COREL DRAW 11.

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Corel -> company name
Draw -> drawing purpose
COREL CORPORATION
Founded in 1985, Corel Corporation is a leading
technology company that offers software for home and
small business users, creative professionals and enterprise
customers. With its headquarters in Ottawa, Canada.
website address
www.corel.com
INTRODUCTION
Corel draw allows working
with refined curve & objects to produce precise artistic
effects. It is a powerful typographic engine for the creation
of logos and other text based work.
Corel draw used to create
Complex drawing, Logos
Graphics for the www, Fancy headlines
Fill color illustration, Photo realistic images
Libraries of clipart collection of pictures
High quality drawings from low Resolution originals.
Bars available in CorelDraw graphic window
Menu bar
Property bar
Toolbar
Scroll bar
Standard tool bar
Color palette
Title bar
Status bar
The basic features of CorelDraw
1. Drawing lines
Working with lines, outlines, and brush strokes
2. Drawing shapes
Drawing rectangles and squares
Drawing ellipses, circles, arcs, and wedges
Drawing polygons and stars
Drawing spirals
Drawing grids
Drawing predefined shapes
3. Creating and manipulating objects
Working with objects
Selecting objects
Copying, duplicating, and deleting objects
Positioning objects
Aligning, distributing, and shaping objects
Changing the order of objects
Sizing and skewing objects
Rotating and mirroring objects
Grouping objects
Combining objects
4. Adding color to objects
Filling objects
Applying uniform fills
Applying fountain fills
Applying pattern fills
Applying texture fills
Applying PostScript texture fills
Applying mesh fills
Working with fills
5. Adding text to a drawing
Adding and formatting text
Adding the text
Selecting the text
Aligning the text
Rotating text
Moving text
Fitting text to path
6. Creating drawings for use on the World Wide Web
Publish to the web
7. Printing the drawing
How To Open Corel Draw
StartAllprogramsCorelDraw Graphics Suite
11 CorelDraw 11
Tool bar:
A)Pick tool
Used to select and size, skew, and rotate objects.
B) Shape tool
Used to edit the shape of objects.
1)Knife tool
Used to cut through objects.
2)Eraser tool
Used to remove areas of your drawing.
3)Smudge brush tool
Used to distort a vector object by dragging along its
outline.
4)Roughen brush tool
Used to distort the outline of a vector object by
dragging along the outline.
5)Free transform tool
Used to transform an object by using the free
rotation, Angle rotation, Scale, and Skew tools.
6)Virtual segment delete
Used to delete the selected object.
C)Zoom tool
Used to change the
magnification level in the drawing window.
1)Hand tool
Used to control which part of the drawing is visible
in the drawing window
D)Free hand tool
Used to draw lines
and curves
1)Bezier tool
Used to draw curves using a connect the fonts style
of drawing (double click to finish).
2) Artistic media tool
Used to provide access to the Brush, Sprayer,
Calligraphic, and Pressure tools.
3) Pen tool
Used to draw curves
one segment at a time.
(double click to finish).
4) Polyline tool
Used to draw lines and curves in preview
mode. (double click to finish).
5) 3 point curve tool
Used to draw a curve
by defining the start,
end, and center points.
6)Interactive connector tool
Used to join two objects with a line.
7)Dimension tool
Used to draw vertical, horizontal, slanted, or
angular dimension lines.
E)Smart Drawing Tool
1. It converts the
freehand strokes that you draw to basic shapes and
smoothed curves.
F)Rectangle tool
Used to draw rectangles and squares(using ctrl key).
1)3 point rectangle tool
