I get questioned at least once a day about the best way to learn CorelDRAW. I’m sure that is because I’ve been providing training on CorelDRAW for more than seventeen years now. Typically the question comes with comments about how the user needs to use...
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.
You just ran to the local office supply store and picked up some labels for a project. Now you just need to design the artwork for the labels. Did you know that CorelDRAW has templates for most popular label sizes? In fact, it is extremely easy to create artwork that...
The latest collection of Textures Unleashed is now available. Textures Unleashed Volume 5: Fire and Ice includes 123 seamless textures in the Liquid, Snow and Ice and Terrain: Volcanic and Gaseous categories. Each of the textures is supplied in four sizes so they can...
CorelDRAW can do so many things that I often find users wanting to create really long documents such as magazines and books with it. I don’t feel it is the best tool for the job, but I certainly can’t convince users of this.If you are going to create that...
One of the new features added to CorelDRAW X5 is Object Hinting. What is that you might ask? Let’s say you have a rectangle that will be used as part of a graphic on the Web. The outline of the rectangle doesn’t neatly align with the pixel grid. That means...
The last two weekends I’ve provided links to some cool Photoshop plug-ins that work in Corel PHOTO-PAINT. Today I wanted to write a short tutorial to explain how to install plug-ins.Plug-Ins With Installer: Some plug-in packages include an installer. Typically...
If you have ever imported a PDF file with longer blocks of text into CorelDRAW, you’ve probably noticed that each line of text is a separate object. Sometimes you will even find several objects for each line. This isn’t the fault of CorelDRAW’s...
I can’t believe it was two years ago that I told you about an essay entitled 1,000 True Fans. If you don’t remember the story, I highly recommend you read it again. The following day I told you the story about how a local Phoenix band, Roger Clyne and the...
Not a day goes by without someone asking me questions about CorelDRAW X5. I’m going to try and answer as many as possible in this post. Many of them have been answered in previous posts so I will link to them where applicable. The most common has to be...
The fourth collection of seamless textures has just been completed. In Textures Unleashed Volume 4 you’ll find 119 different seamless textures from four different types of terrain: civilization, desert and barren, lush and rocky. As with the previous...
An industry that has absolutely exploded over the past decade is vehicle wraps. If you go our driving, you will see vehicles with either partial or full wraps. Did you realize that it is very easy to create the artwork for vehicle wraps in CorelDRAW? For those who...
We all know about the main components of CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X5. So this post isn’t about CorelDRAW, Corel PHOTO-PAINT, Corel PowerTRACE or Corel CONNECT. I’m going to talk about some of the “bundled” add-ons that come with CorelDRAW...
