Corel Draw 11 Tutorial Styles And Templates.pdf

Tutorial: Using styles and templates

Welcome to CorelDRAW®, a comprehensive vector-based drawing and graphic-design program for the graphics

professional.

In this tutorial, you will use styles and templates to create front and back covers for a CD jewel-case. This is what

the final project will look like:

What you will learn

During this tutorial, you will learn how to

§ start a project from a template

§ create and apply graphic and text styles

§ create and arrange multiple objects

Opening the template

CorelDRAW lets you start a new drawing from a template. A template is a predefined set of information. A

template can set the page size, orientation, ruler position, and grid and guideline information.

Here, you’ll open a CD-cover template designed specially for this project. The template has two pages. Page 1 is

for the front cover, and Page 2 is for the back cover. (Note that this template contains no grid or guideline

information.)

1 Click File menu } Open .

2 Do one of the following:

(Windows) From the Files of type list box, choose CDT - CorelDRAW template .

(Macintosh) From the Show list box, choose CorelDRAW template .

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3 Choose the folder where you saved the sample files.

4 Double-click the filename CD_start.cdt .

5 In the Open CD_start.cdt dialog box, enable the New from template option, and click OK .

Setting up the front cover

You will begin by formatting the front cover.

You will also create a graphic style. A graphic style is a set of attributes that controls the appearance of a

graphic. In this case, you will use the graphic style you create to format some of the graphic elements of the CD

cover.

1 Click Window menu } Dockers / Palettes } Object manager .

The Object manager Docker™ window/palette displays.

2 In the Object manager Docker window/palette, click Layer 1 of Page 1 .

3 Open the Rectangle flyout

, and click the Rectangle tool

4 Double-click the Rectangle tool.

This creates a rectangle the same size as the drawing page.

5 In the CMYK color palette, click Purple and right-click (Windows) or Control + click (Macintosh) the No color

swatch. This gives the rectangle a purple fill, but no outline.

If the CMYK color palette is not displayed, click Window menu } Color palettes } Default CMYK palette .

6 Right-click (Windows) or Control + click (Macintosh) the rectangle, and click Styles menu } Save style

properties .

7 In the Name box, type Cover , and then click OK .

Adding an image to the front cover

Next, you will import an image for the front cover.

1 Click File menu } Im port .

2 Choose the folder where you saved the sample files.

3 Double-click the filename saxophon.cdr .

4 Press Spacebar .

The image is imported and centered on the drawing page.

5 Click outside the drawing page.

This deselects all objects.

This is what the drawing should look like:

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Adding spirals to the front cover

You will now use spirals to decorate the front cover.

1 Open the Object flyout

, and click the Spiral tool

2 On the property bar, type 2 in the Spiral revolutions box

3 On the property bar, click the Symmetrical spiral button

4 Hold down Ctrl (Windows) or Shift (Macintosh) and drag diagonally anywhere on the drawing page to draw a

small spiral.

Holding down Ctrl (Windows) or Shift (Macintosh) draws a spiral of equal width and height.

5 In the color palette, right-click (Windows) or Control + click (Macintosh) White .

6 Open the Outline flyout

, and click the Outline pen dialog

button .

7 Choose 2.0 pt from the Width list box, and click OK .

8 Click Edit menu } Duplicate to create additional spirals. Drag to position them around the drawing page.

9 Click the Pick tool , and click a blank space in the drawing window to deselect all objects.

10 Click any spiral twice to display its rotation handles.

11 Drag a rotation handle to rotate the spiral.

12 Repeat steps 10 and 11 to rotate additional spirals.

13 Click Edit menu } Select all } Objects .

14 Click Arrange menu } Group .

This is what the drawing might look like:

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Adding text to the front cover

Here, you will make a title for the CD cover by creating and positioning text.

To create text

1 Click the Text tool .

2 Click below the image of the saxophone, and type Ipsum .

3 Drag to select the text, and then do the following:

From the Font list list box on the property bar

, choose Staccato222 BT .

From the Font size list box on the property bar

, choose 72 .

Click the White color swatch in the color palette.

To position the text

1 Click the Pick tool.

2 Select the word Ipsum .

3 Click Arrange menu } Break apart .

4 Drag the characters to change their positions, as was done in the following example:

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Setting up the back cover

Now, you will set up the back cover using the graphic style you created from the front cover.

1 In the Object manager Docker window/palette, click Layer 1 of Page 2 .

If the Object manager Docker window/palette is closed, click Window menu } Dockers / Palettes } Object

manager .

2 Open the Rectangle flyout, and click the Rectangle tool.

3 Double-click the Rectangle tool.

This creates a rectangle the same size as the drawing page.

4 Right-click (Windows) or Control + click (Macintosh) the rectangle, and click Styles menu } Apply } Cover .

The rectangle takes on the Cover graphic style.

Adding spirals to the back cover

Next, you will add spirals to the back cover, just as you did to the front cover.

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