Used to draw a rectangle by dragging to create the
rectangle baseline and clicking to define its height.
G)Ellipse tool
Used to draw ellipses and circles (using ctrl key).
1)3 point ellipse tool
Used to draw an ellipse by dragging to create the
center line of the ellipse and clicking to define its
height.
H)Polygon tool
Used to draw
symmetrical polygons and stars.
1)Spiral tool
Used to draw
symmetrical and
logarithmic spirals.
2)Graph paper tool
Used to draw a grid
of lines similar to that
on graph paper.
I)Basic shapes tool
Used to choose from
a full set of shapes, including hexagram, a smiley
face, and a right-angle triangle.
1)Arrow shapes tool
Used to draw arrows
of various shape, direction, and number of heads.
2)Flowchart shapes tool
Used to draw flowchart symbols.
3)Star shapes tool
Used to draw ribbon
objects and explosion
shapes.
4)Callout shapes tool
Used to draw callouts and labels.
J)Text tool
Used to type words directly on the screen as artistic
or paragraph text.
K)Interactive blend tool
Used to blend two objects.
1)Interactive contour tool
Used to create special effect in the object by adding
evenly spaced concentric lines inside or outside the
borders of an object.
2)Interactive distortion tool
Used to apply a Push or Pull distortion, a Zipper
distortion, or a Twister distortion to an object.
3)Interactive envelope tool
Used to distort an object by dragging the nodes of
the envelope.
4)Interactive extrude tool
Used to apply the
Illusion of depth to
objects.
5)Interactive drop shadow tool
Used to apply a drop shadow to an object.
6)Interactive transparency tool
Used to apply
transparencies to
objects.
L)Paint bucket tool
Used to fill an object on the drawing window
Right click- outline
Left click- fill color
1)Eyedropper tool
Used to select a fill
from an object on the
drawing window.
M)Outline tool
1. It is used for set the outline for objects
N)Fill tool
Used to set the fill
properties such as fill color, fountain fill, pattern fill,
texture fill,
postscript fill.
O)Interactive fill tool
Used to apply
various fills using mouse.
1)Interactive mesh tool
Used to apply a mesh grid to an object.
EXERCISES
1. Draw a rectangle ,
square, circle, rotation and skew the object.
Steps:
i. Click rectangle tool
ii. Draw a rectangle
iii. Select line color and fill color
iv. Click the pick tool and double click the rectangle
v. Using corner arrows, rotate the rectangle to a
particular degree
vi. Using <->skew arrow, skew the object.
vii. Right click the mouse in the color palette to change
outline color
viii. Left click the mouse in the color palette to fill color
2. Draw a rectangle and convert the rectangle to the
rounded corners using shape tool and fill the colors.
Steps:
i. Draw a rectangle using rectangle tool
ii. Click the shape tool and
Select the rectangle
iii. Adjust the nodes of the
rectangle to rounded
corners.
iv. Fill the line colors of the rectangle using left click of
the mouse.
3. Draw lines using freehand tool and convert into arrow
marks & change the color of the arrow marks.
Steps:
i. Click the freehand tool
ii. Draw a line in working
area of the drawing
window.
iii. Without clicking the
mouse, select arrows in the property bar and select the
single/ bidirectional arrow.
iv. Without clicking the mouse, change the thickness of
arrow marks in the property bar
4. Draw different designs using artistic media tool.
Steps:
i. Click the artistic media tool.
ii. Click sprayer in property bar.
iii. Select the design in the property bar.
iv. Draw that design in
working area of the
drawing window.
5. Drawa circle/rectangle/square. Rotate the object with
75
0
using free transform tool.


