1. Prepared By:
Ms.M.Jancypriya,
Assistant Professor,
Department of BCA,
Bon Secours College for Women, Thanjavur.
COREL DRAW

2. CORELDRAW
• CorelDraw is a software program for
editing vector graphics. Vector graphics are
created in graphics packages and consist of
objects. Each object can be edited
separately, meaning that the shape, colour,
size and position can be changed.

3. CORELDRAW SCREEN

5. COREL DRAW TOOLS

6. Picktool
This tool hasan icon like themouse
cursor on the defaultsettings.
Servesto select or choosethe
object.

7. SHAPE TOOL
useto edit the line shape function tool or object to
the manipulation of the point. Hasthe keyboard
shortcut F10.Shapetool itself is again divided into3
types namely:
•SmudgeBrush:Tochange the object image with
attractive margins.
•RoughenBrush:Todistort the image object with
attractive margins.
•FreeTransform:Tochange the free suchas:using
the rotation, change size, angle the object,etc..

8. CROPTOOL
used to remove unwanted parts of theobject.
Croptool also has3 types again:
•Knife: to cut the object into two separate
parts.
•Eraser:to remove unwanted areasin objects.
•Virtual SegmentDelete: to remove asection
object that is in theintersection

9. Zoom tool
working to change the level of magnification
window corel document which we are open. This
is very useful to edit the objects that are too small
or too large objects, so that the view object in
accordance with our eyes.
There is another type of zoom tools, namely the
Pan Tool.
•Pantool servesto shift the display area / object without
changing the level of zoomlevel.

10. Freehand tool
coreldraw tool that serves to draw a curve (curved line) and the
straight line in the segment. Has a shortcut key F5 on your
keyboard. Freehand tool is divided into 7 types again that is:
•2-point line tool:to draw astraight line from one point (starting point) to
one other point (endpoint).
•Beziertool: draw acurved line in asegment at atime.
•Artistic media tool: add effects brush, sprayand pen calligraphy byusing
the cursor freely. Many effects that may interest you in this one tool.
•Pentool:draw acurved line in the segment and view / review of each
segment you havecreated.
•B-splinetool: draw acurved line to control the setting point (point)
without damaging thesegment.
• Polylinetool: draw astraight line connection or acontinuecurve
(continuous) in asingleaction.
•3-point curvestool:draw acurve by dragging from the start point, end
point and positioned at themidpoint.

11. Smart fill tool
working to create an object from overlapping
areas of anaesthetized fill with color or
texture.
This tool has one more type of smart
drawing tool.
•Smart Drawing tool: to change/ convert
your pointers graffiti pictures intoshape
shape object (basic shapes)or asmooth
curve line.

12. Rectangle tool
to draw a rectangular shape or a
box with just drag and click your
mouse.
Having one type again that is a 3-
point rectangle tool.
•3-Point Rectangle tool: working to form
asquare and abox to arrange them per
point.

13. Ellipse tool
function to draw ellipses and circles just by
drag and click your mouse.
It also has one more type of 3-point ellipse
tool.
• 3-Point Ellipse tool: to draw anellipse
and acircle with adot arrangehis.

14. Polygon tool
function to draw asquare shape alot, just by drag and
click mouse. Having derivatives 4 kinds of tools,namely:
•Star tool: to draw avariety of starshapes
•Complex Star tool: to draw astar shape with a
lot of sidepieces.
•Graph Paper tool: to draw agrid / layout boxes
suchas nets.
•Spiral tool: to draw acircle in asymmetricalor
logarithmic spiral.

15. Basic Shapes tool
• working to simplify / speed up the processof drawing
a triangle, circle, cylinder, love / heart, and many other
forms. Havingderivatives 4 kinds of tools,namely:
• Arrow shapes tool: to draw the shape of the arrow in
different variations
• Flowchartshapes tool: to facilitate drawingachart
(chart)
• Banner shapes tool: to draw aribbon shapeorform
explosive
• Callout shapes tool: todraw aballoon talk (illustrated
• talk), andlabels.

16. Texttool
to make the writing on the
image area serves as both
artistic andwritten
descriptions.

17. BLEND TOOL
•Blend tool : a picture in coreldraw equipment that serves to unify
the object by creating a lot of objects and colors are located in the
middle.
•Contourtool: working to assemble anumber of objectswith
concentric spread into or out ofan object.
•Distort tool: working to change the object by pushing orpulling
to form azipper or twistereffect.
•Dropshadowtool: to create ashadow behind or besidethe
object.
•Envelope tool: working to change the form of an object into an
envelope with drag specificpoints.
•Extrudetool: to create the illusion of an object intoadeep 3D
effect.
•Transparencytool :to create atransparent effect that is only
partially visibleobjects

18. Coloreyedropper tool
Color functioning eyedropper tool tosample
the object and apply acolor or colorcopying
in other objects (similar tocopy and paste)

19. Outline tool
Outline the pen tool serves to provide
the outline of an object. In this tool we
canalso set the type, large and colorof
the border.

20. Fill tool
Fill tool serves to provide some form of object color.
There are 5 types of fill that wecanuseare:
•Uniform fill: providing solid colors on anobject
•Fountain fills: give color with gradients(mixed
colors) on anobject
•Pattern fill: fill objects by color or patternswith
colors of apicture that youhave.
•Texturefill: fill objects by color texture wasalready
available.
•PostScript fill: fill object with colorsthat
complicated or what we callPostScript.

21. TheInteractive fill tool lets you apply
fountain (gradient), texture, andpattern
fills to objects in adrawing. Youcanedit
the fill you've applied interactively and
view the result of your edits asyou
apply them.