Introduction

Lesson One

Use to select from a range of colors. Click a color picker to display a series of color swatches, then click the color you want. A color mode made up of cyan (C), magenta (M), yellow (Y), and black (K). Lesson Two

Use to size and position the top left corner of an image at an exact location in the drawing. Place these lines anywhere in the Drawing Window to help you align and position objects. The Drawing Page is the portion of the Drawing Window that appears on the printed page. This area is enclosed by a rectangle with a shadow effect.

Enables and disables the Snap To Guidelines command, which automatically aligns objects with any guidelines you encounter as you drag the objects.

Lets you select, move, and resize objects using the mouse.

Opens the Zoom flyout, which contains the Zoom tool and the Pan tool.

Lets you zoom in and out. Drag to zoom in on a selected area, right-click to zoom out. Select objects (or nodes) using the Pick tool or the Shape tool by clicking outside the objects (or nodes) and dragging diagonally to enclose them in a dotted rectangle, called the marquee box.

Lets you choose a fill color from the on-screen Color Palette, or an outline color by right-clicking a color. The window that contains a CorelDRAW drawing. You can draw anywhere in the Drawing Window, but only objects that are on the Drawing Page (defined by a rectangle with a drop shadow) will print.

Lets you mirror an object left to right and vice-versa. Eight black squares appear at the corners and sides of an object when you select the object. By dragging individual handles, you can transform an object. The shape of the selectin handles change when you scale, resize, or mirror an object.

Opens the object flyout, which contains the Polygon tool, Spiral tool, and Graph Paper tool.

Use to draw spiral shapes.

In a symmetrical spiral, the distance between each revolution of the spiral is constant.

Opens the Outline flyout, which lets you customize outline attributes such as color, width, style, nib shape, and arrowheads.

Lets you customize outline attributes such as width, style, and line-ending shapes. Sample Image

Opens the Shape Edit flyout, which contains the Shape tool, Knife tool, Eraser tool, and Free Transform tool.

Lets you select the last used Free Transform tool, i.e., the Free Rotation tool, Free Angle Reflection tool, Free Scale tool, or the Free Skew tool.

Lets you slant the horizontal and vertical lines of an object simultaneously, relative to the object's anchor point. You can set the anchor point by clicking anywhere in the Drawing Window with the Free Skew tool. Lesson Three

Text created using the Text tool. Use Artistic text when you want to add single lines of text, such as titles, or when you want to apply effects such as fitting text to a path, and creating extrusions and blends.

Text created using the Text tool. Use Paragraph text when you want to add large blocks of text for text-intensive projects. Paragraph formatting features enable you to flow text between frames and columns, create bulleted lists, set tabs and indents, and add drop caps.

Lets you enter words directly on the screen as Artistic text, or in frames as Paragraph text.

Opens the Curve flyout, which contains the Freehand tool, Bezier tool, Natural Pen tool, Dimension tool, and Connector Line tool.

Lets you draw freehand lines and shapes by dragging the mouse, similar to the way you move a pencil on paper.

Opens a flyout, in which you can choose from a variety of line styles. LESSON FOUR

Lets you apply fills using the mouse. The direction and position of the fills are controlled using fill arrows, which can be dragged across the surface of the selected object.

Opens the Interactive Fill flyout, which contains the Interactive Fill tool and the Interactive Mesh Fill tool.

Adds a light source, which is projected toward the selected extruded object.

Adds a second light source, which is projected toward the selected extruded object.

Lets you create object extrusions made of vectors.

Lets you position the vanishing point, relative to the center of the selected extruded object.

Drag the slider (white bar) toward the object's center anchor to decrease the extrusion depth. Drag the slider toward the vanishing point (black X) to increase the extrusion depth.

Lets you set color properties for the extruded surfaces of the selected object.

Lets you set lighting properties for the extruded surfaces of the selected object.

Lets you shape an envelope. You can move envelope nodes freely and use control points to make precise adjustments.

Lets you choose a perspective type for the drop shadow.

Lets you choose an extrusion type.

Lets you define an extrusion in which the front of the object is larger than the back.

Lets you choose the direction of the drop-shadow feathering.

A type of fountain fill that shows a progression of colors in a series of concentric squares that radiate from the center of the object outward.

Lets you choose the start color of your fountain fill.

Lets you choose the end color of your fountain fill.

Opens the Interactive Tool flyout, which contains the Blend tool, Distortion tool, Envelope tool, Extrude tool, Drop Shadow tool, and Contour tool.

Lets you extrude objects by dragging over them.

Lets you apply uniform, fountain, texture, and pattern fills to objects.

Lets you apply texture fills to objects.

Lets you apply uniform, fountain, pattern, or texture transparencies to objects.

Lets you draw polygons, stars, and polygons as stars by dragging the mouse.

Lets you specify whether the shape is a polygon or a star.

Lets you remove the outline from the selected object.

Lets you split an object in two, reshape an object by redrawing its path, or create subpaths in an object.

Lets you apply a distortion to an object by dragging over it. The distortion types are Push and Pull, Zipper, and Twister.

Lets you apply a Twister distortion to an object by dragging over it.

Lets you position a selected object's distortion effect at the exact center of the object.

Lets you blend two objects by dragging the mouse from one object to the other.

Lets you apply envelopes to objects by dragging special nodes or by applying preset envelopes.

Lets you create drop shadows for objects. Samples