Below is a picture with 2 callouts that have a glow/halo around the entire object in order to increase the visibility of the callout against the background picture.
I have figured out how to add a 3-point callouts and also change line thickness, color etc., but I don't see a 'halo' section in the 'Object Properties' dock, that would hopefully allow me to add the 'glow effect' all around a callout as seen below.
When I seach for 'halo' in Corel Draw Technical Suite help, nothing comes back !
Can anyone help with this one ? Thanks a lot in advance !
Hello FelixBuchi - welcome to the CorelDRAW community!
You should find the halo settings in the Properties bar (by default that tool bar is visible above the drawing window) when selecting a callout shape:
The callout presets (dropdown on the left of the Properties tool bar) already contain presets with halo.
In fact, you can add a halo to any line or curve in Corel DESIGNER X6. Open the Property Manager docker (Alt+Enter) to access the halo settings for any selected curve or shape:
And finally - when searching the English Corel DESIGNER X6 Help for "halo" I get 4 results:
Best regards,Klaus.
Dear Klaus, looks like I was in the 'wrong movie' ! I am new to Corel - used Canvas before - and I figured Corel Draw is the program to use for adding annotations to pictures. With Corel Designer everything looks straight forward and I found also some help entries.
Nevertheless, can I also use Corel Draw as well to achieve the same ? Respecitvely, what is your recommendation in terms of using Draw or Desiner ?
Are Designer and Draw files cross compatible ?
Anyhow, thanks a lot for the quick and competent help. Reg Felix
Easy to do in CorelDRAW as well -- I used version X4 (not having X6):
Hi Felix,
halos are exclusive to Corel DESIGNER. This type of callout functionality you typically find as a requirement in technical illustrations which is what Corel DESIGNER is really made for.
FelixBuchi said:Are Designer and Draw files cross compatible ?
However, there are some extra features in Corel DESIGNER (such as halos) that are not available in CorelDRAW. When opening a DES file with such features in CorelDRAW it will be converted to an object type/ attribute that CorelDRAW can handle with its tools. In case of halos you will receive the extra curves that Graewerld has described in his response.Visual appearance will be fully maintained but it's not that easy to edit in CorelDRAW.
Corel DESIGNER X6 callouts have a few more advantages when it comes to connecting and sticking to source objects, displaying metadata of the source object as callout text. Have a look at the short feature video about the Corel DESIGNER X6 callout tools.
Thanks for the additional method. I prefer the halo-effect because it easier to edit.