 In this video, I'll be showing you everything you need to start using CorelDRAW. So if you're a CorelDRAW beginner, then this video is for you. Consider subscribing if this video makes any sense to you and don't forget to turn on the bell so you get notified when I upload a new video like this one. So let's jump straight into it. So for this tutorial, I'll be using CorelDRAW 2021. So if you're using any other version apart from CorelDRAW 2021, you've got no problem because we are still on the same page. Just follow up the process and you understand everything I'm going to show you. So once you open up CorelDRAW 2021, this is what you see but then your screen may not be this dark screen but I can show you how to change your screen to a dark screen. So all you have to do is go to tools and you go to options and you can go to customization. And once you do that, this dialog box pops up so you can choose your theme and you make it either light, medium, dark or black. So I'm using the dark theme here and that's just what it is. So this particular screen is known as the welcome screen where you see your get started, you see your workspace and you see what's new learning and get more. So this is just what you see and you see a plus icon here where you can click and create a new document and you see previous jobs you have worked on, previous templates you have worked on just on this place. And what you see next is the file tools, windows and so on but then they're not really important at this point because we want to create a new document. So the next thing you're going to do is to create a new document. So to create a new document, you click on the plus icon and this dialog box pops up. You give your document a name you want to save it with and you see presets. So you set it to custom and number of pages. It depends on the number of pages you want to have in your CorelDRAW workspace. And then you see your primary color mode, either CMYK or RGB. So you choose the perfect color mode you want to work with. If you're designing for a web based stuff or something that ends on screen, then you can use RGB or if you're designing for print, then you can use CMYK. Then under your dimension, you see page size. So you have to choose the size you want to work with. I'll leave it at A3. There are other sizes here you can choose where I'll leave it at A3. And then you're going to see your width and height. So you set your width and height. So you also set the units you want to work with. You can click on inches and that's just it. Then you set your orientation to either portrait or landscape. So it depends on what you want. I'll leave it at landscape just like this and your resolution to 300 dpi. Now why you should use 300 dpi is this you need to leave it there for a high resolution design. Okay. If you're designing for print, then you should be using 300 dpi. And if you're designing for a screen or something that ends on a screen, then you can use 150 dpi. But in general, I use 300 dpi for all my designs, whether for print or a web based stuff. So the next thing you see is your color settings. At this point, you just have to leave everything on default. You don't have to change anything. You just leave everything on default and hit on okay. And once you do that, it opens up this page just like what you see here. And this is all the bars how it looks like in Corel draw. And I'm going to explain them one after the other. So you want to understand Corel draw interface. So at this point, you see the very face bar, which is known as the menu bar, where you have your file, edit, view, layout, objects, effects, bitmaps, text, table, tools, windows and help. Okay. So at this point, your file is a bar where you see or new. If you want to create a new document to see new, is a new from template to see open, open recent and so on. So in general, this is where you can always save your job, export your job, import and do all sorts of things. So even your document property is here and exit also is here. And under edit, you see things like undo, redo, which I'm going to tell you the shortcuts for each of these things in our next video. Again, to learn shortcuts, important shortcuts in Corel draw in our next video. So this is just where you see the long cut for it instead of the short cut. This is where you see the long cut under edit. And where you have your view is just the way you can set your Corel draw to work on your own benefit. You see your wireframe. But in general, always leave your Corel draw at enhanced because that's just the best way to leave your view. And you also have a full screen preview that if you want to preview your full screen for your design just like this. So that's just it. And you also have other page shutter view. And this option comes only in Corel draw 2021 where you have page shutter view and multi-page view. So you can view your document in multi-page. For example, I have like three pages and you see the three pages are not showing the show just one after the other. But then if you come to view and click on multi-page view, you'll be able to see the three pages at the same time. So that's what multi-page view does. Okay, you can off that and leave it at that point. So next thing you see is the zoom and zoom out and all other stuff. You see your pages, page border, blade, printable area. You see your grid and rulers. If you want to activate your rulers and you want to deactivate your rulers also, so that's just it. This is the rulers here. So everything about the view, this is where you see even your guidelines are all in this particular page. And the next one you want to see is your layout. Okay, your layout is where you insert page, duplicate page. In