HOW TO APPLY CONTOUR EFFECT CORELDRAW

How to apply Interactive Contour effect to an object in CorelDraw

          This tool has the ability to create extra outline or duplicate the same text so that you can apply different colours to it, because outline is different from contour tool, in applying of outline to an object or text you can only apply one colour to it.

The different is clear, with contour tool, you can apply two or more colours to your text.

          And also you can blend the outline of a single object to larger or even smaller size of the object, duplicate the outline in twos or threes depending on the size of the text

Let get started on how to apply it step by step

These text effects is applied by creating your object or typing of a text just like mine below

In CorelDraw press (F8) and type

Go to the left tool bar, find Contour tool and click it, make sure your text is selected; from here there are two ways of doing this

First By looking at the top tool bar were you can find e.g. To center, inside, outside, contour steps, contour offset etc. but what we are interested in, is contour steps, now use it to increase or decrease the sizes 

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2.     Second By dragging the text to the inside of the object or drag out side, you will notice that a big outline is surrounding the text.

Note: if you increase the size of everything both the text and the outline of the text, the size of the outline surrounding the text will reduce drastically. With this you can be able to control how the outline will look like

You can now break apart the whole thing (meaning separate everything because is already combined) and start inserting colours to the text, to achieve the same colours as mine; use Dark Red, Dark yellow and brown colour

After inserting the effect you will have three duplicate now for you to separate them, is either you break apart or ungroup all (only when is group) and start by click on each text and insert your preferred colour to it, you are done, these can be used in flyers or logo design easy and simply.

Corel Draw is friendly software that is not too complicated like other software/programs believe, because there are some software that are harder and complicated than CorelDraw, before you learn them, you have to go through a lot of processes just to achieve some designs.

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