CorelDRAW Design Print Layout Process and Skills (1)

This tutorial introduces the layout flow and corresponding series of tools in CorelDRAW. These tools are any of these types of works, including print advertisements, news illustrations, logo designs, poster posters, and so on. Under the guidance of your sense of typesetting and design, you can use auxiliary lines, preset styles, and reorganize text and images to achieve the most appropriate results.

In this tutorial, you will create an advertisement for a cafe. You will create some design elements and text, as well as learn how to enter images and text. This is the final rendering.

In this tutorial, you will learn:
Create a background
Use guides and alignment options;
Create a framework
Input image
Use powerful cutting tools;
Apply preset drop shadows;
Generate art texts;
Input and planning paragraph texts;
Apply the alignment option.

Part I: Creating a Background

The first thing to do is to open a new document and redefine the document size. Then you will start creating the background: a brown, rounded rectangle. After the background is complete, continue with the remaining ad images and text sections.

In this section, you will use CorelDRAW's default size unit: inches. However, you can also use other units including dots, pixels and centimeters.

First, create a drawing page

1. Click on File > New in the File menu.

2. In the property bar, make sure that the Portrait button is activated to make the drawing page portrait.

3. In the page size column of the property bar, enter the following number:
Width - 7,
High - 10, click OK.

Second, create a background

1. Double-click the Rectangle tool to create a rectangle of the same size as the drawing page.

2. If your screen does not show the CMYK palette, click Window menu> Color palette> Default CMYK palettes (Window> Color palettes> Default CMYK palettes);

3. On the color palette, click on the gold color scale;

4. Hold down Ctrl (Windows) or Command (Mac OS) and click the white color mark on the palette 3 times to reconcile white with this color to create a slightly lighter background color;

5. Open the outline hidden window, click to remove the outline;

6. With the background rectangle selected, make sure that the Round corners together button on the property bar is activated so that the corners of the rectangle are rounded to the same degree;

7. In any of the rectangular rounded text boxes on the property bar, enter 14, Enter,
Note that the numbers here are the percentage of rectangular fillets, not the diameter of the corners.

Part Two: Adding the Bottom Side

At first, we need to create the bottom edge; then, enter a design in the picture and add the border; finally use the powerful cutting tool to place and align the bottom edge in the layout.

First, create the bottom edge

1. While the rectangle tool is still selected, drag the mouse over the drawing page, which is the background, and draw a rectangle.

2. In the Object Size text box of the property bar, enter the following dimensions:
Width - 7,
High - 1.5, enter to determine;

3. In the Color panel, click on the Red Brown swatch, use this red-brown fill rectangle, right-click (Windows) or Control+click (Mac OS) the Red brown swatch, and set the outline to the same color.

Second, plus the design for the bottom

1. Click on File>import in the File menu.

2. Select CorelDRAW installation path;

3. Select the path Corel Graphics 11\Tutorials\Sample files;

4. Double-click the cdr file named steam;

5. Click outside the drawing page to place the image;

6. When the placement image is still selected, drag the X symbol in the center of the object and place it inside the red-brown bottom border, as shown in the figure below (Import import);

7. Press Shift to select the red and brown bottom edges together;

8. Select Arrange > Group from the Arrange menu.

Third, put the bottom edge into the background

1. Click Effect> Power Cut> Place inside container (Effects> PowerClip> Place inside container). A black arrow appears in the drawing window.

2. Click on the background

3. Select the Effect> PowerClip> Edit contents command;

4. Use the selection tool to select the bottom edge;

5. Choose Arrange> Align and distribute> Align and distribute under the Arrange menu;

6. In the Alignment and Distribution dialog box, activate the following options:

Vertically aligned - bottom,
Horizontal alignment - center,
Align to - the edge of the page, click Apply, close the dialog box;

7. In the Power Cut menu, select Finish Edit this level (Effects> PowerClip> Finish editing this level).