Corel Draw 12 Complete Training Class1

Introduction of Corel Draw 12

Corel draw is graphics application that is used to design advertisement, logo, cads, broachers, newsletters, banners, images, and so on, for print or for web.

An artwork developed in CorelDraw is referred as a drawing. Each component created in a drawing such as line, text, curve, symbols or image is referred as an object. Each object in a drawing stores its own attributes, such as shape, size, position, and color. The drawings can be modified without affecting drawing quality.

Types of Digital Images:

Computer graphics comes in two main types

Raster Images (Photo Realistic):

Raster images also known as Bit-mapped images are made up of a mosaic of picture elements, called Pixels. A pixel is the smallest unit of composition in an image. When raster images stored, the information contained in each pixel is stored separately, which increases the file size?

When raster images enlarged, their edges appear rough and jagged.

Raster images are realistic and manipulate-able (each pixel can be edited on an individual basis)

 Vector Images:

The images consist of lines and curves that are defined mathematical objects are called vector images. Vector images can alter to large size without making their edges rough or jagged. Vector images are ideal for web pages because they are small in size, and so they download faster than raster images.

Vector based images commonly used in Computer Aided Drawings (CAD), and digital drawing software.

                    

Corel Draw an Overview:

Corel DRAW is a vector graphics editor developed and marketed by Corel Corporation of Ottawa, Canada. It is also the name of Corel's Graphics Suite

In 1997, Corel hired software engineers Michel Bouillon and Pat Beirne to develop a vector-based illustration program to bundle with their desktop publishing systems. That program, CorelDRAW, was initially released in 1999. CorelDRAW 1.x and 2.x runs under Windows 2.x and 3.0. CorelDRAW 3.0 came into its own with Microsoft's release of Windows 3.1.

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Opening Corel Draw:

1. Click on Start button.
2. Click on All Program.
3. Click on Corel Draw program.

 The Interface

It will open the Corel Draw 12 Window.

Click on New.

A view of Tool Box Bar

Grid & Ruler Setting

Grid:

The grid is a series of intersecting dashed lines or dots that you can use to precisely align and position objects in the drawing window.

The distance between the grid lines or dots can be set by specifying the frequency or spacing.

Frequency:

Frequency refers to the number of lines or dots that display between each horizontal and vertical unit. Spacing refers to the exact distance between each line or dot. High frequency values or low spacing values can help you align and position objects more precisely.

To set the distance between the grid lines

1. Click View à Grid and ruler setup.
2. Enable one of the following options:
• Frequency — specifies grid spacing as the number of lines per unit of measure
• Spacing — specifies grid spacing as the distance between each grid line
3. Type values in the following boxes:
• Horizontal or  Vertical

Snap to Grid:

To force an object that is being drawn or moved to align automatically to a point on the grid, a guideline, or another object.

1. Click Viewà Snap to objects setup
2. In the Snapping modes area, enable one or more of the mode check boxes.

If you want to enable all snapping modes, click Select all.

If you want to disable all snapping modes, but without turning off snapping, click Deselect all.

3. Choose one of the following snapping options from the Snapping threshold list box:
• Low — activates a snap point when it is four screen pixels away from the pointer
• Medium — activates a snap point when it is eight screen pixels away from the pointer

High — activates a snap point when it is sixteen screen pixels away from the pointer

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