Blend Acceleration In Corel Draw

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.

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Removing Text Path In Corel Draw

1. Open Corel DRAW.

2. Carry out the effect as described in the basic lesson.
3. Select the circle using pick tool.

4. You will notice that the whole effect is getting selected, means the circle is getting selected along with the text also.
5. Delete, to remove the circle, press Delete key.
6. Circle is disappeared along with the text.
7. It means you can not delete the circle separately at this stage.
8. Undo delete.
9. Keep the effect selected.
10. Right click on the cross mark in the color palette (situated at the top) to remove the outline.
11. This will remove the outline of the circle.
12. This gives the necessary required effect where you won't see the circle but it is still there.

13. The problem with this procedure is, it will remove all the outlines, means if you apply the outline for the text, it will remove that outline also.
The second procedure is the clean one where you can actually delete the circle and keep the text intact.

14. Go back to 2nd step. Keep the effect selected. It should select circle also.

15. Go to Arrange > Break Text Apart
16. Deselect the effect by clicking somewhere else.
17. Select the circle using pick tool.
18. You will notice that circle can be selected separately now.
19. Delete the circle using Delete Key.
20. You will get the curved text.

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Fit Text To Path Intermediate In Corel Draw

1. Open Corel DRAW.

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.


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.

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.


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.

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Fit Text To Path Basics In Corel Draw

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. Iincrease the distance using Distance from Path.

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Making Symbol In Corel Draw

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.

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.

8. You can fill the symbol with any color.

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Simple Web Buttons In Corel Draw

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.
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.

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Necklace In Corel Draw

1. Open Corel DRAW.

2. To create a pearl, draw the circle and fill it up with Radial Fill.

3. Draw the square and place the copies of the pearl at four sides. Take the square as guide.
4. Using Interactive Blend Tool, create the outline of the pendant.

5. Press shift and reduce the size of the pendant using pick tool. Right click to get the smaller copy inside. Create multiple smaller copies.

6. Rotate the pendant to 45 degrees. Draw the square inside and fill it up with Square Fill.

7. Draw the curved line of desired shape. Place two pearls at two ends. Blend them along the path.

8. First blend the pearls. Select the blend. Using Property Bar, Select Path Properties. Click on New Path and select the curve as path.

9. Keep the blend selected. In the Property Bar again, select Miscellaneous Blend Options. Check Blend along full path.

10. Make the copies of the pendants with different sizes.
11. Arrange other parts of the necklace according to following design.

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Making Flower In Corel Draw

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

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