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CorelDraw Video Tutorial Online

By: JB. Alohan - Madrid,Spain

                Coreldraw is a graphics software made by Corel Corporation. It is the most complete and powerful graphic software one can think of. It’s ease of use coupled with performance, rendering and finishing makes it the toast of every graphic artist. If you can manipulate it then you can create or re-create any graphics work beyond your wildest imagination.

I am going to take you through the basics of using coreldraw and how to get the best out of this powerful software. This tutorial may not cover every basics of coreldraw but at least, the most important sections of it, which I believe if you can know very well, will be ok for you to start designing with corel draw.

There is an extension of this tutorial in Video at the end of this lesson for a visual understanding of all you will be reading about in this first section.

Please except you have understand the basics of designing with corel draw don’t skip any section of this tutorial as every section is very important to each other.

In this section I will be introducing you to the software CORELDRAW proper. We will overview  the working space, menus, toolbox etc.

COREL DRAW OVERVIEW

The diagram below is a complete coreldraw window with all it’s features. We are going to take each section labelled one by one. First lets believe you have a coreldraw installed in your machine. So open  or launch it to follow up and test live what you will be learning as we move on. The diagram used throughout this tutorial are snapshots taking from coreldraw x4 (version 14). Its not too different form coreldraw x3 and version 12.

• MENU BAR: this holds all the menu in drop down format. Nearly all the functions carry out when using coreldraw can be found in the menu. The menus are a bit much and may seems complex for a beginner, but gradually you will get used to the major ones which you will always be using.
• PAPER SIZE: this is where you choose the paper size of your workspace e.g A4, A3, Envelop, Letter etc.
• PAGE ORIENTATION: where you choose your page orientation. There are two page orientation options available in coreldraw. See examples below...

• MEASUREMENT MEDIUM: here you select the medium of measurement that best suite your purpose, ranging form millimetres, centimetres, metres, points, pixels etc. You can leave this with the default setting if you will not be needing it.
• TOOLBOX: this is a very important section of coreldraw because it holds all the major tools in icon format that you will be working with, e.g Pick tool, Shape Tool, Drop Shadow etc.

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