Group
Software : Corel DRAW X3
Level : Beginner

Concept: The lesson is designed using CorelDRAW, the world fame vector program used by artists, illustrators and designers. CorelDRAW is a very user friendly software and you can learn fast for the basic level. Try to explore more commands using these lessons as guideline. CorelDRAW has best of the drawing and editing facilities with the astonishing range of effects. Please try to go further than these tips and tricks by drawing your own shapes and applying effects with different options.

Grouping in Corel draw is used for easy selection of the different object in single click. If you have lot of separate object in the design, you can group them for easy selection. Please make a note that even if you group the objects together they still remain as
independent entities.

1. Open Corel Draw.

2. Select Rectangle tool and draw rectangle. Fill it with any color.

3. Draw ellipse using ellipse tool near the rectangle and fill it with different color than rectangle.

4. Select both, the rectangle and ellipse using pick tool.

5. Go to Arrange > Group

6. Both the objects are grouped together.

7. Please observe carefully that they still have different colors within themselves as we filled in the beginning.

8. Select pick tool and click on any one of the object, both the objects will get selected.

There may be some case where you need to group not only different objects but different groups itself.

9 . Draw another rectangle and ellipse, fill them with different colors and group them using same command.

10. Now we have a pair of group each having rectangle and ellipse.

11. You can select these two groups separately using Pick tool

12. Now select both the groups using Pick tool.

13. Go to Arrange > Group

14. Select pick tool and click on any one of the object, both the groups will get selected because they are the part of one single group now.