Steps:
i. Draw a circle or ellipse.
ii. Select the object using
the pick tool.
iii. Select the free transform tool, change 75
0
in
property bar and press enter key.
iv. The object is rotated into 75
0
.


6. Draw various lines/designs using 3 point curve tool and
change the line style, thickness, color of the object.


Steps:
i. Select the 3 point curve tool and draw any design.
ii. Select the object using
the pick tool.
iii. Change the line style, thickness, color of the object
in the property bar.
iv. Change the color in color palette by clicking the
right button of the mouse.
7. Draw rectangle /square /circle/ellipse using the
particular tool and change the thickness line color and
fill color.


Steps:
i. Draw a circle/ellipse using the tool.
ii. Without clicking mouse
in property bar, change the line thickness of the
object.
iii. To change the object line color, click the right
button of the mouse.
iv. To change the object fill color, click the left button
of the mouse.
8. Draw different types of stars using polygon tool, and
change the line thickness, fill, outline of the stars.


Steps:
i. Click the polygon tool.
ii. Click the stars in the property bar.
iii. Change the no of sides of the stars in the property
bar.
iv. Draw the star in the working area.
v. Change the line thickness of the stars in the
property bar.
vi. Change the star line
color; click the right button of the mouse.
vii. Change the star fill color click the left button of the
mouse.
9. Draw different. flowchart shapes/callout shapes change
the different shapes, lines


Steps:
i. Click any flow chart shape and draw.
ii. Click any arrow shape and draw.
iii. Click any callout shape and draw.
iv. Click any star shape and draw.
v. Change the line thickness of the object in the
property bar.
vi. Change the object line color, click the right button
of the mouse.
vii. Change the object fill color click the left button of
the mouse.
10. Type a text set the distance between letters using
shape tool. Apply fill color, font, size for each letters
then break the text.


Steps:
i. Click text tool.
ii. Click in the working
area and type the text.
iii. Click the shape tool and select the text.
iv. Set/align the distance between the letters (using
shape tool).
v. Apply fill color, font, and size for each letter in the
property bar.
vi. Select the text using the pick tool.
vii. Go to arrange menubreak text.
viii. Now, the text is broken.
11. Type a text set the fit text to path, align the text to
the arc.


Steps:
i. Type the text using text tool.
ii. Draw a circle/ellipse using ellipse tool.
iii. Select both the object
(Text, circle) using shift key.
iv. Go to text menu->fit text to path (property bar will
appear set the position of the text).
v. Arrange menu-> break apart.
vi. Click the mouse outside the working area.
vii. Click the pick tool. Select the text, move the text
from the circle.
viii)Delete the circle. Now the text is change into
the arc.
12. Change the box into
Circle using interactive
blend tool.


Steps:
i. Draw a rectangle using rectangle tool and fill it.
ii. Draw a circle below the rectangle using ellipse tool
and fill it.
iii. Click the interactive blend tool. Click on the
rectangle and drop the mouse to the circle.
iv. Change the no of steps and colors on the property
bar.
v. Now the rectangle is changed into the circle.
13. Type the text changed the text into fancy headlines
using interactive envelope tool.


Steps:
i. Type the text using text tool.
ii. Fill color the text and resize it.
iii. Click the interactive envelope tool.
iv. Adjust the nodes of the text into fancy (using
property bar).
v. Now the text is changed into fancy.
14. Type the text & changed the text into
advertisement board text using interactive extrude tool.


Steps:
i. Type the text using text tool.
ii. Select the text using pick tool.
iii. Resize the text and
change fill and outline color.
iv. Click the interactive extrude tool.
v. Adjust the text into advertisement fancy letter.
vi. 20 changed into 40 or 45 adjust directions, colors in
the property bar.
vii. Now the text is appeared into advertisement board
letters.
15. Join , break and trimming the two objects using
welding, trimming and intersecting.


WELDING
Steps
i. Draw a rectangle using rectangle tool.
ii. Draw a circle using ellipse tool.
iii. Overlap the two objects
iv. Go to arrange menu
Shapingshaping.
v. Select rectangle select weld in shaping menu.
vi. Without clicking mouse, select circle now 2 objects
are weld.
vii. Click outside of the graphic window.
viii. Now select the welding object using pick tool.
ix. Move , the weld object in the working area.




