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.

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.

In this detailed tutorial, you'll learn how to create a tasty peppermint candy cane for the holidays!

Editor's Pick in Vector Graphics, December 2006
This tutorial is done in Vector Graphics and will show you how to use Corel Draw to make a Broken Heart. The author has an easy-to-follow nine step lesson.

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.

Continuing with the anatomy of vector illustrations, let's now take a look at anchor points (or simply points or nodes...).

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...

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 ...

Editor's Pick in Vector Graphics, November 2006
This interesting tutorial in Vector Grpahics and Corel Draw will show you how to create a deflated soccer ball effect. The author begins with a picture of a soccer ball then takes you through four steps to complete the project.

With this tutorial, you'll use a couple circles and some rectangles to create a cool looking 3d widget.