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Introducing CorelDRAW
& its tools
CorelDRAW is an extremely powerful program of which you will probably only need to use half
of the tools and features of the program. In this section we will introduce you to the tools in
CorelDRAW and what they do and also take you through the most common tasks you will need
to complete in CorelDRAW.
Below is an image of the toolbox in CorelDRAW with explanations of the tools based on Corel 11.
Pick Tool
Shaping Tools
Zoom Tools
Drawing Tools
Rectangle Tools
Ellipse Tools
Polygon Tools
Basic Shapes Tool
Text Tool
Interactive Tools
Eyedropper Tools
Outline Tool
Fill Tool
Interactive Fill Tool
Each of the tools shown here except the Pick tool and the Text tool
have extra tools hidden in what are called flyout menu's, to access
a fly out menu hold the left mouse button down on the corresponding
button and the menu will pop out allowing you access to the extra
tools.
Each of the flyout menus are shown below giving you a breakdown
of where all the tools are stored, on the next page we will go over the
most common tools and their functions.
Shaping Tools
Zoom Tools
Rectangle Tools
Interactive Tools Eyedropper Tools Outline Tool
Fill ToolInteractive Fill Tools
Ellipse Tools
Polygon Tools
Basic Shapes Tools
Drawing Tools
In order:
Shape Tool, Knife Tool, Eraser Tool, Smudge Brush, Roughen Brush,
Free Transform Tool
In order:
Zoom Tool, Pan Tool
In order:
Rectangle Tool,
3 Point Rectangle
In order:
Fill Tool, Fountain Fill, Pattern Fill, Texture Fill,
Postscript Fill, No Fill, Colour Docker Window
In order:
Interactive Fill, Mesh Fill
In order:
Eyedropper Tool,
Paintbucket Tool
In order:
Outline Pen Tool, Outline Colour Tool, No outline,
Various widths of line, Colour Docker Window
In order:
Blend Tool, Contour Tool,
Distortion Tool, Envelope Tool
Extrude Tool, Shadow Tool,
Transparency Tool
In order:
Ellipse Tool,
3 Point Ellipse Tool
In order:
Polygon Tool,
Graph Paper Tool,
Spiral Tool
In order:
Basic Shapes Tool, Arrow Shapes Tool,
Flowchart Shapes, Star Shapes, Callout Shapes
In order:
Freehand tool, Bezier Tool, Artistic Media Tool, Pen Tool,
Polyline Tool, 3 Point Curve, Interactive Connector,
Dimension Tool