Layers in Corel where to open. How to work with layers in CorelDraw - from adding and adjusting to deleting. Preparing to work with layers

Ministry of Science and Education of Ukraine

Slavic State Pedagogical University

Abstract

Layers, pages and workspace in CorelDraw

3rd year students

Zayarnoy Yana Borisovna

Slavyansk

2003
Layers, pages and workspace

When working on a large project, there often comes a time when it becomes difficult to manage many illustrations or other objects if they are all located on one page. In such cases, objects can be dispersed across different pages or place in different layers one page. This is useful when creating multi-page brochures or working with large documents.

The Object Manager docking window works as an organizing tool to help organize and edit objects in complex illustrations. In this window, you can easily navigate through objects and even assign names to individual objects.

Working with pages

You can add pages to a document, delete them, and even name them. Once you've created multiple pages, you can navigate them using the page shortcuts and arrow buttons in the page management section at the bottom of the illustration window.

To add a page to the beginning or end of a series of pages, you can simply click the "+" button in the page management section. Greater control over the procedure allows you to get the Insert Page dialog box.

To open this window, you need to select Insert Page from the Layout menu. The dialog box allows you to specify how many pages to insert and the specific insertion position before or after a specific page. The insertion position of a new (one) page can also be specified in the context menu of CorelDRAW pages - see below.

To rename a page you need to right-click the page shortcut and select Rename Page from the context menu or select Rename Page from the Layout menu. After that, enter a new name in the window that opens.

In the same context menu you can delete current page. If you select Delete Page from the Layout menu, a special delete window will allow you to delete several pages at once.

Managing layers in the Object Manager

In CorelDRAW, you can structure your illustrations using a series of invisible planes called layers. Each individual layer serves as a container for a collection of objects placed into it by the user. The content of the layer can be created by the user based on the needs of solving a specific problem. Together, the layers create a hierarchy that helps define the vertical arrangement of the illustration's components. In this arrangement, called stacking order, objects in the layer above always overlap objects in the layer below.

The use of layers ensures separate storage of illustration elements that have different purposes. You can change the order of layers and/or their properties, allowing you to edit, print, and view layers together or separately. Layers can be locked, preventing them from being edited or printed.

The Object Manager also provides a convenient tool for navigating through pages, layers, and objects. In a multi-page document, it is much easier to find the desired object than to flip through pages and layers.

To open the Object Manager pin, you need to select the Object Manager command from the Layout menu or select the corresponding submenu item View | Dockers.

There are three buttons at the top of the Object Manager window that let you add layers and control viewing and editing of each page.

The Object Manager displays all custom pages as well as an additional page called template-page. Objects on the template page appear on all pages when printed

Why are more than one layers created on a page? At any given time, you can only see one layer, that is, only some part of the illustration.

This makes it easier to work with complex patterns. You can also print only one or selected layers on a page.

One or more layers can be made uneditable. So, for example, if there are a number of objects on the page that should not be disturbed under any circumstances, they can be placed in a layer that is inaccessible for editing.

To transfer layer objects to the listed states (not visible, not printable and not editable), in the line of each layer there are icons depicting a printer eye and a pencil, respectively.

For example, suppose that in the original CorelDRAW file you need to create non-printing layers containing a signature and some data about the author of the illustration. To do this you need:

1. Open the CorelDRAW file. Open the Object Manager docking window.

2. Select one of the pages in the structure. In this case, the selected page will also be displayed in the illustration window.

3. Create new layers by clicking the New Layer button. Give the new layer a name (optional), for example call it “Artist_Signature”

4. Click in the layer row on the small printer icon. This icon turns dull gray, indicating that these layers will not be printed.

5. On the illustration page, draw an object that shouldn't get to print.

6. A “+” sign appears in the line in the Object Manager window. Click this sign. The structure of layer objects will open in which the created object will be presented with a standard name (Curly text Rectangle and so on). If you select this object in the structure, it is also selected on the illustration page.

