In my previous post, I explained a very simple method through which one can draw an image of the flag of Islamic Republic of Pakistan within five minutes using CorelDraw X6. The main purpose of that post
was to give a brief introduction of a few very important tools of
CorelDraw X6 including, Pick Tool, Rectangle Tool, Ellipse Tool and one of the most important shaping options
referred as Trim.
In this post I have decided to explain the uses of some other
very important tools which are very commonly used in designing of different
logos, visiting cards, invitation cards, Eid and Christmas cards, letter heads,
calendars and cash memo slips, through a simple
drawing of the flag of United Kingdom. For instance in the following image you
can see a neatly drawn flag of United Kingdom that has been drawn thoroughly by
the use of different tools of CorelDraw X6 including Rectangle Tool, Eraser
tool, Outline Pen Tool and shaping options Trim and Create boundary. Further, there
are a few other options given in different menus have also been used in this apparently
simple drawing.
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| United Kingdom |
Draw a nice looking flag of U.K within five minutes
In order to draw a flawless image of the British flag, first of all create
a new document by following the method I have explained in my previous post Illustration of Pakistani flag in CorelDraw X6. Then,
select Rectangle Tool out of the Tool Box by clicking on it or by hitting F6 in the keyboard.
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| Rectangle Tool in the Tool Box |
After that, draw a rectangle on the page by
dragging your mouse and keeping it’s left button pressed.
Having drawn a rectangle on the page, select Pick Tool out of the Tool Box, put the
pointer of your mouse on the newly made rectangle and hit the left button of it
to select that rectangle. As soon as you will have the rectangle
selected, it will get encircled by a few small
black square shaped dots and it’s properties
including its width and height will be
appeared on the Property Bar.Set the
width and height of the rectangle equals to 7.0 and 4.0 respectively and hit the Enter key. As soon as you will hit the Enter key, the selected rectangle will
assume the same width and height.
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| Recently made rectangle and it's properties |
Then, fill red color in that rectangular shape
by selecting the thumbnail representing red color in the color palette by hitting left button of your mouse.
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| Selected thumbnail representing red color |
After filling red color inside the shape, you will need to copy that shape and paste it right over it. In order to make a copy of
that shape and place it right over the primary shape, just get inside the Edit Menu and select the option Copy of hit CTRL + C.
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| Option called Copy in the Edit Menu |
Then without doing any other
thing or taking any other step get inside the Edit Menu again and select the
option Paste or hit CTRL + V.
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| Option called Paste in the Edit Menu |
As soon as you will do so, you will have another
red rectangular shape with same width and height placed on the primary shape.
As the second shape will be placed neatly on the first shape, there will be
seen nothing on the page but a single red rectangular shape.
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| Two shape on the same spot |
In order to make sure
whether you have two shapes or only on the page just select the currently visible shape with the help of Pick Tool and after selecting , put the pointer
of your mouse any where inside the shape (pointer inside the selected shape
will look like a four sided black arrow), keep the left button of your mouse
pressed and drag your mouse in any direction to change to position of the
selected shape and you will notice the primary shape appearing from behind it’s
own copy.
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| Primary shape with it's copy |
As we want the second shape placed right over the first
shape, so after making sure of the presence of the second shape on the page,
just hit CTRL + Z to undo it’s re-positioning. As soon as you will hit CTRL + Z, the re-positioning of the second shape will be undone and you will again have
two shapes neatly placed on each other.
Then change the color of the second shape from red to blue
by selecting the thumbnail representing
blue color in the color palette with left mouse click.
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| Thumbnail representing blue color i n the Color Palette |
After that, click the small arrow that can be seen at the bottom-right of the third option given in the Tool Box to open a menu containing Crop Tool,
Knife Tool, Eraser Tool and Virtual Segment Delete Tool. Out of that menu
select Eraser Tool by clicking on it.
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| Eraser Tool in the menu |
As soon as you will select that tool, its
properties including Eraser Thickness, Reduce Nodes and Eraser Shape will be appeared in the
Property Bar and the pointer of your mouse will assume the shape of either a
circle or a square (depending on the Eraser shape selected in the property bar).
Set the thickness of the eraser equal to 0.2 and hit Enter. As soon as you will
hit the Enter key, eraser (circle or square shaped pointer of your mouse) will
assume the same size. As the shape of eraser (whether it be a circle or square)
and Reduce Nodes are not going to make any difference here, so you can leave these two
options untouched.
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| Properties of Eraser Tool |
Having set the thickness of the eraser, put the pointer
of your mouse at the top-right corner of
the rectangle and hit the left button of it once. After that, release the
button and drag your mouse diagonally to the bottom-left corner of the same
rectangle.
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| Mouse drag from top-right to-bottom-left |
After reaching that point, once again hit the left button of your
mouse to erase the part of the blue rectangle diagonally. As soon as you will
hit the left button of your mouse, you will notice a red diagonal line on the
blue rectangle that will be actually the unhidden part of the otherwise hidden
red rectangle behind the blue rectangle.
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| Red diagonal line on the blue shape |
After that, put the pointer of your
mouse at the top-left corner of the blue rectangle and hit the left button of
your mouse again. Then release the button and drag your mouse diagonally to the
bottom-right corner of the same rectangle.
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| Mouse drag from top-left to bottom-right |
After reaching there, hit the left
button of your mouse again and you will notice another red line on the blue
shape.
