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By Steve Bain
Before desktop publishing became just another job responsibility, designing and producing appealing information graphic was an art involving a number of skills and several production stages. In this tutorial, we’ll explore some of the basics involved in representing data in creative ways...
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By Steve Bain
If you work with high-end color, you’ll be pleased to know that since version X3 both CorelDRAW and Corel PHOTO-PAINT include high-end color features that can help you unleash your wildest design and illustration energy. These new tools and resources also let you accurately reproduce...
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Sun, Sep 6 2009
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Filed under: coreldraw, printing, Advanced, Special Effects, Tips, Contour effect, Workflow, Recent feature, Color support, Interactive tools, Blend effect, Spot color
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By Steve Bain
If you work with high-end color, you’ll be pleased to know that since version X3 both CorelDRAW and Corel PHOTO-PAINT include high-end color features that can help you unleash your wildest design and illustration energy. These new tools and resources also let you accurately reproduce...
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Fri, Jul 10 2009
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Filed under: coreldraw, printing, Advanced, Special Effects, Tips, Contour effect, Workflow, Recent feature, Color support, Interactive tools, Blend effect, Spot color
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By Steve Bain
Recent versions of CorelDRAW include powerful new onboard tracing tools you can use to quickly trace your digital images into vector artwork. In this tutorial, I’ll highlight the value of using CorelDRAW’s revamped bitmap-tracing tools and demonstrate the results of using various...
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Fri, May 15 2009
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Filed under: coreldraw, design, illustration, Advanced, Tips, Basic, Feature, Workflow, Vector tools, Quick Trace, Tracing digital images, Logo tracing, PowerTRACE
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By Steve Bain
If you like the convenience of having quick access to just the right tools or commands exactly when and where you want as you work, you’ll love the customization features built into the CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite. Changing your CorelDRAW or Corel PHOTO-PAINT® workspace lets you go...
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By Steve Bain
Today’s free-flowing information made available by online technology presents a certain degree of intellectual property risk. Most of us wouldn’t want our personal, corporate, or copyrighted creative property from being somehow absconded by strangers. Having a strategy to protect...
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Fri, Apr 24 2009
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By Steve Bain As anyone new to printing from a graphics application can tell you, print errors can sometimes be a scary and costly experience. Problems are often amplified if you’re faced with choosing options that you have limited experience with. If you don’t know what they are, you certainly...
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By Steve Bain
CorelDRAW provides powerful resources for creating custom logotype, symbol, or character designs. Discover how easily you can turn your design into a digital font you can use in any text-capable application in this continuation of my 2-part tutorial on creating custom fonts.
As I mentioned...
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By Steve Bain The challenge of tackling your own font design can be daunting without the right tools. Fortunately, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite has everything you need to design your own custom logotype font or typeface design.
It’s no small wonder that typing a few words gives you the ability to communicate...
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Sat, Mar 7 2009
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Filed under: coreldraw, fonts, design, illustration, symbols, Advanced, CorelDraw tutorials, Typography, Vector tools, Export TTF, Font Design, Font template
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By Steve Bain If you're using an older version of CorelDRAW and you've had problems printing drop shadows in specific ink colors, here's a tip you may find invaluable. In this installment, I'll show you a workaround that will enable you to change your drop shadow color model from CMYK...
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Sat, Feb 28 2009
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Filed under: coreldraw, Technique, printing, Advanced, Tips, Beginner, Quick Tip, Drop shadow, Workaround, Version 12
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by Steve Bain
If you’re a legacy CorelDRAW user peforming advanced design or illustration tasks or even basic vector drawing work, this may pique your interest. Since the release of version 12, there have been a couple of key changes to CorelDRAW’s Pick Tool default behavior. You can no longer...
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By Steve Bain If you use CorelDRAW in print press workflow, you're likely familiar with overprint properties. But did you know recent versions of CorelDRAW let you preview overprints onscreen? It's another neat feature you won't see in many other graphics programs. In this tutorial, we'll...
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Thu, Feb 12 2009
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By Steve Bain
There’s nothing better than harnessing the power of your computer to create hundreds or even thousands of objects in the blink of an eye. CorelDRAW’s Artistic Media Tool sprayer enables you to do just that. You can ’spray’ objects onto any open or closed path and...
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Thu, Jan 22 2009
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By Steve Bain Designers and small business owners creating printed business and marketing collateral often need to be resourceful to stay within their budget. If you're using CorelDRAW and Corel PHOTO-PAINT, you have everything you need to minimize your costs. Let's explore a few color strategies...
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Sat, Jan 10 2009
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By Steve Bain
In part 1 of this 2-part tutorial, we learned how to create the illusion of chiseled effects in CorelDRAW using very basic shapes. Now we’ll explore how to work with more complex shapes. We’ll also reveal how to add realistic color schemes to simulate various lighting levels...
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Sun, Dec 28 2008
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Filed under: coreldraw, Technique, illustration, Advanced, Special Effects, Tips, Depth effect, Bevels, Typography, Vector tools, 3D lighting