By Radu Velcea, Learning Experience Designer
CorelDRAW for Beginners: Graphic Design in Corel Draw
Course description
Start creating professional graphic design in Corel DRAW. If you're looking for a software that is user-friendly and you can easily create logos, business cards or flyers, Corel Draw is the best answer. Corel DRAW is used by professionals across the world for every promotional material, such as posters, roll-up banners, business cards, brochures or logos. Create graphics the way you want them. Practice while you learn. This course includes practices files so you can follow along and actually learn by doing. By the end of this course, you will have created your own business card. I'll be teaching this course using CorelDRAW 2018, but if you have a previous version (X8, X7, X6, X5, X4 or X3) you can still learn like a pro. Also, you can also work in CorelDRAW 2020. What makes me qualified to teach you? My name is Radu and I've been working in CorelDRAW since 2003. Further more I'm teaching CorelDRAW in LIVE class-sessions since 2011 and have done so to over 1700 students. We're in this together! I'm a full-time graphic designer, trainer and online instructor. I'll be here for you every step of the way. If you have any questions about the course content or anything related to this topic, you can always post a question in the course or send me a direct message. What is this Corel DRAW Course all about? In this beginner's CorelDRAW course you will not only learn how to create professional graphic design, but also how to set your mindset to reach out to your goals. This course will cover everything you need to know to to start working on your graphic design files, including: - Creating a document to start with - Creating shapes to be used in your layout - Combining shapes to create logos and graphical elements - Using custom color palettes - Editing text and installing fonts - Aligning and grouping objects - Importing and cropping images By the end of this course, your confidence to work on your own will soar. You'll have a thorough understanding of how to use CorelDRAW for fun or as a career opportunity.
Related Skills
Course overview - 74
The Exercise Files
Getting Started
Workspaces
Touring the interface
Dockers
Setting up the page
Rulers, Grids and Guidelines
Navigating
Master Layer and Page Numbering
Understanding File Formats
Starting with a Template
Keyboard Shortcuts
The Pick Tool
Zoom and Hand Tool
Basic Shapes
Connector Lines
Outlines and corner control (part1)
Outlines and corner control (part2)
Drop Shadow
Contour
Blend
Distort
Envelope
Extrude
Transparency
Eyedropper Tool
Color palettes
Weld, Trim and Intersect
Weld, Trim and Intersect Exercices
Weld, Trim and Intersect Exercises Solution
Grouping and Ungrouping
Aligning
Align Exercises
Align Exercises Solution
Setting the order
Setting the order Exercise
Setting the order Exercise Solution
Understanding font types
Installing fonts
Types of text
Business cards Exercise
Business cards Exercise Solution
Importing bitmaps
Cropping and resizing images
Free Hand
Line Tool
Bezier Tool
Shape Tool
Cusp, Smooth, Symmetrical
Adding and removing nodes
Cleaning up lines after welding
Combine and Break apart
Joining nodes
Convert to Curve (Ctrl+Q)
Why to convert
Convert image to Vector - The easy way
Convert image to Vector - The hard way
Convert image to Vector - Pepsi Logo
Convert image to vector - Apple logo
Convert image to vector - Carrefour logo
Convert image to vector - Motorola logo
Convert image to vector - Batman logo
Linking paragraph text
Editing individual characters
Powerclip
Text in columns
Wrapping text with an object
Text along a Path
Converting Artistic Text to Curves
Bleed
Find and Replace Colors
Convert to Bitmap
Printing
Final thoughts