COREL DRAW "What is Corel Draw"' " How to learn Corel Draw " " How to use Corel Draw"

                          

                "CORELDRAW"

Corel Draw is  a vector base software. It is used to create vector base designs.

Working Area:   Page

File Extention:    . cdr

• Ctrl +N➡ for  creating a new page at Corel  draw.

⇒INTRODUCTION

Corel DRAW is a vector graphics editor developed and marketed by Corel Corporation. It is also the name of the Corel graphics suite, which includes the bitmap-image editor Corel Photo-Paint as well as other graphics-related programs (see below). The latest version is marketed as CorelDraw Graphics Suite (internally, version 24), and was released for Windows and macOS on March 8, 2022. It is designed to edit two-dimensional images such as logos and posters. Reduced-feature Standard and Essentials versions are also offered 

.In 1987, Corel engineers Michel Bouillon and Pat Beirne undertook to develop a vector-based illustration program to bundle with their desktop publishing systems. That program, CorelDraw, was initially released in 1989. CorelDraw 1.x and 2.x ran under Windows 2.x and 3.0. CorelDraw 3.0 came into its own with Microsoft's release of Windows 3.1. The inclusion of TrueType in Windows 3.1 transformed CorelDraw into a serious illustration program capable of using system-installed outline fonts without requiring third-party software such as Adobe Type Manager; paired with a photo-editing program (Corel Photo-Paint), a font manager and several other pieces of software, it was also part of the first all-in-one graphics suite

⇒Interface: 

The interface has many bars located on it. 

This include the Tool bar,  Title bar, Menu bar, Standard tool  box, Drawing window,  Property bar , Docker, Ruler , Document  Navigator , Drawing Page, Navigator Button, Color Palette.

Here is the elaboration: 

1)Tool Box - A dock-able bar with tools for modifying  objects

2) Title Bar - The area indicating the title of the currently open drawing

3) Menu Bar - The area containing menu commands

4) Standard Tool Bar - The dock-able bar that contains shortcuts to Windows commands

5) Drawing Window - The area outside the drawing page

6) Property Bar - The dock-able bar that contains commands  that relate to the currently selected tool or object

7) Docker - A dock-able window that contains available commands for the current object

8) Ruler - The border that is used to determine size and position of objects in a drawing

9) Document Navigator - The area that contains controls for moving between pages and editing pages

10) Drawing Page - The printable area in which you create a drawing

11) Status Bar - The area that contains tips, as well as information about the currently selected object

12) Navigator Button - A button that opens a smaller display to help you locate an object or area of your drawing

13) Color Palette - A dock-able bar that contains the current color swatches

1: Pick tool:

The Pick tool serves many functions in Corel DRAW; mainly selecting, moving, and transforming objects. In order to make any changes to an object, whether it's something simple like

changing fill or outline color, or something more complex like moving or rotating, the object must first be selected.

•  It is used for object selection. You can select any object with the help of pick  tool.

• With pick tool we can move, stretch, scale, rotate and skew object
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To transform size of any object select pick  tool and  press "shift" then drag the arrow according to you.

2:  Shape tool: [F10]

Shape tool  is the most important tool of Corel Draw. It is basically used  for shape editing. In shape tool , we work on the corners of the shape. Shape tool is used to  convert the corner of a shape into round, chamfered and scalped. 

• These all corner options will be available on your upper bar.
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  In order to modify a specific corner of the  shape  or object, press "Ctrl" then drag it.

↳Shape Tool [Advance one]:

                                           In this, shape tool is used to convert the corner of any object into curve corners.

•  For this purpose, press "Ctrl +Q".

Now, we can even add nodes into our shape or we can remove the node.

• To add node in shape, Double click on the point ,where you want to add node or just do right click on point and click on add.

• To remove node, Double click on unwanted node or right click on node then click delete.

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Note: Next blog will be about further advance levels of shape tool.

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