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theframer06

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Hello can anyone tell me how you create designs using corral draw how do you work with cutting lines also how you get the cutting lines as i would like to do some designs many thanks as new to this and be greatfull for any help
 
Welcome to The G

Corel Draw has a fairly steep learning curve much like Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator.

I would not know where to start giving beginner advice here not knowing how familiar you are with the program.

There is online learning at a lot of sites for these programs. I best I have used is www.lynda.com

That will get you a great start.
 
Corel Draw is a very powerful program. Your request is a lot like asking how to rebuild an automatic car transmission.

I started playing in Corel Draw X4 about a year ago when I bought my new CMC and wanted to convert my company logo to a cut file. I started with a high-resolution scan and traced it as a "detailed logo" with good results. I needed to touch up some of the lines, and reduced the number of nodes considerably. Since then I have imported and converted several sports logos and decorative designs, and created some.

When you have the design as you like, save it in the appropriate file format.

For a good start, click on Help in the top menu bar and select Tutorials. Also check out Insights From The Experts. After you get started, you can search the Help index and get specific information about whatever you need. For example, if you want to kow how to combine two drawn lines into one, search for "lines", and then follow the outline down to "combine".

I am by no means an expert in Corel Draw X4, but have learned enough about the basics to serve my purposes and save the designs as .PLT files for my CMC.

It's fun to cerate a design by starting with a line and pulling the nodes around, but it is time consuming and the learning requires patience. I suggest setting aside several hours of uninterrupted time, a bottle of decent wine, and maybe some cheese & crackers to aid the effort.
 
I cut my CorelDRAW teeth on version 1. It came packaged with a 'quick start' video that demonstrated all the basic "bread 'n' butter" functions one needs to get going (shape tool, bezier tool, object selection and manipulation, basic text functions) in about an hour. It's a shame that they don't provide a similar training DVD with the software these days, IMO.
 
I'm self-taught on Corel Draw.... but if you need guidance, I would recommend looking to doing a short night course at a local college, or buy an video tutorial DVD on it, or something similar...

I find it very hard to "teach" people Corel Draw, without showing them one on one.... some people get it easy... some don't... we're all different.

Cheers,

Jared
 
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Hello can anyone tell me how you create designs using corral draw how do you work with cutting lines also how you get the cutting lines as i would like to do some designs many thanks as new to this and be greatfull for any help

I think you start by using a period at the end of a sentence and a Capital letter at the beginning.
 
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