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| Nicely erased blue shape |
After that, hit CTRL + A to
select both rectangles simultaneously. As soon as you will hit CTRL + A both
shapes on the page will be selected with small square shaped black dots around
and shaping options (including Weld, Trim, Intersect, Simplify, Front minus
back, Back minus front and Create boundary )will be appeared on the Property Bar. Out of those shaping
options select none other than Create boundary.
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| Shaping options in the Property Bar |
As soon as you will
select that option, a transparent and almost invisible boundary will be created
around the selected shapes. If you want to make sure the presence of any
boundary around the shapes, just select Pick Tool and put the pointer of your
mouse on the shapes and click once. As soon as you will do so, if there will be
any invisible transparent boundary around the shapes, it will be selected. Then
put the pointer of your mouse on the shape and drag it in any direction. If
there will be any transparent boundary around the shapes, it will reveal itself then.
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| Recently generated transparent boundary |
After making sure of the presence of boundary around the shapes, hit CTRL + Z
to undo it’s re-positioning. Then, fill red color inside that boundary by
selecting the thumbnail representing red color in the color palette with left
mouse click as I have explained earlier.
As soon as the red color will be filled inside the boundary, it will be
transformed into another red rectangle and both previously made shapes will get hidden behind it.
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| Boundary with red color filled inside it. |
Then hit CTRL + C to make a copy of that red rectangular
shape and then hit CTRL + V to paste it as the fourth shape right over the third shape as we have
done earlier. Then change the color of that newly pasted shape
from red to blue (or any other color) by selecting the thumbnail representing the blue color in the
color palette with left mouse click.
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| Fourth shape has hidden all the previously made shapes |
Then once again select the Eraser
Tool out of the Tool Box and set the
thickness of the eraser this time equal to 0.4.
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| Eraser Tool with thickness 0.4 |
After that, put the circle
shaped pointer of your mouse on the middle of the top boundary of the blue
rectangle and hit the left button of your mouse once and then drag your mouse
down to the middle of the bottom boundary of the same rectangle.
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| Left mouse click is required at the bottom end |
Having reached
there, hit the left button of your mouse again. As soon as you will do so, some part of the red rectangular shape will start to peer through the erased part of the blue shape in the form of a thick red vertical line.
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| Red shape peering vertically through the erased part of the topmost shape |
After that, put the circle shaped
pointer of your mouse on the middle of the left boundary of the blue shape and
hit the left button of it once. Then
drag your mouse horizontally this time, from left to right and click once on the
middle of the right boundary of the blue shape. As soon as you will do so, a
red horizontal straight line will be appeared on the blue shape and that line
too, will be a part of the red rectangle hidden behind the blue shape.
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| Cross made by two straight lines |
After that,
select the two top most shapes with the help of Pick Tool by clicking on both
one by one keeping the Shift key pressed. As soon as you will have both the top
shapes selected, shaping options will be appeared again in the Property Bar.
Out of those options, select Trim to have the hidden part of the red shape
nicely trimmed off.
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| Shaping option referred as Trim in the Property Bar |
Having trimmed the hidden part of the red rectangle off, select
the blue rectangle with the help of Pick Tool and delete it either by getting
inside the Edit Menu and selecting the option Delete or by hitting Delete key
on the keyboard. As soon as you will select the option Delete given in the Edit
Menu or hit the key named Delete given in the keyboard , blue rectangle will be deleted, leaving a nicely formed red cross behind.
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| Still unfinished flag of United Kingdom after the deletion of fourth rectangular shape |
Then
select that cross with the help of Pick Tool leaving rest of the shapes (blue
and red shapes) on the page unselected and hit the small arrow that can be seen at the
bottom-right of the tool referred as Pen Outline in the Tool Box with left
mouse click. As soon as you will perfume that action, a menu will be appeared
containing different styles of outlines. Out of those style select 8 pt for the selected shape of the cross.
As soon as you will select that outline style a 8 pt thick black outline will
be appeared around the cross.
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| Outline styles given in the menu |
After that leaving the the topmost shape (cross) unselected, select
the rest of the shapes by clicking on each, one by one keeping the Shift button
pressed in the keyboard. Then once again click the small arrow at the
bottom-right of the Pen Outline Tool in the Tool Box and out of styles given in
it’s menu select 10 pt for both the
selected rectangular shapes. As soon as you will select that style, 10 pt thick outlines will be appeared around
both of the shapes.
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| Outline styles given in the menu |
Then hit CTRL + A to select all the shapes drawn on the
page at the same time and out of the Color Palette, select the thumbnail
representing white color by hitting the right button of your mouse to fill
white color in the outlines of all the shapes. As soon as you will do so, all
the black outlines will turn white and you will have a nice looking British
flag on the page.
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| Flag of United Kingdom with white outlines |
Then, in order to make re-positioning of the flag possible, make a
group of all the shapes in the flag. For that purpose select all the shapes
once again by hitting CTRL + A and then get inside the Arrange Menu and select
the option Group or hit CTRL +G.
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| Group in the Arrange Menu |
As soon as you will select the option Group or
hit CTRL + G , all the shapes in the flag will be grouped together. Then save
or export that image in your required format by getting inside the file menu
and selecting the option Save (to save the image in CDR format) or Export (to save image in JPEG, PNG or any format other than CDR). After saving or exporting the image
you can give it different styles and backgrounds according to your choice.
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