Intro and Welcome Screen

CorelDRAW offers a user-friendly interface with a customizable workspace. Upon opening, the welcome screen provides quick access to recent projects, templates, and new design options.

Pic Tool and Rectangle Tool

Pic Tool: Used to crop and resize images. It allows you to select and adjust the area of an image for a more focused look.

Rectangle Tool: Helps you draw basic rectangular shapes, which can be modified and styled in various ways.

Colour Fill Option

CorelDRAW provides several color fill options such as uniform color, gradient, texture, and pattern fills. This allows for versatile design adjustments across objects.

Shape Tool and Properties

The Shape Tool allows for manipulating individual nodes of a shape. You can edit curves, adjust corners, and perform other transformations on vector shapes.

Properties include options to change fill, outline, and shadows.

Attract Tool, Repel Tool, Smudge, and Roughen

These tools are useful for manipulating paths and shapes. For instance, Attract and Repel modify the shape's nodes, while Smudge and Roughen allow for more artistic distortions.

Using Freehand Tool, 2-Point Line, Bezier Tool, Pen Tool

Freehand Tool: Ideal for freeform drawing, creating shapes and paths.

2-Point Line Tool: Draw straight lines between two points.

Bezier Tool: Used for drawing complex curves by controlling the handles.

Pen Tool: Allows precision in drawing straight and curved lines.

B-Spline, Polyline, 3-Point Curve, Smart Drawing, Crop Tool, Knife Tool, Eraser

B-Spline: Draws smooth curves.

Polyline: Creates a series of straight and curved lines.

3-Point Curve: Used to create curves by defining three points.

Smart Drawing: Automatically adjusts shapes and lines for easier manipulation.

Crop Tool: Crops objects or images.

Knife Tool: Cuts shapes and objects into separate parts.

Eraser Tool: Deletes unwanted parts of objects.

3-Point Rectangle, Ellipse, 3-Point Ellipse, Polygon, Star, Complex Star, Graph Paper

Tools for creating geometric shapes like rectangles, ellipses, polygons, stars, and graph paper layouts.

Text Tool with All Properties

The Text Tool allows you to create artistic and paragraph text. You can adjust font, size, spacing, and convert text to paths for more customization.

Dimensions and Callouts

Parallel, Horizontal, Vertical, Angular, and Segment Dimensions: Used to measure distances and angles between elements.

3-Point Callout: A tool for creating annotated designs with customizable text boxes and connecting lines.

Straight-Line Connector, Right Angle Connector, Rounded Right Angle Connector, Edit Anchor

These connectors help you create lines between objects. The Right Angle Connector and Rounded Right Angle Connector add professional visual appeal to designs.

Drop Shadow, Contour Tool, Envelope Tool, and Extrude Tool

Drop Shadow: Adds shadows to objects for depth.

Contour Tool: Creates offset contours of objects.

Envelope Tool: Warps objects to fit a custom shape.

Extrude Tool: Adds a 3D effect by extending an object’s shape.

Transparency Tool, Colour Eyedropper, Interactive Tool

Transparency Tool: Adjusts opacity of objects.

Colour Eyedropper: Allows you to pick colors from images or objects.

Interactive Tool: A suite of tools like mesh, gradients, and transparency that allows for real-time, dynamic adjustments.

Smart Fill Tool

Used for filling areas enclosed by paths with color, patterns, or gradients. It automatically detects closed paths.

Mesh Tool

Creates complex gradient fills by applying mesh nodes to an object, allowing for smooth transitions of color and texture.

Menu Options

File and Edit Menu: Includes file management (open, save, print) and editing options (copy, paste, undo).

View and Layout Menu: Customize workspace view settings like zoom, guidelines, and rulers.

Object Menu: Offers tools for managing objects like grouping, aligning, and arranging.

Effects Menu: Includes various effects like distort, artistic, and noise effects.

Bitmaps Menu: Options for working with raster images (resize, adjust color, etc.).

Text Menu: Manage fonts, alignment, and text formatting.

Table and Tools Menu: Includes options for creating tables and accessing various tools.

Window Menu: Organize open documents and access various windows.

Practical Design Projects

Visiting Card Design: Learn how to create business cards with proper text and logo placements.

Logo Design: Develop professional logos by combining vector shapes and text.

Banner and Flex Banner Design: Create large-scale banners for print with clear typography and image resolution considerations.

Flyer Design: Design promotional flyers with eye-catching visuals and layout.

Marriage Card Design: Design invitations with elegant typography and customized graphics.