Mastering Creating the Drop Shadow and Contour Effects in CorelDRAW tutorial provides you in depth instructions on how to create and apply the drop shadow and contour effects to objects.

A drop shadow effect is created by simulating light falling on an object from five different perspectives. Flat, right, left, bottom, and top. Drop shadows can be added to most objects, artistic text, paragraph text, as well as bitmaps. You will also learn how to create cuttable drop shadows for output devices such as vinyl cutters and plotters.

The tutorial walks you through the steps on how to change the various attributes of a drop shadow by changing its perspective. You will learn how to edit various attributes, such as its feathering, colour, opacity level, fade level, and angle. It also talks of the presets available to create a drop shadow effect. You will also learn about the difference between a flat drop shadow and one created from the perspective group. It explains how to break drop shadow group apart, and separate the object from its drop shadow.

Learn how to create amazing 3D objects by creating a contour effect using one of the 3 contour type options that are available to you.  “To Center”, “Inside Contour”, or “Outside Contour”.  It will walk you through several steps to help you understand this powerful feature. You will get a complete understanding of the ways to use the contour effect tool to create the 3D object with beautiful details. Learn how to manipulate colour and object acceleration. It also shows you how to copy or clone a contour effect from one object to another. It expounds on the use of the attributes eyedropper to copy the contour attributes from one object and apply them to another object.