Necklace

1. Open Corel DRAW.

2. To create a pearl, draw the circle and fill it up with Radial Fill.

3. Draw the square and place the copies of the pearl at four sides. Take the square as guide.

4. Using Interactive Blend Tool, create the outline of the pendant.

5. Press shift and reduce the size of the pendant using pick tool. Right click to get the smaller copy inside.
Create multiple smaller copies.

6. Rotate the pendant to 45 degrees. Draw the square inside and fill it up with Square Fill.

7. Draw the curved line of desired shape. Place two pearls at two ends. Blend them along the path.

8. First blend the pearls. Select the blend. Using Property Bar, Select Path Properties. Click on New Path
and select the curve as path.
9. Keep the blend selected. In the Property Bar again, select Miscellaneous Blend Options. Check Blend
along full path.

10. Make the copies of the pendants with different sizes.

11. Arrange other parts of the necklace according to following design.

Pattern

1. Open Corel DRAW. Create some design you want to use for Two Color Pattern. Use black & White colors.

2. Tools > Create > Pattern

Create Pattern Dialog box will be displayed. Select Two Color. Click OK.
3. Cross cursor is displayed on the screen called Marquee. Drag it around the design as follows.

4. Click OK for the following dialog box.

5. Draw rectangle or any shape to fill the pattern. Keep it selected.

It is a simple test to check the pattern whether it is created properly or not.

6. Select Fill Tool and Pattern Fill Dialog. Select 2-Color

7. Click OK.

8. The Procedure is similar for full color pattern with little difference.

9. Create a design for full color pattern use any colors.

10. Follow the steps from 2 - 4

11. Full color pattern has to be saved in 'Pattern' folder of Corel DRAW.

The dialog box for saving the pattern will get displayed. Name the pattern and save it.

12. Follow the steps from 5 - 7

Shape Tool

1. Open Corel DRAW. Select Bezier Tool and draw the following shape.

2. Select the Shape tool and select all three points by dragging shape tool around the shape

3. Click Convert Line To Curves from Property bar which is activated after selecting shape tool.

4. Select top left point using shape tool and click Make Node Symmetrical from Property bar. Edit the nodes
using the available options and make the proper half portion of the heart shape.

5. Select Pick Tool.

Arrange > Transformations > Scale

Scale & Mirror > Mirror ( H for Horizontal )

Apply to Duplicate.
6. Position the other half carefully to make a proper shape.

7. Select both the shapes using Pick Tool.

Arrange > Combine

8. Using Shape Tool, select top open points by dragging the Shape Tool around the points.

9. Click Join Two Nodes from Property bar.

10. Repeat the procedure for bottom nodes which are not joined.

11. Fill the shape with desired color.

Extrude Project

1. Open Corel DRAW. Draw a rectangle with Rectangle Tool

2. Select interactive Extrude Tool and Extrude the rectangle as shown below to make a rectangular plate.

3. Type the text and place it at the edge. Make a copy of the text and keep it aside.
4. Extrude the text with Interactive Extrude Tool.

5. Fill the black color in the copy of the text. And send it to the back of extrude one.

Arrange > Order > Back One

6. Skew & scale the text for shadow effect. Check out Skewing in Shadows project.

7. Select the Extrude text. Fill the color.

8. Go to Property Bar. Click Color flyout menu.

9. Click the third option "Use Color Shading. Select the colors for shading.
10. Use color shading for the rectangular plate also.

11. Type the text at the front side just to add the flavor.

Making Flower

1. Open Corel DRAW. Create a petal shape you want to use for making flower

2. Following shape is created by converting ellipse to curve by pressing Ctrl + Q and then edited with shape
tool.

3. Double click the shape to get the points for rotation as follows

4. Drag the center of the shape at the bottom

5. Arrange > Transformation

Select Rotate tab

6. Input the value 12 for angle or some value which will divide 360.

7. Click Apply to Duplicate. Duplicate will be created at an angle of 12 degrees

8. Go on clicking till you get the following shape.

9. Double click on the pick tool to select all the petals and fill with desired color.

10. Arrange > Combine

Cracked Text

1. Open Corel DRAW. Type the text. Try to use thick font if possible.

2. Fill the text with the desired color and keep the black outline.
3. Select Eraser Tool from the toolbox. Keep the Eraser thickness 0.05". It can be adjusted according to the
size of the text. Keep the text selected.

4. Erase the text in such a way so that it looks like cracked.

5. Select Interactive Extrude Tool. Drag the cursor and create the extrude effect. Choose the extrusion type
from property bar.

6. Deselect the object

Combine effect

1. Open Corel DRAW. Type the text with any type of font.

2. Draw rectangle with rectangle tool on the top half of the text.
3. Select both objects (text and Rectangle) by double clicking on the pick tool.

Arrange > Combine

4. Fill the color.

5. Draw another rectangle with rectangle tool at the bottom half of the text. Fill it with desired color. Keep it
selected.