general, this layout is all about editing your page. Okay, the page where you are actually designing on this is what layout does. So the object is just a particular panel you use to edit objects you are working with in CorelDraw. So for example, you want to create an object, come to create, insert and all those stuff. This is where you create and do everything you want to do with any object you want to do in CorelDraw. More about this in our subsequent videos. You're going to learn it one by one. And you see effects. This is where you add effects, 3D effects, adjust and so on. And this is where you see all the stuff in CorelDraw and it makes your workflow very easy. So anything you want to add effects to in CorelDraw, you just come to effects. In other versions of CorelDraw, it may not have this particular panel, but this effect is available in your objects when you come to objects, you see where you have effects or where you have bitmap, you also see where you have effects. This is bitmap and you know, CorelDraw works with bitmap also. So this is just what you see when we start working with CorelDraw fully, you see a lot of things about that. I don't need to explain anything about text because you know, this is your text that where you have to edit your text and do everything you want to do with your text table. The same thing as objects and tools and windows. Now I'm going to explain some things about windows. Now your windows help you to arrange everything in your CorelDraw, like what you see, the color palette, the tool bar and every other bars you see, your windows helps you to arrange those stuff. For example, you come to workspace. In your workspace, you choose the particular workspace you want to work with. Our advice is to always leave it at default in your documents. This is where you choose properties, objects, pages. For example, if I click on properties, it opens up this panel. Let me do that again. If I click on properties, it opens up this panel. We'll be able to edit particular objects using the property panel. So that's what that particular bar does. Okay. So you come to windows, come to dockers again, you can choose pages or whatever stuff you want to align and distribute, fit objects to path and so on. So many things to do here. So in general, if you want to set the things you want to see on your screen and if any of them disappears, this is where you can always come and make them appear again. For example, if I come to color palette, I can add color palette, I can remove a particular color palette. Just here, if you click on palette, it opens up this bar, we'll be able to set. Now I'm using CMYK, so I'm going to set my RGB. If you click on RGB, it opens up at this particular space here. So that's just what it does. With that, you can use it to set whatever you want to see on your screen. If you click on toolbar, you see you'll be able to see your menu bar, your status bar, your standard bar, your property by your toolbox, which is the particular bar here and every other stuff you like to activate. So for now, I leave only these ones to be activated. Every other bar works when you click on the particular tool. For example, the zoom, you don't need to activate the zoom because once you click on the zoom tool, click on Z and the zoom bar appears just here. So you don't need to activate that. That's just what it is. So the next thing you're going to look at is the kinds of objects in Coral Draw. So in Coral Draw, there are three types of objects you always see. We have the shape object, we have the beat map and the text. And you know Coral Draw is a vector based program. So everything you'll be doing will be in high resolution and vectors no matter how you zoom them, they don't lose quality. So Coral Draw is a vector based program. A shape is a vector and this is a beat map which is known as raster in Photoshop but in Coral Draw, it's known as beat map and also the text object. So these are the three objects you always see in Coral Draw. It's either the object is a text or it's a vector just like this one or it's a raster or you call it beat map just like what you can see. So let's look at types of tools in Coral Draw and you see the very first two you see is the pick tool and the pick tool is just simply to click and move objects around. For example, I have this shape here. The pick tool helps you to click and move objects around and do some editings and transform objects. Okay, that's just the work of pick tool. And then we have another tool which is the shape tool. The shape tool helps you to edit objects as well. So if you click and hold, you see other tools. Any tool you see this particular angle here just like this one, this one and this one. It's just a symbol to let you know that there are other tools under this particular tool which you can use them to edit your object. Okay. And you also have the eraser tool. We have zoom tool. You just have to take your time to study these tools. But I'm going to explain the most important tools you'll be needing for your designs in Coral Draw. So you have the pick tool here which you'll be needing for your designs. And you also have the shape tool. You also have your eraser tool. You also have your zoom tool. And you also have your artistic media, live sketch, smart drawing. So all these tools helps you to work perfectly. So if you're an artist and you like to use this, you like to use the artistic media, the live sketch and smart drawing to create illustrations or to create vector graphics in Coral Draw. And you also have the free hand tool where I can help you to draw anything free handed. Just like that. It's very simple in Coral Draw. So you also have tools like the two point line