CONTENTS

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TOPIC No.

Introduction 1

Features 1

Hands on Exercise – Fitting Text along a path 4

Hands-on Exercise - Creating Envelope Effect 5

Hands-on Exercise - Creating Shapes using Blend 7

Hands-on Exercise - Blending along a Path 8

Hands-on Exercise - Creating Concentric Circles using the Contour Effect 10

Hands-on Exercise - Distortion Effects – Push & Pull 11

Hands-on Exercise - Distortion Effects – Zipper 12

Hands-on Exercise - Distortion Effects – Twister 13

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Corel DRAW 11
Objectives:

At the end of the contact / experiential / practice sessions the participants

will be able to

1.0 Work with Corel Draw to develop Graphical designs.

1.1 List the features in Corel Draw 11
1.2 Use the tools available in Corel Draw 11.
1.3 Prepare graphics for various applications by practising through
the hands-on-exercises.

Introduction:

Corel DRAW 11’s support for symbols makes formerly laborious tasks, such
as asset management and global changes, quick and easy. It is built on this
advantage by adding new line and shape creation tools. Each of the new tools
utilizes a three-point approach to line or shape creation. For instance, you draw a
curved line with the 3 Point Curve Tool by clicking on one spot, dragging to another,
letting go of the mouse and then clicking on another spot. There are similar new tools
for drawing rectangles and ellipses.

Features
• Software for graphic design, page layout, photo editing, and vector animation
• Extensive compatibility
• Full range of output options
• Includes CorelDraw 11, Photo-Paint 11, and R.A.V.E. 2
• Create Web animations in minutes

Symbols - Symbols provide a much more efficient way of using repeating

elements in a file, resulting in smaller file sizes and simplified editing. Instead of
copying or cloning many repeating elements, you define an object as a symbol
and place "instances" throughout your document. If you need to edit the symbol,

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you can do so once and all instances are updated. However, you can edit specific
properties of individual symbols such as transparency, rotation, and size.

3-point tools - Three new tools – the 3-point ellipse, 3-point rectangle, and
3-point curve – simplify the creation of basic shapes. With the 3-point ellipse and
3-point rectangle, you can draw these shapes at angles in one step rather than
drawing the shape and then rotating it. Shapes are drawn by click-dragging to
set the angle, then clicking a second time to define the length and height. The 3-
point curve tool works similarly to draw curved lines. A preview of the shape is
shown before you make the final click, so you can see exactly what you're going
to get.

Text import formatting options - When importing or pasting text, CorelDRAW

offers three options: maintain fonts and formatting, maintain formatting only, or
discard fonts and formatting. This works fairly well, although fonts and
formatting were not entirely maintained in some situations. It seemed to work
more reliably when pasting text rather than importing it. It is possible to
maintain fonts only and discard all formatting without any problem.

Convert paragraph text to curves – It possible to convert paragraph text to

curves and preserve special formatting such as drop caps, bullets, line spacing,
tabs and justification. This works without flaw.

Pressure-sensitive Smudge and Roughen brushes - These two new brushes

give you more ways to modify shapes and lines. The Smudge brush lets you
manipulate curves and object outlines simply by pushing them around. By
tracing over outlines with the Roughen brush, you can give them a zigzag or
spiky appearance. Both these tools are sensitive to pressure, tilt, and bearing
when used with a graphics tablet.

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New Polyline and Pen tools - These are simplified versions of the Freehand
and Bezier tools, respectively. With the Polyline tool you can easily alternate
between drawing freehand curves and straight line segments in a continuous
path. The Pen tool works almost like the Bezier tool, but gives you more
feedback as you draw by showing you a preview of the next curve segment
before it is laid down. A bit difficult to explain in words, but once you use these
tools, you're likely to find them easier and more flexible than the Freehand and
Bezier tools, which Corel was smart enough not to replace entirely.

Enhanced snapping – It is not much of a snapper, but now there is even better
precision available with this.

Enhanced shaping - Three new options for combining shapes are now available
via the property bar, menus, and a docker. Simplify deletes the overlapping
portions of overlapping objects and can be used on multiple objects. Front minus
back keeps the front object and trims the object behind it, deleting the hidden
portion. Back minus front keeps the object on the bottom while trimming the
object on top, discarding the overlapping area.

Closing line segments - Now when you close a path you can choose from four
options: Closest Nodes with Straight Lines, Closest Nodes with Curvy Lines, Start
to End with Straight Lines, and Start to End with Curvy Lines.

Align & Distribute commands - Now more of these options are offered from
the menus, and the Align & Distribute dialog can remain open all the time.
Handy, but it would have been even better as a docker with align and distribute
combined into a single panel.

Better support for numerous formats - Support for the following formats has
been expanded or enhanced: DSF, SVG, PSD, CPT, PDF, and DXF/DWG.

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Hands-on-Exercises
Fitting Text along a path
1. Type the text to fit in the path.
- Select the text tool in the Toolbox
- Single click somewhere in the drawing area and type the required text.

2. Using the freehand tool , draw the Path (Curve) along which you want to fit the
text.

3. Using the Pick tool , select both the text and the Path and then select Text>Fit
Text to Path.

Note:

If you a path already and just want to enter text over it,

With the text tool selected, click over the path and type. The text will be oriented to the
path.

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Creating Envelope Effect

1. Creating the Object to which you want to apply an envelope.

- Select the Basic Shapes Tool from the Toolbar.
- From the Property Bar that appears (Below the Standard Toolbar), select the
Perfect Shapes tool and Select the Smiley (Face Shape).

