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Learn CorelDRAW, Interactive Blend Tool

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Interactive Blend Tool Software : Corel DRAW X3 Level : Beginner 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. 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 cur...

Learn CorelDRAW, IInteractive Contour Tool

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Interactive Contour Tool Software : Corel DRAW X3 Level : Beginner 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 recta...

Learn CorelDRAW, Interactive Distortion Tool

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Interactive Distortion Tool Software : Corel DRAW X3 Level : Beginner 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. 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. ...

Learn CorelDRAW, Interactive Drop Shadow Tool

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Interactive Drop Shadow Tool Software : Corel DRAW X3 Level : Beginner 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 ...

Learn CorelDRAW, Interactive Fill Tool

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Interactive Fill Tool Software : Corel DRAW X3 Level : Beginner 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 ...

Learn CorelDRAW, Interactive Envelope Tool

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Interactive Envelope Tool Software : Corel DRAW X3 Level : Beginner 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. ...

Learn CorelDRAW, Interactive Extrude Tool

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Interactive Extrude Tool Software : Corel DRAW X3 Level : Beginner 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 ...

Learn CorelDRAW, Interactive Transparency Tool

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Interactive Transparency Tool Software : Corel DRAW X3 Level : Beginner 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 ...

Learn CorelDRAW, Polygon Tool

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Polygon Tool Software : Corel DRAW X3 Level : Beginner 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.

Learn CorelDRAW, Star Tool

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Star Tool Software : Corel DRAW X3 Level : Beginner 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.