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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
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 Has anyone ever known you well enough to finish your sentences? Well, that's sort of how one of the most intuitive drawing tools in CorelDRAW works. In this tutorial I'll demonstrate the Smart Drawing tool. This clever drawing tool automatically recognizes your onscreen squiggles...
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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
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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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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By Steve Bain Once in a while, you discover a drawing feature that's so innovative, it has the potential to completely change the way you draw. The dynamic guides in CorelDRAW will do just that. In fact, after using dynamic guides for a while, you'll wonder how you ever did without them. In this...
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Fri, Apr 3 2009
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Filed under: coreldraw, design, illustration, Tips, Layout Strategies, Basic, Feature, precision drawing, Dynamic Guides, Add new tag, sticky guides, drawing techniques, Object snapping
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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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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 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
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
With all the digital image resources available in CorelDRAW, you are eventually going to need or want to crop a bitmap. Cropping involved hiding or eliminating portions of a digital image and is generally done to alter a bitmap’s proportions to fit a specific design need, or simply...