Introduction to coreldraw

Shapes & Objects

CorelDRAW has three different tools that can create ellipses (including circles), rectangles (including squares), polygons and stars. You can combine artistic text with these shapes to create impressive and attractive graphics.

An element in a drawing such as an image, shape, line, text, curve, symbol, or layer is known as an object

In order to become much more competent and capable in making simple designs needed for your business and/or company or even before doing anything complex, it is but sensible to know and enhance yourself on the basics of manipulating objects in a software graphics program on your PC.

Learn well on how to work with objects by moving them, modifying, sharing properties and other more powerful production techniques. Basically, you need to be attuned to the software program you are using and know the wide range of tools, properties and features it may contain. You also need to discover simple to complex commands and try out short-cuts or other simpler ways of executing a certain performance.

CorelDraw is one of the vector-based software programs dedicated to graphic designs for professional business-oriented output. It can accomplish all kinds of "magic" maneuvers through objects you create and develop. Basically, your awareness of object functions determines much of your skill in CorelDraw program.

One function that you truly need to develop is on how to modify objects. Here and now, we could do an exercise on modifying objects in CorelDraw.

First thing of course, is to create several objects that you can sample on. Like, you can create a red rectangle, a green circle and a blue triangle. Select these three objects you have created by doing Marquee or pressing SHIFT. To save much of your time, try applying any attribute to more than one object at a time. Aside from saving your time, it may also help you in improving quality and consistency in your work. Having selected all three objects, choose a thick outline. You will find that the new outline you have applied will be received by all the objects.

Then, how can you start modifying them? For example, you like to change the objects' color and size.Click off the selection to deselect. You may select any of the three objects you want to change. Let's say, you select the rectangle and the circle. Open the color palette and click any color to change the fill color of the two objects. Now you have accomplished modifying the color of the objects with them still having the same outlines.

In changing the size, you can do the same procedure as changing the color. Click off the selection to deselect. SHIFT select the circle and the rectangle, then click on one of the corner handles and drag it to resize. When you done this, you may note that the triangle remains the same size while the two objects you have selected were resized, but they still share the same outline.

Was the procedure simple enough for you? You can start experimenting on other objects other than the polygons and the circle we have sampled here. You also have to know and be experienced on a variety of other simple functions in CorelDraw, like selecting, aligning and grouping and ungrouping objects, distributing object sets and others. Just remember that in striving to achieve higher level of skills, learn to do simple and basic functions, first.