Corel Draw Tutorial For Beginners

This post is specially for beginners. In this post i have explained some basics of corel draw.If you want to learn how to install corel before reading this article go to Steps to install corel draw.After reading my article try to design your own visiting card by reading simple steps to design visiting card

Starting Corel Draw

After opening corel draw this window will appear giving you three main options. New,Recently Used and Open.

New

To start a new page for corel you have to click on New.

Recently Used

Some of the documents that you have opened previously are shown here (like bag cdr, ali.cdr, orient logo.cdr). Click on the file you want to open again.

Open New File

If you want to open a file of corel click on Open and select the file you want.

Main Page

This is the main page on which you will perform all your designing.

Menu Bar

On the top of the main page there is Menu Bar which has following options:

File
Edit
View
Layout
Arrange
Effects
Bitmaps
Text
Tools
Windows
Help.

Standard Bar

This bar is below the Menu Bar. This bar gives the options of:

New
Open
Save
Print
Cut
Copy
Paste
Undo
Import
Export
Zoom Levels
Application Launcher

Property Bar

Property bar is below Standard Bar. It has different options like:

Paper Size
Paper Width And Height
Portrait
Landscape
Drawing Units

Paper Size

This option of Property Bar allows you to select the paper size on which you want to design.

These are

Letter
Legal
Tabloid
Statement/Half
Executive
Fanfold
Double
Broad Sheet
A0
A1
A2
A3
A4
A5
A6
B1(ISO)
B4(ISO)
B5(ISO)
B4(JIS)
B5(JIS)
C3
C4
C5
C6
RA2
Ra3
Ra4
Envelope #9
Envelope #10
Envelope #11
Envelope #12
Envelope #14
Envelope Monarch
Envelope Check
DL
German Fanfold
German Legal Fanfold
Japanese Post Card
Etc

Paper Width And Height

You can set the Width and Height of your page, even the size of objects in your design (like triangle, rectangle etc).

Portrait

By this option of Property Bar your can make your page in portrait form.

Landscape

By this option of Property Bar your can make your page in landscape form.

Drawing Units

You can select the units of your drawing by this option.

Some of the drawing units are:

Inches
Millimeters
Picas,Points
Pixels
Ciceros,didots
Didots
Feet
Yards
Miles
Centimeters
Meters
Kilometers
Q
H

Tool Box

This is the main part of corel draw. It contains all the designing tools. From now onward i will tell you some basics of these tools. I suggest you to follow these practically also.

Pick Tool

This tool is mostly used while working on corel draw. With this tool you can select your object and can move it. Even if you are in other options of corel draw and trying to find how to get out from option, simply select pick tool. Below i have given the example of pick tool. I have drawn the rectangle and selected it. The black boxes show that it is selected by pick tool.

Shape Tool

This is one of the main tool in corel while working with shapes.

These are:

Knife Tool
Eraser Tool
Sumdge Brush
Roughen Brush
Free Transform Tool
Virtual Segment Tool

I am going to explain some main tools inside shape tool.

By Keyboard you can select this tool by pressing F10.

Working with shape Tool

I am giving you simple example of shape tool. First draw rectangle now select shape tool. After selecting click on rectangle and move it on inner side. The result is shown below:

Knife Tool

Eraser Tool

This tool is simply used to erase the object.

By Keyboard you can select this tool by pressing x.

Zoom Tool

This tool is used to zoom in and zoom out. You can do it by simply scrolling.

By Keyboard you can select this tool by pressing z.

Freehand Tool

This is one of the interesting and magical tools of corel. Select it and see the magic of it yourself.

By Keyboard you can select this tool by pressing F5.

Pen Tool

This tool is usually used to draw lines. Some of the main pen tools are:

Freehand Tool
Bezier Tool
Artistic Media Tool
Pen Tool
Polyline Tool
3 Point Curve Tool
Interactive Connector Tool
Dimension Tool

Below i am showing how to draw line using pen tool.

Rectangle Tool

This tool is used to draw rectangle. You can select the size by width and height tool .

By Keyboard you can select this tool by pressing F6.

Ellipse Tool

This tool is used to draw ellipse.

By Keyboard you can select this tool by pressing F7.

Graph Paper Tool

This tool is used to draw graphs.

It also have

Polygone tool
Spiral Tool

By Keyboard you can select this tool by pressing D.

Basics Shapes

Corel also give s the options to make simple shapes. This is done by basic shapes. Some of the basics shapes are:

Arrow Shapes
Flow Chart Shapes
Star Shapes
Callout Shapes

Arrow Shapes

To draw arrows simply select arrow shapes.

Flow Chart Shapes

This tool is used to draw flowchart shapes.

Star Shapes

No Need to design star by yourself, simply select star shape and get star.

Callout Shapes

This tool is use to draw callout shapes.

Text Tool

This tool is used to write text. You can select the font and size of text from property bar.

By Keyboard you can select this tool by pressing F8.

Interactive Blend Tool

Interactive Drop Shadow Tool

This tool is used to give shadow to the object as shown.

Eyedropper Tool

This tool is used to select color from other object. Some time you want to use the color of other object. In this situation simply use this tool.

Outline Tool

To increase or decrease the thickness of a line or a border use outline tools. This tool is also used to change the color of outline.

Fill Tool

This tool is used to fill the object with some color. There are also some other advance options in this tool which i will discuss on my next posts. These are: