CorelDRAW Layout Design Tutorial

This tutorial introduces the layout and a series of tools associated with CorelDRAW. These tools are the basis of any such work, including print ads, news illustrations, logo designs, poster posters, and so on. Guided by your sense of typography and design, you can use guides, preset styles, and rearrange text and images to achieve the most appropriate results.

In this tutorial, you will create an ad for a café. You'll create some design elements and text, and you'll learn how to enter pictures and text. This is the final effect of the picture.

In this tutorial, you will learn:

Create a background;

Use guides and alignment options;

Create a framework;

Input image;

Use powerful shearing tools;

Apply a preset drop shadow;

Generate artistic texts;

Enter and plan paragraph text;

Apply alignment options.

Part One: Creating backgrounds

The first thing to do is to open a new document and redefine the document size. Then you'll start creating a background: a brownish-yellow rounded rectangle. After the background is complete, continue with the remaining AD pictures and text sections.

In this section, you will use the default size unit in CorelDRAW: inches. However, you can also use other units, including dots, pixels, and centimeters.

First, create a drawing page

1. Click on the File menu of the new (file>new);

2. In the property bar, determine the portrait button is activated, so that the drawing page portrait;

3. In the page size column of the property bar, enter the following number:

Wide--7,

High--10, click OK.