If you've found yourself wishing that you knew how to create those cool, glass-like transparent buttons popular in certain interface designs, your wish is granted. I'm talking about those pill-shaped buttons that appear to be made from colored glass or see-though plastic. At first glance, the effect looks like something created with expensive 3D modeling software, but the truth is, you can come very close to illustrating the same effect by using just two or three carefully adjusted vector shapes. In this tutorial, we'll show you how to use CorelDRAWâ to create glass objects.


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Many users of CorelDRAW Graphics Suite are small business owners who work within limited budgets and perhaps have limited time and resources. If you belong to this group, you may be looking for ways to avoid hiring a high-priced designer. The good news is that for most simple design projects, you don't need to be a design graduate. With your CorelDRAW tools and a little inventiveness, you have everything you need. In the fictitious designs presented in this tutorial, shapes from symbol fonts in CorelDRAW were enhanced with artistic text, a few effects, and very little manipulation.


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Recently, we showed you how to improve your brochure or newsletter layouts by using some great CorelDRAW® features. There are good and bad ways to build a layout, and simply making a project look pretty does not guarantee its success. In this tutorial, we'll highlight some layout and design habits that you should avoid, and we'll look at the solutions you can apply with CorelDRAW.


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When it comes to choosing file formats for digital publishing, the Adobe® Portable Document Format (PDF) is the winner by far. It's essentially paperless, perfectly portable, and equipped with all kinds of nifty features. As an industry standard, CorelDRAW® software supports many PDF features, including linking capabilities. If you're new to creating Web or bookmark links with CorelDRAW, this tutorial will show you how it's done and how to make sure that the links are preserved in your PDF documents.


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Not only is CorelDRAW one of the most robust illustration tools around, but unlike other graphics programs, it can also be used to create multipage layouts. This nifty feature makes it the perfect choice for designing projects like booklets, brochures, and newsletters. While expecting to create a 2,000-page catalog with CorelDRAW isn't realistic, handling a few dozen pages with CorelDRAW is a breeze.


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Applying bevels to graphics with earlier versions of CorelDRAW® was certainly not simple and easy, and the results were arguably less than impressive. However, all that has changed with the introduction of the new bevel effect in CorelDRAW X3. You can now add a third dimension (see below) and customize your bevels with depth, color, and lighting options. This new feature is a welcome addition to the effects available in CorelDRAW.


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The Cutout Lab in Corel PHOTO-PAINT® enables you to extract or copy photo elements from any digital image with precision and relative ease. Much more than just a quick selection tool, the Cutout Lab accurately detects almost any shape and preserves the fine details of an image. It automatically applies transparent edge-feathering, and it enables you to decide whether your cutout will be an object without a background, an object on top of the original image, or a clip mask attached to the original image.


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Corel's flagship graphics suite has certainly developed a loyal worldwide following over the years. Reasons for this loyalty include the ease with which users can create sophisticated graphics and the suite's friendly interface and easy-to-use effects. Even newcomers to the suite find how fast and simple it is to create complex designs and perform fancy graphics tricks.


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A peek under the hood of the CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3 hints at a change in the wind at Corel. Two years of development and more rigorous testing have brought to the suite better reliability and performance along with the many new tools, effects, and advancements. But it's the quality woven into the very fabric of the suite that really caught our eye.


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The Object Remover tool in Corel® Paint Shop Pro® Photo XI makes removing unwanted items from your photos a breeze. You don't need to work on numerous layers or with different selection tools. With the Object Remover tool, you'll learn quickly because everything you need is in one place.


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