You just have to follow some simple steps and you are done. Here we start creating Polaroid Collage in CorelDraw
Final result:
Tutorial Details:
Program: Corel Draw X4 (You can use other version also)
Difficulty Level: Medium
Completion Time: half an hour
Basic Elements:
Take a look at the basic elements you need to design the collage:
These will be out steps to design collage.
Step 1:
First of all open your CorelDraw program. Create a new file. Set the paper size to A4 and change it to landscape view.
Step 2:
Now we have to create our first basic element that is Polaroid boxes.
For this go to your rectangular tool and create a rectangle of any size
you want. Here I am using the following size.
Step 3:
Click on the rectangle and go to interactive contour tool. In
property bar, click inside because we want to go inside. Set the contour
steps to 1. And if you want then you can change the contour offset.
Step 4:
Now you have to do wider the contour box from below for that you have
to break the contour group apart as both the boxes are grouped
together. First select the contour box using pick tool and then press
Ctrl + K on keyboard. You can also go to arrange on menu bar click break
contour group apart. Now click on the inner contour box and make it
shorter from below like this:
Step 5:
Color the outer box white. You can do it by clicking white color in
the color box. Color the inner box with any different color. Here I am
using 50% black. Group both the boxes for that press Ctrl+G or go to
arrange and click group. It’ll look like this:
Step 6:
Like this Polaroid you have to make
multiple polaroids for that select the Polaroid box using pick tool and
press + on the keyboard to duplicate polaroids. Here I have duplicated
it 10 times. Situate the polaroids as u want. If you want to rotate them
then click on the Polaroids 2 times. And you’ll see arrows around
Polaroid box you can click on them and rotate it. After situating the
polaroids, to make it more attractive you can reorder the polaroids eg.
If you want one of the Polaroid to move front, you just have to click on
the Polaroid you want front and press shift + page up. You can do the
same thing for page down. Just press shift + page down. Or else go to
Arrange–>Order–> To Front Of Page or To Back Of Page.
Situate them as you want. I have situated them like below:
Now you must have thinking that my boxes don’t have outline. Don’t worry
you can also do like this just select all the boxes and right click on
the cross in the color box:
Step 7:
Yeah guys, we have created our first
basic element. And you don’t have to create the second element because
it’s just a photo. Now we’ll create the background. For that make a box
using rectangle tool. We’ll put a texture in it. Go to Fill in the tool
box and choose Texture Fill. Choose whatever texture you want or see
below to make the texture like mine.
After putting texture you’ll see the background is above the Polaroid
boxes so to make it behind press Shift + Page Down. Remove the outline
by right clicking on the cross.
Step 8:
Now color the inner boxes of all
Polaroids with background color by using Smart Fill tool (It is situated
in the tool box). After doing this, select all the inner boxes which
you’ve colored now. To select all the objects once, press Shift and keep
clicking on the objects. To see how many objects you have selected look
at the bottom bar. Combine them by pressing Ctrl + L on the keyboard or
click on the upper combine button in the property bar.
Step 9:
Put the photo on the boxes in which
position you want. Select the photo and go to the Effects–>
Powerclip–>Place inside Container. An arrow will come click that
arrow on the inner boxes. You will see the photo in the Polaroid boxes.
We did this thing because we wanted to situate the photo into the boxes.
If you want to edit the position of the photo then you can do this by
going on Effects–>Powerclip–>Edit contents. Once you have
finished, click on Finish Editing Objects.
Step 10:
We have not done yet. We have to apply
some effects. If you look at the final result, you’ll notice drop shadow
behind the boxes. Now select one of the polaroid box and go to the
Interactive Drop Shadow tool in the tool box. Click on the Polaroid box
and drag. Drag it in whatever position you want. You can convert it by
changing the values in the property bar.
Step 11:
You have done the drop shadow on one
box. We can do it on all boxes just by copying the effect. Click on the
second box and go to Effects–>Copy Effects–>Drop Shadow From. An
arrow will come. Click that arrow on the first drop shadow (Don’t click
it on the Polaroid box). And you will see the same drop shadow effect on
the second box. Repeat the same step for all the Polaroid boxes. And
finally you will get this image:
Step 12:
Now we’ll add some effect to the background
as you can see it in the final result. These boarders are nothing but
rectangles. Yeah really, first make a rectangle fill the black color in
it and click on the cross for no outline like below:
Click on the rectangle using pick tool and go to Interactive
Transparency Tool in the tool box. Click on the rectangle and drag.
You’ll see the transparency effect. Set it as you want. Change
Transparency Operation to Multiply and Transparency Type to Linear( They
are situated in the property bar).
Step 13:
Now for the opposite side, click on the right side rectangle and
press + to duplicate it. To make it in opposite direction click Mirror
horizontally in the Property Bar. And situate it on the opposite side.
You will get this image:
Repeat the same step to make the other sides’ boarder.
And after doing everything you’ll get the final image like this:
I know this tutorial was so long but the result was also amazing. You
can add some other effects to make it interesting. And if you know some
other techniques then don’t forget to share with us.
5:21 AM
Posted by
Aamir Awan
This tutorial will show you how to create complex shapes in Corel DRAW! It's fairly easy to create simple shapes with a vector drawing program
such as Corel DRAW!. There are built-in tools for creating circles,
ellipses, squares, rectangles and polygons, etc...
In this tutorial I'll demonstrate how to center objects, how to
"combine" more than one shape to cut one shape from another and how to
"weld" several shapes into one. I'll also show you how to duplicate
objects while changing their size and how to rotate an object with its
center of rotation changed so as to duplicate shapes around a single
point that you determine.
Before we begin, let's take a look at the shape we'll be creating.