7. You can assign a name to the created object. To do this, you need to double-click (not double-click) the object in the structure and enter the name in the editing frame.

8. By clicking the icons representing an eye and a pencil in the layer line, layers with a signature can be made not only unprintable but also invisible in the file and inaccessible for editing.

Creating a master layer

Template layer objects appear on every page when printed. The default template page generated with each new drawing includes the non-printing layers TemplateGuidesTemplateGrid and TemplateDesktop. These standard layers serve the CorelDRAW illustration window. The Worksheet template represents an area in the illustration window outside the illustration page and is not usually printed.

In order for objects to be printed on each page, they need to be placed on template layers. The procedure here is as follows:

1. In the Object Manager, select any page and click the New Layer button.

2. Give (optional) a name to the new layer.

3. Right-click on the new layer and select Master from the context menu. As soon as this is done, this layer will go into the Master Page structure.

Setting the Page Layout

CorelDRAW is a universal program that allows you to create text and illustrations for a wide range of documents from a business card to a newspaper. According to the type of work, you can prepare the illustration page area. CorelDRAW provides many standard page sizes. In addition, you can easily define custom dimensions and other layout parameters.

The easiest way to set the page size is to click on an empty part of the illustration area. This opens the Layout properties panel of the page layout, in which you can define the size and orientation of the page, as well as many other attributes.

Standard page sizes are collected in the Paper Type/Size drop-down list. The most popular of them is A4 (210x297 mm) - the size of ordinary writing paper.

Page dimensions can also be determined manually using the Paper Width/Height ring lists in the properties panel.

If you plan to use some custom page size quite often, you can describe this page and include it in the list of standard sizes. For example, to determine the page size equivalent to a screen size of 640x480 pixels (this page size is used in particular when designing Web pages), you need to do the following.

1. In the Tools menu, select the Options command. Next, in the Options dialog box, in the parameters structure section (on the left), open the Document Page elements and click the Size element.

2. When the Size options section opens, open the Paper list and select Custom.

3. Select Pixels from the drop-down list of units of measurement. In the Resolution drop-down list, select 72. This is the resolution in pixels per inch of most monitors.

4. Enter 640 in the width ring list and 480 in the page height ring list.

5. Once you have created a custom page size, you can save the definition by clicking the Save Custom Page button.

Setting illustration area properties

The Portrait and Landscape buttons in the properties panel allow you to transform some of the page layouts from vertical to horizontal.

The Nudge Offset field allows you to set the amount that the selected object will move when you press the direction keys on your keyboard once. These movements are specified in inches or fractions of an inch.

The Duplicate Distance fields determine what offset the copy of the object will receive relative to the selected object when duplicating the object by input or by selecting Duplicate from the Edit menu.

Grid and guides- visible or invisible (but in any case non-printing) illustration area markings that allow you to easily position selected objects in a specific horizontal or vertical location.

In this tutorial we'll look at using the Layer Manager. If there are too many objects in your document and you are afraid to get confused in them, then layers will come to your aid.

CorelDRAW allows you to organize multiple layers of objects within a document page. Each layer has its own attributes: name, accessibility modes for editing, display on screen and when printing, position in relation to other layers.

The layer mechanism allows you to more flexibly structure the objects that make up the image and greatly simplifies working with them. All objects that make up the image can be distributed over several layers corresponding to functionally homogeneous parts of the image. By controlling the order of layers and their visibility modes, you can obtain different, but completely consistent images. Layers are managed using the object manager, which is called up from the menu Tools team Object Manager.

Within each layer, objects form a stack of objects in which they can be rearranged. The layers, in turn, also form a stack of layers in which they can be rearranged.

No matter how many pages are created in a CorelDRAW document, it always has a so-called Home page. It combines the main layers that CorelDRAW creates by default in each new document:

Net- contains a coordinate grid. This layer is always the main one, inaccessible for editing and printing. By default it is not displayed on the screen, that is, the coordinate grid is not visible.
Guides- contains guides - horizontal, vertical and inclined straight lines. This layer is always the main one. By default, it is visible, editable, and not printable.
Desk- contains all objects located outside the printed page. It is convenient to use it as a temporary storage of objects when composing images and when transferring them from one layer to another, as well as as a place for auxiliary constructions. This layer is always the main one. By default, it is visible, editable, and not printable.

