CorelDRAW Beginners Essential Guide 2022 (MAC OS)

CorelDraw is developed by COREL Corporation and this software helps to design and change vector graphics. That means you can create anything you like, such as logo, business card, t-shirt design etc.

This software is very user-friendly and easy to use for creating vector graphic designs, illustration, and page layout. CorelDRAW was originally developed for Microsoft Windows. Although CorelDRAW Version 11 was released for Mac OS X in 2001 but was then discontinued on Mac. After that CorelDRAW was available for Windows only until the 2019 version. And Now CorelDRAW is available for macOS since 2019.

You can learn all these tools & projects in this tutorial

1. Introduction

• Introduction to CorelDRAW (MAC) & graphic design

• Welcome Screen:  New document (name preset, page count, color mode, paper size, unit, resolution)

• Interface CorelDRAW (MAC)

         • CorelDRAW (MAC) options

         • Handling windows

         • Handling Toolbars & dockers

2. CorelDRAW (MAC)Document handling

• New document, New from template

• Open document, open recent documents, close document

• Save & save as template

• Importing, exporting & printing

3. CorelDRAW (MAC) Important menu commands

• Edit Menu Commands:

         • Undo, redo, cut, copy, paste

         • Delete, duplicate, clone, select all, find and replace

• Object Menu Commands:

         • Align and distribute

         • Changing order of object (to front of page, to back of page, to front of layer, to back of layer, forward once, back one…)

         • Group, ungroup and ungroup all

         • Hide, show and show all

         • Lock object, unlock object, unlock all objects

         • Combined command

         • Shaping methods (weld, trim, intersect, simplify, front minus back, back minus front)

• View menu commands:

         • View modes (wireframe, normal, enhanced, pixel)

         • Ruler, guidelines, gridlines, dynamic guidelines

         • Snap to object, snap to guideline, snap to gridline

4. CorelDRAW (MAC) toolbox & property bar commands

• Working with pick tools flyout

         • Pick tool (select, resize, stretch, skew, rotate, mirror and etc.)

         • Freehand pick tool

         • Free transform tool

• Zoom tool & pan tool (zoom in, zoom out, fit to page/ to page width/ to page height/ to contents/ to selection)

• Fill tools & filling methods (properties)

         • Interactive fill tools

         • Smart fill tools

         • Mesh fill tools

         • Color eyedropper tools

         • Attribute eyedropper tools

• Curve tools : Freehand tool, 2- point line tool, Bezier tool, pen tool, B-spline tool, Polyline tool, 3- point curve tool

• Drawing tools & properties

         • Artistic media tool

         • Live sketch tool

         • Smart drawing tool

• Rectangle tools (rectangle, 3- point rectangle)

• Ellipse tools (ellipse, 3- point ellipse) honest

• Shapes tools ( polygon, star, spiral, common shapes, impact tool, graph paper)

• How to use tools in edit shape flyout

         • Shape tool (corner style, convert to curves, nodes and curve styles)

         • Smooth Tool

         • Smear tool

         • Twirl tool

         • Attract and repel tool

         • Smudge tool

         • Roughen tool

• How to use crop tools and erase

         • Crop tool

         • Knife tool

         • Virtual segments delete tool

         • Eraser tool

• Working with text tool & Table

         • Artistic text

         • Paragraph text

         • Path text

         • Table text

• Dimension tools (parallel, horizontal or vertical, angular, segment, 2-leg callout)

• Connector tools ( connector, anchor editing)

• How to use effects tools

          • Shadow

         • Contour

         • Blend

         • Distort

         • Envelope

         • Extrude

         • Block shadow

• Transparency tool & properties

5. CorelDRAW (MAC) Effects and Bitmaps Commands

• Effects menu commands

• Edit & trace bitmap images

6. Practical Projects With CorelDRAW (MAC)

• Project 01: Illustrating a Simple Logo

• Project 02: Let’s Illustrate CorelDRAW Logo

• Project 03:  Illustrating the Adidas Logo

• Project 04: Let’s Draw an Apple

• Project 05: Let’s Create a Business Card – Project 01

• Project 06: Let’s Create a Business Card – Project 02

Who this course is for:

• Beginners who want to learn CorelDRAW MAC Version from scratch
• Those who expect to create practical and professional level Graphic Design using CorelDRAW MAC
• Those who aspire to become freelance designers using CorelDRAW MAC