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CorelDraw 101: Basic Toolbox
Freehand Tool Overview
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Choose Freehand Tool
Click on the Freehand Tool in the Toolbox. This is your freehand drawing
tool and is used to create drawn objects that are not variations of
rectangles, spirals or circles.
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Draw Curved Line
Choose Freehand Tool. Click and drag to draw the shape you desire. You
can release the mouse button and still continue with the same object,
by clicking close the the last node in the section you have just completed.
The new line will automatically join to the end of the last one. In
the sample above, the yellow rectangle highlights where the line was
stopped and then started again.
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Draw Straight Line
Click and release your mouse button to place the initial node for your
line. Move your cursor to the desired end for your line. Click the mouse
to place the end node. You can constrain the line to 15 degree increments
by pressing your CTRL key as you position the end node (use this to
create a straight line). You can also join a new line to this object
as in step 2.
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Create Closed Shapes: Part 1
Choose Freehand Tool. Click and drag in an approximate circular shape,
but do not bring the end all the way to the starting point as in the
top sample above. Click a color in the color palette at the right edge
of the screen. This should fill your object with color, but since the
ends are not closed, the fill does not show. Look at the bottom right
of your screen to note that the color status area shows that the object
is filled.
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Create Closed Shapes: Part 2
Click on the Auto-Close button in the Property Bar above your workspace
(icon shown highlighted with a yellow rectangle in a cutout from the
Property Bar). Your object should fill as the end points are joined.
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Change Outline
Find the Outline section of the Property Bar above your workspace. Click
on the fly-outs to select desired outline size or style.
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Freehand Tool Fly-out
Click on the triangle in the bottom right corner of the Freehand Tool
to open the fly-out tool options. This presents other freehand tools,
but all are outside the scope of this basic tutorial.
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Freehand Tool Properties
Right click on the Freehand Tool to open the Freehand/Bezier Options window.
Most of these controls are for advanced features. The Auto-join can be
increased if you would like CorelDraw to automatically join nodes that
are further apart.
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Next page
CorelDraw 101: Basic Toolbox Tutorial Index
Object Overview
Pick Tool Overview
Shape Tool Overview
Zoom Tool Overview
Freehand Tool Overview
Rectangle Tool Overview
Ellipse Tool Overview
Spiral Tool Overview
Polygon Tool Overview
Graph Paper Tool Overview
  
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