How do you use CorelDRAW???
March 21st, 2009 Val Posted in CorelDRAW | 10 Comments »
I started using CorelDRAW for simple illustration because it was just as easy to use for the amateur (me) as the professional, and was easier on the budget than the alternatives available at the time. (I started with version 3.0) I’ve
continued using it because I haven’t found anything better out there for
all the different kinds of things I use it for. Vector and text
manipulation are both easily accomplished and I can switch back and
forth between projects designed for the web and projects designed for
home printers or professional printers without having to change
programs.
Since I’ve been teaching CorelDRAW, my students use CorelDRAW for a wide diversity of business applications including signs, embroidery, quilting, jewelry
design, advertising, web design, logo design, and fine arts and crafts
of all sorts. Others have been hobbyists using it to build ship models,
label home brew bottles, and create school and charity event posters.
I’ve had all ages from teens to retirees who enjoyed using the program.
I can’t think of anything outside of an office suite that has more to
offer to more kinds of people.
Who would think that something called CorelDRAW (honestly, who pays attention to the Graphics Suite part on the box and what does that mean to consumers anyway?) would be good for producing newsletters, name tags business cards and birthday cards, doing photo retouching, or managing the thousands of fonts folks end up with these days? Amateurs pay lots of money to buy the competing products because they just don’t know that CDGS can do the same sorts of things only better and often cheaper.
So I’m asking the question. What do YOU use CorelDRAW for?
Have fun!
Val P.
March 21st, 2009 at 2:11 pm
I use on my work, for creating graphic design pieces for print.
March 21st, 2009 at 3:38 pm
I started out with a free limited version years ago that came with a printer(v9 I think), using it for posters and menus. Over the years I’ve progressed through to X3 going through any and all tutorials I could find. I’m now a vector illustrator and I find it so easy to navigate that I still use corel for basic documents through to very complicated book layouts and all my illustration.
March 22nd, 2009 at 12:53 am
I confess to not actually using it for anything…yet. One of my friends who I made a website for kept telling me I needed to learn a vector graphics program. He was right, it’s long overdo.
Anita
March 22nd, 2009 at 6:59 pm
I have been using CorelDRAW for about 8 years now begining with version 11 for the Mac, which I still use. I mainly use it cause I love graphics and gave up the airbrush years ago. I use it to create business cards, illustration gifts, CD/DVD labels along with the case inserts.
I am wanting to start trying to generate some income over the internet, but work full-time and run out of the time it takes to really promote it. I am also really needing to learn the final product side of it so that my output for others will be OK. I had asked for some business suggestions from a Yahoo! group of Entrepenuers and one responder to me really gave me a reality check, since I have NEVER had any formal training in art after elementary school.
chuckray
March 22nd, 2009 at 9:14 pm
Thanks for replying, Roberlan, LibranPixi, Shiloh, and chuckray.
Shiloh, we’ll get you using it for all sorts of things soon.
Chuckray, in the art world, formal training isn’t necessarily all it’s cracked up to be, but you will be competing against folks who do have those diplomas on their walls. Play up your experience.
Have fun, y’all!
March 24th, 2009 at 10:20 am
I will be using Corel Draw for making Quilting Patterns once I learn how to that is lol. I am currently taking your second course on Corel Draw.
LG
March 24th, 2009 at 4:06 pm
You’re getting there, LG.
Thanks for the comment.
March 31st, 2009 at 5:40 pm
I got hooked with Printhouse Magic, a friend gave me Draw 8 as a gift but never really “got into it”. Then all of a sudden when I got 12 as a gift (I have generous friends who know how much I love my computer) a whole new world opened up. I do a lot of scenic backdrop design on 12 before painting on the canvas. Am now starting to do graphic design for brochures, business cards etc. Have taken 3 LVS classes online and have learned sooooooooooooooo much. Love Val’s teaching and humor. Thanks!
Christine
March 31st, 2009 at 6:24 pm
Hey Christine! Thanks for the comment and the nice words about me. (aww shucks!) It’s been great having you as a student and watching your skills and certainty with the program progress.
April 4th, 2009 at 4:34 am
CorelDraw is an interesting tool. Well while learning Coreldraw O had missed on some important topics, thanks to your blog that I am able to revise those Topics in a better way.