CorelDRAW Essentials: : Beginners Course for Mac & Win Users

Welcome to the CorelDRAW Essentials: : Beginners Course for Mac & Win Users !

Are you eager to dive into the world of graphic design? Whether you're a budding artist, a business owner aiming to craft captivating visuals, or a seasoned designer looking to expand your skills, this course is your gateway to mastering CorelDRAW.

In this comprehensive tutorial, we'll embark on an exciting journey through the versatile realm of CorelDRAW. From the very basics to advanced techniques, this course is crafted to cater to beginners and seasoned designers alike, ensuring a seamless learning experience across Mac and Windows platforms.

Throughout our lessons, you'll discover the power of CorelDRAW's tools, unlock the secrets behind stunning designs, and gain the confidence to unleash your creativity in ways you never thought possible. From vector artistry to logo design and efficient workflow strategies, every module is meticulously designed to elevate your skills and transform your ideas into visually captivating realities.

Get ready to explore the interface, master essential tools, and embark on hands-on projects that will solidify your understanding of CorelDRAW. With step-by-step guidance and practical exercises, you'll witness your skills flourish as you progress through the course.

Join me on this exhilarating journey into the world of graphic design with CorelDRAW. Let's turn your creative aspirations into beautifully crafted designs!

You can learn all these tools & projects in this tutorial

1. Introduction

• Introduction to CorelDRAW & graphic design

• CorelDRAW workspace tour

• Interface CorelDRAW

         • CorelDRAW options

         • Handling windows

         • Handling Toolbars & dockers

         • Standard toolbar

         • Property bar

         • Dockers

         • Status bar

         • Choosing a workspace

2. Document handling (CorelDRAW basics)

• New document, New from template

• Open document, open recent documents, close document

• Save & save as template

• Importing, exporting & printing

3. Important menu commands

• Edit Menu Commands:

         • Undo, redo, cut, copy, paste

         • Delete, duplicate, clone, select all, find and replace

• Object Menu Commands

         • Align and distribute

         • Changing order of object (to front of page, to back of page, to front of layer, to back of layer, forward once, back one…)

         • Group, ungroup and ungroup all

         • Hide, show and show all

         • Lock object, unlock object, unlock all objects

         • Combined command

         • Shaping methods (weld, trim, intersect, simplify, front minus back, back minus front)

• View menu commands:

         • View modes (wireframe, normal, enhanced, pixel)

         • Ruler, guidelines, gridlines, dynamic guidelines

         • Snap to object, snap to guideline, snap to gridline

4. How to use toolbox & property bar commands

• Working with pick tools flyout

         • Pick tool (select, resize, stretch, skew, rotate, mirror and etc.)

         • Freehand pick tool

         • Free transform tool

• Zoom tool & pan tool (zoom in, zoom out, fit to page/ to page width/ to page height/ to contents/ to selection)

• Fill tools & filling methods (properties)

         • Interactive fill tools

         • Smart fill tools

         • Mesh fill tools

         • Color eyedropper tools

         • Attribute eyedropper tools

• Curve tools : Freehand tool, 2- point line tool, Bezier tool, pen tool, B-spline tool, Polyline tool, 3- point curve tool

• Drawing tools & properties

         • Artistic media tool

         • Live sketch tool

         • Smart drawing tool

• Rectangle tools (rectangle, 3- point rectangle)

• Ellipse tools (ellipse, 3- point ellipse) honest

• Shapes tools ( polygon, star, spiral, common shapes, impact tool, graph paper)

• How to use tools in edit shape flyout

         • Shape tool (corner style, convert to curves, nodes and curve styles)

         • Smooth Tool

         • Smear tool

         • Twirl tool

         • Attract and repel tool

         • Smudge tool

         • Roughen tool

• How to use crop tools and erase

         • Crop tool

         • Knife tool

         • Virtual segments delete tool

         • Eraser tool

• Working with text tool & Table

         • Artistic text

         • Paragraph text

         • Path text

         • Table text

• Dimension tools (parallel, horizontal or vertical, angular, segment, 2-leg callout)

• Connector tools ( connector, anchor editing)

• How to use effects tools

          • Shadow

         • Contour

         • Blend

         • Distort

         • Envelope

         • Extrude

         • Block shadow

• Transparency tool & properties

5. How to Use Effects and Bitmaps Commands

• Effects menu commands

• Edit & trace bitmap images

  
  

6. Practical Projects

• Project 01: Lets's Illustrate a Simple Logo

• Project 02: Let's Illustrate CorelDRAW Logo

• Project 03: Lets's Illustrate LG Logo

• Project 04: Let's Illustrate an Avocado Fruit

• Project 05: Let's Create a Business Card Design

• Project 06: Let's Create a Bookmark Design

• Project 07: Let's Create a Book Cover Design

• Project 08: Let's Create a T-shirt Design

• Extra Bookmark Project : Let's Create a Bookmark Design (II)