By default, your document has at least one page and one layer in the Layers panel. Opposite the page pointer in the form of a sheet there is a plus sign (by clicking on it you open the layer directory, which is available on this sheet). If you place an object on one of the layers, it will be displayed as an additional line under the layer on which it is located (Polygon, Rectangle, Ellipse). This line consists of: a thumbnail of the object itself, the name of the shape, the fill color, and the color and type of the outline. If you want to make an object the content of another layer, then simply click on its status bar and drag it to the desired layer (a black arrow will appear next to the line, which indicates that the element will be moved to the desired layer). To create a new layer there is a button at the bottom of the panel New Layer.

Layers can be manipulated.

Layers provide an effective means of organizing objects created with CorelDRAW. Using layers makes your work faster and easier and makes your design clearer.

How to use layers when creating projects?

Multi-page documents- objects that should be displayed and printed on all pages, as well as objects that should appear only on certain pages. An example of such a document is a wall calendar, where all pages use a common heading, but the dates on each page are different.
One page document- several bank checks for the customer, the background of which is the same, but the bank details (bank name, account number, contact details, etc.) are different. I use layers when I design checks for clients that shareholders can receive dividends with the details of different banks.

Preparing to work with layers

Before you start working with a new CorelDRAW document, you need to do some preliminary preparation. I prefer to determine the overall design of the project, its contents, and the approximate placement of objects in advance.

Creation multi-page document with layers

The first step is to specify the page size of our project when opening a new document. By default, CorelDRAW creates a new document with one layer, called Layer 1. Open the Object Manager settings window ( Window>Settings windows>Object Manager).

The second step is to create the required number of template layers by pressing a button Create a master layer(see Fig. 1, element 5) in the object manager settings window. Master layers will appear on all pages of your project. Then create the desired number of layers by clicking the button Create Layer(see Fig. 1, element 4).

This article covers images from the Calender job. I used four layers and two master layers.

Your page is now ready to go.

Advice. CorelDRAW creates new layers on top of existing ones. Therefore, they must be created in the order in which they should be located in the project.

The third step is to create 11 copies of the open page to get 12 pages. Click tab Page 1 located at the bottom of the application window and select the option from the drop-down menu Duplicate page. Since you haven't added objects to the page yet, leave it in the window Duplicate page default settings and click the button OK.

Note. When choosing a team Layout>Inserting a page pages are added to the file, which by default contain one layer. In this case, all the necessary layers must be added to each page separately, which can be time consuming.

After completing the three steps above, your wall calendar document will be ready to use.

Before we look at the example, I would like to talk about some important features of the object manager.

Introducing the Object Manager setup windows

The Object Manager settings window (Fig. 1) allows you to view the current state of the document structure, simplifying the management of layers and objects. This window shows all the pages of the active document with all the layers on each page and the objects that are on each layer on each page.

Rice. 1 - Object Manager
(for clarity, the user interface is shown in English)

Below are descriptions of the elements in Fig. 1.

1 - button Show object properties.

If this button is clicked, the properties of all objects in the selected layer will be shown. If you click the "+" symbol at the beginning of any page, the Object Manager setup window will display detailed information about all objects.

2 - button Edit Unclosed Layers.

Clicking this button allows you to work with any object on any layer, regardless of whether it is active. If this button is not pressed, to work with objects on any layer, you must first select and make the corresponding layer active. In other words, all objects on all layers except the active one will be temporarily locked and unavailable for use.

3 - button Layer manager view.

Enabling this view allows users to control the hierarchy (or sequence) of layers and change their location.

4 - Button Create Layer.

Create a layer on the active page.

5 - Button Create a master layer.

Creating a template layer on the main page of the document.