to win and click to create a particular line just like that. Very easy to create a line in Coral Draw. So you click and draw and you'll be able to create a line just like that in Coral Draw. It's very, very easy. If you click and hold you see your paint tool. It helps you to create custom shapes in Coral Draw and it makes your workflow very, very easy. So let me show you one thing that this tool does if you click and hold you see where you have the smear tool. Let me show you what it does. If you create a shape like this and you like to create some kind of sloppy stuff you click and hold click on the smear and with that you'll be able to create stuff like this in Coral Draw. It makes your workflow very, very easy. So that's just what this smear tool does at your spare time you can click on each of these tools to see what they do for you. And this is what the 12 tool does if you have something like a circle let me use a circle shape like that and ellipse okay just like that you click and hold and click on your 12 so you'll be able to adjust that if you click and get some points like that this is what your 12 does be able to make it okay you can increase the size of your 12 for example you have something like that. So it helps you to create things like this that's just what the 12 does just like what you can see I'm editing this stuff making it to look distorted the 12 tool does a very good job like that clicking on each of this node can adjust each of this node just like that so that's what the 12 tool does and you have other tools like this smudge and if you use each of them you see what they actually do like this smudge create stuff like this it's very easy and nice so that's what the smudge does and you can always edit any of the tools to fit what you actually want for example the size of the smudge brush can increase it here let's say we have something like 100 so you hit on enter and this is what the smudge looks like it depends on what you actually want and you also have other stuff here the angle you want it to rotate the paint tilt and so on so that's just what it does and we have the eraser to helps you to erase anything you want you can increase the size of your eraser just right here just like that you can increase the size of your eraser again so use it to erase stuff in coral draw it's very very easy and very nice and there are other tools under the eraser to like the knife tool the virtual segments delete you can use this knife to cut shapes and so on and just like that and with the artistic media it's actually a brush that once you just do that it gives you this type of media you can always select any type of media you want to use depending on what fits what you actually want in coral draw so that's just that and then I'll move away from all these tools and move to where you have the rectangle tool so these two helps you to create a rectangle just like that and it makes your workflow very easy same thing with the ellipse tool that's what it does if you click and hold on the ellipse tool you see the three point ellipse where you can create an ellipse tool just like in this pattern see here that's just what it does it makes your edits very easy and very nice okay so you have these three point edits just like that that's what it does in general that's where you can get your ellipse tool and the next one is the polygon tool if you click and hold you see your polygon you see your style you see spiral you see common shapes if you click on common shapes you see every other shape you would like to use in coral draw so there are a lot of shapes here you would like to be using the love shape and the kind of electricity stuff like that thunder strike so on so that's just it okay so you have other tools just around here like the impact tool which is just a new tool in coral draw 2021 and the graph paper so generally this is where you get different polygon shapes okay so that's just what it is and here you have your text tool where you can drag and do a lot of things about your text okay so that's what your text tool does just to type okay that's it and if you click and hold you see your table and you can create table I think this works only in coral draw 2022 2021 sorry so that's just that and if you come down here you see your parallel dimension tool you see your connector tool you see your shadow tool and you see your transparency tool so your shadow tool helps you to drop a shadow for a particular object for example I want to drop a shadow for this object create the object click on my drop shadow tool click and drop and the shadow drops down just like this and you see other options here where you can always edit your shadow to meet what you want you can set the blend mode or you set the match mode and you can always set the color of your shadow to any color you want just like that you can always set your faders and you can always set your transparency anyhow you want it to look like so that's just what the shadow tool does in coral draw and then the next one here is the transparency tool so if you want to add transparency so you can blend shapes or blend images in coral draw with the help of your transparency tool it's as simple as that okay very simple and then you click on eye drop tool color eye drop tool helps you to pick a particular color from a particular shape to another shape so for example I'm going to pick this color you click on your eye drop tool pick the blue color and fill it on this other shape so you have this just like that and then your gradient interactive field to helps you to add field to a particular shape example that shape can add two gradient field just like that and you can always edit your gradient field here with