Tutorial Tuesday: Dancing in the Dark in the Park
A common question I see users ask is how to access the "clip art" in the symbols section of the CorelDRAW content manual. The first thing you need to know is that it isn't clip art. They are symbol fonts and the individual graphics are characters in the font. Once you install them as fonts, you can access the "symbols" in the Insert Character Docker (Ctrl + F11 to access it).
Hmm, that sounds like a tip and it is only Tuesday. That means I'm supposed to tell you all about a tutorial. So let's build on the theme of using symbol fonts and look at Ruth Huking's Dancing in the Dark in the Park tutorial. While this is an older tutorial, you can still do the same things in newer versions of CorelDRAW. Ruth really likes to use the characters in symbol fonts, dress them up a bit and use them in her graphics. This tutorial uses a number of different symbol characters. While the graphic you need to create may be drastically different, quite likely you can use the same techniques. Another idea is to use some of the symbol fonts I've discussed in my Font Friday blogs.
I would also like to include a brief comment. I got a very upsetting e-mail in response to last week's tutorial. The author of the e-mail was absolutely furious that the tutorial cost money. When you do a design for clients, do you give away your work? Most likely not. Our authors work very hard to create a tutorial and some of these tutorials do have a small cost. I will certainly link to free tutorials, but I will also link to some that have a cost.
Hmm, that sounds like a tip and it is only Tuesday. That means I'm supposed to tell you all about a tutorial. So let's build on the theme of using symbol fonts and look at Ruth Huking's Dancing in the Dark in the Park tutorial. While this is an older tutorial, you can still do the same things in newer versions of CorelDRAW. Ruth really likes to use the characters in symbol fonts, dress them up a bit and use them in her graphics. This tutorial uses a number of different symbol characters. While the graphic you need to create may be drastically different, quite likely you can use the same techniques. Another idea is to use some of the symbol fonts I've discussed in my Font Friday blogs.
I would also like to include a brief comment. I got a very upsetting e-mail in response to last week's tutorial. The author of the e-mail was absolutely furious that the tutorial cost money. When you do a design for clients, do you give away your work? Most likely not. Our authors work very hard to create a tutorial and some of these tutorials do have a small cost. I will certainly link to free tutorials, but I will also link to some that have a cost.
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