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SayPro Identify components of the CorelDraw interface.
CorelDraw: The InterfaceIn this part you will learn how to select and use basic tools, how to define outlines and fills, and how to use some fundamentals of object-based drawing.The DesktopThe CorelDraw window simulates a desktop with a page in the center. Above the page is a row of menus for selecting commands, plus rulers and bars that provide information as you work. Down the left side of the screen are the nine tools used to draw and manipulate objects on the page. The major components of the interface are described here.
One of the most common used programs in this generation of computer is the Corel Draw. Corel Draw is an advance use of the graphics application with the state of the arts command application inside the application window. With the 3d effects both the color application and the object itself through the features of the tools command button position on the left side of the window. This version has a precise target measurement of the drawing you design using the millimeter of the built-in ruler installed in the window and can be convert to into other measurements.
The very effective is drawing first in the sheet of paper before the Corel Draw Window page. Just read the parts and function written below and this according to the Corel Draw Company. Just familiarize also the post picture shown above left side of this post.The Parts and Functions:Menu Bar– this area is containing a pull- down menu options.Property Bar– a detachable bar with commands that relate to the active tool or object. For example, when the text tool is active, the text property bar displays commands that create and edit text.Toolbar- a detachable bar that contains shortcuts to menu and other commands.Title bar- the area displaying the title of the currently open drawingRulers- horizontal and vertical borders that are used to determine the size and position of objects in a drawing.Toolbox- a floating bar with tools for creating, filling, and modifying objects in the drawing.Drawing window– the area outside the drawing page bordered by the scroll bars and application controls.Drawing Page– the rectangular area inside the drawing window. It is the printable area of your work area.Color Palette– a dock able bar that contains color swatches.Docker- a window containing available commands and settings relevant to a specific tool or task.Status bar- an area at the bottom of the application window that contains information about object properties such as type, size, color, fill, and resolution. The status bar also shows the current mouse position.Document Navigator- the area at the bottom left of the application windows that contains controls for moving between pages and adding pages.Navigator- a button at the bottom- right corner that opens a smaller display to help you move around a drawing.Tool OverviewThe Toolbox is located in the left portion of the window and contains all the drawing and editing tools necessary to create objects for an illustration. Tools containing a small triangle in the corner produce a Fly out. Flout’s contain additional tools, or tool options and are explained below in the order they appear on the default screen. fly outs are described following the Tool Overview.Pick Tool pick tool icon selects objects or groups of objects. once selected, you can use the pick tool of move, stretch, scale, rotate, and skew objects.Shape tool icon Reshapes objects. Objects are reshaped by moving nodes, lines, and control points.Zoom ToolZoom tool icon Changes the current view of the drawing. You can also select magnification options from the Property Bar in the Zoom mode.Freehand ToolFreehand tool icon Draws lines and curves. You can also use this tool to trace bitmaps.Smart Drawing Tool rectangle tool icon converts the freehand strokes you draw to basic shapes and smoothed curves.Rectangle tool draws rectangles and squares. Squares are created by using the Control key while drawing.Ellipse tool icon draws ellipses and circles. Circles are created by holding down the Control key as you draw.Graph Paper ToolPolygon tool icon draws a collection of boxes that simulates a sheet of graph paper.Perfect shapes tool icon a collection of objects which you can add to your drawing. They include such things as arrows, stars, talk bubbles, and flow chart symbols.Text Tool adds either artistic or Paragraph text to your drawing.Interactive blend tool icon The Blend Tool allows you to merger objects together through a series of steps. The fly out gives access to several more interactive tools that are described on the following pages.Eyedropper Tool the Eyedropper Tool allows you to select a color within an object, especially a bitmap, and allows you to apply that color to another object. You can also capture the color for a customized palette. The fly out gives access to the paint bucket that applies the color.Outline Tool Sets the outline style of an object or a line. This includes the line type, ends, color, and weight. The fly out gives quick access to some changes.Fill Tool assigns the fill style of any object. Fills are only visible on closed objects. The fly out gives access to control dialogs for each type of fill.Interactive Fill ToolInteractive fill tool icon Allows you to apply Fountain fills (gradients) using the mouse. The fly out gives access to the Mesh Fill Tool.The list breaks down most of the program’s tools, Dockers, and functions with links to relevant tutorials showing you what fantastic things CorelDraw can do. You can check out CorelDraw
Align and Distribute: This docker allows you to organize, align, and evenly distribute two or more selected objects along a defined line within a document. Align or distribute objects by their edges, centers, or a mix of the two. Additionally, there are options to align objects according to specific criteria.Angular Dimension Tool: A tool that allows you to draw angular dimension lines with three points of execution. Such markers inform you of the dimensions of objects within your document by giving accurate measurements between them.Arrow Shapes: A variety of perfect arrow shapes ready for use within your document and easily modified with the Shape and Pick tools and assorted dockers.Artistic Media: This docker is your central hub for all things Artistic Media tool related. Organize, create, and play with the variety of tool types courtesy of the Artistic Media tool. You can make custom brushes and sprayers within it too.Artistic Media Tool: This tool mimics the look of a variety of brushes and brush types. Create paintbrushes, vector brushes, sprayer brushes, and more. Use in conjunction with the Artistic Media docker for greater control and organization.Attract Tool: One of the Shape Edit tools, the Attract tool manipulates the edges of the object by pulling nodes to the center of the cursor so long as they’re within the tool’s nib diameter.Attributes Eyedropper: This tool samples not only the color, but other attributes (fill, outline, and more) of an object, allowing you to transfer these properties onto other objects within your document.
