By Steve Bain
If you’ve ever fumbled around trying to align your cursor to something, you can bid this frustrating task farewell. Object snapping was improved in version 12 to include new modes to give you maximum snapping control that works together with the program’s new Dynamic Guides feature.
You can instantly snap to text baselines, object nodes, edges, midpoints, centers and ellipse quadrants; or snap to ellipse tangents, perpendicular angles or angles specified as Dynamic Guide paths. For example, you can snap the baseline of a text object to a rectangle, like this:
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Categories: CorelDRAW · Illustration
Tagged: Basic, CorelDRAW, Drawing aid, Feature, Illustration, Object snapping, Snap to objects
By Steve Bain
Once in a while, you discover a drawing feature that’s so innovative, it has the potential to completely change the way you draw. The dynamic guides in CorelDRAW will do just that. In fact, after using dynamic guides for a while, you’ll wonder how you ever did without them. In this tutorial, I’ll reveal just how great these convenient guides really are. (more…)
Categories: CorelDRAW · Design · Illustration · Layout Strategies · Tips
Tagged: Add new tag, Basic, CorelDRAW, drawing techniques, Dynamic Guides, Feature, Illustration, Object snapping, precision drawing, sticky guides, Tips
