In this article I will discuss how to recreate a tag that was sent to me by a customer to recreate for their laser machine.

Here is a request from a customer to create a big heart made up of a bunch of smaller hearts that follow along the shape of the heart. This was easy to do in CorelDraw using the blend command. I have used this command a number of times to create everything from dashes to ropes to stars. … Continue Reading

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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This tutorial will show you how to take a big photo and cut it up into a number of smaller "tiles" so that you can laser it on a tile or sublimate it on a tile

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In our previous tutorial we looked at how to input guidelines more as margins for a product than using the Guidelines as tools for drawing, locating etc. In this tutorial we will spend time on

One of the ways to keep your objects lined up in CorelDraw is to use guidelines in your setup. In this article we will look at how to use guidelines. Guidelines are also usefully in aiding design in terms of we can have our drawing snap to a guideline. I like to use guidelines when I want to ends of a logo to line up. It is also good for checking the "tilt" on an object. This is a basic overview. For more tips see the advanced section.

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There are two types of text in CorelDraw. The first and the one that is used a lot is Artistic Text. The second type which we discuss later is Paragraph text.

Using the CutOut Lab in CorelDraw / PhotoPaint to get rid of an images background

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