TRIMMING
Steps
i. Draw a
rectangle using
rectangle tool.
ii. Draw a circle using ellipse tool.
iii. Overlap the two objects
iv. Go to arrange menu shapingshaping.
v. Select rectangle select trim in shaping menu.
vi. Without clicking mouse, select circle now 2 objects
are trimmed.
vii. Click outside of the graphic window.
viii. Now select the trimming object using pick tool. Move
, the trimming object in the working area

INTERSECTING
Steps
i. Draw a rectangle using rectangle tool.
ii. Draw a circle using ellipse tool.
iii. Overlap the two objects.
iv. Go to arrange menu shapingshaping.
v. Select rectangle select intersect in shaping menu.
vi. Without clicking mouse, select circle now 2 objects
are intersected.
vii. Click outside of the graphic window.
viii. Now select the intersecting object using pick tool.
ix. Move , the intersecting object in the working area.



LOGOS
SBI LOGO
STEPS:
1. Draw a circle set the width & height as 4.
2. Draw a circle set the width & height as 0.8.
3. Select the small circle. Press shift key & select the
big circle.
4. Click arrange menu, click align & distribute, click align
center, center.
5. Click apply on the outside.
6. Draw a rectangle (0.35 width,2 height)
Select the biggest circle, when the rectangle is in the
selection mode
7. Click arrange, click align and distribute, click
horizontal center, vertical bottom . Apply click
outside.
8.Select the rectangle, click arrange menu click shaping
click shapingselect weld in combo box click weld to
then click the smaller one
9. Click arrange click shaping select trim to click trim
button, click the outer circle, click on the outside. Move
the outer circle, click outline tool
click no outline


AIRTEL LOGO
STEPS:
1. Draw a rectangle (9.35 width,3.3 height).
2. Draw another rectangle (1 width,3.3 height) & fill with
red color.
3. Select small and big rectangleclick arrangealign &
distributeleft, bottom.
4. Draw another rectangle(3.8 width,3.3 height) & fill
with red color.
5. Select small and big rectangleclick arrange>align &
distributeright, bottom.
6. Type Airtel (arial narrow, size186,bold) using text tool
.
7. Break the text. Select r and t and press ctrl+q.
8. Click shape tool, click text r select the outer two nodes
and merge witht.
9. Select the text tel change the color as white.
10. Select text i, click the shape tool, and select the
eraser tool to erase the dot at the top of the i.
11. Draw a very small circle and fill with red color and
remove outline.
12. Place the small circle at the top of thei. Group all
the objects using ctrl+g .
13. Finally remove the
outline.

A tel

HDFC LOGO
STEPS:
1. Draw rectangle (15.3 width,3.6 height) fill with red
color.
2. Draw another rectangle (2.5, 2.5) fill with black color.
3. Draw 3rd rectangle (1.7,1.7).
4. Draw 4
th
rectangle (0.4,1) fill with white.
5. Select the 3
rd
and 4
th
rectangle & arrange align &
distribute align top, left.
6. Copy the 4
th
rectangle 90
0
.Align top right.
7. Copy paste align right bottom.
8. Copy the vertical rectangle align bottom left.
9. Remove the outer rectangle; fill with white color and
ctrl+g.
10. Select the grouped rectangle and black rectangle
align center , center.
11. Type HDFC (font: Arial black, size: 248).
12. Place HDFC inside the red rectangle.
13. Select all the objects and group (ctrl+g.)
14. Remove the outline

UTI LOGO
1. Draw a circle and click pie in the property bar.
2. Set the value of the starting and ending angle at 90
0
.
3. Fill it with brown color, select the 1
st
pie and click the
bottom mirror button.
4. Copy paste the 1
st
pie and select the 2
nd
pie and click
the top mirror button.
5. Place the 2
nd
pie at the left side of the 1
st
pie.
6. Copy paste the 2
nd
pie and click the bottom mirror
button and place at the top of the 1
st
pie.
7. Copy paste the 1
st
pie and click the bottom mirror
button and place at the top of the 2
nd
pie.
8. Draw a small circle and fill it with brown color.
9. Place the circle at the center of the 3
rd
and 4
th
pie .
10. Group all the object.
11. Finally remove the outline