6. Send it to back

Arrange > Combine > To Back

7. Stretch it up to the top edge of the text.

Shadow

1. Open Corel DRAW. Type the text. Try to use thick font if possible.

2. Duplicate the text by pressing Ctrl + D

3. Fill the backward text with black color and arrange the shadow with pick tool

4. Double click on the black Text

5. Drag the upper middle point with the cursor towards left. The Process is called skewing. The angular
stretching of an object.

6. Select the text with Shape tool

7. With he help of bottom node move each character separately as shown below

8. Repeat the step 5

9. Arrange the shadow properly with Shape Tool again. Move them and place then behind the original
characters.

10. Select Interactive Drop Shadow Tool. Drag the tool on the text slightly.

Big Text

1. Open Corel DRAW. Type the text of size 70.

2. Select the text using Shape tool and click the point left bottom of P.

3. Double click on the selected point which will open the box. Change the size to 200 points.

4. Change the color of the character at the same time when it is selected.

5. Deselect the character by clicking anywhere on the page and drag the Shape Tool over the bottom points
of HOTO. The points get selected.

6. Press Ctrl key and drag HOTO towards P by keeping the cursor on any selected point.

Counter effect

1. Open Corel DRAW. Select text tool and type the text preferably using thick font. We have used Impact.

Note: It is expected that you have finished with the beginners projects when you start with intermediate, as
we do not repeat the small instructions.
2. Select Interactive Contour Tool from the flyout menu from the tool box. Its 10th from the top.

3. Create the Contour effect using Interactive Contour Tool. Drag it over the text. Keep the text selected.
Using following properties edit the effect properly. Remember to use Inside Contour.

4. You will get following effect. keep the text selected.

5. Open fountain Fill window. Change the angle to 90. Click on the step icon to select it and add 2 for the
steps. Choose the desired colors.
6. Click OK to get the following effect.

Sliced Effect

1. Open Corel DRAW. Type some text. Try to use thick font.

2. Select Rectangle Tool. Draw Rectangle at the lower half of the text. Select the same rectangle.

3. Arrange > Shaping > Intersect

Shaping Docker will get displayed. Select Third one which is Intersect.

4. We are going to cut the text into two pieces.

5. Keep the rectangle selected. Click "Intersect With"

6. Click the pointer on the upper half of the text. The lower half of the text will be intersected. Keep it aside.
Drag the same rectangle to the upper half and repeat the same procedure. You will get the intersected
upper part.

7. Delete the rectangle and the original text.

8. We got the two sliced pieces of the text. Select the lower half.

9. Select Interactive Extrude Tool and drag the pointer on the lower half of the text to apply the effect.

10. Select upper half.

11. Effects > Copy Effect > Extrude From

12. Click the pointer on the extruded part of lower half. The same extrude effect will get copied on the upper
half of the text also.

13. Shift upper half slightly to get proper sliced text.

Adding Texture

1. Open Corel DRAW. Select text tool and type the text preferably using thick font. We have used Impact.

Note: It is expected that you have finished with the beginners projects when you start with intermediate, as
we do not repeat the small instructions.
2. Select Interactive Extrude Tool from the flyout menu from the tool box. Its 10th from the top.

3. Create the 3D effect using Interactive Extrude Tool. Keep the text selected.

4. From the Property Bar at the top select Lighting.

5. Try out different options for lighting and create following effect.

6. From the Fountain Fill flyout menu select the Texture Fill Dialog.
7. Apply the desired texture to the text.

Drop Shadow

1. Open Corel DRAW. Select text tool and type the text. Fill it wih desired color.

Note: It is expected that you have finished with the beginners projects when you start with intermediate, as
we do not repeat the small instructions.

2. Make two copies of the same text. Fill the first with black and second with light gray.

3. Drag the black text above gray. Keep a little distance between them. Use
Arrange > Order command to change the order if necessary.

4. Choose "Interactive Blend Tool" From the tool Box. Its tenth in the column.
5. Drag the blend tool creating blend effect as shown below.

6. Place the colored text above the blend carefully. Again if require use Arrange > Order command to
bring the colored text on the top.

Ray Effect

1. Open Corel DRAW. Select text tool and type the text.Use thick font to get proper line effect. We have
used Impact font. Fill it with desired color.

Note: It is expected that you have finished with the beginners projects when you start with intermediate, as
we do not repeat the small instructions.

2. Drag the guide line and using it draw vertical straight line with Bazier Tool.

3. Make it thicker using Outline Tool.

4. Double click on the line and drag the center of rotation to the bottom.

5. Change the line color to white by selecting the line and right clicking on the white color in the palette.
Keep the line selected.

6. Arrange > Transformation > Rotation

7. Keep angle 12 deg and start pressing "Apply to Duplicate" till you get the complete ray effect.

Grid Effect

1. Open Corel DRAW. Select text tool and type the text.Use thick font to get proper Grid effect. Fill it with
desired color.

Note: It is expected that you have finished with the beginners projects when you start with intermediate, as
we do not repeat the small instructions.

2. Select Graph Paper Tool (8th from the top in the Flyout menu of toolbox)

3. Taking Rows and column 20, 20 drag it over the text.

4. Keep the grid selected and make it thicker using Outline Tool.

5. Change the line color to white by selecting the grid and right clicking on the white color in the palette.