One of the hardest techniques to learn is creating photos on glass. It is not easy and requires you to know how to adjust photos in CorelDraw. To get the best photos requires the use of a transfer mask typically. Although you do not have to use a transfer mask I tend to find the best results are achieved when you use a transfer mask. For more info on the actual lasering technique of lasering on glass go to my Lasering a Photo on Glass video. The photo we are using is a old “black and white photo from 50 years ago. It had to be scanned and fixed up (repair creases) before I could laser it. I like this photo because this is a very indicative type of photo that one would receive in a retail environment. Sometimes when we use laser suppliers photos they are to good and sometimes do not give us a good actual example. This photo was given to me during a training tutorial I was giving and these are the actual files we created.
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I had a customer ask me to do a layout for him on a metal plate with some thermark so he could laser it. I could have done this creating 3 columns and used the align tools but I thought it would be a good exercise to show you how to use the table command in X4 and X5. The table command allows me to add the 3 columns I need to create this layout very easy. Check out the Thermark on Steel video that was done on this topic in my video section.

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One of the more buried techniques in CorelDraw is the ability to created text that is vertical. That is it runs North South and has one letter per line. You can type a letter one at a time and press enter but the alignment is not always right. This Technique is fast and does the job. Check out the video on Vertical Text in CorelDraw

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