Often, when composing collages or just when printing photos, you need to get an image with rounded corners. Many graphic editors are equipped with tools that make it easy to smooth the corners of an image. The graphics editor Corel Draw works with both raster and vector objects, which allows you to create rounded corners for these types of images in various ways.
Necessary
- • Photo or other digital image;
- • A computer with the licensed program Corel Draw installed on it.
Instructions
Step 1
Consider a way when you need to round one or more corners of a rectangular image in different ways.
Open a new drawing in Corel Draw using the CTRL + N key combination, or select the Create function from the File drop-down menu in the list. Next, from the same list, select the "Import" operation or call it with the CTRL + I key combination. Next, specify the path to the image file in the dialog box, and click the Import button. Your image will be displayed on this sheet.
Step 2
On the toolbar, find the Node Editor rollout and select the Shape tool. Also, this tool can be invoked by pressing the F10 key.
Step 3
To the right of the corner you want to round, left-click on the border of the image. A new node will appear in the image, in addition to the four corners. Next, select the Convert Line To Curve option in the Node Editor panel. Round marks appear to the left of the newly created detail.
Step 4
At the same distance from the corner, add a new node on the perpendicular side of the image. Without changing the Shape tool, double-click on the main corner node, it will be deleted. The rounded corner of the image will immediately become visible. You can change the corner radius by using the guide lines labels.
Step 5
In a very simple way (using a vector object), you can round off all the corners of a rectangular image at the same time. Without resorting to the above method of editing nodes, draw next to the imported image a rectangle of the same size with the Rectangle Tool or call the tool with the F6 key.
Step 6
With the "Shape" tool you are already familiar with, click on the rectangle and drag any of its nodes to the center of the rectangle with the mouse. The corners will be rounded. The rounding radius can be adjusted with the same tool.
Mark your image with the Pick Tool arrow.
Next, in the list of the main menu, find the "Effects" rollout and select the "PowerClip" option and from the drop-down list the "Place Inside Container" function. Use the wide arrow to point to the rounded rectangle you drew. It will become a frame for your image.
Step 7
You can edit the position of the image in the container using the PowerClip's Edit Contents feature.
