CorelDRAW X8: The Official Guide, 12th Edition

17    Using the Envelope Tool, Lens Effects, and Bevels

When you feel a design needs an element of realism—or even surrealism—to add attention, complexity, or that “certain something” that makes a shining piece absolutely brilliant, you turn to some of the effects CorelDRAW offers. Specifically, you need the ones not covered yet in this book—and more specifically, you need effects that can add lighting to an object, bend it, twist it, and, in general, modify it as though you are sculpting and not drawing.

This chapter reveals the inner workings of the envelope effect—probably the most advanced effect of its kind in any drawing program—and the Lens Effects docker, which provides some pretty wild variations on your artwork by overlaying it with ...