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.

Variable Imaging

Direct mail that introduces visual detail as part of the campaign has been proven to be much more effective than text alone. It’s something like a 12% success rate, vs. 1% for traditional direct mail. Recently, I got a letter from Air Miles, a loyalty card...

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QR Codes in CorelDRAW – Variablestool 2

If you have CorelDRAW X5 or higher and need to create Custom QR Codes from a database, this is a great solution (the only one I know about at time of this blog post). Variablestool 2 outputs pure vector shapes right inside CorelDRAW, and can even weld the resulting...

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Shelby’s Bitmap Perspective Released

This macro forces a bitmap into a 4-node shape of your choice. Before now, it has been practically impossible to accomplish this inside either CorelDraw or Photo-PAINT. Both Photo-PAINT and CorelDRAW have had bitmap perspective filters/effects for many years. The...

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Alexander Penkin’s Cadtool 5 Updated

For those who’ve waited and hoped for numerous powerful CAD-like features in CorelDRAW, this macro is a huge toolbox. It’s amazingly affordable for the amount of functionality you get. Recently, the macro had a small additional function added to reset the...

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Dizzy Shaping updated to Version 3.3

Many of you that have been following macromonster.com since the early days will likely recognize this macro. This is one that really caught my interest when setting up the site, as it had some ground-breaking features and UI innovation I hadn’t seen before. This...

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Putting it All Together

Compositing is both fun and reasonably easy way to get a point across. I made this for a group I belong to called the Deep See Divers, which is a team working our way through an 18-month course. Using Photo-PAINT, I found and placed 3 separate elements together: The...

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Ligatures

Some fonts support ligatures, others don’t. If you want to see if one does, you can check in CorelDRAW X6 (specifically) with the following docker:

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