Help with Corel Draw

Dimensions, view?

[contentmaster]

I need to create a logo and i opted Corel draw9 to design it over photoshop..only trouble is i am new to corel..have been using photoshop for a while now so i thought i should try corel as there is more control over designing with the free form tools etc...

my first problem...i have selected the image dimensions in pixels....exactly what i chose in photoshop..but it looks rather small (the workspace) in corel...even though i have selected 100%....what is the way for viweing the image in the right dimension?
Also what do i need to select from the drop down window whch says...a1, a2, a4, custom, letter...etc...in my case?

Please help!

[katana_one]

First, the drop down list is for page size - as in printed page size. CorelDraw is designed for print publishing, and all of those options are different standard printing sizes. Just use letter or whatever you will be printing on.

Second, since it uses vector drawing tools you will do much better if you stop thinking in pixels. You are using vector drawing tools so you don't need to worry about pixels until you are finished and export the drawing as jpg or whatever. Vector drawings are scalable.

The work area you have defined looks small at 100% because, once again, this program is designed around printed documents, which use a different image resolution than the web. On the web, images display at 72 pixels per inch but printed documents are usually at least 300ppi.

Hope that helps

[contentmaster]

Hi

Some more questions!

As far as printing is concerned, i just needed to take a print out of it on a A4 size sheet (on the left hand side top).....i could'nt understand how to get my logo of that size so that when i take a print out it would fit the top corner just like a logo maybe on a letter head!

ok so suppose i don't think in terms of pixels (cos im so used to photoshop!) waht do i need to think of...inches? how exactly do i know what dimensions to select!

If one needs to work in coral and take a print out..what image resoltions do i need to select.....

I'm totally at a loss when it comes to this new software im trying to learn.....pleeez help

[katana_one]

I already said the drop down menu is for the document size. If you are printing letterhead on A4 paper, then select A4 as your document size. Just put the logo in the position you want it to print.

I usually work with inches, but some prefer to work in millimeters, some work with points and picas - it's just a matter of personal preference. Some even still work in pixels - just remember the difference in resolution.

Since the drawing will be vectored (and therefore scalable) you can print directly from CorelDraw without having to worry about resolution. Only when you export the drawing to some other pixel-based image format (like JPG) do you have to worry about resolution.

[liushiping]

In COERLDRAW 100% does not represent the real size .

The size of its meeting and the screen change together .