6 - Button Delete layer.

Deletes the selected layer and all objects on it.

7 - Setting up regular layers added to the page. By default, CorelDRAW gives layers sequential names (for example, Layer 2, Layer 3, etc.). To improve your experience and make it easier to find the layers you need, you can rename them.

8 - Default template layers. The Guides, Desktop, and Grid layers are the default layers. They cannot be removed from the document.

9 - Setting up template layers added to the main page and renamed.

Now let's look at the layer properties buttons. Each layer has three buttons that help you change the properties of that layer.

Icon eyes indicates whether the layer is visible. If this icon is clicked, the layer objects are visible, and if not clicked, they are hidden.

Icon printer controls whether a layer can be printed. If this icon is clicked, layer objects can be printed and imported, otherwise they cannot be.

Icon pencil indicates whether the layer is editable. If this icon is clicked, layer objects can be selected and edited, otherwise they cannot.

Advice. Typically, visibility and printability are enabled and disabled at the same time. Remember that a visible layer cannot be exported or printed if printing is disabled. If printing is enabled, then you can even export and print an invisible layer.

You can also make a layer visible but not print it, so that project notes are not printed. I use a layer like this to store print settings and other job information that needs to be available at all times.

Rice. 2
(for clarity, the user interface is presented in English)

Now we'll look at how to use the Layer Manager view. This view allows you to change the order of layers on the active page. In Fig. Figure 2 shows the order of layers on the page "Page: 6: June".
If necessary, layers can be moved to any desired position.

Advice. The Layer Manager view allows you to toggle the visibility of layers, as well as the ability to edit and print them.

For this demo I will need the following layers:

two template layers;
four layers on each page.

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Background template layer

We have created two template layers: the first one will contain all the objects necessary to create the general background of all pages,

and on the second - the names of the days of the week common to all pages.

Since the project uses two template layers, they must be placed in different sequences.

Normal background layer

On each page I use four layers on which I add dates, advertisements, a logo, the name of the month, as well as photos and background images.

Dates(Dates): Each page shows the dates of each month on that layer.

Logo&Month(Header and Month): This layer contains the main header and month name.

Back & Photos(Background Image and Photos): On this layer I placed the photos and objects used to create the background of each page. Since each page must contain different photos and objects, this layer is created on all pages.

The order of layers and placement of objects in a 12-page calendar

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Background(Background): template layer.

Bottom layer. Objects that must be visible and can be printed on all pages.

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Back & Photos(Background Image and Photos): Normal layer.

Second layer from bottom. Unique objects placed on each page. Each page contains different photographs and objects.

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Logo&Month(Footer and Month): Normal layer.

Third layer from bottom. Unique objects placed on each page. Each page displays the name of the new month and uses a unique font color for the company name.

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The fourth layer from the bottom. Each page advertises different services. The placement of advertisements varies from page to page.

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Dates(Dates): normal layer.

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Published 09/02/2011 16:36 X 5 and, for example, in Adobe PhotoShop have differences. In Adobe PhotoShop, almost every object is located on a separate layer, most of which are created automatically. In CorelDRAW X 5, you can place as many objects as you like on one layer. Objects in CorelDRAW X 5 are stacked on each layer. Most CorelDRAW X 5 works contain only one layer of objects. When creating a large project, you may need to create multiple layers. In addition, special objects (grid, guides) are located on separate layers. These specialized layers are always located above object layers.

CorelDRAW allows you to work with multiple layers. To call the layer manager you need to run the command Window→ Dockers → Object Manager(Window → Dockers → Object Manager). From the layers docker, you can also manage the objects on each layer. Here you can immediately see in what sequence the objects are located. It is convenient to find the desired object using the manager: click on the object in the manager and this object will be highlighted with square black markers in the document, as if it had been selected with a tool Pick(Pointer).

At the top of docker there are three buttons:

After creating a page, by default there is only one layer.

The plus sign indicates that this is a group. For example, a layer is always a group. Clicking the plus icon expands the contents of the group, and the plus icon changes to a minus icon.

