Jeff Harrison Archives

A Story to Tell + Sand + Fingers + Real Skill = this:

NEW! You can now operate on selected nodes with this amazing new update.It now comes with a toolbar icon, and also a bit larger spinner buttons.Live Fillet… it’s awesome!

Shelby’s Autosize now supports document scaling.It also has these new features:Single Undo Form Remembers Location (saved upon pressing Apply) No Sizing applied (If left blank or 0 entered) Straighten Horizontal or Vertical Added Accelerator Keys Delete line...

I found this exchange in a email from 2005. Yes, trying to clean house a little. LOLOn this point your position is inarguably correct. For promotional purposes, Corel must present images that are far beyond the comprehension of the average graphic artist. To me, that...

The rectangle in this image represents a 1/8″ thick area that was a technical requirement. The goal was to join the shapes and have the lines smooth everywhere.

Glenn asked:I have a photo that the client wants to fade off on the left edge and the vignette tool does not fade to zero. Is there a way that I can fade to zero? Here’s what I do, takes less than 5 seconds:

In this case, a gal needed to merge onto a label template. Normally, labels tile as expected, or you can use the imposition tools in the print engine. What if the decals are precut and laid out as shown the animation?Create as many fields in your database as labels...

Stefan Tetreault’s work is some of the best I’ve seen.Many years ago he saw some of my work at the first serious world-wide gallery for Corel Artists. He said he was really impressed with some of the things I was doing.Then… he emailed me a few...

Note: I don’t mean temperature!!! LOL…Type some text on your CorelDRAW page.Then, try Ronny Axelsson’s tip:Ctrl + period will rotate text 270 degrees.Ctrl + comma reverts back to normal.

RasterControl is a commercial product that allows one to chose an alternate bitmap editor for CorelDRAW.Outside of enhanced linking, a round-trip workflow from Draw to PS and back is my fav part (even though I use PP most of the time).Something that users have wanted...

This macro is now available for Photo-PAINT X4.

I’ve changed the name: There are now 3 new ways to output the file onto 11×17 press sheets.Jeff’s Swatchtower 2 – for Letter Sized & 11×17 Output NEW!As of today, in addition to single 8.5″ x 11″ sheets, this product also...

Watch as Jeff rebuilds a logo in a 28 MB training movie. This is a real-world example that was laser cut into some pens.

NEW! Jeff’s SuperFill has been Updated with the option to use clones in the filled shape for enormous creative flexibility. Watch the movie!Note: this is a free update for past SuperFill customers.

This FREE macro allows you to do it!

This FREE Macro allows you to swap the locations of the color swatches on Fountain Fill “swatch lines”. For linear fills, you can simply drag the line in the opposite direction. For other types, this macro makes it easy.

This surprises too many people IMO….My bro worked at a TV station as creative director, had 8 artists under him. Schools would occasionally bring kids on “field trips” to the TV station.He asked the kids: “Who’s our customers?”Kids:...

This macro allows quick use of any shapes (including complex vector elements and/or bitmaps) as fills for other shapes.For the first time in CorelDRAW, complete transparency is supported within a tiling mechanism for fantastic results (including merge modes.)You can...