Jeff Harrison

Jeff Harrison is a media "Jack-of-all-trades", familiar with most of the major media applications on the Windows platform. Whether it's 2D/print, 3D, audio, video, or web-related - he's working on mastering everything that comes his way. He's a past Alpha and Beta tester for Corel, and has instructed students from all over the world. He runs the popular MacroMonster.com site, the #1 place for CorelDRAW macros. Also check out his youtube page, and his gallery at coreldraw.com.

Random Text Example

There can be some creative uses for random text… I started with spelling out the numbers one through twelve. Then I made the characters a random font size and font, using GDG Text Helper.   the next step was to fit the text to a shape. I used a rarely known...

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Cadtool 4 update

Hi all, There are three new feature additions to the mighty CADTool 4: Plus, we show the hatch fill option. 1. Segment and path options 2. New select node options 3.  Create tube miter template (watch video here to understand why this is useful) 4. For rotary...

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Data Generator for Print Merges

If you ever need to generate data for test purposes, here a handy site: http://www.generatedata.com/#generator I’ve used it in the past to create generic databases for testing macros like monstermerge, Alexander Penkin’s VariablesTool, and Sancho’s...

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Making Artwork Proofs

Sometimes I see artists working in scale. They might do that since it’s easier to print their designs on a typical letter-sized sheets. Working in scale drives me crazy, I couldn’t do it. Too much math. I prefer to design in actual size. For a 4′ x...

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Setting custom icons to launch macros

Many of you know about the power of macros, combined with CorelDRAW. Assigning custom icons are a much faster way to launch them. That’s why we almost always include them with our products. Here’s a quick video showing how I do it.

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Alexander Penkin’s LED 4 updated to version 5

Hard to believe, but we’re now at version 5 of this macro… 🙂 Here’s more info. The video shows version 4 for the moment, but most things in 5 work the same as version 4. A few updates from version 4 are: • code has been optimized = faster...

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