Spline: This curve tool allows you to draw lines and curves by setting the boundaries around the curve itself rather than the nodes.Banner Shapes: An assortment of Perfect Banner Shapes ready for use within a document, with special nodes that manipulate various parts of each banner object.Basic Shapes: The basic set of perfect shapes containing a variety of geometric shapes ready for manipulation with the Pick and Shape tools, as well as special nodes that change a variety of features unique to each object.Bevel: This docker allows you to fully control the Bevel effect on a selected text object. Chose the style, offset, shadow color, and various lighting controls for a quick and easy effect.
Callout Shapes: This is an assortment of Perfect Shapes ready for use within a document as preset objects that can be modified with the Shape and Pick tools, as well as their individual special nodes that change specific components of each Perfect Shape.Color Docker: This docker allows you to choose fill and outline colors from a color picker, color sliders, and color palettes. Found with dockers and in the Toolbox.Color Eyedropper: This tool samples an object’s color and allows you to apply it to another.Color Styles: Use this docker to create and save color styles as well as create and save color harmonies, helping you define your document’s color palette.Complex Star Tool: This shape tool creates a star from a series of triangles. Users can define both points and sharpness of the shapes created with this tool by way of the Property Bar.
Distort Tool: This tool transforms objects by giving you the option to apply effects such as push and pull, zipper, or twister distortions through settings found in the Property Bar.Docker: The variety of windows and palettes that organize, modify, and aid designs within a user’s document. You’ll find they contain additional options for nearly every tool and function and are a critical part of workflow.Document Palette: This color palette contains all of the colors used throughout a document’s history. It collects both fill and outline colors in a convenient docker that you can place anywhere within the application window.Drop Shadow Tool: This interactive tool allows you to create, place, modify, and copy a drop shadow effect on objects within your documents. Define settings manually or drag the shadow out from the object itself with the tool to create drop shadows quickly and easily. You can save and load preset drop shadows as well, speeding up your productivity within the program.
Ellipse Tool (F7): This tool creates ellipses and circles within a document. It also gives you the ability to create closed shapes, pie shapes, and arc shapes as well in the Property Bar.Envelope (Control F7): This Docker gives you additional control when applying the Envelope effect to an object within a working document.Envelope Tool: This tool allows you to change the shape of an object by manipulating nodes surrounding the object in an envelope or bounding box instead of the object’s nodes themselves.Eraser Tool (X): This tool allows you to delete (erase) components of selected objects within a document.Extrude: This Docker gives you additional control when using the Extrude tool or applying an Extrude effect.Extrude Tool: This tool allows you to convert a flat object into a 3D object with a number of options found within either the Property Bar or the Extrude Docker.
