C O R E LD R A W T U T O R I A L : L O G O O F G O O G LE C H R O M E

BY SAMEENA RAFIQ / IN CORELDRAW X6, LOGOS / WITH NO COMMENTS /

This is my fourth post about logo designing and in this post I am going to to explain the
drawing method of one of the most commonly used browsers in the world named Google Chrome using
CorelDraw X6. In the following image you can see the logo of Google Chrome made in CorelDraw X6
by the use of it's some very useful tools including Ellipse Tool, Two Point Line Tool, Transparency
Tool, option named Rotate given in the side menu of Transformations, shaping options
called Trimand Simplify etc.

Logo of Google Chrome made in CorelDraw X6

The method I am going to explain may be a bit lengthy but I am sure no body is going to get bored while
reading this post because it's always a fun to play with CorelDraw tools with amazing outcome.

H O W T O D R A W LO G O O F G O O G LE C H R O M E U S I N G C O R E L D R A W X 6 ?

In order to draw logo of Google Chrome, first of all create a new document by following the method I
have explained in my previous post CorelDraw Tutorial; Logo of Douglas County Bank. Then
select Ellipse Tool either by clicking on it in the Tool Box or by hitting F7 on the keyboard.
Ellipse Tool in the Tool Box
As soon as you will select that tool, pointer of your mouse will assume the shape of a plus ( + ) sign with
a tiny shape of an ellipse at the bottom right of it. Then put that plus (+ ) sign shaped pointer of your
mouse anywhere on the document and draw an ellipse there by dragging your mouse in any direction and
keeping it’s left button pressed. After that, select that recently drawn shape with the help of Pick Tool. As
soon as that shape will be selected, it’s properties including it’s width and height will be appeared on the
Property Bar. In order to transform a roughly drawn ellipse into a perfect circle, set it’s width and height
equal to each other ( both equal to 8.0 in this case) in the Property Bar by typing the values in the relevant
boxes and hitting the Enter Key. As soon as you will hit the Enter Key, selected shape will assume the
same width and height and it will be transformed into a perfect circle. Having done so, fill any color in
that circle temporarily just to make it clearly visible by selecting any thumbnail in the Color Palette with
left mouse click.
perfect circle with equal width and height
After that make a copy to that circle either by getting inside the Edit Menu and selecting the
option Copy or by hitting CTRL + C on the keyboard.
Option referred as Copy in the Edit Menu
Having made a copy of the selected shape, paste it at the same spot on the first shape either by getting
inside the Edit Menu and selecting the option Paste or by hitting CTRL + V on the keyboard.
Option referred as Paste in the Edit Menu
Then select that recently pasted shape with the help of Pick Tool and set it’s width and height equals
to 3.5 in the Property Bar by typing the values in the relevant boxes and hitting the Enter Key. As soon
as you will hit the Enter Key, the recently pasted selected shape on the first shape will assume the same
width and height. Having changed the width and height of the selected shape, fill bright cyan color inside
it by selecting the thumbnail representing that color in the Color Palette with left mouse click. As soon as
you will do so, cyan color will be filled inside the selected shape.
Recently pasted circle with changed width, height and color
After that, select both the shapes on the document by hitting CTRL + A on the keyboard. As soon as you
will select both the shapes on the document, shaping options
(including Weld, Trim, Intersect,Simplify, Front minus back, Back minus front and Create
boundary) will be appeared on the Property Bar. Out of those shaping options, the option which is
supposed to be selected here is none other than Trim. So select Trim to have the hidden part of the
bigger circle ( hidden behind the smaller circle) nicely trimmed off.
Shaping options in the Property Bar
Having trimmed the hidden part of the bigger circle, once again select the smaller cyan colored circle
with the help of Pick Tool and change it’s width and height from 3.5 to 3.0 by typing the values in the
relevant boxes given in the Property Bar and hitting the Enter Key. As soon as you will hit the Enter
Key having typed the values in the relevant boxes, the selected circle will assume the same width and
height and will get smaller and the white page will start to peer from behind .

Circle width reduced width and height\

 After that, click the small arrow that can be seen at the bottom-right of Freehand Tool to open a menu
containing different other options. Out of the options given in that menu select Two Point Line Tool by
clicking on it.

