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...
Posted to
Graphics Feeds - English
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...
Posted to
Graphics Feeds - English
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...
Posted to
Graphics Feeds - English
on Fri, Jan 16 2009
Filed under: coreldraw, Technique, Tips, Layout Strategies, Basic, Beginner, Photo cropping
By Steve Bain
A simple fold can transform a flat sheet into many useful things. More complex folding can create delicate art or practical objects. Just ask anyone who’s worked in origami-the Japanese art of folding paper into unique shapes. Paper folding is a finishing process that is almost involved...
Posted to
Graphics Feeds - English
on Wed, Dec 10 2008
Filed under: printing, design, Tips, Layout Strategies, Die cut, Kit fold, Gatefold, Folding formats, Finishing process, Quarter fold, Paper folding, Origami, Map folds
By Steve Bain There are good and bad ways to build a layout. In this tutorial, you'll learn about layout and design habits that you should definitely avoid, and I'll demonstrate a few best practices to adopt. There's a little something for everyone in this installment.
Posted to
Graphics Feeds - English
on Wed, Nov 26 2008
Filed under: coreldraw, design, Tips, Layout Strategies, Basic, Feature