You may recognize this shape as the shape that's used to signify radioactivity.
Start out by opening a new image.
NOTE: If you don't see the rulers at the top and left of the main window--choose View, Rulers. This will turn the rulers on.
To help with the exact placement of the different objects that make up
the final shape you can set the guidelines. Simply click-and-drag down
from the ruler at the top to create a horizontal guideline, and
click-and-drag from the ruler at the left to create a vertical guideline
You want the quidelines to dissect the image in the center so set the
vertical guideline at 4.25 inches (half of 8.5 inches, the width of the
page) and set the horizontal guideline at 5.50 inches (half of 11
inches, the length of the page). You can see the coordinates of the
guidelines change, as you move them, in the lower left of the screen.
Now you're ready to begin drawing.
Select the Ellipse tool and, while holding down the CTRL key to
constrain the ellipse to a circle, draw a circle about 2.5 inches in
diameter.
Choose Arrange, Align and Distribute. This will bring up the Align and
Distribute dialog box. Choose the Align tab, select Center of Page and
click OK. Your circle should now be centered over the guidelines.
Choose Arrange, Transform, Scale and Mirror to bring up the Scale and Mirror dialog box
Make sure there's a checkmark in the Proportional checkbox and enter 80%
beside the H in the Scale window (with Proportional checked you won't
need to set both the H, horizontal, and the V, vertical. Click on the
Apply to Duplicate button.
Change the 80% to 20% and click the Apply to Duplicate button again. You
should now have 3 centered circles . Select the Pick
tool and click away from the circles to de-select them.
Click on the outside circle, to select it, and then SHIFT-click the second circle to select it as well.
Choose Arrange, Combine. Nothing seems to have happened, but the inner
circle has been cut away from the outer circle leaving a donut shape
with a large hole in it. If you select a fill color now you'll see that
this is true because the second circle doesn't fill in
What you've just done is you've created a new shape from two separate shapes.
Double-click the Polygon tool to bring up the Options dialog box. Set the shape to polygon and the number of points/sides to 3.
Place the cursor in the middle of the circles and click-and-drag up and
to the left to create a triangle. It should be big enough to span the
distance between the small circle and the new circular shape
Choose Layout, Snap to Guidelines.
You may want to zoom in to about 400% to help with the following steps.
Select the Pick tool and use it to select the triangle shape. Move the
shape into position with its bottom corner at the center of the circles
With the Pick tool still selected, click on the triangle again to get
the rotation arrows. Move the center of revolution to the same point as
the bottom of the triangle
The center of revolution is a small circle with a dot in it. It will
originally show up in the center of the triangle. You can click-and-drag
it into place. Since the snap-to-guidelines is set it will snap into
place in the center of the guidelines.
You should still have the Scale and Mirror dialog box open. Choose
Rotation. Set the Angle to 120 deg. and click the Apply to Duplicate
button to create a second triangle. Click the Apply to Duplicate button
once more to create a third triangle
Click anywhere to clear the selection and then click-and-drag a marquee around all of the shapes to select all of the objects.
Near the top-right of the screen you should see the Weld icon
Clicking on this icon will complete the image
Make sure you keep a copy of the vector drawing i.e. save the image as a
CDR file so you can go back and make changes easily later on.
10:50 PM
Posted by
Aamir Awan
This tutorial will show you how to create 3D buttons in Corel DRAW!
Open a new graphic. Choose the ellipse tool and, while holding down the
Ctrl key to constrain the ratio, draw a circle about 2.5 inches in
diameter at the left of the page.
Select the pick tool and, with the circle selected, hit Ctrl-c and
Ctrl-v to copy and paste the circle. Use the right cursor key to move
the copy to the right of the page.
Select the rectangle tool and draw a rectangle between the two circles.
Make sure that the corners of the rectangle meet with the circles
Use the pick tool to draw a marquee around both circles and the rectangle. Click the intersection 
icon. This will only create the intersection of the left-most circle and the rectangle
Use the pick tool to draw another marquee around the right-most circle
and the rectangle. Click the intersect icon again. You should now have
two intersections with the rectangle. Choose the circles, one at a time,
and delete them. This should leave you with something like figure
Use the pick tool to select the left-most curve and fill this object
with a light gray. Select the right-most curve and fill this object with
a dark gray
Select the fill tool and choose the gradient tool from the flyout menu.
This will bring up the Fountain Fill dialog box. Under Color blend,
select Custom. This will change the Fountain Fill dialog box so that it
resembles figure
Add another point to the blend by double-clicking above the rectangular
blend window. Change the middle point (the one you just added) to a
light gray by clicking on the Current pulldown menu (it's just above the
custom blend window). Change the color at both of the outside points to
dark gray. Set the Angle to 90 and adjust the middle point so that your
blend resembles the one in figure. Click OK.
NOTE: The custom blend
starts out with only a beginning and an ending point. You can add more
points to create your custom blend by double-clicking above the blend
window. These points can also be moved by clicking and dragging.
Select the button with the pick tool and, using the outline tool flyout menu, set the outline to none.
Use Arrange, Transform, Scale and Mirror to resize the button.
At this point you might want to save the button.
I exported the button as a JPG with the following settings in the Bitmap
Export dialog box. The really important settings to remember are the
Maintain aspect ratio and Super-sampling.
Use the text tool to add some text to your button. I used the Bedrock
font. You may choose to copy and paste the text with a different color
to add a highlight.
Export the final button as a web-ready JPG and make sure you keep a copy
of the vector drawing i.e. save the image as a CDR file so you can go
back and make changes easily later on.
That's it...
10:34 PM
Posted by
Aamir Awan
