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© 1999 by Ruth Huking. All Rights Reserved.
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This Tutorial was designed using CorelDRAW 7, but it will work with other versions of CorelDRAW.
My Animal Boxes won an Honorable Mention in the Corel World Design Contest for 1998. I made these for my granddaughter and they made a big hit with her. Each of the boxes fits inside another. They take a while to make, but you can decide how many to make.
I did all of these in CorelDRAW 7 using some very simple clipart and fills. Be careful when you use Linear Fills and Texture Fills as they don't rotate. Editor's Note: They do rotate in CorelDRAW 8 and higher. Noise and Stucco work well, as does Fiber. For this Tutorial I have designed a simple box top using the Weld feature, Symbols, Noise, Fiber, Moon Surface, Sky Two Colors and Diamond Fills. The guidelines are shown in the image at left to help you understand the Tutorial.
Make a 2 3/4 inch square to design your box top. Group your picture. When you have a design you are happy with, rotate it 45 degrees to make sure it still looks good. Then rotate it back again. Take the outline off any edges that touch the Guidelines. Make a Full Color Pattern (Tools | Create | Pattern | Full Color). If you are unfamiliar with creating a pattern, you may want to read the Basket Weave Tutorial first. Make five more pictures and Full Color Patterns if you are making each top different.
To set up your Guidelines, mark off a 7 3/4 inch square on a new CorelDRAW page as shown at right. Then add Horizontal Guidelines at every quarter of an inch down from the top line. Add Vertical Guidelines every quarter of an inch to the right on the left side. The image at right shows enough guidelines to make six top boxes and six bottom boxes. Enable Snap to Guidelines.
Draw a square from the top left corner of your guidelines down to the bottom right corner. That should be your 7 3/4 inch square. For right now fill it with green. Off to the side of your screen draw a square that is 2 3/4 inches square and fill it with yellow. With the small square picked, also pick the larger square. Go to Align (Arrange | Align and Distribute) and center the two squares. Editor's Note: In CorelDRAW 8, just press the C and E keys instead of using the Align dialog box. Group these two squares. Drag the two squares so the larger one fits inside of the outtermost guidelines as shown at left.
Rename Layer 1 to Large Green Box Top. This will be your first layer. Add another Layer and name it Large Green Bottom. With this Layer active, draw a square from the second upper left corner to the lower right corner and fill it with white. This is your first bottom box. Add another Layer and name it Top 2. Go back to the Large Green Box Top and duplicate it. Move it to Top 2. Drag it down from the top left corner to the third corner from the top. Add another Layer and name it Bottom 2. Draw another square from the fourth upper left corner to the lower right corner and fill it with white. This is your second box bottom. Add another Layer and name it Top 3. Go back to Top 2 make a duplicate of it and move it to Top 3. Drag it down from the top left corner to the fifth corner from the top. Continue this process until you have six tops and six bottoms as shown at right. Check your Status Bar to make sure each top and bottom are on the right layer.
At this point all of the Layers should be visible and printable. Disable the view and printing icons on all but the largest Top. Ungroup the two squares. Copy and paste your box top shown earlier in the tutorial to cover the yellow square. When you have it aligned correctly, rotate it 45 degrees and delete the yellow square. Fill the remaining area with your Pattern Fill. I used a large fill on my example shown at left. When you finish with the first top, disable its view and print icons and make the second top visible. There is nothing that says you can't make all the boxes the same! In any event, continue as above and fill the rest of your tops. You might want to make the fill of the subsequent boxes proportionately smaller by adjusting the width and height on the Property Bar.
It might be a good idea to print either the large or the small top and fold it to make sure everything is lined up correctly. If you grouped each of the two squares on your first top, they should shrink down proportionately as you make them smaller. Be sure to change each layer to be visible and printable as you continue to print them and disable the other ones.
If you want to do your box tops in Corel PHOTO-PAINT, such as a photograph, import your PHOTO-PAINT file into CorelDRAW. You will have to save your PHOTO-PAINT picture as a TIF before you make it into a Full Color Pattern. It won't work if you try to do it with a PHOTO-PAINT file and you will get an error message.
When you are all done with the boxes, you'll need to fold them into boxes. Click on the link below to download a CorelDRAW file containing the folding instructions.
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