This PPT gives the detailed information about how the Geometric objects drawn in coreldraw and how to select.

1. Drawing and Selecting
Presented by
V.Santhi,
Department of Computer Application,
Bon Secours College for women,
Thanjavur

2. Toolbox

3. • In this drawing and selecting we are going
to worked with the following tools
1. Freehand Tool
2. Bezier Tool
3. Rectangle Tool
4. Ellipse Tool
5. Polygon Tool
Getting Familiar with the Toolbox

4. Getting Started with the Project

5. • First Open CorelDRAW and then open a New
Graphic
• A blank page appears on the screen, do the
following Steps
1. Draw one Circle at the top –right Corner of
the page
2. Draw an rectangle on the left of the page
3. Now create more 4 rectangles through Edit
menu
4. Click Duplicate option
Getting Started with the Project

8. Selecting an Object
• The Pick tool helps us select an Object
Steps:
1. Click Pick tool in the Toolbox to make it the
Currently selected tool
2. Position the mouse pointer on rectangle 1
and click the left mouse button.
3. Rectangle 1 gets selected, can make
changes (Moving, Resizing, Deleting)

9. Resizing an Object
• Once an object is selected, it can be resized.
Steps:
1. Place the mouse pointer on the center
handle of the right edge of the rectangle to
be resized, mouse pointer changed into
twin-headed arrow

10. 2. Press the left mouse button and keeping it
pressed, drag the mouse pointer leftwards to
reduce the width of the rectangle
3. Release the mouse-button, The width of the
rectangle is reduced
4. Now place the mouse pointer on the center
handle of the top edge of the rectangle 1.
5. Drag the mouse pointer downwards to reduce
the height of the rectangle 1. Now Rectangle 1
is resized.

12. Moving an Object
• Moving Rectangle 1 rightwards – Steps:
1. Place the Mouse pointer over the center of
the selected rectangle 1
2. Keeping the left mouse button pressed,
drag the mouse pointer rightwards
3. Reaches desired position release left
mouse button

14. Changing the Shape of an Object
• CorelDRAW provides shape tool for changing
the shape of the object.
STEPS:
1. Click the Shape tool
2. Click on the object to be reshaped, that object
is covered with dotted lines
3. Place the mouse pointer on the right handle
at the bottom edge
4. Press the left mouse button and keeping it
pressed, drag the mouse pointer towards the
left
5. Release the mouse button

16. Combining Two Objects
• Combine two objects which can then be used
as a single object
STEPS:
1. Click on the pick tool
2. Press Shift key from the keyboard select
rectangle 2
3. Click on the Combine button in the Property
bar
4. Similarly Combine rectangle 3 & 4.

18. Skewing an Object
• Skewing means reshaping an object from one of its
sides.
• When skew an object, two of its corners move, two
corners on the opposite side remain static
STEPS:
1. Click on any one of the rectangle 3 or 4
2. Again click on the selected rectangles 3 or
4,surrounded by rotation and skew handles
3. Move the mouse pointer onto the right skew
handle
4. Keeping the left mouse button pressed, drag the
mouse pointer upwards to skew rectangle 3 or 4.
5. Finally release the left mouse button.

20. Drawing a Polygon
• Polygon tool is used to draw polygons in
different sides in a document.
STEPS:
1. Click the Graphics Tool to open
2. In the fly out click polygon tool
3. Click on the down arrow button on the box
displaying Number of Points of Polygon

22. Welding the Objects
• The Weld feature of CoreDRAW is used to
combine two objects
• Difference between combine and Weld is “Area
of intersection”
STEPS:
1. Click triangle 1.
2. Move down , Overlaps the object below
3. Press shift and click second object to be
welded
4. Click weld icon in Property bar

24. Blending two Objects
• Blend between two objects to create the
effect of progression of shape and or size
from one object to another.
STEPS:
1. Click Interactive Blend Tool
2. Place mouse pointer on triangle 3 and
press the left mouse button
3. Without releasing the left mouse button ,
drag the mouse pointer to triangle 2

25. Drawing Straight Lines
• Use Bezier tool for drawing lines
STEPS:
1. Click Bezier tool and draw line and
continuing a line
2. Place the mouse pointer on the page and
click on the left mouse button
3. Place the mouse pointer on the position
where the line wants to be

26. Continuing a Line
• We can extend the line to draw a closed
figure.
STEPS:
1. Click at the end point of the previous line
2. Move the mouse pointer

28. Changing the View Mode
• To change the view size to full page again
carry the following steps
STEPS:
1. Click Zoom level box in the Standard
Tollbar
2. Click To Page option in the list

29. The Artistic Media Tool
• The Artistic Media Tool is used to apply various
effects to a curve.
• It provides different options for making simple
, colored or texture strokes
STEPS:
1. Click Artistic Media Tool
2. Click Preset mode button in property bar
3. Next click Stroke list box
4. Click required brush stroke

30. Rotating Objects
• To rotate any objects performs the following
steps
1. Click Pick tool
2. Click on the object to be rotated, that
object is surrounded by skew and rotate
handles in corners
3. Keep the mouse pointer, left mouse button
pressed, drag continuously.

31. The Fill Tool Fly-Out
• Fill tool is used to fill an object with a color,
pattern or a texture
• Done through Fountain Fill Tool, fill an
object with a combination of two colors
where one color gradually fades into
another in different styles.

32. Fountain Fill Dialog Tool
STEPS:
1. Click Pick tool
2. Click Object 1
3. Press Shift key and Select Object 2.
4. Now click Fill Tool
5. Click on Fountain Fill tool, and set the
properties

34. Filling an Object with a Single Color
• Can fill the Object with one color is done
through the Color palettes
STEPS:
1. Click the object is to be filled
2. Next Click the Suitable color from the Color
Palettes

35. The Post Script Fill Dialog Tool
• PostScript fill tools is used to fill an object
with pre-defined design and textures.
STEPS:
1. Click Pick tool to select the object to be
filled
2. Click Fill tool
3. Click post script fill tool, in that select the
needed texture

37. Artistic Media Tool in Spray Mode
• Allows user to make strokes of a number of
predefined patterns like balloons, foot
prints, plant or foods….
STEPS:
1. Click on the Free hand tool fly out.
2. In that select Artistic Media Tool
3. In Property bar select Sprayer icon
4. Select needed spray and fill it