > Transformation > Rotation
7. Keep angle 12 deg and start pressing "Apply to Duplicate" till you get the complete ray effect.
Line Text
1. Open Corel DRAW. Select text tool and type the text.Use thick font to get proper line effect. We have used Impact font. Fill it with desired color.
Note: It is expected that you have finished with the beginners projects when you start with intermediate, as we do not repeat the small instructions.
2. Drag the guide line and using it draw the straight line with Bazier Tool.
3. Make it thicker using Outline Tool.
4. Change the line color to white by selecting the line and right clicking on the white color in the palette. Keep the line selected.
5. Arrange > Transformation > Position
6. Keep vertical distance as -0.05 inches and start pressing "Apply to Duplicate" till you get the desired number of the copies of white lines along the text.
Drop Shadow
1. Open Corel DRAW. Select text tool and type the text. Fill it wih desired color.
Note: It is expected that you have finished with the beginners projects when you start with intermediate, as we do not repeat the small instructions.
2. Make two copies of the same text. Fill the first with black and second with light gray.
3. Drag the black text above gray. Keep a little distance between them. Use
Arrange > Order command to change the order if necessary.
Arrange > Order command to change the order if necessary.
4. Choose "Interactive Blend Tool" From the tool Box. Its tenth in the column.
5. Drag the blend tool creating blend effect as shown below.
6. Place the colored text above the blend carefully. Again if require use Arrange > Order command to bring the colored text on the top.
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