August 27, 2007

By APTECH-ARENA

APTECH-ARENA an International Education Provider which helps you to get Bachelor in Multimedia and also Bachelor in Software Engineering with its credit transfer facility to UK, USA, Canada & Australia in its ability to provide you with its best training is extending its tutorial classes with Menu Magazine.  In this session we would like to teach you the tips and tricks in Corel Draw plus the Necklace with Pendant and so you would prefer learning how to make it.  You can contact us in Assumption University and also in All Seasons Place for any Professional and Career Multimedia Training Assumption University and Mahatun Plaza. No. is 02-651-5901.

Let’s start section with the concept of Layers. The layering feature of Corel Draw gives you added flexibility for organizing and editing the objects in our drawings. In its simplest form, and without knowing it, you can place all your objects on the default layer called Layer 1. Draw a rectangle on the page then look at the Status Bar. It displays “Rectangle on Layer 1”

Figure 1.1

Now, in complex drawing, we can divide a drawing into multiple layers, each containing a portion of the drawing’s contents. To edit the layer options such as making the layer visible, printable, or editable you must activate the buttons in the Object Manager docker. If the button appears pressed, that feature is on; otherwise it is off.  “Visible”, “Printable”, “Editable” layer icons as displayed in the Object Manager docker.

It’s important to make sure one of the layers is set as the active layer. The active layer name is displayed in a red color in the Object Manager docker. To select another layer to be the active layer, click on it. It will display in red. The importance of the active layer is that it’s displayed in red, in document it is in Layer 1.

Now, Lets see something interesting about Master Layer. Master layer provides a way to allow objects on this layer to display on all pages of our document. This feature is effective for creating business presentations or drawings that require repetitive objects on multiple pages. For example, you may want a custom background with your business logo to appear on all pages. You can add many Master. You can hide the Master layer from selected pages by using the Apply layer changes to the current page only.

To change the order of objects on the same layer, you use the Order commands in the Arrange menu such as To Front, To Back, and so on. However, the order of the layers still determines the absolute arrangement of all objects in your drawing. The order in which the layers are listed in the Object Manager is the order that appears in the drawing. To change their order in the drawing, you must change their order listed in the docker.

STEP 1

Now let’s get started with the designing of the necklace using the various designs of pearls. To create a pearl, draw the circle and fill it up with Radial Fill.

STEP 2

Draw the square and place the copies of the pearl at four sides. Take the square as guide. Using Interactive Blend Tool; create the outline of the pendant.

STEP 3

Press shift and reduce the size of the pendant using pick tool. Right click to get the smaller copy inside. Create multiple smaller copies so that it will look like the design given below.

STEP 4

Rotate the pendant to 45 degrees. Draw the square inside and fill it up with Square Fill of the same color of the pendant so that my design look more natural. Don’t try to mix up with the colors it will not suit my jewel design needs.

STEP 5

Draw the curved line of desired shape. Place two pearls at two ends. Ie, the starting and the ending point of the curve then.

STEP 6

Then we have to blend the pearls. Select the blend Tool. Using Property Bar, Select Path Properties. Click on New Path and select the curve as path.

STEP 7

Keep the blend selected. In the Property Bar again, select Miscellaneous Blend Options. Check Blend along full path and the rest leave it as un-selected.

STEP 8

Now make the copies of the pendants with different sizes and create it with different Styles. Arrange other parts of the necklace according to your design needs.

STEP 9

Next lets start make a Precious Stone. Now I will lock all the layers so that my Necklace design is not changed. Draw the polygon with 7 sides. Use property bar to select the options.

STEP 10

Select Interactive Extrude Tool and create extrude. Drag the guide lines and place them as shown below.

STEP 11

Select Bezier Tool and create triangles from the sides of the stone to the intersection point of the guidelines.

STEP 12

The next step we have to fill color inside to the stone. Select Interactive Fill Tool. Select any triangle and drag the tool over the triangle. Select Linear Fountain Fill from property bar and select the colors of your choice.

STEP 13

Copy the same fill in all the triangles by following method.
Right click and drag the filled triangle to the unfilled one. When they will get overlapped the cursor will turn into cross mark with circle. Release mouse button. Click ‘Copy Fill Here’. Select the extrude (back portion)

STEP 14

Arrange > Separate
Fill the small rectangles by the same method.
Change the directions of the two colors by moving and dragging Interactive Fill Pointer. Now place it at the centre of the Necklace to make the best of my design.

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