Coreldraw
- 1. CORELDRAW N.RUBA Assistant Professor Dept of Computer Applications Bon Secours College for Women Thanjavur
- 2. CORELDRAW Today, computers have become an integral part of life. No wonder, they are used for designing. The important graphics programs will first be listed and then one of these, viz. CorelDraw will be described. The tools used in CorelDraw will then be discussed. In view of the important place that CorelDraw has in textile designing, the detailed understanding of this very versatile designing tool.
- 3. Objectives After going through this presentation, you will be able to • Understand various graphics software. • Use various menu bars and graphic tools of CorelDraw. • Use various text tools and docker tools in CorelDraw.
- 4. Introduction A person who was good at performing numerical calculations was called a human computer much before computers came into being. The use of mechanical calculating devices made his task less demanding. The use of punched paper cards to run jacquard looms came up around 1800. The development of transistors followed by microprocessors based on integrated circuits led to the size of the computers becoming smaller and its price also came down.
- 5. Designing with computers is called computer aided designing (CAD) and textile designing with computers is called computer aided textile designing (CATD). Designing with computers offers so many advantages that engineers, technologists, professionals and so many others make use of them in their everyday work.
- 6. Some of the major advantages are: • We can save a lot of time and labour. • We can make designs with very great accuracy. • We can make a number of colour combinations of one design in a very short-time period. • We can make very complicated designs with different texture and colour effect very easily.
- 7. Important Graphics Programs Some of the important graphics programs, which are used by designers, are given below: • CorelDraw • Corel Photo-paint • Adobe Photoshop • Adobe Illustrator • Macromedia Freehand • Macromedia Fireworks • L-View • U-Lead
- 8. Getting Started with CorelDraw CorelDraw is one of the most popular and powerful graphics programs and gives designers a most rewarding and enjoyable work experience. It is built and designed to meet the day-to-day demands of working designers. CorelDraw software is available in the market and once loaded onto the computer, you can get started with your designing work.
- 9. Opening CorelDraw • Switch on the computer and take the following steps • Go to Start and select Programs from the list. (The welcome screen at start-up is shown in the next figure) • Find the Corel section and select CorelDraw. • Choose Open Graphic for old design. New Graphic creates a new, one page document. Template allows access to professionally created templates from the library. Corel Tutor gives a brief overview of how to use the program.
- 11. Tools Overview The 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 Flyout. These are described as: • Pick Tool Selects objects. Once selected, you can use the Pick Tool for move, stretch, scale, rotate, and skew objects. • Shape Tool Reshapes objects by moving nodes, lines, and control points. • Zoom Tool changes the current view of the drawing. • Freehand Tool draws lines and curves. You can also use this tool to trace bitmaps.
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