The button with an eye icon () determines whether this layer will be visible or invisible in the drawing. If the eye icon appears closed (), then the layer on the page will be invisible. If the eye icon is clearly visible, then the layer is also visible.

The printer icon allows you to enable () or disable () printing of individual layers of the drawing.

The pencil icon () is used to lock individual layers. Objects belonging to a locked layer cannot be selected or edited ().

Colored rectangle icons represent the colors of the corresponding layers. The color can be changed by double-clicking on it. It is very convenient to change the color of the guides and grid, if necessary.

The very last parameter in the layer is the name of the layer.

Turning icons off and on is done by left-clicking on this icon.

Each layer shows the name and order of objects. Each object in the drawing in the list is marked with a specific icon and is accompanied by a brief description of the fill and outline properties of that object. When allocating this object in docker Object Manager(Object Manager), it is also highlighted on the drawing page.

If the order of objects in a layer does not suit you, you can change it. To do this, you need to pick up the object with the left key and, without releasing it, move it to the desired position. The horizontal line shows the insertion point.

Another way (maybe longer) is to call the layer's context menu. To call it, first allocate this object in docker Object Manager(Object Manager) or select this object on the drawing page and right-click on the object name. In the context menu that opens, expand the subsection Order(Order) (Fig. 142). This subsection contains a set of commands for moving objects within a layer:

An object can be dragged within a layer, thereby changing the location of that object within a stack of objects in that layer. In this case, the mouse pointer takes the following form ().

If an object created in one layer needs to be moved to another layer, then you just need to pick up this object with the left mouse button and, without releasing it, move the object to the desired layer (Fig. 143). The horizontal line shows the insertion point.

If only objects of the active layer are available in the document, and objects of other layers are not available, then to enable another layer you need to click on the name of this layer in the layer manager.

You can also move an object from one layer to another using the menu. To do this, you need to select the object on the layer and run the command Edit→ Cut(Edit → Cut). Then in docker Object Manager(Object Manager) select the layer into which you want to insert the object and execute the command Edit → Paste(Edit → Paste).

To create a new layer there is a button at the bottom left of docker New Layer(New Layer) (). To create a new layer, you can also right-click on a free Docker area and select the command from the context menu that appears New Layer(New Layer). Another way to open the menu is to click on the small triangular button Object Manager Options(Object Manager Options) located in the top right corner of docker.

In addition to the regular layer, you can create a master layer. The regular layers we talked about before are only visible on the page where the layer is located. The master layer is visible on all pages of this document. This means that using a master layer you can create, for example, a company logo that will be visible on all pages of a given document in the same place. That is, the master layer can reduce the amount of manual labor. To create a master layer, click on the button New Master Layer(New Master Layer) (). The layer is created in docker Object Manager Options(Object Manager Options) in the panel Master Page(Page Master).

Often some objects in a drawing are very difficult to highlight due to their small size. In this case, find this object in docker Object Manager(Object Manager) and select it there. It will automatically be highlighted in the picture.

To delete a layer, click on its name in docker Object Manager Options(Object Manager Options) to highlight. Click on the layer name with the right mouse button and from the context menu that opens, execute the command Delete(Delete). You are not prompted to confirm deletion - the layer is deleted immediately.

If you don’t know exactly what your small object is called (and there can be a lot of such objects, sometimes dozens), then allocate them in Docker Object Manager(Object Manager) take turns and you will definitely find it.

Layers provide an effective means of organizing objects created with CorelDRAW. Using layers makes your work faster and easier and makes your design clearer.

How to use layers when creating projects?

Multi-page documents— objects that should be displayed and printed on all pages, as well as objects that should appear only on certain pages. An example of such a document is a wall calendar, where all pages use a common heading, but the dates on each page are different.
One page document- several bank checks for the customer, the background of which is the same, but the bank details (bank name, account number, contact details, etc.) are different. I use layers when I design checks for clients that shareholders can receive dividends with the details of different banks.