14 October 2007

Shortcut Keyboards for CorelDraw 12 - Text Editing & Cursor Moves Using Text Tool

There are some useful keyboard shortcut when we use Coreldraw. This is shortcut for Text Editing & Cursor Moves Using Text Tool. Hope useful for you.

Delete : Deletes character right of cursor
Ctrl + Delete : Deletes word right of cursor
PgDn : Moves cursor down one frame
4 : Moves cursor down one line
Ctrl + 4 : Moves cursor down one paragraph
1 : Moves cursor left one character
Ctrl + 1 : Moves cursor left one word
2 : Moves cursor right one character
Ctrl+2 : Moves cursor right one word
PgUp : Moves cursor up one frame
3 : Moves cursor up one line
Ctrl + 3 : Moves cursor up one paragraph
Ctrl + Home : Moves cursor to start of frame
Home : Moves cursor to start of line
Ctrl + PgUp : Moves cursor to start of text

Ctrl + End : Moves cursor to end of frame
End : Moves cursor to end of line
Ctrl + PgDn : Moves cursor to end of text
Ctrl + A : Selects all text in Paragraph Frame or Artistic Text object
Shft + 1 : Selects character to left of cursor
Shft + 2 : Selects character to right of cursor
Shft + PgDn : Selects text downward by one frame
Shft + 4 : Selects text downward by one line
Ctrl + Shft + 4 : Selects text downward by one paragraph
Shft + PgUp : Selects text upward by one frame
Shft + 3 : Selects text upward by one line
Ctrl + Shft + 3 : Selects text upward by one paragraph
Ctrl + Shft + 1 : Selects word to left of cursor
Ctrl + Shft + 2 : Selects word right of cursor
Ctrl + Shft + Home : Selects text start of frame
Shft + Home : Selects text start of line
Ctrl + Shft + PgUp : Selects text to start of frame
Ctrl + Shft + End : Selects text to end of frame
Shft + End : Selects text to end of line
Ctrl + Shft + PgDn : Selects text to end of frame


Shortcut Keyboards for CorelDraw 12 - Zoom and Pan

There are some useful keyboard shortcut when we use Coreldraw. This is shortcut for Zoom and Pan. Hope useful for you.

N : Brings up the Navigator window allowing you to navigate to any object in the document
H : Pans around the drawing by clicking and dragging using this tool
Alt + 4 : Pans the drawing downward
Alt + 1 : Pans the drawing to the left
Alt + 2 : Pans the drawing to the right
Alt + 3 : Pans the drawing upward
Ctrl + F2 : Opens or closes the View Manager docker
F2 : Enables you to perform a zoom action, and then returns to the last-used tool
F3 : Zooms out
F4 : Zooms in on all objects in the drawing
Shft + F4 : Displays the entire printable page
Shft + F2 : Zooms in on selected objects only

Tips & Tricks Make Badge / Banner with CorelDraw

Banner/badge can made in photoshop or another software. But in this case, I’ll share the tips and tricks how to make banner / badge in CorelDraw. I use CorelDraw 11. You can try it in all version.

For example, I use badge/banner from andrastudio.com as object design.

Steps :

1. Open your CorelDraw. Select Rectangle Tool and start drawing by click and drag.



2. Change the corner shape by pointing cursor to corner and sharp arrow show. Click and drag, set the corner shape as the object.


3. Ok, now select Fountain fill dialog. Choose Type: Linear, Angle: 90, Color Blend: Custom.



4.- Change color Left and Right bar area by click and choose the color in the right side. Choose Other for detail color. In this case , use color: C21 M100 Y98 K0 (Left-Right same color).
- Now add color in Middle bar by double click in the middle area. In this case , use color: C55 M98 Y96 K13. And next left right beside the middle: : C47 M99 Y97 K9.


5.- Next, add the words by select Text Tool. In this case, type “SAVE”, Font: arial rounded, color: white. Type again “Google”, Font: arial rounded, color: white.
- Type again “Adsense”, Font: arial rounded, color: C50 M1 Y8 K0. Set the size as your feeling. :)
- Type again “Be a good Indonesian Adsense Publisher”, Font: arial, color: white. Set the size as your feeling. :)


6. Finish. Thanks to : andrastudio.com.

10 October 2007

Welcome ! Let's share about tips and tricks CorelDraw

Hello everybody, welcome to my blog. CoreDraw as one of the best vector drawing software with over 100 million users has many powerful drawing tools. The powerful tools will not work without good knowledge "how to use it"

So, with this blog, i hope we can learm, share about tips and tricks CorelDraw.
Have anice day and don't die..!

CORELDRAW
Developer : Corel
Latest release : X3 / January 2006
OS : Microsoft Windows
Genre : Vector graphics editor
License : Proprietary
Website : CorelDRAW Homepage