Problem: When working with photographs occasionally you are presented with a photograph that is contaminated with finger prints, has ripped edges or creases. Sublimating this image is not a good idea as the final image is only going to look as bad as the original.

Solution: The best way to fix up these imperfections is with the clone tool that is provided in Corel PhotoPaint. … Continue Reading

Arcing Engraving Part 2

We have gone over creating arcs so let us look at a few more manipulations that can be done with text that is arc. We originally talked about how we can manipulate our text size, position and circle size.
Let us look at how we can manipulate the actual fonts and characters on the arc. … Continue Reading

Arcing Text in CorelDraw

Help File - http://www.engrave.ca/files/ArcEngravingv9.cdr
Although most commands are fairly intuitive in CorelDraw there are some such as arcing text that, for a lot of people, tend to create a questions as to how it is done.

Arcing text in CorelDraw is easy once you know the couple of commands control how text is arced. … Continue Reading

Let us look at how we create this effect. Figure 1 shows us a completed image that has a Transparent image in it. Figure 1 is a picture of a sublimated clip board.

Figure 1

The first thing that we need to do is grab our photograph. Figure 2 shows the photo that we will be working with. … Continue Reading

The short cut file is located here. Click on this link http://www.engrave.ca/files/shortcuts.csv

Printing out CorelDraw’s hot key sheet

As most people get better with CorelDraw they tend to start to use hot keys more instead of navigating to the pull down menus. What is a hot key you ask? Well it is a specific key board key or set of keys that control a certain function in CorelDraw. For example if you want to activate the zoom tool all you need to do is press the z tool (when you are not using the text tool) to activate it. Typically most people will slide over to the tool box with their mouse and click on the zoom tool. Moving the mouse is not only time consuming but also hard on the elbow. … Continue Reading

Creating a Seal Die Using the Blend Tool

By Mike Clarke
Oct 1, 2003, 23:28

One of the things that you may have to do if you own a laser is to create a seal die and corporate logo. You can do this one of two ways. One is to use the repeat command where you repeat the image until you fill up your circle. The second is to use the blend tool. This article will talk about using the blend method.

Figure 1 is an image of a seal die that I created in CorelDraw. The following exercise will take you through creating the image. … Continue Reading

Creating Text that is filled with an Image – Using CorelDraw’s Power Clip

There are times where you may want to superimpose text on top of an image so that the image shows through the text. This is quite easy and can be a very good selling feature.

First let us load in a picture and some text. Figure 1 shows some text called “Power Clip” and a photo. … Continue Reading

For Those Using CorelDraw any time you want to create a fill you should use the interactive fill that is available in the toolbar.

If you have CorelDraw 10 or newer you can use the interactive fill command.
Again it is important to create a simple drawing. So draw a box.
Now go to your Toolbox menu and select the interactive fill menu. See Figure 1. … Continue Reading

Creating a Dial in CorelDraw – Originally published Oct 2003

One of the items that we need to create if we are doing work for industrial customers is dials. For a lot of people creating jobs like this can be intimidating and can seem quite daunting. However creating a dial is quite easy. For this exercise I will be creating a dial that has two series of graduations. One set of lines will be set at every 10 degrees starting at 0 and another line will be set every 10 degrees starting at 5 degrees.

1. The first step in creating a dial is to create our initial graduation. We will be duplicating this graduation in our dial. Figure one shows the intial graduation that is created. To keep it easy I would suggest that you start your line so that it is horizontal as per Figure 1. Make the line .5 inch long. … Continue Reading

Corel Draw Graphic Suite X4 Review Part 5

In my experience of dealing with all my customers most people tend to stay in CorelDraw and not venture out of the program. There are a number of reasons. Mostly they are comfortable with CorelDraw. CorelDraw is a very powerful program and for most of what I do CorelDraw is the program that I spend most of my time in. However there are some things that you cannot do in CorelDraw that you can do in PhotoPaint. If you remember my article on the cutout lab this tool is only available in PhotoPaint. Tools such as red eye removal, masking and certain vignette effects can only be done with the PhotoPaint program. Actually some of the tools such as those found in the bitmap section of CorelDraw are actually accessing the tool libraries that are in PhotoPaint. … Continue Reading