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• WORKSPACE: this is your screen paper space where all you coreldraw art work will be carried out. Any work done outside this space when printed would not be displayed.
• COLOUR PALETTE: this where you pick and apply colours to your artwork simply by highlighting your work and clicking on any colour to apply. Leftclick for inner contents and rightclick for outlines.
• PAGE SELECTOR: this becomes useful when you are working with multiple pages. You simply have to click on the page number to the display any of the pages. And here you can add or delete pages as well.

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By: JB. Alohan - Madrid,Spain

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Coreldraw Tutorial -Tool Box

As the name implies is a set of coreldraw tools displayed in the form of icons. Knowing how to use these tools covers the basics of coreldraw. We may not take all in this tutorial as there is a video tutorial that will be explaining them all in details later. But lets take the commonest and the most important among them.

PICK TOOL:

This is the most important I would say of all the tools in corel tool box. It forms the basic of all coreldraw functions. The pick tool is use to select object, text or any content on the workspace in order to highlight it before any other application or transformation can be apply to that content. It is also used to move object around, to duplicate object through drag and rightclick drop. It is the default tool selected when you first launch coreldraw.

SHAPE TOOL:

This tool is use to create irregular shapes through dragging of nodes. Through it nods can be added or deleted from any shape. It can also be launched by pressing F10 in your keyboard.

CROP TOOL:

This tool is used to crop objects by simply clicking on the object and dragging to draw a rectangle shape within the object and finally clicking on the draw rectangle to minus the area outside the rectangle.

ZOOM TOOL:

This is used to zoom in and out of the your workspace. Simply pressing Z on your keyboard will also launch this tool. You can also zoom in to your workspace by pressing F2 and dragging through the area you want to zoom into. And then equally press F3 to zoom out.

FREE HAND TOOL:

Otherwise liken to pencil tool is used to draw straight and irregular lines. To draw a straight line you simply need to click on the beginning point then make sure you release your hand from your mouse button, then pressing down your control button on your keyboard drag your mouse to the end point you want your line to stop and click again before you release the control button. But to draw irregular lines you simply have to click on your mouse and still holding it down move your mouse around the workspace to draw what you want. In case of error or mistake along your drawing you can go back to the point of the line where you want to start your from again by pressing your shift button on your computer keyboard but make sure you are still holding down your mouse button.

SMART FILL TOOL:

This is used to apply colour to objects. It apply colour to objects fill and outline and can also be use to determine the thickness of the outline.

RECTANGLE TOOL:

This is used to draw rectangle shapes simply by clicking while still holding down the mouse drag on your workspace and release. By pressing the control button down on your key board while dragging will give a perfect shape (A square shape)

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Before I begin to lecture you on how to use the corel tools in the tool box, I want you to know that incase you make a mistake while working with coreldraw and you want to reverse the action to the previous point just simply press “control + Z” button on your computer keyboard this will take you back one step.

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