Design Gallery --- Corel Draw 11 and Adobe-Part 1

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CorelDraw 11

Optimizing Corel DRAW 11 for Speed

Changing two settings will really provide a big increase in speed without having any effect on your workflow. Select Tools > Options and click on the General tab. The first setting that needs to be changed is the number of
Undo levels. Most users will not go back more than 5 or 10 steps, thus you can safely lower this number. The higher this setting, the more data that is taking up memory and slowing your computer down.
The second is the Enable Real Time Preview checkbox, this can really slow down your computer. Uncheck it and you'll find that things work a lot better.

Using Guides

Most CorelDRAW users know that you can use non-printing ruler guides-dragged on to the page from the horizontal and vertical rulers-to help align objects on a page of artwork. But did you also know that guides do not have to be lines? They can be created from rectangles, ellipses, polygons or any other shape that you can draw?
Ruler Guides are non-printing horizontal, vertical or angled lines that can be placed on a page either by dragging them from the rulers on screen, or by positioning them precisely from a dialogue window. Objects can snap to guidelines to aid perfect alignment.

To Position Guidelines by Dragging

Ensure that the rulers are visible, by going to View > Rulers. Place the cursor on the vertical ruler for a vertical guide, or the horizontal ruler for a horizontal guide. The cursor shape will change to a white arrow when it is in the correct position. Hold down the left mouse button and drag it on to the page. You will see a dotted line moving with your cursor. Release the mouse button when the guide is in the desired position. The guide will now appear as a dotted red line. Click the main mouse button away from the guide to de-select it. Its colour will change to blue.
For an angled guide, place a horizontal or vertical guide as above. Then, while the guideline is still red, click on the guideline again. If the guideline is blue, click on it to select it, turn it red and click it again.
Rotate handles will appear on either end of the guideline, with a centre of rotation in the middle of the guideline. The centre of rotation can be dragged to a new position if required, in the same way that you would for any other object. Place the cursor over either of the Rotation handles, hold down the main mouse button and drag to angle the guideline.

To Reposition a guideline

If you need to position a guideline more accurately, drag it from the ruler as above, and then double-click on it to produce the Guidelines Setup dialogue window. Key in the precise horizontal and vertical positions relative to the current ruler's zero point, and specify an angle if required.

To delete a guideline:

To delete a guideline, drag it back to the ruler, or select it and press [Delete]. You can also double-click a guideline to open the Guidelines Setup window, and press [Delete] to delete the selected guide, or [Clear] to delete all of the guides currently showing.

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<u>Adobe --- Part 1</u>

Extract and Liquify commands in Photoshop 7

In Photoshop 7, the Extract and Liquify commands have been shifted from the Image menu to the Filter menu. The enhanced Liquify filter gives you greater control over image warping-with zoom, pan and multiple undo. You can also save your meshes, which let you return to an image after experimenting with the Liquify tools and start where you left off. You can even apply the same mesh to different images, or experiment on a low-resolution image before applying the mesh to a high-resolution version. You can also create effects such as smoke or fire with the new Turbulence brush. The new backdrop option lets you view individual layers or a flattened version of the file, so that you can see your distortions in context as you create them.
In order to use the new Pattern Maker option, highlight the portion of the image you want to use in the pattern, and click on the Generate button. A random pattern is made from your selection, which will be tiled to cover the whole canvas. If you don't like the result, simply generate it again. Pattern Maker can hold 20 patterns in its history, so you can always go back and play around with the controls. You can also control the size and layout of the pattern tiles. Finally, when you get the pattern of your choice, click the disc icon, to save it as a pattern preset.

<img src="http://www.hashdot.com/liquify_dialog_tmb.jpg" width="510" height="383" border="0" alt="" />

Creating a motion effect

To give a vehicle a moving effect, select one wheel with the help of the Elliptical Marquee tool. Press [Shift] while doing this, to get a circular selection. From the Filter menu, choose Blur > Radial Blur, and enter the number of pixels according to the file size. Now repeat this process with the other wheel. To proceed with the car, select the car using the Polygonal Lasso Tool and use Filters > Blur > Motion Blur. Copy and paste this layer by using [Ctrl] + [C] and [Ctrl] + [V]. Select the Move tool and move the replicated image in the direction opposite to the motion you wish to show. Reduce the opacity to 50 per cent. Take a copy of this layer and drag the image further behind and reduce the opacity to 25 per cent.

<img src="http://www.hashdot.com/orig_car_tmb.jpg" width="510" height="371" border="0" alt="" />

<img src="http://www.hashdot.com/car_50_tmb.jpg" width="510" height="371" border="0" alt="" />

<img src="http://www.hashdot.com/car_motion_tmb.jpg" width="510" height="371" border="0" alt="" />