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Quick Look Course Summary:CorelDRAW for Beginners Course (2 days)
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Length: 2 day(s)
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Price (at your venue): 1 Person R 14,642 EX VAT 3 Person R 9,476 EX VAT 10 Person R 6,474 EX VAT
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Certification Type:Non-Accredited
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Locations & Venues: Off-site or in-house. We train in all major city centres throughout South Africa.
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CorelDRAW for Beginners Course (2 days)
New users produce clean logos, flyers and simple graphics in CorelDRAW instead of waiting for a designer or an agency.
In many offices one person knows CorelDRAW and everyone else waits for them – or sends small jobs such as a flyer, a sign or a logo tweak to an outside designer. This CorelDRAW course for beginners gives staff the core skills to handle that everyday work themselves, using the vector tools signwriters, printers and marketing teams across South Africa rely on.
Over two days delegates build up from a blank page. Day one covers the workspace, drawing and arranging objects, outlines and fills, text and the shaping tools that turn simple shapes into a logo. Day two adds the interactive effects – blend, contour, envelope, drop shadow, transparency and extrude – plus text effects, PowerClip, importing images, a quick trace of a simple logo and laying out a multi-page document, finishing with saving and exporting files for print and the web.
The course is practical from the first hour. Each skill is shown, then practised, and the second afternoon is spent on short projects: a logo, a business card, a flyer and a social media graphic. Bring your own logo or brand colours and the exercises can use them.
Why this course
For your organisation
- Routine design jobs handled in-house instead of sent out
- Faster turnaround on flyers, signs and internal notices
- Artwork that follows your brand colours and fonts
- A foundation your team can build on with the intermediate course
For your delegates
- Confidence with the CorelDRAW workspace and core tools
- A set of finished practice pieces: logo, business card, flyer and social graphic
- Know-how to save and export files a printer or website will accept
- Course notes and practice files to keep
What delegates will be able to do
- Find their way around the CorelDRAW workspace, toolbox and dockers
- Draw, select, transform, group and arrange objects accurately
- Apply outlines and uniform, fountain and pattern fills
- Set and style artistic and paragraph text, including text on a path
- Combine shapes with weld, trim and intersect to build logos
- Apply blend, contour, envelope, drop shadow, transparency and extrude effects
- Place images inside shapes with PowerClip
- Save and export artwork in the right format for print or the web
Who should attend
Administrators, marketing assistants, sales support, small business owners, signage and print shop staff and anyone who needs to produce simple graphics in CorelDRAW. No design or CorelDRAW experience is needed; delegates should be comfortable using a computer.
Course outline
Day 1 – Workspace, objects, colour and text
Getting started in CorelDRAW
- The workspace: toolbox, property bar, dockers and colour palette
- Vector graphics versus bitmaps
- Creating, opening and saving documents
- Page size, orientation and units
- Zoom, pan and view modes, including wireframe
Drawing and arranging objects
- Rectangles, ellipses, polygons, stars and spirals
- The Pick tool: move, resize, rotate and skew
- Duplicating objects
- Guidelines, grids and snapping
- Grouping, combining and selecting inside a group
- Bringing objects forward and sending them back
Outlines, fills and colour
- Outline width, style and colour
- Uniform fills from the colour palette
- Fountain fills: angle, edge pad and colour steps
- Pattern and texture fills
- The Interactive Fill tool
Working with text
- Artistic text versus paragraph text
- Fonts, size, spacing and alignment
- Filling text with colour and gradients
- Fitting text to a path and removing it again
Cutting and shaping
- Crop, Knife and Eraser tools
- Weld, trim and intersect
- Simplify, front minus back and back minus front
- Building a logo shape from simple objects
Day 2 – Effects, images and finished artwork
Interactive effects
- Blends between shapes: steps, rotation and colour
- Contour
- Distort and Envelope
- Drop shadow and transparency
- Extrude for a 3D look
Text effects and PowerClip
- Shadowed, outlined and contoured headings
- Sliced and grid text effects
- Placing images inside shapes with PowerClip
- Using effects with restraint
Images and simple tracing
- Importing photos and logos
- Cropping and positioning images
- A quick trace to turn a simple logo into vectors
- When to ask for the original vector file instead
Practice projects
- Designing a simple logo
- A business card
- A one-page flyer or poster
- A web button or social media graphic
Layout, saving and exporting
- Multi-page documents and a simple newsletter layout
- Aligning and distributing objects
- File formats for print and the web: CDR, PDF, PNG and JPG
- Exporting artwork for a printer or a website
How it is delivered
Two days, 08:30-16:00. In person at your offices anywhere in South Africa, at a BOTI venue, or live online. One delegate or a group of up to about 20, each working on a computer with CorelDRAW installed; laptops with the software can be supplied on request. Course notes and practice files included. We deliver it at your offices in Johannesburg, Pretoria, Durban, Cape Town and anywhere else in South Africa, at a BOTI venue in Johannesburg, or live online for teams in different places.
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Frequently asked questions
Can you run the course at our offices?
Yes. We train at your offices anywhere in South Africa, at a BOTI venue, or live online. Laptops with CorelDRAW can be supplied on request if your staff do not have it installed.
How many people can attend?
From one delegate to a group of about 20, each at their own computer. The price per delegate drops as the group grows – see the price table, or ask us for a quote.
Is it accredited?
No – it is a non-accredited short course and delegates receive a BOTI certificate of attendance.
Which version of CorelDRAW do you use?
We train on the version your team uses. Tell us when you book; the core tools covered here work the same way in recent CorelDRAW Graphics Suite versions.
Our staff already use CorelDRAW. Is this the right course?
If they are comfortable with objects, fills and text, the CorelDRAW for Intermediate & Advanced Users Course is a better fit. It covers colour management, advanced tracing, PHOTO-PAINT and print-ready output.
Can the exercises use our own logo and brand colours?
Yes. Send them to us beforehand and the facilitator builds them into the practice projects.
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