November 2008 - Graphics Feeds - English

Sunday Stock: Sports Volume 1

As I travel around and train CorelDRAW users, one area where users are always creating products is for sports teams from the local area. There are many packages on the market with templates, but today I'm featuring a product with great templates and...

Published Sun, Nov 30 2008 1:00 by Graphics Unleashed

Filed under: coreldraw, templates, sunday-stock, sports

Create Transparent Stylized Buttons using CorelDRAW

By Steve Bain If you’ve found yourself wishing that you knew how to create those cool, glass-like transparent buttons popular in certain interface designs, your wish is granted. I’m talking about those pill-shaped buttons that appear to be...

Published Sat, Nov 29 2008 17:41 by CorelDRAW! Tips, Tricks & Tutorials

Filed under: coreldraw, design, illustration, buttons, Advanced, Glassy effects, Special Effects, Tips, Transparent buttons

Weekend Widget: Glary Utilities

Last week I told you about repartitioning the hard drive on my laptop. While I was cleaning things up, I decided to try some other fixes to speed up the computer. That led me to the Glary Utilities . Included are a number of system tools to speed up and...

Published Sat, Nov 29 2008 1:00 by Graphics Unleashed

Filed under: weekend-widget

Draw 3 Lighting Details using CorelDRAW

By Steve Bain In these three mini tutorials, we’ll explore three basic types of transparent highlights you can quickly add to graphic scenes to simulate reflected light: The window reflection, the sunlight glare, and the star highlight. To demonstrate...

Published Fri, Nov 28 2008 11:19 by CorelDRAW! Tips, Tricks & Tutorials

Filed under: coreldraw, Technique, illustration, Advanced, Special Effects, Transparency, Star highlight, Sunlight glare, Window reflection, Highlighting, Transparent highlights

Disconnecting…

-but just for a bit- Today, I am packing my Prius to travel to Badlands National Park where I will be serving as Artist In Residence for the month of December. I served at Badlands in the Spring of 2007 and this is a shot of me during one of my sunset...

Published Fri, Nov 28 2008 9:47 by Fleeting Glimpse Images Weblog

Filed under: Photography, Travel, Badlands, Artist in Residence

Font Friday: More Thanksgiving Fonts

I'm still full from the Thanksgiving feast yesterday. It is hard to pass up large helpings of turkey and dressing. Continuing with our theme from last Friday, I found even more Thanksgiving fonts for you to download. You'll also notice a few other...

Published Fri, Nov 28 2008 1:00 by Graphics Unleashed

Filed under: font-friday, thanksgiving

Thursday Tip: Web Safe Colors

There has long been a misconception that only a limited set of colors were "safe" on the Web. That just isn't the case, all RGB colors can be used on the Web. I've even seen mention that only Hex colors were Web safe. No, hexadecimal...

Published Thu, Nov 27 2008 1:00 by Graphics Unleashed

Filed under: color, web, thursday-tip, hex

Adopt Better Layout Strategies with CorelDRAW

By Steve Bain There are good and bad ways to build a layout. In this tutorial, you'll learn about layout and design habits that you should definitely avoid, and I'll demonstrate a few best practices to adopt. There's a little something for...

Published Wed, Nov 26 2008 21:01 by CorelDRAW! Tips, Tricks & Tutorials

Filed under: coreldraw, design, Tips, Layout Strategies, Basic, Feature

White Balancing for Compact Fluorescent Bulbs

Green Bulbs are strangely missing from the White Balance Selections Choices If you scroll down the options for White Balance in any RAW software converter you will find that there are many options. In the age of green-thinking and the prevalence of alternative...

Published Wed, Nov 26 2008 8:41 by Fleeting Glimpse Images Weblog

Filed under: Software, lighting, lightroom, presets, cf, white balance, compact fluorescent

Hump Day Hardware: Harman Kardon GLA-55 Loudspeaker System

Some of the hardware I cover is very practical and represents something that every user of graphics software should have. Today is something that would look great on your desk and provide you with entertainment, but it may not be that practical. As you...

Published Wed, Nov 26 2008 1:00 by Graphics Unleashed

Filed under: hump-day-hardware, speakers

Tutorial Tuesday: CorelDRAW's Find and Replace Wizard

Users are always asking about easy ways to change all of the colors in the their artwork in CorelDRAW. There are a number of different tools that approach this common problem. One of them is the Find and Replace Wizard. Today's tutorial shows you...

Published Tue, Nov 25 2008 1:00 by Graphics Unleashed

Filed under: coreldraw, tutorial-tuesday, wizard, find, replace

How to Create a Neon Tubing Type Effect

By Steve Bain The ability to create objects to appear as if they have been fashioned into Neon tube lighting is a popular technique sought after by many illustrators. In this tutorial, you’ll learn to select the most ideal font for achieving the...

Published Mon, Nov 24 2008 9:24 by CorelDRAW! Tips, Tricks & Tutorials

Filed under: coreldraw, Technique, illustration, Special Effects, Neon effect, Neon type, Illuminated text, Neon tubing, Text effect, Beginner

The Euro coin designed using CorelDRAW

To follow up on my earlier post about important things being designed, using CorelDRAW. Its funny how people can say "nothing important have ever been made, or designed by important designers or illustrators, using CorelDRAW". In a way its just...

Published Mon, Nov 24 2008 9:14 by Stefan Lindblad - Art and Illustration

South Park uses CorelDRAW to illustrate with

Because of the impact Adobe have had on many peoples consious, such as the words "is this photoshoped", its no wonder, why many people live in a bubble, believing nothing "big and important" are made with other computer software, other...

Published Mon, Nov 24 2008 8:49 by Stefan Lindblad - Art and Illustration

Macro Monday: Dizzy: RasterMaster

One of the great features about the CorelDRAW Graphics Suite is that bitmaps in CorelDRAW are linked to Corel PHOTO-PAINT. Simply select the bitmap in CorelDRAW, click Edit Bitmap and the file is sent to Corel PHOTO-PAINT for editing. This works great...

Published Mon, Nov 24 2008 1:00 by Graphics Unleashed

Filed under: photoshop, macro-monday, dizzy, rastermaster