Every single day I hear someone say “it doesn’t work”. It could be talking about something in CorelDRAW. It could be about a Web site. Heck, it could be about something that has nothing to do with computers. Many times it is a phone call or an e-mail...
Foster D. Coburn III
Foster D. Coburn III built his first Web site in 1995 and he has been working exclusively in WordPress since 2013. He has used the Divi theme exclusively since 2015. Earlier in his career he was the author of 13 best-selling books on CorelDRAW and has been a contributor to numerous technology and graphics-related magazines. Foster has taken many projects, including this Web site, from the early design stage through to a finished piece. He has been a featured speaker at many graphics conferences.
I’ve had clip art on my mind a lot lately. There have even been a few others posting questions wondering if anyone uses the clip art Corel supplies. I’m sure the usage of clip art is something that is quite different for each user. For the sake of the...
Sometimes there are things in CorelDRAW that seem so basic because we’ve been using them for years that we forget that others users aren’t aware of those settings. One that came to mind today was the Behind Fill option on outlines.With an object selected,...
As I’m putting the finishing touches on the last lesson in CorelDRAW X5 Unleashed Advanced Topics, I’ve been thinking a lot about clip art collections and finding excess nodes. There seem to be two distinct areas where these extra nodes are a plague.The...
I don’t know about you, but I love looking at designs and trying to figure out how they were made. Some of the best design is a logo because so much has to be conveyed in a simple design. Today I wanted to share a really interesting look at logos with you....
I’ve told you about this package of clip art before and I want to share it with you again because I feel it has the artwork included that many users want in their design arsenal. Let’s start with sheer numbers, Ultimate Ornaments Mega Pack contains 12,800...
Those of you who have been using CorelDRAW and Corel PHOTO-PAINT for many users will no doubt recognize the name David Huss. He wrote several books on PHOTO-PAINT and was very active in the Corel community for a number of years. More recently he had turned his...
Why is it that clients think Microsoft Word is a graphics program? I’m not sure we’ll ever get an answer to that question, we just have a find a way to deal with it. A few days ago, Jeff Harrison gave you a solution for getting the graphics out using the...
One thing I’ve really enjoyed about meeting so many CorelDRAW users over the past eighteen years is the opportunity to hear their stories. I learn all about how they use CorelDRAW, but I also learn something about their lives away from the computer. Today I want...
Some users have reported a recent problem when launching CorelDRAW X5 and Corel PHOTO-PAINT X5. It will bring up the error code of 0xC0000005. It seems the problem is caused by the Avast Anti-Virus software installed on those machines. From what I’ve read,...
You’ve taken pictures with your digital camera and they are saved as a JPG on the memory card. You want to edit those photos to enhance them in some way. It is very important that you do NOT save the working files as JPG format. JPG is a lossy format and the...
I know it isn’t always popular when I tell users that there are some things they shouldn’t do in CorelDRAW. High up on my list is trying to create long documents. Back in May, I told you to break up long documents. A side effect of some long documents is...