Fillet/Scallop/Chamfer: This Docker controls the corner options to create rounded, scalloped, or straight-edged corners in both objects and curves.Flowchart Shapes: These perfect shapes are fantastic for use within flowcharts and, as objects, have special nodes that you can manipulate with the Shape tool in order to edit the shape in a unique way.Font Playground: This Docker allows users to preview sample text by comparing font and size choices before settling on a font to be used within a document.Free Transform: This tool allows you to rotate, skew, scale, and reflect objects by choosing the method of manipulation in the Property Bar.Freehand Pick: This tool lets you select an area around or near objects in order to select multiple things within your document at once, so long as they fall within the selection shape you draw.Freehand Tool (F5): This curve tool allows you to draw lines, curves, and shapes freely without thinking about where to place nodes or the angles of curves. You can draw segments of lines and objects, connect to open nodes, and close objects quickly and easily with this tool as well.
Graph Paper Tool (D): This tool creates grids of complete and closed shapes according to the settings implemented in the Property Bar.Guidelines: This Docker controls the application and look of guidelines placed within a document. Users can create, edit, or delete any guidelines found within their document by way of this Docker.
Horizontal or Vertical Dimension Tool: This tool draws either vertical or horizontal lines, allowing users to measure spaces within their document.
Interactive Fill Tool (G): This tool allows full control over fill attributes, especially fountain fills, giving users the ability to define a fill’s angle and placement dynamically versus defining it based on numerical inputs. Additional options are controllable through the Property Bar and Object Properties Docker.Insert Character: This Docker allows you to look through and add glyphs within a text object. You can run through all of the glyphs within an installed font as well as replace characters within text with something new or more fitting from your font.
Join Curves: This Docker allows you to select and join the open nodes of curves, effectively creating closed objects within your document through its automated process so long as open curves are within the defined Gap tolerance.
Knife Tool: This tool allows you to split an object into two separate objects. Additional options for the tool are found in the Property Bar while the tool is in use.Knife Tool (Premium): This tool is found within the toolbox if you are a Premium subscriber. It furthers the options of the Knife tool by allowing you to split objects directly, with a gap, or an overlap.
Lens (Alt-F3): This docker applies a variety of effects to objects overlapping each other within a document, including Brighten, Fish Eye, Heat Map, Magnify, and more. The view within the overlapping object can also be frozen so that the object can be moved whilst retaining the effect within.
Mesh Fill Tool (M): This tool allows users to convert an object into a rendered mesh object by placing nodes and cross sections of nodes whereupon blended colors will be applied to a mesh grid.
Nodes: These are the points that make up lines and objects within a document. Every object has them, especially those which have been converted to curves, and many tools and dockers aid in manipulating them in some way. The more nodes a document has, the larger the file size. The fewer node objects within a document, the smaller a file will ultimately be. The Shape tool is used to manipulate the nodes
Object Coordinates: This docker allows users to create and place a variety of objects according to the dimensions defined within the docker itself. When users set the options to 0 copies, the docker manipulates the selected object. When 1 or more copies are defined, the docker creates a succession of objects according to their defined settings.Object Manager: This docker organizes all objects and curves within a document into Layers and Pages, giving you full control over everything within your working document.Object Properties: This docker allows you to control object attributes such as Outline, Fill, and Transparency, and their unique options.Object Styles: This docker controls all of the styles and style sets you can apply to an object. Set up assorted styles and attributes, including paragraph options, fill options, outline options and more. Save and load style sets from document to document, or edit and delete styles to alter a working document, all within the comfort of the docker.Outline Color Tool: This tool allows you to add or edit an outline color of an object through models, mixers, or palettes.Outline Pen Tool: This tool allows you to add or edit an outline’s weight, style, corner options, and more, all from the comfort of the Toolbox.
Pan Tool (H): This hand-shaped tool allows you to grab and pan across and around a working document. It’s especially helpful when working on elements off the page or when moving around a document without zooming out to see more of it.Parallel Dimension Tool: This dimension tool draws slanted dimension lines, allowing you to measure various areas within your document.Pattern Fill: This feature allows you to create and edit custom patterns, or patterns downloaded through Corel Connect, that can be used as fills in closed objects within a working document.Pen Tool: This curve tool allows you to place nodes to draw straight lines and curves. Unlike the Bezier tool, it lets you preview curves and lines as they’re being placed and drawn, giving you greater control when creating lines and objects.Pick Tool: This tool lets you select, move, and transform objects within your document so long as they’re on the working page and unlocked.Polygon Tool (Y): This tool creates an assortment of polygonal shapes thanks to the ability to define the number of sides in the Property Bar.Polyline Tool: This drawing tool allows you to draw curves, arcs, and straight lines in one connected go, only ending once an object has been closed.Power Clip: This powerful action clips a group to the boundaries of an overlapping object, masking off components of the group outside the overlapping object’s boundaries. Users can create Power Clips, edit them, add components, and delete components within the Object Manager Docker, as well as within the document itself.Property Bar: This all-important Docker gives users additional options and points of control for every tool. It’s not only a useful Docker but often quite important in contributing to the productivity of working within the program.
