1. Introduction to
Corel Draw
Ms. T. K. Anusuya
Assistant Professor/ Department of CS
Bon Secours College for Women, Thanjavur

2. Corel Draw
 Objectives
 Understand various Graphics Software
 Use various Graphics tools of Corel Draw
 Use various text tools and docker tools

3. Introduction
 CorelDraw is a very powerful professional vector graphics package that makes it
easy to create professional artwork from simple logos to intricate technical
illustrations
 It provides tools and effects that make it possible to work effectively to produce
high-quality graphics. Corel Draw supports windows shortcuts
 The image quality of a drawing is a high quality resolution
 Bitmap
 Pixels

4. Various Graphics Programs
 Corel Draw
 Corel Photo Paint
 Adobe Photoshop
 Adobe Illustrator
 Macromedia

5. Getting Started with CorelDraw
 CorelDraw is one of the most popular and powerful graphics programs and
produce designs . Designing is the day-to-day demands of working designers.
 Map Design
 Rough Drawing
 Flyer Design
 Certificate Design
 Invitation / Brochure Design
 ID Card

6. How to Start and open a Corel Draw
 To Start and select coreldraw
 A new window open
 The available templates included the following categories
 Page (Working Area)
 Label
 Booklet
 Side Fold
 Web Browse

7. Corel Draw Window Screen Layout

8.  Menu Bar – Menu Contains pull down options
 Standard Toolbar-It contains shortcut to menus and other commands
 Property Bar –It is context sensitive toolbar that shows commands relating the active tool or object
 Tool Box- - tools for Creating, filling and modifying objects in a drawing
 Drawing Page –Workspace/ Work-area
 Document Navigator – controls for moving between and adding pages.
The Window Screen Layout

9.  Rulers : Horizontal and vertical borders that are used to determine the size and
position of objects in a drawing.
 Drawing Window – Outside of the drawing window
 Navigator Button – Open a smaller display to help pan around a drawing page
 Status Bar – information about object properties such as type, size, color, fill and
resolution,. It also shows the current mouse position.
 Color Palette-Color swatches
 Docker – available commands and settings relating toa specific tools, effect or task
The Windows Screen Layout

10. Basic Tools

11. Drawing Basics
 There are 4 basic tools used to create shapes
 Freehand Tool
 Rectangle Tool
 Ellipse Tool
 Polygon Tool

12. Coloring Objects
 Fill and Outlines Tools
 Color Palatte / Picker Window
 Filling with Gradients
 Pattern Fill
 Texture Fill
 Postscript Fill

13. Dockers
 Docker is a type of dialogue box that can reside on the screen to all you quick
access to commands, provide information about your work , modify your work and
control your drawing in many ways.

14. Working with Text
 Creating Artistic and Paragraph Text
 Editing the font
 Assigning font, style and size
 Coloring Text
 Editing shapes and letters
 Line Spacing
 Paragraph Text Options
 Spell check and Grammar

15. Working with Graphics
 Importing images
 Tracing with the Drawing Tools
 Blend tool
 Envelope tool
 Drop Shadow Tool
 Transparency Tool
 Mesh Fill / Interactive Fill Tool