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 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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on Sat, Jan 10 2009
Filed under: coreldraw, Technique, printing, design, photo-paint, Advanced, Special Effects, Tips, Workaround, Overprinting, Color styles, Duotones
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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on Sat, Dec 20 2008
Filed under: coreldraw, Technique, design, illustration, Advanced, Special Effects, Tips, Basic, Chisel shapes, Depth effect, Bevels, Typography, Vector tools