Creating a marketing brochure (2)

Drawing the background (a door)

The door will look like a modern, simple metallic door with glass. Open CorelDRAW X3. Start by setting up the page size:

1. Create a new document by selecting the File-menu | New.

2. Edit the page size in the Property Bar:


The document will be a handy size, a little wider than an A5 page.
3. Create a rectangle that covers the whole page, by double-clicking the Rectangle Tool.

4. You now need to create the illusion of a metallic surface with the Interactive Fill Tool.



5. Drag horizontally across the rectangle with the Interactive Fill Tool, and you create a gradient fill that needs to be edited. As default it will be black and white, and linear. You can edit the fill type in the Property Bar.



6. When you have changed the fill to a Conical Gradient you need to change the colours of the fill.

7. Select the Interactive Fill Tool once more, and you will see a half-circle with dotted lines in the rectangle.



8. Drag a medium grey from the colour palette, which is located at the right hand side of your screen, to the first square in the dotted half circle. This way, you change the start colour. Drag a darker grey to the opposite square. And finally drag a white colour on to the dotted line. You should end up with a result like shown above.

9. Experiment with more colours in the gradient fill by dragging more colours on to the dotted line.

10. Create a copy of the rectangle by selecting the Edit menu | Copy and then the same menu and Paste.

11. Change the size of this copy by clicking on it and dragging the left line to the right, the right line to the left and the bottom line upwards, creating something like this:



12. Change the gradient fill to a dark grey to white linear gradient fill, by deleting all the colours you have inserted, until you have only two colour handles left. Select “linear” from the property bar.

13. Create another copy of this rectangle, apply a dark blue colour by clicking on the colour in the Colour Palette, and change the width and height to make it like shown below:



14. Finally you must create the door handle:

15. Select the rectangle tool, and create a rectangle.

16. Edit the size in the Property Bar to 5 x 35 mm.

17. Round the corners by changing the corner radius in the property bar to 50:



18. Apply a linear gradient fill to the handle.

19. Apply a shadow to the handle by selecting the Interactive Drop Shadow Tool and dragging from the middle of the handle to the right.

20. Remove any black outline on the handle by right-clicking the cross field in the Colour Palette.



This drawing of the door will be used as a basis for all the following 7 pages, but in slightly different ways.