CorelDRAW Courses
Let your creativity loose on this vector art program to create and edit graphics, page layouts and design websites. Our CorelDRAW Introduction course teaches you the skills needed to deliver professional looking results every time. All CorelDRAW training courses can be modified or tailored for delivery, at your own offices, anywhere within the UK.
We also train on older versions, just call for a course outline.

CorelDRAW 2020 Introduction course
2 days
This CorelDRAW 2020 Introduction course fully explores this feature-packed vector graphics suite which includes a large collection of fonts and clip art. A full range of editing tools allows the user to produce illustrations of just about any description via the ability to edit any shape or character with ease and precision, generate text both in paragraph or headline style, fit text to curves and objects and add special effects.
Our CorelDRAW 2020 Introduction course is designed to enable new users to start using CorelDRAW’s extensive editing tools to work with text and precision drawing features quickly and easily.
The course content also applies to earlier versions of CorelDRAW and can be customised to fit into 1 day.
Download PDFWhat will you learn?
- Use tools and palettes effectively and understand the terminology
- Create and edit images and text
- Apply a range of special effects to images
Audience?
Course Contents
Introduction
- CorelDRAW Overview
- Navigating
- Show/hide palettes
- New document setup
- Using Zoom & Viewing modes
Creating Basic Objects
- Using drawing & shaping tools
- Drawing rectangles, circles, polygons, lines and curves
- Setting object fills & outlines
- Copying object attributes
Manipulating Objects
- Select/Move/Copy/Resize
- Rotate & skew
- Altering the pivot point
- Align/Distribute
- Group and lock
- Changing the stacking order
Working with Text
- Artistic vs Paragraph text
- Adding & Formatting artistic text
- Adding paragraph text
- Variable fonts
- Setting paragraph options
- Using Spell check
- Using Find and Replace
- Importing text
- Working in Tables
Aids to Accuracy
- Customising the ruler & grid
- Using snap-to
- Moving the zero point
- Moving the ruler
- Specifying precise object parameters
Creating Complex Objects
- Creating bézier curves
- Using Tools: Shape, Freehand, Knife, Eraser, Block Shadow, Impact and Pointillizer
- Reshaping paths
- Converting text to paths
- Combining objects
- Using Node paths
Effects
- Fit Text to Path
- Transforming objects with envelopes
- Creating blends
- Drop shadows and Bevel effects
- The artistic media tool
- Adding perspective
- Extruding objects
- Applying Fills to areas
- Lens effects
- Applying PowerClips
- Roughening/Smoothing objects
- Symmetry Drawing Mode
Blends, Contours, and Mesh
- Blending Objects
- Contouring Objects
- Applying Mesh Fills
Layers
- Create/Edit Layers
- Changing Layer Properties
- Move/Copy/Reorder/Lock Layers
- Inserting Page Numbers
- Object manager
Images
- Inserting and Creating symbols
- Crop/Edit/Export Bitmaps
- Photo Cocktail extension
- Convert Bitmaps to Vectors with AI
Printing
- Choosing the right file format
- Printing documents
- Setting print options
- Creating print styles
- Using the Print Merge Wizard
Templates, Pages and Styles
- Creating Templates
- Working with Pages
- Specifying the Page Layout
- Choosing a Page Background
- Using Styles
- Applying a Style
Course Materials
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