Corel Draw

[Wadeduck]

I have a copy of Corel Draw and plan on using it to start my cab artwork.  Could any of you give me some pointers or tutorials to get me started.  I have not done any vector artwork yet so this is going to be a large learning experience.  Any help will be greatly appreciated.

[Wadeduck]

Come on guys someone out there has to use CorelDraw....... don't they?

[walls83]

I never have sorry   

[JoyMonkey]

I use Corel everday and I think it's great- it gives just as good results as Illustrator, but it's much simpler and faster to work with. Since I've been using it, I've hardly used Illustrator at all.

What did you want to know about? The Corel manuals alaways have good tutorials on the basics of getting started. If there's anything specific that you'd like to know, I'd be happy to help you out.

[Nannuu]

Same here, I really like Coreldraw.  I use it all the time.  You can kind of follow the vector tutorial but all the commands are different.  Does that help?  Corel is a lot easier to use (for me anyway).  If you have a question just post away, someone will get to it eventually.

If you are tracing an image, right click it and select Lock.  Then it will keep you from inadvertently selecting the picture instead of the vectors.

The only bad thing about Corel is that you can layer like Illustrator, so you can't do a piece and turn it off.

[Chris]

Same here, I really like Coreldraw.

[mahuti]

One of the primary reasons I've stayed away from Corel for all of these years, is that I used to work in printing, and we would have some very bad difficulties getting corel files to print / seperate correctly. Things may be different now, but I imagine that's where a lot of the disdain for Corel comes from. I have no interest in working with it again due to those past problems.

[Nannuu]

Yep, you're right.  I've never turned on the Object manager.  Doh!  That would have made some things easier....

[Chris]

One of the primary reasons I've stayed away from Corel for all of these years, is that I used to work in printing, and we would have some very bad difficulties getting corel files to print / seperate correctly. Things may be different now, but I imagine that's where a lot of the disdain for Corel comes from. I have no interest in working with it again due to those past problems.

This is, I believe, still potentially an issue.

[Nannuu]

If you need to go from Corel to Illustrator, I've found that eps files work the best.  They usually blow up to giant proportions but they work.  I have both programs but really only use AI to import my eps and save as an ai files so I can post to the artwork site  .

[JoyMonkey]

I use Corel Draw for print production all the time. I do large format billboards and I've never had a problem with Pantones- but maybe that's because my stuff is large format and subtle shade differences become difficult to notice at these sizes.
I usually send stuff to the print shop by saving the document as a PDF; works like a charm.

[Wadeduck]

Thanks for the replies.  I have not really had much time to get into it much yet.  I was hoping to find a general tutorial on the program.  I might go buy a manual over the weekend to get me started.  This is the first vector program I have tried and it seems easy enough.. just getting all the comands down is the hard part.   I do CAD work all day and use Pro-E and SDRC Ideas.  So I keep getting all the comands all messed up when i use other programs.  Just too many menuse to remember but I will get it.