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Essential Tips and Techniques for CorelDRAW
How-tos for CorelDRAW techniques most new users need to know.
Dotted Lines with Artistic Media Tool
CorelDRAW's Pen Dialog allows you to create dotted lines easily, but the dots are always square shaped or oblong. If you want rounded dots on a path, you can use the Artistic Media Tool in CorelDRAW 9 and up.
Dotted Lines with Blend Tool
This is an alternate method for creating dotted lined using the blend tool.
How to Export a GIF From CorelDRAW
A lot of people seem to have trouble exporting to GIF format from CorelDRAW. This how-to walks you through the steps for CorelDRAW version 8 and higher.
Have a Heart, Or Four
Four techniques for creating 3D Hearts in CorelDraw 9. Starts with the basic heart shape, and also covers creating custom object spraylists for the artistic media tool.
Color Tips
A few tips for choosing colors in CorelDRAW. From the Graphics Software forum.
CorelDRAW to Macromedia Flash
How to export your CorelDRAW drawings for use in Macromedia Flash.
Designing 360 Degrees
"We need a circle with a 6 inch radius and we want marks around the edge of the circle at 1 degree increments that are labeled." Here's how it's done in CorelDRAW 9. Also shows you how to give it a 3D appearance with the EZ Metrics add-on.
Creating Complex Shapes
Learn how to combine basic shapes to create more complex shapes in CorelDraw 7 and up.
From CorelDRAW to the Web
Detailed information on converting your CorelDRAW illustrations to GIF images for the Web. Based on version 8.
Getting Rid of That Darned White Box
How to remove the rectangular background from bitmap images you'll be importing into CorelDRAW.
Removing the Background
How to remove the backgrounds from images in CorelDRAW and Photo-Paint for versions 5 and beyond.
Using a Matte Color In Transparent GIFs
"Using a matte color for a background will help blend the edges of anti-aliased objects when making transparent GIFs."
Web Export
Exporting from CorelDraw for the Web using Corel 4, 5 or 6.