HSBC
1. Draw a rectangle (5 width, 2.5 height) fill with red
color.
2. Copy paste the rectangle and fill with black color.
3. Using pick tool select the 1
st
rectangle and select shape
tool and press ctrl+q.
4. Add a node at the center of the rectangle on the left
and right side.
5. Click the node and drag out side of the rectangle on
both sides.
6. Select the two rectangle using shift key go to arrange
menu align and distribute align and distribute
center, center.
7. Select the black rectangle using pick tool.
8. Select the shape tool then click ctrl+q and add node to
the center of the top and bottom of the rectangle.
9. To create a node just place the cursor where you want
to create a node and right click a popup menu will
appear select add on that menu. Now the node is
created.
10. Select the node and drag to inner of the rectangle
on two sides.



LG LOGO
1. Draw a circle. Fill colorpurple color.
2. Draw another circle click shape tool select arc in the
property bar.
3. Click the bottom mirror button in the property bar.
4. Draw a rectangle, select the rectangle and select the
shape tool then press ctrl+q .
5. Select the top two corner node and press delete key.
6. Now select the horizontal line using pick tool and enter
the width as 1.5 in the property bar (white color).
7. Place the line near to the right corner of the arc and
weld the arc and the line.
8. Like the same way weld horizontal line with the height
2.5 and vertical line with the width0.75(white color).
9. Place it inside the arc.
10. Draw a small circle same width and height
0.5(white color).


DOCOMO LOGO
1. Draw a Rectangle (width 2,height 1)
2. Select the rectangle, click shape tool and drag the outer
node.
3. Cut the object using knife tool
4. Select the right side shape D shape, move the shape to
another place.
5. Draw a circle (width 1,height 1)placed near D.
6. Select the left side object placed near O select shape
tool and press ctrl+Q ,add a node to right center and
drag inside.
7. Select convert line to curve in the property bar ,shape
the node like C.
8. Copy the circle and paste near the C
9. Draw a square (width 1,height 1),placed near O.
10. Select shape tool and press ctrl+Q, add a node to
top center, drag inside, select convert line to curve in
the property bar shape the node like M.
11. Copy the circle and paste near the M
12. Finally fill the color which you want, and group all
the object, remove the outline.


AIRCEL LOGO
1. Draw a Rectangle (width7 ,height 2.5) fill with blue
color.
2. Draw another Rectangle (width 2.5,height 2.5)fill with
red color, place right side of the rectangle.
3. Draw a circle and copy paste the circle then resize the
circle and trim the circle using shaping window.
4. Copy the shape, paste and resize the shape and place
the red rectangle
5. Type AIRCEL using text tool(font style italic), fill white
color and place in blue rectangle.
6. Group the object and remove the outline.


RELIANCE LOGO
1. Type the text as ReLIANCe using text tool fill with blue
color.
AIRCEL
2. Click arranges menu select break artistic text and delete
A, resize the letter e.
3. Type the letter V using text tool (face: Arial rounded
mt bold) and rotate 90
0
using pick tool, fill with sky blue
color and place between I and N.
4. Type the letter V using text tool(face : Arial) and rotate
90
0
using pick tool, fill with red color and place bellow
the previous V
5. Select all the letters and group it.


R LI NC
V
V
MTS LOGO
1. Draw a rectangle (width 9,height 3).
2. Draw a thin vertical rectangle and trim with the 1
st

rectangle using shaping window fill with red color
3. Draw a circle (width 2,height 2) select shape tool and
press ctrl+Q.
4. Select top node and drag to the top, fill with white color
& place it to the left side of the rectangle.
5. Type the text as MTS using text tool, fill with white color
and place it to the right side of the rectangle.
6. Group all the object and remove outline.
MTS