- Draw the Smiley on the Drawing Area.

2. Creating the envelope.

- Select the Polygon Tool from the Toolbar.
- Draw a Pentagon in the Drawing area.

3. Applying Envelope effect.

- Now select the Smiley using the Pick Tool .
- Choose the Interactive Envelope Tool (It is grouped with the Interactive Blend and
other Interactive Tools).

Interactive Envelope Tool

- Choose Create Envelope From Tool in the Property Bar.

Create Envelope From

Now the Cursor will become a targeting cursor .

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- Now click at the envelop (Pentagon) with this cursor.

- Now Double-click somewhere in the red border that surrounds the face.

Double-click here to apply the Envelope.

The envelope will now be applied to the shape.

The following pictures show the effect of applying the Pentagon envelope to an
Artistic Text.

Fig. a. Original Text Fig. b. Envelope Used Fig. c. Final Output

The following pictures show the effect of applying the Pentagon envelope to a
Paragraph text.

Fig. a. Original Text Fig. b. Envelope Used Fig. c. Final Output

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Creating Shapes using Blend

1. Creating a circle.
a. Using the Ellipse tool draw a circle at the left side of your drawing area.

b. Set both the width and height of the circle to 10 using the Property bar that
appears (Below the Standard Menu Bar).

Object Size

If the Drawing Units is not in millimetres, (in Inches or Some other unit), to change the
units to millimetre (mm),
- Select the Pick Tool
- Click on some blank place in the page.
- In the Property bar, choose “Millimeter” from the Drawing units.

2. Creating a Star.
a. Select the Star Shapes Tool from the Toolbar (it is grouped with Basic
Shapes, Arrow Shapes and other tools)

Star Shapes

b. Draw a Star on the right end of your drawing area, and set its object sizes as
width=25 and height=25.

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3. Blending the Circle and Star.

a. Select the Interactive Blend Tool from the Toolbar.
b. Now Drag the circle and Drop it on to the Star.

c. In the Property bar that appears, enter the Number of Steps as 5.

Blend Steps

Blending along a Path

1. Drawing the Path along which the Blended group is to be oriented.

a. Use the freehand tool and draw a Sine wave like path.

2. Aligning the Blended group to the created path.

a. Select the Pick Tool from the Toolbar and select the Blended group by
clicking on any one object in the group.
b. From the Property bar that appears, select Path Properties and select New
Path. Path Properties

Now the Cursor becomes a path targeting cursor .

c. With this cursor, select the Sine wave.

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3. Distributing the Objects evenly from the Start to End of the Path.
a. From the Property bar, select the Miscellaneous Blend Options and Check the
Blend along full path from the pull down menu that appears.
Miscellaneous Blend Options

Check this to Blend along Full Path

4. Hiding the Path.

a. (If the Colour palette is not open already) Open the Colour palette by choosing
Window > Color Palettes > Default RGB Palette.
b. To make the path invisible, select the Show Path Option from the Path
Properties. Path Properties

Show Path

c. Right-click the Cross (X) Symbol in the colour palette.

None option

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Creating Concentric Circles using the Contour Effect

1. Draw a circle of size (150,150) using the Ellipse tool using

the method told in Blend exercise.

2. Align the Circle to the Centre of the Page using Arrange >
Align and Distribute > Centre to Page.

3. (If the Contour Docker is not open already) Choose Window >
Dockers > Contour.

4. Enter 20 in the Offset and 3 in Steps.

5. Click Apply.

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Distortion Effects – Push & Pull

1. Drawing a Star.
a. Select the Basic Shapes Tool and Select the Star Shapes.
b. From the Property bar that appears, select the 24 Point Star.
c. Draw it on the Stage.

2. Applying Colours.
a. Click at the Red Colour in the Colour Docker to apply Red colour Fill.
b. Right-Click at the yellow colour in the Docker to apply yellow as the Outline
Colour.
Right-Click this to give Click this to Fill Red Colour
Yellow as Outline Colour

3. Applying Pull Effect.

a. Select the Interactive Distortion Tool from the Toolbar.

Interactive Distortion Tool

b. In the Property bar that appears, enter 25 in the Push Pull Distortion
Amplitude.

Push Pull Distortion Amplitude

4. Now try applying a negative value (Push).

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Distortion Effects – Zipper

1. Drawing a Spiral.
a. Select the Spiral Tool.
b. In the Property bar, enter 3 in the Spiral revolutions.
c. Draw a Spiral on the Page.

2. Applying Zipper Effect.

a. Select the Interactive Distortion Tool.

Interactive Distortion Tool

b. In the Property bar, select the Zipper Distortion.

Zipper Distortion Amplitude Zipper Distortion Frequency

c. Enter the value 20 for both the Zipper Distortion Amplitude and Zipper
Distortion Frequency.

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3. The following figures show the effect of Zipper Distortion applied to a spiral with
different values of distortion and frequency.

Amplitude = 50 Amplitude = 20
Frequency = 20 Frequency = 50

Distortion Effects – Twister

1. Drawing a Square.
a. Using the Rectangle tool draw a square on a page.

2. Select the Interactive Distortion Tool.

Interactive Distortion Tool

a. In the Property bar, select the Twister Distortion.

Complete Rotations

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3. Enter the value ‘1’ in the Complete Rotations.

Conclusion
Only the key features of Corel Draw are briefly listed. When you start
practising in CorelDraw, it is possible to innovate with the features available. Actually,
this is a boon to individuals involved in Graphic designing and Desktop printing.

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