everything you see here it helps you to edit your gradient something like this and you see what it looks like so that's just what it does so you can always study that at just the time to see what it works okay so that's just for all the tools if you want to see more tool you want to add more tools to your workspace you can always click down here and check if there is any tool or if there is any problem with your toolbar you can always click on reset toolbar when you click down here on this particular stuff here you click on your reset toolbar or your customize customize how you want your tools to be arranged in corral drawer you can always do that to help you speed up your workflow so then the next thing I'll be looking at is editing objects so then the next thing I'll be looking at is editing objects in corral drawer so to edit objects in corral drawer it's very very simple all you have to do is to create a shape for example let's use this shape as an example of object we want to edit in corral drawer so once you create the shape it comes just empty with an outline just like that so what you're going to do is to fill the object with the color so you like to fill it you click on any color you like to fill it with just like that and if you want to take off this outline it's very simple you right click on this particular bar where you have this stroke here this red structures around that you right click and you click on set outline color and that is how it works in corral drawer 2021 so this is it okay and if you want to place objects to the center of your page you simply place p and it comes to the center of your page so when you press p on your keyboard it places the object at the center of your page and then you start working with it and then observe this stuff any color you use in corral drawer it will always appear just down here like what you're seeing here just in case you want to use that color again you always find it okay so that's just how it is and then you always see this panel where you'll be able to see the particular color you are using and the color code or if you are using RGB or CMYK this is where you can always do that okay so let's study more about this if you want to fill this object you click on the gradient fill I've shown you this before and you add another color so you can always edit your gradient and then if you want to enlarge you click on shift and you can always enlarge an object when you hold shift on your keyboard you can always enlarge an object evenly in corral drawer just like that and it makes your workflow very easy and then if you want to tweak an object you click again after clicking an object you see this square note and you click again you get these curves around that object then you can always tweak the object like this or you tweak it like this or you tweak it like that it depends on the angle you choose if you hold on any of these curve you'll be able to rotate the object in corral drawer so that's how it does and if you hold control you'll be able to rotate the object in such a way that you'll be able to control the rotation in a very perfect way okay that's just how it is I'm going to return this back with the help of control z okay so that's just that and if you want to curve the corners of this shape simply click on your shape tool and you're able to hold the corners and rotate curve it like this it's very simple and if you want to curve just one side you click on a particular node so it selects this particular node alone and you'll be able to curve just one side of the object like that it makes your workflow very fast and very very easy and next you want to know is how to duplicate objects so to duplicate this object I will click and drag and right click before I leave so I'm able so I'm able to duplicate this object in a very easy way but there are several ways to duplicate objects you can press control d on your keyboard to duplicate so when you press control d it duplicates the object in corral draw and then there are other ways you can duplicate objects for example lines if you have a line like this it wants to duplicate it in such a way of a node book line you hold shift on your keyboard click and drag and make sure you hold shift so the object stays on a straight line just like this and you duplicate so you hold shift on your keyboard to duplicate this stuff like that and once you do the face duplicating and you press control d the object follows that order to give you this straight line if you continue pressing control d it will duplicate to give you what you can see here so that's just that so that's how to duplicate objects and the next thing you want to know is to work with transformation how to transform objects in corral draw so if I want to trim or weld or edit objects in such a manner these are things you are going to do you click and drag and duplicate so for example I want to weld this shape let's say we have this yellow color I want to weld this shape with this select the two shapes by holding shift click on the face shape and hold shift shift and click on the order shape and then you click on weld you see these options up here so you click on weld so if you don't see this panel here you can always come to object you come to shaping and you see weld trim intersect and you see what all this stuff does so this is what all this stuff does the weld does a good job by joining the shapes together and trim does a good job by duplicating the objects like this it trims out the order shape okay so what it does is the shape on top trims the shape below okay so any shape you want to trim for example I want to trim this particular shape the shape I want to trim I will always select that last for