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By Steve Bain
Creating virtually any kind of glass-like effect is by far a favorite of most Web graphic or interface designers. There’s nothing more satisfying than having the ability to create simulated lighting effects in a virtual, dust-free environment. Thanks to CorelDRAW’s interactive effects,...
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Thu, Mar 18 2010
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Filed under: coreldraw, Technique, illustration, Special Effects, Tips, Transparent highlights, Beginner, Contour effect, CorelDraw tutorials, Depth effect, Glass bead, Glass effect, Lighting effects
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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 Applying good-looking bevel effects in CorelDRAW® used to be a slow, tedious task. Since the introduction of new bevel effects in version X3, all that has changed. In this tutorial, we'll take put this new feature to the test for impressive results.
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By Steve Bain The Cutout Lab introduced in Corel PHOTO-PAINT® X3 enables you to extract or copy photo elements from any digital image with precision and relative ease. Much more than just a quick selection tool, the Cutout Lab accurately detects almost any shape and preserves the fine details of an image...
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Sat, Jul 18 2009
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Filed under: Technique, photo-paint, masking, Advanced, Special Effects, Basic, Recent feature, Version X3, New feature, Cut Out Lab, Close-cropping
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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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Whether you use the majority of your digital photos for personal scrapbooking or albums or whether you're a professional layout artist, you can add interest and creative flair to your digital images by applying frames. You can do this quickly and easily in Corel PHOTO-PAINT by using a simple filter...
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By Steve Bain These days, there's no excuse for churning out plain-looking text layouts. Using recent versions of CorelDRAW, there are so many ways you can make text more interesting to read, it's a shame not to take advantage of them. Let's explore a few tricks that you can use with paragraph...
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Thu, Apr 9 2009
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Filed under: coreldraw, design, envelope, Special Effects, Tips, Layout Strategies, Basic, Feature, Typography, Text containers, Drop caps, Paragraph Text, Point-Form lists, Inline graphics, Bullets
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Looking to add a little magic to your digital images? For some time now, PHOTO-PAINT has provided many different ways to apply creative effects to digital photos. If you haven't yet explored what this powerful pixel-altering tool can do, keep reading - you're in for a treat.
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Thu, Mar 12 2009
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Filed under: photo-paint, illustration, Advanced, Special Effects, Tips, Basic, Image Retouching, Natural media effects, Alchemy filter
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By Steve Bain Few things can make a professional design or layout look more amateurish than blurry pictures. But, intentionally blurring certain areas of a picture can help focus attention on other picture elements. Here's a technique you can use to create or exaggerate depth-of-field effects in...
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Mon, Jan 26 2009
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Filed under: Technique, photo-paint, Special Effects, Basic, Beginner, Quick Tip, Touch-up Brush, Retouching, Image Retouching, Depth effect, Depth of field, Gaussian blur
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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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Filed under: coreldraw, Technique, printing, design, photo-paint, Advanced, Special Effects, Tips, Workaround, Overprinting, Color styles, Duotones
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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
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Chiseled graphics emulate the look of 3D shapes. In this tutorial, you learn a technique to create graphics that appear either raised or recessed. Your success will depend on your object's shape, your skill at node editing and path commands, and your imagination.
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Sat, Dec 20 2008
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Filed under: coreldraw, Technique, design, illustration, Advanced, Special Effects, Tips, Basic, Chisel shapes, Depth effect, Bevels, Typography, Vector tools
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By Steve Bain
Whether you’re a professional, a tourist or just a weekend photo hobbyist, there’s nothing like taking a few pictures in the great outdoors on a bright, sunny day. Sometimes, though, that sunshine can work against you. The bright light and harsh shadows may hide the person,...
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Tue, Dec 16 2008
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Filed under: Technique, photo-paint, Special Effects, Tips, Basic, Color cast, Dodge, Image correction, Image Retouching, Burn, Contrast
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By Steve Bain Whether you're out snapping photos with your digital camera or just scanning old family album favorites to disc, you're bound to end up with little anomalies that you wish you could fix quickly. In this tutorial, we'll show you five common problems with scanned images and digital...
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Sun, Dec 7 2008
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Filed under: photo-paint, Special Effects, Tips, Basic, Feature, PhotoPaint, Clone Tool, Touch-up Brush, Sharpen, Retouching, Red Eye Removal