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By: JB. Alohan - Madrid,Spain
Part 3
ELLIPSE TOOL:
This is used to draw ellipse shapes like circle or oval shapes. This can be achieved by simply clicking on your workspace while still holding down your mouse button drag to draw your shape and release button when done. But to draw a perfect circle you will have to hold down the control button while dragging.
POLYGON TOOL:
This is used to draw shapes with more than four sides. The default sides is five but you can add to the side by increasing the number of sides in the option box in the property bar of your coreldraw just above the rulers. And also, by using shape tool to drag the nodes between the shape edges you can easily create a star shape. By pressing down your control button when you drag to form your star will give you a perfect star shape. See diagram below...
TABLE TOOL:
This is used to draw a table. You can specify the rows and columns the changing their value in the property bar.
INTERACTIVE BLEND TOOL:
This is used to blend two objects to each other by simply dragging from one to the other.
OUTLINE TOOL:
This tool is used to specify the thickness of an outline and to determine it colours. By clicking on the tool you can choose from the drop down options like,”no outline, outline colour, thickness in numbers” etc.
FILL TOOL:
This tool is used to apply fill to an object or shape in different format like “uniform fill, pattern fill, texture fill” etc. You can get more function out of this tool from the property bar when you have already launched it.
INTERACTIVE FILL TOOL:
This tool is use to create gradient fill on shapes by simply clicking and dragging along the shape to create a linear gradient which is the default. You can change the gradient type and colour in the property bar. See diagram below...


SHAPE TOOLS
This tool is use to draw other types of shapes like the love shape, the cross shape, right angle shape etc. You have to select the shape you want to draw from a drop down list in the property bar. See diagram below...
TEXT TOOL:
This is used for typing text on your workspace by simply clicking on any spot in your workspace where you want to start typing from. This will launch a blinking cursor, then you can start typing. This type of typing is called a graphic text. To launch the other type of text known as the paragraph text which create a box kind of a margin where you will have to do all your typing without going out of the specified box area.

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You simply have to click on the spot where you want to start your typing and drag while still holding down the mouse button to cover the area where you want your texts to be and release button. This will create a sort of dotted box in the space you have specified, All your typing will be within this box. You can change the look of the text by changing it´s character in the character selector drop down menu in the property bar. See diagram below. More will be explained on typing in the video tutorial.
The coreldraw video tutorial is under process, it will be coming up very soon.



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