2-Point Line Tool in the menu

As soon as you will select that tool, pointer of your mouse will assume the shape of a plus (+) sign with a
small diagonal line at the bottom-right of it. Then put that plus sign shaped pointer of your mouse
anywhere on the document and draw a long straight horizontal line by dragging your mouse toward the
left or the right side and keeping it’s left button and CTRL Key pressed at the same time. After that put
that horizontal straight line on the bigger shape in a way that it’s left end point could almost (but not
really) touch the top of the smaller cyan colored circle according to the picture below.

Right place for the line

After that, put the pointer of your mouse on the line and hit the left button of it twice. As soon as you will
do so, the line will be surrounded by a few black double sided arrows and a small circle will be appeared
on the middle of the line indicating the rotation point of the line.
Horizontal line surrounded by black double sided arrows with rotation point on the middle
Put the pointer of your mouse on that circle shaped rotation point of the line (pointer will assume the
shape of a plus sign as soon as it will touch the rotation point), keep the left button of your mouse pressed
and drag and drop the rotation point of the line on the center of the smaller circle according to the picture
below.

Right place for the rotation point of the line

After that, get inside the Arrange Menu and select the option named Transformations. As soon as you
will select that option, it's side menu will be appeared containing different transformation options
including Position, Rotate, Scale and mirror, Size and Skew. Out of those options , select Rotate by
clicking on it or by hitting Alt + F8 on the keyboard.
Option referred as Rotate in the side menu of Transformations
As soon as you will do so, a window named Transformations will be appeared on the right side of the
CorelDraw window. At the top of that window there will be seen five tabs representing the five
transformation options named Position, Rotate, Scale and mirror, Size and Skew. The tab you will find
selected by default in that window will be none other than Rotate. Right beneath those tabs, there will be
seen a box named Angle of Rotation. In that box, specify the angle of rotation equal to 120 by typing the
value in the box and hitting the Enter Key. As the boxes named X and Y under the head of Center tell us
the position of the rotation point for the selected object on the document so there is no need to make any
change here. Finally in the box named Copies specify the number of copies equal to 2 and hit the button
named Apply that can be seen at the bottom-right of the window named Transformations.

Window named Transformations with Tab referred as Rotate selected

As soon as you will hit the button named Apply there will be appeared two more lines on the bigger
shape, each making 120o angle from its predecessor.
Three lines placed on the right place
After that, with the help of Pick Tool select the bigger shape on the document and the three lines on it by
clicking on each one by one holding down the Shift Key. As soon as you will do so , shaping options will
again be appeared on the Property Bar. Out of those options select Simplify to divide the bigger shape
into three equal parts.

Shaping option referred as Simplify on the Property Bar

As soon as you will select the option Simplify the bigger shape on the document will be cut into three
equal parts. Then select the three lines one by one with the help of Pick Tool and delete them either by
getting inside the Edit Menu and selecting the option Delete or by hitting the Delete Keyon the
keyboard. Having deleted the three lines, select the bigger shape with the help of Pick Tool by clicking
on it and then get inside the Arrange Menu and select the option named Break Curve Apartor
hit CTRL + K on the keyboard.
Option referred as Break Curve Apart in the Arrange Menu
As soon as you will select the option Break Curve Apart or hit CTRL + K, three parts of the bigger
shape will be broken apart ready to be filled with three different colors. Having broken the three parts of
the shape apart, select the top most part with the help of Pick Tool and fill red color inside it by selecting
the thumbnail representing red color in the Color Palette with left mouse click. Then select the same
thumbnail again with right mouse click to fill red color in the selected shape’s outline.

Red color has been filled in the selected shape

After that , select the left part of the shape with the help of Pick Tool and fill green color inside it by
selecting the thumbnail representing green color in the Color Palette with left mouse click and then select
the same thumbnail with right mouse click to fill the same shade in the selected shape’s outline.
Green color has been filled in the selected shape
Finally, select the left part of the shape with the help of Pick Tool and fill yellow color inside it by
selecting the thumbnail representing yellow color in the Color Palette by hitting the left button of your
mouse and then, select the same thumbnail by hitting the right button of your mouse to fill yellow color in
the selected shape’s outline.

Yellow color has been filled inside the selected shape

After that select the red part of the logo with the help of Pick Tool and then click the small arrow that
can be seen at the bottom-right of the Blend Tool in the Tool Box to open a menu containing different
other tools including Blend Tool, Contour Tool, Distort Tool, Drop shadow Tool, Envelop
 Tool, Extrude Tool and Transparency Tool. Out of the tools given in that menu, the tool which is
supposed to be selected here is Transparency Tool.