example I want to use this shape to duplicate to trim this order shape I'll click this order shape face hold shift select that and click on trim but that's how it works it trims the order shape but if I want to use this shape to trim this shape I will click on this one first hold shift and select the order shape and click on trim so it's the opposite of that so that's how it works and to see other options like intersect intersect will bring out this particular shape at the center just like that so that's what intersect does pretty much intersect is always very good if you want to extract a particular portion of a shape or a particular portion of an object from another object so you use that intersect and with that you can always study every other part of this and know what they do so let's just move on so the next thing I'm going to show you is how to edit shapes like this for example you have your ellipse and you want to create an ellipse always hold control to get a complete and perfect circle just like this if you hold control you have this stuff in an even way like this but if you leave your control your circle will be warped and you have this overall stuff like this which has no kind of definite shape but if you hold control you have a perfect circle and if you hold shift you'll be able to create a circle that is kind of even like this and you leave and if you want to zoom out or you want to scale up the object example you can always hold the corners to scale up like this and if you hold shift you'll be able to scale it in this manner like that and it makes your workflow very very easy same thing applies to every other shape or pictures or bitmaps you bring into corral draw and then I'm going to expose you a little to the property bar in corral draw if you come to windows come to dockers and you see where you have your properties click on the properties you see all this stuff here it helps you to edit your shape for example you want to give it an outline click on outline are we able to give this shape particular outline color you want you can really see black and that you have given it the color and you choose your outline point for example any 10 point see how it works just right here and you can always choose if you want to work with points millimeters or so on just what you want and then you choose the type of outline you want if you want these dotted lines like that that's just what the property is bar does and you can always see your limits corners how you want it if you want curved corners you need to leave this to a straight line so you can see the curved corners very well let's set the limits to 20 40 okay let's set it to meter limits to 60 so you see how it curves just around here and your line curves if you want it to have a kind of line curves like that everything here helps you to edit your outline just like that so you can always sit on behind few or scale with objects over prints and so on so that's just what it is and you see another stuff here that is the few so if you click on the few you'll be able to give this shape a particular few you want it to have a fountain feel or any kind of feel you like to give it depends on what you want and you can always choose if you want it to have a uniform feel just like what you can see here it has uniform feel or you have a gradient feel like fountain feel here you want to give it a vector pattern like that you can always choose different vector patterns and you can always add your own patterns if you want to you can see what it does and there is another stuff here that is the bitmap pattern so you can always give its bitmap patterns and you can always add your own bitmap pattern so this is just how it works pretty much and there is another stuff here which is the hatch feel okay in the hatch feel you see stuff like these kind of pattern lines like that you can always change the color to match whatever you want something like that so that's what the hatch feel is all about and there are several other stuff here too color pattern feel texture feel push grip feel and so on so that's just how it is if you don't want any feel you can always click on no feel so that's what coral draw is all about coral draw is a very simple program easy for everyone to use and it's very very simple to use so your transparency here helps you to work with transparency you want the uniform transparency it gives this uniform transparency here of you want your fountain transparency you want your vector pattern transparency depending on what you want makes your workflow easy you just have to study these ones you use it once and you'll be able to use it again and again and again so that's what the transparency is all about and there are several other stuff here you like to be checking in the properties but in general properties that helps you to transform the particular object or the particular to a stuff you are walking with that's just how it is let's move to the next one which is walking with images that is walking with bitmaps so I'm going to bring in this particular image into this new page and then we are going to work with this image so in bitmap any image you bring to coral draw is known as a bitmap so then you click on this bitmap and you can always click again to tweak this stuff like that and you can always rotate it it's just the same way to transform objects so if you want to rasterize or bitmap a particular stuff maybe the file size is too much and you want to bitmap it you click click on bitmap and convert to bitmap then you choose how you want your bitmap to look like if you want it to be a kind of RGB color CMYK also on you choose your color mode then if it has a transparent background if the bitmap