Corel Draw

Is an intuitive and versatile graphics application for creating high-quality vector illustrations, logo designs and page-layout

Vector graphic editor developed and marketed by Corel Corporation

Adobe Illustrator

Corel Draw

File, Edit, View, Layout etc…

Menu Bar

Standard Toolbar Which appears by default, contains buttons and

controls that are shortcut to many of the menu commands

Start, Open, Save, Print, Cut, Copy, Paste, Undo, Redo, Import, Export, Star Corel Application, Zoom etc…

Contains tools for drawing and editing the images

Some tools are visible by default, while some are groups in flyout

ToolBox

Pick Tool◦ Lets you select, size, skew and rotate objects

Shape Edit Tools

◦ Shape Tool Lets you edit the shape of the object

◦ Smudge Brush Tool Lets you distort a vector object by dragging along its

outline

Contents of the Toolbox

◦ Roughen Brush Tool Lets you distort the outline a

vector object by dragging along its outline

◦ Transform Tool Lets you transform an object

by using the Free Rotation, Free angle Reflection, Free Scale and Free Skew tools.

Contents of the Toolbox

Smudge Brush

Roughen Brush

Crop Tools◦ Crop Tool

Lets you remove unwanted areas in the objects◦ Knife Tool

Lets you cut through objects◦ Eraser Tool

Lets you remove areas of your drawing◦ Virtual Segment Delete

Lets you delete portion of an object that are between intersections

Contents of the Toolbox

Zoom Tools

◦ Zoom Tool Lets you change the magnification in the drawing

window

◦ Pan Tool Lets you control which part of the drawing is visible

in the drawing window

Contents of the Toolbox

Curve Tools

◦ FreeHand Tool Lets you draw a single line segments and curves

◦ 2-Point Line Tool Lets you draw a straight two-point line segment

◦ Bezier Tool Lets you draw curves one segment at a time

Contents of the Toolbox

◦ Artistic Media Tool provides access to the Brush, Sprayer,

Calligraphic and Pressure Tools

◦ Pen Tool Lets you draw curves one segment at a time

◦ B-Spline Tool Lets you draw curved lines by setting control points

that shape the curve without breaking it into segments

Contents of the Toolbox

◦ Polyline Tool Lets you draw line and curves in preview mode

◦ 3-Point Curve Tool Lets you draw a curve by defining the start, end and

the center points.

Contents of the Toolbox

Smart Tools◦ Smart Fill Tool

Lets you create objects from enclosed areas and then apply a fill to those objects

◦ Smart Drawing Tool Converts your freehand strokes to basic shapes and

smoothed curves

Contents of the Toolbox

Rectangle Tools

◦ Rectangle Tool Lets you draw rectangle and squares

◦ 3-Point Rectangle Tool Lets you draw rectangle at an angle

Contents of the Toolbox

Ellipse Tool

◦ Ellipse Tool Lets you draw ellipses and circles

◦ 3-Point Ellipse Tool Lets you draw ellipses at angle

Contents of the Toolbox

Object Tools

◦ Polygon Tool Lets you draw symmetrical polygons and stars

◦ Star Tool Lets you draw perfect stars

◦ Complex Star Tool Lets you draw complex stars that have intersecting

sides

Contents of the Toolbox

◦ Graph Paper Tool Lets you draw a grid of line similar to that of a graph

paper

◦ Spiral Tool Lets you draw symmetrical and logarithmic spirals

Contents of the Toolbox

Basic Shapes Tools

◦ Basic Shapes Tool

◦ Arrow Shapes Tool

◦ Flowchart Shapes Tool

◦ Banner Shapes Tool

◦ CallOut Shapes Tool

Contents of the Toolbox

Text Tool◦ Lets you type words directly on the screen as

artistic or paragraph text

Table Tool Dimension Tools

◦ Parallel Dimension Lets you draw slanted dimension lines

◦ Horizontal or Vertical Dimension Lets you draw horizontal and vertical dimension lines

Contents of the Toolbox

◦ Angular Dimension Lets you draw angular dimension lines

◦ Segment Dimension Lets you display the distance between end nodes in

single or multiple segments

◦ 3-Point Callout Tool Lets you draw a callout with three segment leader

line

Contents of the Toolbox

Connector Tools◦ Straight Line Connector Tool

◦ Right-angle Connector Tool

◦ Right-angle Round Connector Tool

◦ Edit Anchor Tool

Contents of the Toolbox

Interactive Tools

◦ Blend Tool Lets you blend two objects

◦ Contour Tool Lets you apply a contour to an object

◦ Distort Tool Lets you apply push or pull distortion, a Zipper

distortion and a Twist Distortion to an object◦ Drop Shadow Tool

Lets you apply a drop shadow to an object

Contents of the Toolbox

◦ Envelope Tool Lets you shape an object by dragging the nodes of

the envelope

◦ Extrude Tool Lets you apply the illusion of depths to an object

◦ Transparency Tool Lets you apply transparencies to an object

Contents of the Toolbox

Eye Dropper Tools◦ Color Eye Dropper Tool

Lets you select and copy a color from an object on the drawing window or the desktop

◦ Attributes Eye Dropper Tool Lets you select and copy object properties such as

line thickness, size and effects, from an object on the drawing window

Contents of the Toolbox

Outline Tool◦ opens a flyout that gives you quick access to

items such as the outline pen dialog box and the outline color dialog box

Fill Tool◦ opens a flyout that gives you quick access to

items such as fill dialog box

Contents of the Toolbox

Interactive Fill Tools

◦ Interactive Fill Lets you apply various fills

◦ Mesh Fill Lets you apply a mesh grid to an object

Contents of the Toolbox

Property Bar◦ Displays the most commonly used functions that

are relevant to the active tool or the task you are performing

◦ The property bar content changes depending on the tool or task

Dockers◦ Display the same type of control, such as

command buttons, options and list boxes◦ You can keep dockers open while working on a

document◦ Palletes

Property and Dockers