Transparency and other tools in the menu

As soon as you will select the Transparency Tool, a tiny shape of something look like a goblet will be
appeared at the bottom-right of the arrow shaped black pointer of your mouse and the tool properties will
be appeared on the Property Bar including three drop-down menus called Transparency
Type, Transparency Operation and Transparency Target, a slide named Transparency
midpoint and two boxes named Angle and edge pad.
Transparency Tool and it's properties
Out of the options given in the drop-down menu named Transparency Type, select the optionLinear.
As soon as you will select that option, the red part will turn noticeably white and all the previously
inactive properties on the Property Bar will be activated. Select Normal out of the options given in the
drop-down menu named Transparency operation, set the Transparency midpointequal to 30 by typing
the value in the relevant box and hitting the Enter Key and select Fill out of the options given in the
drop-down menu named Transparency Target.
Setting of Transparency for the red part of the logo
Then do the same transparency setting for the green and yellow parts of the logo after selecting them one
by one. After that. select the cyan circle by clicking on it and select the option Linear once more
as Transparency Type, select Normal as Transparency operation, set the Transparency
midpoint equal to 70, set the Angle for the edge of transparency equal to 75o, set the Opacity
Effects equal to 6% and select the option referred as Fill out of the options given in the drop-down menu
namedTransparency Target.
Setting of Transparency for the smaller shape in the logo
Then, select all the shapes on the document by hitting CTRL + A and group them together by
hitting CTRL + G. Having made a group of all the shapes, the empty space around the cyan circle is
needed to be filled so that the logo could be used with colorful backgrounds. For that purpose, select
the Ellipse Tool again by clicking on it in the Tool Box or by hitting F7 on the keyboard.Then draw an
ellipse anywhere on the document by dragging your mouse in any direction and keeping it’s left button
pressed. After that , select that newly drawn ellipse shape with the help of Pick Tool and set it’s width
and height equal to 5.0 by typing the values in the relevant boxes given in the Property Bar and hitting
the Enter Key. As soon as you will hit the Enter Key, the selected shape will assume the same width and
height. After that, with the help of Pick Tool, put that shape on the center of the logo and fill white color
inside it and in it’s outline by selecting the thumbnail representing white color in the Color Palette with
left and right mouse clicks respectively.
White circle on the center of the logo
After that, get inside the Arrange Menu and select the option named Order given in the menu. As soon
as you will select that option, it’s side menu will be appeared containing different other options. Out of
those options select To Back of Layer or hit Shift + pg dn on the keyboard.

To Back of Layer in the side menu of Order

As soon as you will do so, white selected circle will be shifted behind the logo. Then select the Text
Tool out of the Tool Box by clicking on it or by hitting F8 on the keyboard.
Text Tool in the Tool Box
As soon as you will select that tool, pointer of your mouse will assume the shape of a plus ( + ) sign with
a prominent letter A at the bottom-right of it. Then put that plus sign shaped pointer of your mouse right
beneath the logo and type the word ” Google” there.Then select that word with the help of Pick Tool to
have it’s properties on the Property Bar. Then select Arial as typeface out of the options given in the
drop-down menu named Font List and select 200 pt as font size for the selected text out of the options
given in the menu named Font Size.
Properties of selected text in the Property Bar
Then get inside the Arrange Menu and select the option named Break Artistic Text Apart or
hitCTRL + K on the keyboard.

Option referred as Break Artistic Text Apart in the Arrange Menu

As soon as you will do so, all the letters in the selected word will be broken apart and ready to be filled
with different colors. Then, select the word G with the help of Pick Tool and fill cyan color in it by
selecting the thumbnail representing cyan color in the Color Palette.
Separately selected letter with cyan color filled inside
Then select all the letters in the word one by one with the help of Pick Tool and fill different color in
each according to the picture below.

Differently colored letters of broken apart text

After that select all the objects including shapes and text on the document by hitting CTRL + A and
group them together by hitting CTRL + G on the keyboard. Then the logo of Google Chrome will ready
to be saved, so save it in CDR format by getting inside the File Menu and selecting the option Save or by
hitting CTRL + S on the keyboard. But if you want to save the same image in any format other than CDR
, select the option Export given in the File Menu or hit CTRL + E on the keyboard instead of selecting
the option Save or hitting CTRL + S.
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