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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on Sat, Jun 20 2009
Filed under: coreldraw, illustration, Tips, Basic, Feature, New feature, Glyph nodes, Smart Drawing Tool
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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on Fri, May 15 2009
Filed under: coreldraw, design, illustration, Advanced, Tips, Basic, Feature, Workflow, Vector tools, Quick Trace, Tracing digital images, Logo tracing, PowerTRACE
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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on Thu, Apr 9 2009
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
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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on Fri, Apr 3 2009
Filed under: coreldraw, design, illustration, Tips, Layout Strategies, Basic, Feature, precision drawing, Dynamic Guides, Add new tag, sticky guides, drawing techniques, Object snapping
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...
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on Fri, Jan 16 2009
Filed under: coreldraw, Technique, Tips, Layout Strategies, Basic, Beginner, Photo cropping