VASAN EYE CARE LOGO
1. Draw a circle and select arc tool in the property bar.
2. Click clockwise arc/counter clockwise arc/pies in the
property bar.
3. Change the thickness of the line using property bar fill
with orange color.
4. Copy and paste the object and click top mirror button
and then click bottom mirror button using property
bar.
5. Fill with blue color and place bellow the orange arc.
6. Draw a circle and fill with blue color
7. Select the circle and click pie in the property bar.
8. Place the pie between the two arcs.
9. Group all the object

AXIS BANK LOGO
1. Draw a Triangle using polygon tool fill with brown color.
2. Copy and paste the triangle and resize it, Fill with white
color.
3. Select both the triangle, select arrangealign and
distributebottom, center.
4. Trim the 1
st
triangle and move the 2
nd
triangle.
5. Place it in right side of the 1
st

triangle and trim it.


VASAN ESTATE
1. Draw a diamond shape using polygon tool.
2. Copy and paste the shape, rotate 290
0
.
3. Copy and paste the 2
nd
diamond, click bottom
mirror button in the property bar.
4. Type the text as VASAN(face:arial)
5. Draw a thin rectangle and place below the text.
6. Draw a triangle using polygon tool & weld with
rectangle.
7. Group all the object and fill with red color.



TATA INDICOM
1. Draw a rectangle (width 5,height 2.5) fill with blue
color.
2. Draw a another rectangle (width 1.2,height 2.5)fill
with yellow color and select shape tool press ctrl+Q.
3. Select right 2 nodes using shift key,select convert
line to curve in the property bar and drag inside the
rectangle ,place the left side of the blue rectangle.
4. Copy and paste the yellow rectangle click the mirror
button in the property bar and place the right side
of the blue rectangle, group all the objects.
5. Draw a circle (width 0.5, height 0.5) fill with
yellow color.
6. Draw a 2
nd
circle (width 0.3,height 0.3) fill with
blue color and place it in the center of the 1
st
circle
7. Group both the circles and place the corner of the
blue rectangle.
8. Draw a 3
rd
circle (w0.3,h0.3)
fill with sky blue color.
9. Draw a 4
th
circle (w0.15,h0.15)fill with blue
color and place in center of the 3
rd
circle.
10. Group both the objects and place below the 1
st

grouped circle.
11. Type the text as TATA using text tool, click
arrange menu break the text.
12. Delete all the A.
13. Type the letter as V and rotate it instead of A,
apply with white color.
14. Type the text as Indicom using text tool and
apply with white color, placed below the TATA.
15. Group all the objects and remove outlines.


IDEA LOGO
1. Draw a rectangle fill with yellow color, select
shape tool and press ctrl+Q
2. Add two nodes (bottom, right)near the corner
node & delete corner node.
3. Type the text as idea click arrange menu,
select break the text, select the letter i and
rotate and apply blue color
4. Group all the text and place it to the center of
the rectangle.
5. Group all the objects.



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BIRLA SUNLIFE LOGO
1. Draw a circle, click pie in the property bar & set
90
0
(starting & ending angle),fill with brown
color.
2. Copy & paste the pie,click mirror button in the
property bar,fill with orange color, and group
both pie.
3. Draw a circle click pie in the property bar and
set 180
0
(Starting and ending angle)
4. Draw a triangle using polygon tool and place it
in the top center of the semi circle.
5. Copy and paste the triangle and rotate 45
0

6. Copy and paste the second triangle and click
mirror button in the property bar.
7. Copy and paste the second triangle and rotate
75
0

8. Copy and paste the 4
th
triangle and click mirror
button in the property bar
9. Select all the triangle using shift key and weld
with semi-circle using shaping window
10. place the object in the previous semi-circle
,trim and delete the object.
11. Finally remove the outline.

MOTOROLO LOGO
1. Draw a triangle using polygon tool
2. Select shape tool and press ctrl+Q, delete
bottom center node and drag inside, fill with
white color.
3. Copy and paste the shape, place the shape near
previous shape group both the shapes.
4. Draw a rectangle fill with black color, select
both the object using shift key
5. Click arrange align & distribute center,
center ok.
6. Group all the objects, and remove outline.