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...
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.
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...
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...
Here’s a skill-testing question: Q: When you re-sample a bitmap on CorelDRAW’s Page from 150 DPI to 300 DPI, does the raw file size: 1. Double 2. Triple 3. Quadruple...
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...
The latest version: 3.3, the main attraction is that it now offers more projections. Existing version 3 owners can access it through their accounts. Otherwise, you can Purchase here for a low price of only 19.95 USD.
Latest version is 7.1.3. (A problem with inches was fixed.) Product page.
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...
It’s a free update for Version 5 and 6 users. You may be able to automatically access it through your macromonster order history. It’s the most powerful LED tool available for CorelDRAW that I’ve seen. Jeff’s Note about centerline tracing: This...
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...
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:
