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5 MINUTES: Tutorial Corel How to Make Poster Design

NEED POSTER? WAIT, JUST 5 MINUTES Nowadays , digital design is much needed by almost all people in the world. In purpose to make event publication such as: poster, banner, flyer, proposal, etc. Maybe just want to mock up documents or presentations so that it has better style and people feel interested to read. I just want to tell you, readers, about the things that must be note about designing something like that. In purpose to make interesting publication, it must follow some simple rules: · Supporting background · Contrast level · Content layouting I mean, these 3 components must be set in the right way. What is your theme of your publication? What is the main color of your event? If you can answer these 2 simple question, making a supporting background can be as simple as making a glass of tea, seriously. In example, suppose that you have to make an invitation poster about family outing. The background that has to be used must talk about

TUTORIAL CorelDRAW: Its About the Curve

WHAT IS CURVE? Curve is kind of vector graphic . In general, it is a line or outline that gradually deviates from being straight for some or all of its length. There are two type of curve in graphic design, Open Curve and Closed Curve. Open Curve means that the curve has starting point and end point that is not connecting to each other or stand separately. While Closed Curve has no starting point and end point, and it makes loop shape. WHAT IS THE BENEFIT OF MAKING CURVE SKILLS? Well, CorelDRAW is designed to draw digitally. It means that with this program we can draw anything digitally. Do you know that image is made from planes, and planes are made from curves . So, we can conclude that to draw an image or object we need to understand how to make curves. In other word, curve is the important thing that should be learned if you want to be great designer. Once you can understand and smoothly making any kind of curves and manipulating it, you can draw anything you w

TUTORIAL CorelDRAW: Getting Start Designing

GETTING STARTED "Learning by Doing" Before we are going to discuss about how to design, we have to make sure that we understand the properties of the design we want to make. It is very important because designing without understanding the basic properties somehow will give a problem in the end. Based on my experience, the first thing that we have to know is the information of the design specifications, such as size, base color, purpose, etc. The information will lead us to the true foundation of the desired design. Basic thing that you should know first before start designing is learn how to set the page and paper. Maybe it looks like just a simple thing that can be learned lastly, but there will be always appear some problems to in the end, somehow. So, instead of getting those problems in the end, it much easier if you understand the basic and getting to design smoothly. Follow the step and you will understand. Step 1 Open your CorelDRAW Step 2 There will a

TUTORIAL CorelDRAW: Shape Tools

What is Shape Tool? Shape tool is one of enormous tool and also very useful tools for designing image or manipulating your object. It is also the the tools that professional designer use. What is Its function? Based on the preview in CorelDraw, the function is to  "Edit a curve object or text character by manipulating nodes." It means that you can use this tool to  transform the shape of your object into your desired shape by manipulating its nodes. Generally, there are 7 function of Shape Tool 1. Add and Delete Nodes 2. Join and Break Nodes 3. Convert to Line and Convert to Curve 4. Reverse Direction/ Extend Curve to Close 5. Stretch or Scale Node/ Skew and Align 6. Reflect Nodes Horizontal and Vertical 7. Elastic Mode and Select all Nodes 8. Smooth, Symmetrical, and Cusp Nodes How to do Use? 1. Add and Delete Nodes This tools are used to add and remove the nodes in a line of object. Nodes allow the user to manipulating the sh

TUTORIAL CorelDRAW: Toolbar and Toolbox

TOOLBAR & TOOLBOX CorelDraw When you decide to make design using CorelDraw, you have to know about the features that provided by CorelDraw first. It is simple rule that you must follow in order to ease your way creating your design. Learn function of toolbar and toolbox is the key to open the door of creativity. The fastest way to become designer is by learning the most useful tool in CorelDraw. Learning by doing is the thing that you should do. More often the using of tools, more familiar the tool that you are using. Well, Toolbar   contain tools to run any general features such as:  New, Open File, Paste, Copy, Cut, Redo, Undo and etc . This kind of tools I think you have learned on other program such as Ms Office. So, I will just try to explain about Toolbox. Here I will give some explanation about the  function of Toolbox  in CorelDraw: Check it Out! Toolbox This link contain downloadable PDF file of ToolBox Function downloa