Has anyone ever known you well enough to finish your sentences? Well, that's how the powerful new drawing tool in CorelDRAW® 12 works. The new Smart Drawing tool gives freehand sketching the benefit of a kind of artificial intelligence. You can sketch a shape freehand-style on screen and end up with a precise vector object as a curve, native object or Perfect Shape. You'll find the new Smart Drawing tool located in the toolbox between the curve tools and the rectangle tools—or you can press the S hotkey for speedy selection.
Here's a time saving trick! Did you know that you can position an object with any object-creation tool (any tool found in Rectangle, Ellipse, Object, or Perfect Shapes flyout) without having to go to the Toolbox? This tip is particularly useful if your drawing contains several objects.
In this tutorial, Alexis will show you how to trace and color a scanned image, with the help of CorelDraw X3. These techniques are quite simple once you're familiar with them. So let's get started.