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Font Friday: Christmas Fonts

2008-12-05T08:00:01Z

With the Thanksgiving holiday behind us, now we turn to a number of other holidays taking place in the next month. Just yesterday I had to create a flyer for a Christmas party and wanted to find a festive font to use. Since it is the season of giving, today I'm giving you a link to 16 free Christmas fonts . I'm sure you'll find at least one to add to your collection and maybe more....(read more)

Thursday Tip: Combining and Breaking Apart Text

2008-12-04T08:00:14Z

When you think of the Combine ( Ctrl + L ) and Break Apart ( Ctrl + K ) commands in CorelDRAW, you typically think of graphic objects. One of the most powerful uses for these commands is when working with Artistic Text. If you have several lines of Artistic Text and you use the Break Apart command, each line of text will become a separate object. Select one of those lines and Break Apart again and you'll find that each word is a separate object. Now choose one of those words and Break Apart once...(read more)

Larrys Corner - Store, Café and webshop

2008-12-03T12:36:00Z

Sometimes you pass around a corner and bump into a great place. It happened to me the other day. Its Larrys Corner in the corner of Blekingegatan & Grindsgatan (Gatan meaning street in Swedish) in Stockholm, Sweden. When I was 16 years old I lived for a while in the opposite house of Larrys Corner . When moving in, in a 2-3 minutes time, someone stold all my large size ink drawings. Size 100 x 70 centimeters. I told "someone" to stay put while I ran down, the "someone" didnt...(read more)

Hump Day Hardware: External Hard Drives

2008-12-03T08:00:01Z

How do you manage the safety of your data? Hard drives run into problems and your data could easily be lost in a hard drive crash. That's why it is so important to keep up-to-date back-ups. One of the best tools I've found for this are external hard drives. There are a number of choices out there from a wide variety of vendors. Over the years I've own a few different models of the Western Digital My Book series and so my choice would be the Western Digital My Book Essential Edition 1...(read more)

How to Design Better Newsletter Layouts in CorelDRAW

2008-12-03T03:37:42Z

By Steve Bain Not only is CorelDRAW one of the most robust illustration tools around, but unlike other graphics programs, it can also be used to create multipage layouts. This nifty feature makes it the perfect choice for designing projects like booklets, brochures, and newsletters. While expecting to create a 2,000-page catalog with CorelDRAW isn't realistic, handling a few dozen pages with CorelDRAW is a breeze....(read more)

Tutorial Tuesday: Easy Way to Create Calendars

2008-12-02T08:00:02Z

Sometimes I wonder why Corel doesn't mention some of the great features that exist in CorelDRAW. Probably the most powerful feature getting little attention is the Calendar Wizard. Today's tutorial will tell you not only where to find this powerful tool, but also how to use it. You'll be amazed at how easy it is to create calendars in CorelDRAW . Now only can this be powerful, it can also be profitable for those of you who use it to create custom calendars for clients....(read more)

Macro Monday: Hotfolders

2008-12-01T08:00:01Z

How organized are the files on your hard drive? Do you have several folders where you store all of your working projects? I do this, but I also find that it can often be a hassle to move between the various folders when working in CorelDRAW. MacroMonster.com Hotfolders strives to solve that problem by allowing you to define the folders you use most often and then making those folders easy to visit....(read more)

Sunday Stock: Sports Volume 1

2008-11-30T08:00:00Z

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 a great price. Sports Volume 1 has 277 templates covering thirteen different categories. All of the files are stored in CorelDRAW 10 format which means they work in all versions from CorelDRAW 10-X4. You'll also get 32 bonus fonts included on...(read more)

Create Transparent Stylized Buttons using CorelDRAW

2008-11-30T00:41:22Z

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 made from colored glass or see-though plastic. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to use CorelDRAW to [...]...(read more)

Weekend Widget: Glary Utilities

2008-11-29T08:00:02Z

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 clean up your computer. I haven't used the computer enough to give a definitive answer, but things do seem to be a lot snappier. Being able to speed up a computer for free just can't be beat. Maybe I can put off buying a new laptop for a few...(read more)

Draw 3 Lighting Details using CorelDRAW

2008-11-28T18:19:10Z

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 I’m using CorelDRAW 11, but these techniques can be used with any recent version of CorelDRAW up to and including [...]...(read more)

Disconnecting…

2008-11-28T16:47:17Z

-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 stakeouts. One of the unique [...]...(read more)

Font Friday: More Thanksgiving Fonts

2008-11-28T08:00:07Z

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 holidays represented on the page so get started early on designs for those holidays....(read more)

Thursday Tip: Web Safe Colors

2008-11-27T08:00:01Z

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 is simply another numbering system. In CorelDRAW, RGB values are shown in the decimal numbering system and range from 0-255. Hexadecimal represents those same numbers from 00-FF. There are a couple of tools that can help you use Hexadecimal numbers...(read more)

Adopt Better Layout Strategies with CorelDRAW

2008-11-27T04:01:34Z

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 everyone in this installment....(read more)