Rectangle Tool (F6): This tool creates rectangles and squares within a document. It also gives users the ability to alter the corners in the Property Bar.Repel Tool: One of the Shape Edit tools, this tool is the opposite of the Attract tool. The Repel tool manipulates the edges of the object by pushing nodes away from the center of the cursor so long as they’re within the tool’s nib diameter.Right-Angle Connector Tool: This connector tool connects two objects with a right angle created by the user drawing the line itself. Users can also define the path’s ends, width, color, radius, and style within the Property Bar or Object Properties Docker.Roughen Tool: This distortion tool creates a series of angles and points along an object’s edge according to the settings the user defines in the Property Bar.Rounded Right-Angle Connector Tool: This connector tool connects two objects with a rounded right angle created by the user drawing the line itself. Users can also define the path’s ends, width, color, radius, and style within the Property Bar or Object Properties Docker.
Segment Dimension Tool: This tool displays the distance between nodes of a single object or multiple objects.Shape Tool (F10): This tool allows users to edit objects, curves, and text by manipulating their nodes.Shaping: This Docker allows users to manipulate overlapping objects through functions such as Weld, Simplify, Intersect, and more.Smart Drawing Tool (Shift-S): This curve tool converts paths drawn into either smoothed out paths or basic shapes. Ellipses, polygons, and rectangles can all be created with this predictive, smart drawing tool. This tool works especially well with pressure-enabled graphic tablets.Smart Fill Tool: This tool creates objects from intersecting areas within other objects, effectively "filling" them in with the chosen fill color.Smear Tool: This distortion tool allows the user to drag the edge of an object out into a tapered shape. Users can adjust the tool’s options and how the smear affects the object in the Property Bar.Smooth Tool: This tool smoothest an object’s path when you drag it across an object’s outline. When possible, the tool reduces and simplifies the shape and number of nodes found in the path in order to smooth it out.Smudge Tool: This tool changes the shape of an object, not just its edges, when you drag the tool across it. You can adjust the tool’s settings in the Property Bar.
Table Tool: This tool creates grids of open lines according to the settings implemented in the Property Bar.Text Properties: This Docker controls all things related to text. Users can modify character, paragraph, and frame settings in a number of ways in one convenient location.Text Tool (F8): This tool allows users to create and modify artistic and paragraph text. Best paired with the Text Properties Docker.Toolbox: This Toolbar contains all of the tools within the program. It’s customizable too, allowing users to toggle tools or tool groups on or off at their discretion.Transformations: This Docker allows users to manipulate and move objects or object copies in their document. Position, rotate, mirror, scale, and skew objects or create a succession of copies based on the data input into the Docker’s options.
View Manager: Allows users to zoom in or out of a document in different ways and save those views in the Docker for quick reference.
Zoom Tool (Z): This tool changes the level of magnification within a document as well as allowing users to change how the document is magnified (through selection, a simple plus or minus, into all objects, etc.).
2-Point Line Tool: This tool allows you to draw straight lines between two points by dragging from one point to another. Lines can be drawn either straight, perpendicular, or at a tangent to other objects depending on which option is chosen in the Property bar.3-Point Ellipse Tool: A shape tool that creates ellipses and circles by defining the diameter of the shape and building the ellipse outward from that line. It starts in a way that’s similar to the 2-Point Line, but once the line is drawn you create an ellipse or circle.3-Point Curve Tool: A drawing tool that allows you to create a curved line by first defining the length of the line and then defining the curve of that line. The third point is the center point of the curve, which you can manipulate and preview while drawing the line.3-Point Rectangle Tool: A shape tool that creates rectangles and squares by defining the width of the shape and building the ellipse outward from that line. It starts in a way that’s similar to the 2-Point Line, but once the line is drawn you create a rectangle or square.3-Point Callout Tool: This tool lets you draw an angled two-segment line that serves as a callout shape.
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