I have a quandary. I am preparing for a gallery show this fall. (More on that later.)  My show will be about waterfalls and rushing waters. As I prepare for this endeavor, I am selecting show images. My recent trip to the Palouse region yielded a couple...

Hunter Elliott has a really interesting tutorial for Corel PHOTO-PAINT. It in he takes a cool picture and makes it even better by boosting the contrast in only part of an image. The process is called Contrast Masking and is a great way to make good images...

I may have posted this before... oh well.

The image on the left is a challenge to fix... I turned it into the right one – after lots of steps. :-)

click on it to see the real size:

I used the first part of this tutorial from Alfred to create the extra hair on the image below.

I didn't draw any single hairs as shown in the tutorial. I used the Brightness/Contrast Effect Tool afterwards.

click on pic for larger version of my 5 ...

I still remember the Christmas where I received a Spirograph. I flipped through the book that came with it and was fascinated with all of the cool patterns that could be created. The sad reality is that I never once was able to complete any of the patterns...

You can vote in the biggest challenge Core ever announced! The Community voting is running by lesser than a week, so go there and get active! Vote for it here: "The Dragons Path". I hope you like it. Nevertheless, I apprecciate your vote and comments...

Its summer in Sweden and I am working doing illustrations and writing some. But hey it´s still summer and what do I read? All over people talk about their summer read dont hey, in Sweden its a classic question. "Whats the summer read?". While having the...

I was recently searching for vector dragon images. I came across a dragon I really like, even though it wouldn't work for the project at hand. Just in case I downloaded a copy of it so that I would have it for future usage. The file is supplied in...

It might be considered a stretch to call an operating system upgrade a widget. While Windows does include widgets, it is the base upon which all of your other software will run. Well, except for those of you using Linux, Mac or another operating system...

Stefan Tetreault's work is some of the best I've seen.

Many years ago he saw some of my work at the first serious world-wide gallery for Corel Artists. He said he was really impressed with some of the things I was doing.

Then... he emailed me a...

Sometimes I find it hard to categorize the styles of fonts. Today's font is listed as a Calligraphic font and I certainly don't think that it wrong. Yet that doesn't really seem to properly categorize it. It does look like handwriting with a lot of nice...

It is a common complaint. Users are frustrated at the colors they get from their printer. Understanding color management is definitely an important part of the process and something every user needs to understand. Before you can set up color management...

Among more than 600 well-chosen works of the CorelDRAW International Design Contest 2009 there are many amazing works which I would share with you! Let me introduce a small choice of my personal favorites here:  Alexander Poslykhalin aka Trojza (Russia...

This is a tutorial topic that we've already visited before. Yet it remains the question I hear over and over again. How do I remove the white box around my images? So today we have two tutorials that address the issue. First is my Getting Rid of That...

Hello Folks. New video, new luck. Indeed, I had to shorten this due to the length and divide into three parts. I hope you like it nevertheless. Credits and Comments are always welcome. I would also like to point out to my participation in the Corel...

I never realized how much I depend upon CorelDraw to dovetail into and out of so many other software packages. When working with PowerPoint, for example, CorelDraw turned out to be a perfect tool to feed custom graphics into my presentations. As it happens...

Everywhere you turn is yet another product filled with LED lights. So who is the person in charge of designing where to place each of the tiny lights? I can only imagine the difficulty of such a job. At least until now. With Alexander Penkin's LED Tool...

Either you control your files, or they control you.

A fan wrote:

Hi Jeff,

I've been reading many of your great posts and thank-you for your teachings.

I'm using CorelDRAW X4 and VersaWorks for my Roland SP540-V. I've been using PDF's for 2 years...

As the sun brings those of us in the Northern Hemisphere the longest day of the year, why not find some artwork that deals with astronomy. To that end I found artwork with variations on each of the signs of the zodiac. Two symbols are provided for each...

By Steve Bain Has anyone ever known you well enough to finish your sentences? Well, that's sort of how one of the most intuitive drawing tools in CorelDRAW works. In this tutorial I'll demonstrate the Smart Drawing tool. This clever drawing tool automatically recognizes your onscreen squiggles as native objects or Perfect Shapes. How cool is that? Continue reading →

By Steve Bain Has anyone ever known you well enough to finish your sentences? Well, that's sort of how one of the most intuitive drawing tools in CorelDRAW works. In this tutorial I'll demonstrate the Smart Drawing tool. This clever drawing tool automatically...

In the last few months I have spent quite a bit of time trying to improve my photography skills. Good equipment definitely helps. Learning to have an eye that sees a good image is just as important. Heck, a good camera won't help you if you still shoot...

When I went searching for this week's font, I didn't have any particular font in mind. I just let the search flow where it might. Those of you who remember the Frogger game from the 1980s will remember how you had to guide your frog through the flow of...

File this under the “I’m not quite sure how I feel about this” category. I read an article on a new functionality that is cropping up on the world wide web.  It’s appearance was innocuous enough but, upon sufficient reflection, including furrowed brows...

Ever whanted to read Swedish Local news in English language, well here it is: THE LOCAL.

Its a Swedish paper online which have been around for a while. I bump into it now and then myself, when for example the big Swedish newspaper dragon, The "Dagens Nyheter...