CorelDRAW is a popular computer software that was develop by
Corel Corporation of Ottawa, Canada. This corporation was founded by Michael
Cowplana in 1985. CorelDraw is vector software which is used to edit, create
and draw vector images/graphics.
In this way, we can make any brochures, visiting cards,
logo, ads. banner, magazines etc and later can be converted into images and PDF
easily. The latest version now a days are using is Corel graphic suit 2019
(version 21).
To learn CorelDRAW like a pro, you need to attain good
understanding on the tools and techniques. To do so, join CorelDRAW course
from ADMEC Multimedia Institute and accelerate
your design career.
Some of the Corel tools have been explained below: -
Pick Tool – This allow us to select an image
or object in CorelDRAW document. It also allows us to resize (increase or
decrease the size), rotate and skew any image or object.
Shape tool – This tool allows us to edit the
shape of object. In this we can manipulate any object by adding or deleting
nodes and changing their shapes. We can change any node in curve or straight
line very easily. To use this tool, we can also press F10 from our keyboard.
Crop tool – This
tool allows us to resize any object. We can remove unwanted area from this tool
that we didn't want. As I have mention in pick tool also that you can resize
the image or object. So, difference in both the tools is that pick tool is only
for resizing the object or picture from pick tool we cannot remove unwanted
area and from this tool we can remove unwanted area.
Eraser
tool – This tool allows us to remove or erase unwanted portion
of our drawing. When you erase some drawing it automatically make different
portions of remaining object and one thing you can also do after erasing you
can divide it in different portions. To use this tool, we can also press X key
from our keyboard.
Zoom tool – This
tool allows us to zoom our CorelDRAW drawing page. This tool can magnify any
image number of times and we can small to small thing on that image. To use
this tool, we can also press Z key from our keyboard or we can rotate our mouse
wheel for zoom in and zoom out in opposite direction.
Pan tool – This
tool allows us to drag the hidden areas of a drawing into the view area. This
tool is used after you use the zoom tool and your picture size get increases
and it goes out from your screen so by using this tool you can see the hidden
area without changing the zoom level.
Pen tool – This
tool allows us to make straight as well as curve lines. This tool is very
important tool in CorelDRAW as most of the cut outs, drawing and objects are
made with this tool. This tool is helpful in making logo, vector images etc by
drawing and controlling the nodes we had made.
Text tool – This
tool allows us to write the text on drawing page or on any object or image. You
can write two type of text from this tool i.e., artistic text and paragraph
text. From paragraph text we can create a body of text according to our page or
object and then text can be typed. Basically, this text is used for long data.
Artistic text is basically used for short lines such as titles. We can give
graphic effects to this text; we can fit this text in any path and we can also
give effects to it. To use this tool, we can also press F8 from our keyboard.
Transparency
tool – This tool allows us to add transparency to any object. We
can set the level to transparency by clicking on the object this tool gives you
the option their than at which level you have to set the transparency.
Colour eyedropper
tool – This tool allows us to copy colour properties of any
object or image from our drawing page. After copy the properties you can easily
fill it in the object you have made. So, this option is also useful as we don't
have to match the colour properties manually. You can simply open the image in
CorelDRAW and can easily copy the colour properties of that image.
Author:
I am Anchit and I am pursuing Graphic Master Plus course from ADMEC Multimedia Institute. I have written this blog as a part of
my project which I was assigned as a part of CorelDraw Project i.e. Campaign on Green Tea.
I hope you must have got a good idea of CorelDraw tools
after reading this blog.
