:: TUTORIAL - CREATE A QUICK VECTOR IN CORELDRAW X4 ::

Hi there!

This is a vector tutorial that was completely created in CorelDRAW X4, the steps are very easy and so quick. 

The tutorial does not require you know how to use CorelDRAW, just follow the steps and you might just turn your entire photo album to vectors. 
Have fun!  

Follow this steps 

To download the images I used click on the links below

African woman

Lion

Land

Africa silhouette 

Open your CorelDRAW X4, Click on New document

 

To place your images in the workspace

Click on File > Import

It shows a pop-up, locate the Jpeg files you just saved and click on Import

Then Slam your Enter button    

Displace your images outside the page
 

Place the selected image of the woman on the page by pressing the  

P button or just drag it in 

Note:  for you to perform any task you must select your image by clicking on it

 

Now it’s time to bitmap it click on Bitmap > Convert to Bitmap  

(Alt + B > Ok) 

 

 
A pop-up will appear click on  
Grayscale > Ok 

(Tick the Transparent background option)

 This is the result

 

After that Click on  

Bitmaps > Auto Adjust 

 

 

Click on  Effects > Adjust > Brightness/Contrast/Intensity 

(Ctrl + B) 

A pop-up window displays

 

Enter the following numbers appropriately

Brightness – 50

Contrast – 50

Intensity – 50

And slam Ok 

Here’s the result

Click on Bitmaps > Auto Adjust

Click on Effects > Adjust > Brightness/Contrast/Intensity (Ctrl + B)

A pop-up window will appear, enter the following numbers appropriately

Brightness – 10

Contrast – 10

Intensity – 10

And slam Ok

 

And then click on  

Trace Bitmap > Outline Trace > Detailed Logo

Note: You must be using CorelDRAW X4 to use this feature in this step

The trick of this tutorial is all about getting the right contrast 

 

A pop-up window displays,
click on Keep original size

And you have another pop-up window display

Enter the following numbers appropriately

Details – extend the bars to the end

Smoothing – 50

Corner smoothness – 0

And slam Ok 

Here’s the result

 

To flip the picture,
select this icon

Change some part of the woman’s face to white by Ctrl + Click, to select it and click on white on the colour pallet by the extreme right.  

Add some more colors to the head gear by Ctrl + Click select red on the colour pallet

Trim some of the woman’s edges off (If you are a newbie, download the tutorial click this link)  

Apply this same technique in converting the woman to a vector to the other images (the lion, landmark and the Africa silhouette)

Drag the Africa silhouette vector close to the woman and place it under the vector woman by pressing

Ctrl + pg dn till it goes beneath it

Drag the lion and the land closer then delete some part off by clicking Ctrl + Click then Del

All you need to do here is display some creativity

This should be your result

Now to add our text

Press F8, click on the page then type Africa

You can download the font I used here http://www.dafont.com/xfiles1.font

Drag it closer and place over all objects by pressing Shift + pg up

And we are done 

Here are some other works that were done with this technique  

I greatly hope you enjoyed this tutorial.

Kindly leave a comment, cheers.

By Francis Otuogbai