CorelDRAW doesn’t allow combination of extrude, bevel and power clip in one object. Here’s the way around. More »

The bleed area is the edge of the printed paper that will be trimmed and discarded after the printing process. The standard bleed size can vary from one printing company to the other but generally is 3mm (0.125 inches). More »

Although CorelDRAW offers us an option of creating an extrusion with its Interactive Extrude tool designed for the purpose, we’re going to simulate the extrusion using CorelDRAW’s Interactive Blending tool to achieve better quality and avoid the unwanted pixelation, notorious for the Extrude tool. More »

The benefits of the CorelDRAW Contour tool are a good reason for us to take a better look into its properties and variations. This tool is basically a way to create concentric lines to the outer or inner side of an object. More »

Every once in a while you might need to draw multiple complex shapes that look the same but folow a different curve. In many cases, creating your own custom CorelDRAW Artistic brush can help you save time. More »

CorelDRAWs Envelope tool can come in handy in many different situations. Use it to stretch and compress any object or text using eight available points and achieve any desired shape. More »

Here’s one of the many ways to make a rainbow in CorelDRAW. This technique is based around the Blending tool used to blend two arcs of similar color. More »

CorelDRAWs Table tool can come in handy for complex web-to-print layouts. These are some of its features to help you better understand how it works. More »

CorelDRAWs Table tool can come in handy for complex web-to-print layouts. These are some of its features to help you better understand how it works. More »

CorelDRAWs transparency tool can really make a difference for your web-to-print templates. Lots of cool effects are achieved with combining simple transparencies, but it you to know how. Read on. More »

FAQ about common CorelDARW problems, bugs and workarounds. More »

You can create and add custom pattern fills in CorelDRAW out of vector art or bitmaps. The process is very simple once you learn a few rules. This tutorial helps understand the basics of creating custom full-color and bitmap pattern fills. More »

CorelDRAW lets you create your own patterns out of vector art. The process is very simple once you learn a few rules. This tutorial helps understand the basics of creating a custom two color pattern fill. More »

Photoshop is a raster application for image manipulation. It has no notion of bleed and as a consequence it cannot place cropmarks correctly when producing a PDF. Designers usually use guides as a boundary between the page and bleed areas. Converting this to a vector-base design requires changes to page size, setting bleed and cropmarks. More »

Here are some cool tutorials that will help you improve your CorelDRAW skills. Mastering these techniques will set you one step closer to becoming a great designer. More »

CorelDRAW does not have a built-in Invert transparency option as a Transparency tool preset. Sometimes you need to add an inverted radial transparency than the default one, here’s how. More »

Here are a few examples of designs achieved by assigning different merge modes to some of their elements. The CorelDRAW merge modes are used as transparency operations or as drop shadow blending modes.

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Take an existing font and go crazy with it! Fonts can be edited using CorelDRAW to achieve different text effects. In this case we prepare a font for a cool Vintage wood inlay effect by making two more fonts out of it. More »

CorelDRAW doesn’t allow a perspective effect to be applied to bitmapa. This is a trick that you can use to simulate a perspective on an image placeholder in your web-to-print templates. More »

Every once in a while you’ll need to use some shape or text as a PowerClip container for another shape, text or even an image. This tutorial shows different combination of PowerClip transparencies. More »