Essential Tips and Techniques for CorelDRAW
How-tos for CorelDRAW techniques most new users need to know.
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.
This is an alternate method for creating dotted lined using the blend tool.
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.
A few tips for choosing colors in CorelDRAW. From the Graphics Software forum.
How to export your CorelDRAW drawings for use in Macromedia Flash.
"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.
Learn how to combine basic shapes to create more complex shapes in CorelDraw 7 and up.
Detailed information on converting your CorelDRAW illustrations to GIF images for the Web. Based on version 8.
How to remove the rectangular background from bitmap images you'll be importing into CorelDRAW.
How to remove the backgrounds from images in CorelDRAW and Photo-Paint for versions 5 and beyond.
"Using a matte color for a background will help blend the edges of anti-aliased objects when making transparent GIFs."
Exporting from CorelDraw for the Web using Corel 4, 5 or 6.