have places you want to make it transparent you click on transparent background hit on OK and it's you drop it just like that then if you click on bitmap again you can always edit your bitmap for example you want to strengthen your image maybe the image was not strengthened with the help of this stuff you'll be able to strengthen it to make it look like what you actually want you can always do the lens distort and set it to whatever you want it to look like and rotate the image in general it's just a way of making your objects that was not well perfect maybe it was a snapped object and it was not perfect then the help of this strengthened image will be able to strengthen the image for you more tutorials on this in our subsequent videos okay everything here will be more explained in our subsequent videos I don't want to waste time I'm just introducing this stuff to you guys so you can start working with Coral Draw as fast as possible so if you hit on bitmap again you see other stuff like edit bitmap series sample you see mode so you can change either to gray scale due to palette lap color and so on so if you want a gray scale just click on gray scale and your bitmap will change to black and white just like that so that's just what the mode does you can always give it kind of black and white stuff and it's similar to gray scale it's going to transform itself to stuff like this you can always adjust how you want your bitmap or you want your black and white to look like okay it's all based on your console that and then click on bitmap again you see stuff like inflate bitmap and you also see quick trace see sender line more about the tracing you see where you have your trace bitmap here each time you select a particular bitmap and you want to vectorize that bitmap you see this stuff that has trace bitmap so you click and either you click on quick trace if you click on quick trace it's going to trace the bitmap automatically that's just how it is so once you are done tracing this object becomes a vector just like what you can see and you can always edit that by ungrouping the object where you click on the object you see this stuff you can ungroup objects or you can ungroup all just like that you click on ungroup so you can always take off any part of the image you like to take off because this is no more a bitmap it's now a vector based stuff it's now a vector file so that's just how it is so that's how it works let's see other objects we can vectorize if you click on trace bitmap and you see center line trace technical drawing these are different ways to trace objects in Coral Draw we'll be using this feature in our subsequent designs with Coral Draw very well so you'll learn more about it if you're enjoying this video and you have learned so much from this video make sure you leave a like and comment your thoughts about this video so the very last thing we'll be looking at is working with text in Coral Draw it's very simple you click on your text tool and once you do that you can click and type anything you want to see in Coral Draw and once you do that you always see these properties where you can change the font to any font you want so you can choose any font you want to use for example I use this Featured Board that's what Coral Draw does very good work there you'll see where you have both want to change the both I want to adjust your italics or you want to make it has a line like that so that's what it does you can always see where you can adjust your size your object size but I won't advise you to change your size here you want to change your font size change it from here you have six seven point and so on you can choose any size you want if you want to rotate this is the angle maybe you want to rotate 90 degrees can rotate it like that so that's what it does but if you don't want to rotate that where you click again and you have this option where you can rotate your object like that it's a very free way to transform your text then you also have another thing there that is your alignment you can always choose the left alignment center right full justify and so on so if you centralize this anything you type down here will always be centralized just like that so it's very very easy and very very cool and very very nice so you can always break your text like that and if you press Ctrl K you'll be able to separate two texts that you have broken just like that that's what Ctrl K does to break stuff like that and then there's another thing you like to know about the text too if you want to create a text box maybe you want to type a letter or you want to type something like the body copy then you use your text box to click that and once you do that all your text will be inside this box and you can always edit your text box to match anything that you want just like that you see where you have your bullet listed your numbered list and drop cap if you want to give a drop cap like that that's what it does so that's a little like I can tell you about the text too in our subsequent videos we'll be using one of these features and we'll start making designs with Corral Draw thanks so much for checking on this channel it's actually a very new channel and a subsidiary of Dennis Jeshua either been following Dennis Jeshua on YouTube and makes graphic design tutorials and graphic design stuff like that then this is a subsidiary of that channel and then in this channel we'll be doing more of Corral Draw stuff and only Corral Draw tutorials will be found yes so to learn more about Corral Draw subscribe and turn on the bell cause all the videos you will see on this channel will be based on Corral Draw thanks so much for watching and I will see you in the next video peace