This tutorial will demonstrate how you can create a Cracked Text effect. I used Corel DRAW! 8.0 for Windows for this technique. Some things may be done differently with other versions...

Select the Ellipse Tool, hold down the Control key, and draw out an ellipse shape. Holding down control will keep the ellipse proportional. You can make it whatever color you want your poker chip to be. I made mine blue.

When I made the wallpaper for the design studio, I used my gold color scheme. I also wanted to provide other color options for download, but changing the colors for each object would be time consuming. The Find and Replace option allowed me to quickly create different color schemes for my wallpaper ...

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Welcome to the world of vector graphics and all its lines, curves, and points. Here we’ll learn how to get started by drawing a scroll of parchment.

Making a sand type effect from scratch. Looks good if you play around with the colors.

This tutorial will teach you how to type text on a path, make adjustments to its placement, separate the text from the path, and straighten the text after it's been applied to a path.

This is an intermediate level tutorial. Shown below is an archive file which you will need to download. You can select the archive flavor of your choice: Stuffit™ or Zip. Inside the archive are two files. One is a master frame in PDF format and the other is a drawing template in GIF format containin...

Illustrations created in all major vector drawing programs have a definite anatomy and share a common pattern. Whether you use Deneba Canvas™, Adobe® Illustrator®, CorelDRAW or Macromedia® FreeHand® you will find that this pattern exists even though each program may define the parts differently.

1. Open Corel DRAW and select Bazier Tool. If you are good with free hand drawing you can use Free hand Tool.
2. Draw the basic layout of the design. Close the design.
3. Select Shape tool and with the help of Node Edit edit the basic pattern according to your choice...