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Creating Complex Shapes Easily with CorelDRAW

© 2002 by Foster D. Coburn III. All Rights Reserved.

When you first start to use CorelDRAW, it can be intimidating. You see the shape you want to create and yet there is no obvious tool for creating what you want. Most users gravitate towards the Freehand tool and try to draw the shape from scratch. This will only increase the frustration.

The real key is to break down the complex shape into a series of simple shapes. Once you’ve done that, you can draw the rectangles, circles and other shapes. Those are easy. Then you use Weld to turn the simple shapes into the desired complex shape. Before long you’ll see that any shape you imagine can be easily created. After working through the samples provided in this article, you’ll have a good idea of how to break down the complex shape as we will use nothing but rectangles and circles to create our examples.

The Included Multimedia Tutorials

Included with this tutorial are eleven multimedia tutorials showing the projects describe on screen. So not only can you read how to do a project, you'll see and hear it being done for you. Each of these tutorials is noted by the "Watch Movie" icon shown at right. Want to see a sample, click on the Watch Movie icon and you'll get one!

Add to Cart Get this entire tutorial in a printable PDF file along with 24 minutes of multimedia movies showing each project in action for only $8! Just click the button at right to get your copy today! It includes ten pages of detailed information on how to create complex shapes in CorelDRAW 9-X4 using Weld, Trim, Intersect and Combine!


Other Tutorials by Foster D. Coburn III

CorelDRAW X6 Font List · CorelDRAW X5 Font List · CorelDRAW X4 Font List · The Terms of Adobe Photoshop and Corel PHOTO-PAINT · CorelDRAW X3 Font List · Cropping and Rotating Files in Corel PHOTO-PAINT · The Magic of Color Styles · CorelDRAW's Find and Replace Wizard · Shorten Your Design Time with Templates · CorelDRAW's Multi-Faceted Eyedropper Tool · CorelDRAW and Special Characters · The Easy Way to Create Calendars in CorelDRAW · The Wide World of Labels in CorelDRAW · Including Variable Data with Print Merge · Resaving, Resizing & Resampling Files in Corel PHOTO-PAINT · Creating Your Own Fonts in CorelDRAW · The Evils of Using JPEG Files · Speeding Up CorelDRAW 11 and Windows XP · Symbols and Imposition · The Easiest Way to Recreate Logos · A Few Guidelines to Follow · Square Corners Can Be Sticky -- Rounding Corners in CorelDRAW · Creating Complex Shapes Easily with CorelDRAW · Identifying the Mystery Font · Two Ways to Create a Split Front Design · Last Word in Font Management · Calibrating Your Printed Colors with a Color Chart · Graphics Computing in 2001 · Hottest R.A.V.E. In Town · Get the Red Out of Eyes · Secrets of Color Management · Dressing Up Your PDF Files · How Adobe Acrobat Can Make Life Simpler · Why You Want PDF in Your Workflow · Converting a Scanned Logo to Vector in CorelDRAW · Designing 360 Degrees · Customizing Your Interface in CorelDRAW 8.0 · Fitting Text to a Path · Creating Cool Graphs Without a Spreadsheet · From CorelDRAW to Macromedia Flash, A Simple Example · Getting Rid of That Darned White Box · Converting a Bitmap Logo to Vector in CorelDRAW · Finding Clipart with ROMCAT

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Last Updated Thursday March 19 2009.

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