CorelDRAW Essential Guide 2022 Update (Win)

CorelDraw is developed by COREL Corporation and this software helps to design and change vector graphics. That means you can create anything you like, such as logo, business card, t-shirt design etc. This software is very user-friendly and easy to use.

You can learn all these tools & projects in this tutorial

1. Introduction

• Introduction to CorelDRAW & graphic design

• CorelDRAW workspace tour

• Interface CorelDRAW

         • CorelDRAW options

         • Handling windows

         • Handling Toolbars & dockers

         • Standard toolbar

         • Property bar

         • Dockers

         • Status bar

         • Choosing a workspace

2. Document handling (CorelDRAW basics)

• New document, New from template

• Open document, open recent documents, close document

• Save & save as template

• Importing, exporting & printing

3. Important menu commands

• Edit Menu Commands:

         • Undo, redo, cut, copy, paste

         • Delete, duplicate, clone, select all, find and replace

• Object Menu Commands:

         • Align and distribute

         • Changing order of object (to front of page, to back of page, to front of layer, to back of layer, forward once, back one…)

         • Group, ungroup and ungroup all

         • Hide, show and show all

         • Lock object, unlock object, unlock all objects

         • Combined command

         • Shaping methods (weld, trim, intersect, simplify, front minus back, back minus front)

• View menu commands:

         • View modes (wireframe, normal, enhanced, pixel)

         • Ruler, guidelines, gridlines, dynamic guidelines

         • Snap to object, snap to guideline, snap to gridline

4. How to use toolbox & property bar commands

• Working with pick tools flyout

         • Pick tool (select, resize, stretch, skew, rotate, mirror and etc.)

         • Freehand pick tool

         • Free transform tool

• Zoom tool & pan tool (zoom in, zoom out, fit to page/ to page width/ to page height/ to contents/ to selection)

• Fill tools & filling methods (properties)

         • Interactive fill tools

         • Smart fill tools

         • Mesh fill tools

         • Color eyedropper tools

         • Attribute eyedropper tools

• Curve tools : Freehand tool, 2- point line tool, Bezier tool, pen tool, B-spline tool, Polyline tool, 3- point curve tool

• Drawing tools & properties

         • Artistic media tool

         • Live sketch tool

         • Smart drawing tool

• Rectangle tools (rectangle, 3- point rectangle)

• Ellipse tools (ellipse, 3- point ellipse) honest

• Shapes tools ( polygon, star, spiral, common shapes, impact tool, graph paper)

• How to use tools in edit shape flyout

         • Shape tool (corner style, convert to curves, nodes and curve styles)

         • Smooth Tool

         • Smear tool

         • Twirl tool

         • Attract and repel tool

         • Smudge tool

         • Roughen tool

• How to use crop tools and erase

         • Crop tool

         • Knife tool

         • Virtual segments delete tool

         • Eraser tool

• Working with text tool & Table

         • Artistic text

         • Paragraph text

         • Path text

         • Table text

• Dimension tools (parallel, horizontal or vertical, angular, segment, 2-leg callout)

• Connector tools ( connector, anchor editing)

• How to use effects tools

          • Shadow

         • Contour

         • Blend

         • Distort

         • Envelope

         • Extrude

         • Block shadow

• Transparency tool & properties

5. How to Use Effects and Bitmaps Commands

• Effects menu commands

• Edit & trace bitmap images

6. Practical Projects

• Project 01: Lets’s Illustrate a Simple Logo

• Project 02: Let’s Illustrate CorelDRAW Logo

• Project 03: Lets’s Illustrate LG Logo

• Project 04: Let’s Illustrate an Avocado Fruit

• Project 05: Let’s Create a Business Card Design

• Project 06: Let’s Create a Bookmark Design

• Project 07: Let’s Create a Book Cover Design

• Project 08: Let’s Create a T-shirt Design

• Extra Bookmark Project : Let’s Create a Bookmark Design (II)