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As you may know, CorelDraw stands as a professional graphic design software, directly competing with Illustrator. Nonetheless, CorelDraw is highly praised for its processing capabilities and ease of familiarization. If you've installed Corel on your computer, don't overlook the trick mentioned here, the method of designing and creating a Chrome logo using CorelDraw. It's one of the easiest tricks for newcomers right after installing Corel; you don't need any basic knowledge or expertise to pull it off.
Designing a Chrome logo with CorelDraw is much easier than using Illustrator or downloading Photoshop, especially downloading Photoshop since it's a versatile tool, not specialized in design like Corel or Illustrator. Through this article, you'll learn many essential features for learning CorelDraw in the future.
Guide to Creating a Chrome Logo using CorelDraw
Step 1: First, create a new file with the dimensions of an A4 sheet as shown in the image.
Step 2: On the toolbar on the left, select the Ellipse Tool to start drawing a circle.
Step 3: To draw a circle, simply hold Ctrl and drag, a circle with the most proportional ratio will appear.
Next, we'll add 2 more circles inside by clicking at any corner point then holding Shift and dragging, when you reach your desired point, right-click.
Doing this twice will give us circles as shown above.
Step 4: Look back at the Menu and select the Rectangle tool to draw a rectangle.
Ensure the rectangle is drawn so that the right and top edges align with the second circle and the outermost edge of the circle.
Step 5: Next, go to
Step 6: Then, on the toolbar, choose Shape to proceed with removing unnecessary lines.
Here, simply hover your mouse over the desired position, any excess lines outside that area will be removed.
Drag from the bottom up to shrink the triangle, taking half the area is sufficient.
Step 7: Click on the triangle layer and drag its center to the middle of the screen, aligning it with the center of the circle.
Then, go to Windows and select Dockers >Transformations and click on Rotate.
In the Transformations panel on the right, choose rotate 120 degrees and duplicate them twice.
The result will be as shown below.
Step 8: Continue using the Virtual Segment Delete tool to erase any excess lines you want to remove.
Step 9: Click on the excess lines in the image to resemble the Chrome logo as closely as possible, and the result will be as shown below.
Step 10: The next step in designing the Chrome logo using CorelDraw is to proceed with coloring. With the Smart Fill Tool as shown in the image, choose colors similar to the real Chrome logo.
Then simply fill until it resembles the rough Chrome logo, and then proceed to right-click on all to select after coloring.
Click on the X icon on the right to remove all selected outlines.
Step 11: However, if the outline still has black or white traces, do the following: first, click on the layer of that outline.
Next, select Windows >Dockers >Effects >Contour.
Finally, adjust the outline color to match the background color there, choose parameters to match the image, and select Apply.
Apply for the green color.
Apply for the yellow color.
And the result is as shown below.
Step 12: Click on the outline layer and then double-click on the color section, here we will apply color for the shadow.
With the red color, let's switch to CMYK color mode and set K value to 5.
Similarly to the yellow color, you need a darker shadow color.
Apply the same as the green color.
As for the center of the figure, let's choose the green color, switch to the Gradient tab and adjust the highlight style as shown in the image.
Then adjust the two ends of the gradient from dark green to light green.
Step 13: Let's see the result of all the steps above, you have completed designing the Chrome logo using CorelDraw.
So Mytour has just finished guiding you on how to design a Chrome logo using CorelDraw, it's really simple, isn't it? This article will be even faster if you apply Corel's shortcut keys to quickly open tools because with any sophisticated software like Corel, memorizing and mastering Corel's shortcut keys should be your top priority.
Furthermore, there are many other software or online services that support creating Chrome logos as well as many other logos you've seen. Especially creating logos online will help you save hard drive space and time spent on software installation.
