Description:

Start using Corel DRAW to produce expert graphic design.

Corel Draw is the perfect option if you're searching for software that is simple to use and allows you to quickly create logos, business cards, or flyers. Professionals all around the world use Corel DRAW to create all types of promotional materials, including posters, roll-up banners, business cards, brochures, and logos.

Make graphics in the style that you like.
Learn while you practice. Practice files are included in this lesson so you can follow along and learn by doing.

• Creating a document to start with
• Creating shapes to be used in your layout
  
• Combining shapes to create logos and graphical elements
  
• Using custom color palettes
  
• Editing text and installing fonts
  
• Aligning and grouping objects
  
• Importing and cropping images

Requirements

For this lesson, students must have CorelDRAW 2017 installed on their PCs.

Who should take this course:

• You are only beginning your career as a graphic designer.
  
• You have never used CorelDRAW, so you are a complete newbie.
  
• You've experimented with CorelDRAW, but you want to improve your graphic design abilities.
  
• You are a business owner who wants to create your own advertising materials in order to save money.
  
• You are a marketer who became impatient waiting for the advertising agency to submit a bid for your next flyer and poster design.
  

 Credit:  Binaview

What You Will Learn

At the end of this study you will learn the following:

• Introduction of CorelDraw
• Understand the CorelDraw environment
• How to create, save and re-open a CorelDraw document
• How to create basic objects, add text to a design and to Apply colors
• How use tools like the shape tool, polygon tool, star tool, complex star tool, spiral tool, banner shape tools, arrow shape tool and others
• How to make multiple selection on CorelDraw
• Alignment and shortcuts to carryout alignments
• Learn to perform basic function in CorelDraw like group and ungroup, weld, trim, intersect and others.
• How to carry out more operations on CorelDraw like the undo and redo, copy and paste, powerclip, mirror and others
• Learn to use line tools like the freehand tool, Bezier tool and the pen tool
• Learn advance function of the shape tool
• How to add and delete nodes, convert shapes to curves, lines to curve and back to lines
• How to import pictures into CorelDraw
• How to Recreate the popular Pepsi logo
• Learn advance CorelDraw tools like the transparency tool, extrude tool, shadow tool, extort tool and others
• How to use the Interactive Fill Tool
• Shortcuts for fill and outline colors
• How to use the Color Eyedropper Tool
• Bitpmap and Learn how to convert objects into bitmaps