CorelDRAW is a vector graphics design software, and characters play a very important role in the design. Good effect words can add luster to design works. There are many kinds of text effects, among which luminous effect is a common and easy-to-learn text effect. Cdr software can create beautiful luminous effects through shadow tools, and the operation is very simple. The following content will use cdr to demonstrate the tutorial of making luminous words. More tutorial videos about the use of cdr software are here. There are various tutoring courses from basic to advanced, which are very suitable for small partners who want to teach themselves.

The operation process of making luminous characters with cdr;

1. Open CorelDRAW and use the text tool to enter text.

Figure 1: Enter text 2. Left-click on the red diagonal at the top of the right palette, remove the color fill, and then right-click on any color in the palette, which will be used as the color of neon lights. You can choose according to your own needs or preferences.

Figure 2: Adjust Color 3. Press the shortcut key F 12 to bring up the Outline Pen window, and set the outline width of the text to 3 in the Width column. The width of the text outline should be adapted to the size of the font, and it should not be too thick or too thin.

Figure 3: text outline width adjustment 4. Use the shadow tool to pull a shadow from the left side of the font to the right side of the font, set the shadow color to the same color as the text, and set the shadow mode to normal to improve the transparency of the shadow. If the light emission is not obvious, the feathering radius of the shadow can be appropriately increased, but not too high.

Figure 4: Add Shadow Effect 5. At this time, you can draw a black background to verify the effect of the neon lights below. As shown in Figure 5, we can see that the effect of neon lights is not obvious, which can improve the transparency. Press the shortcut key ctrl+K to split the graphics while selecting the text, and copy the shadow into one layer after splitting.

Figure 5: Obvious neon lights 6. As shown below, it can be seen that after some adjustment, there has been an obvious neon effect.

Fig. 6: Neon lamp effect demonstration The above is the operation demonstration process of making luminous figures by cdr software. In addition to learning to improve the effect of adding shadows to make people feel luminous, you should also know how to choose fonts. The font used in the above article is "bold", which is not suitable for luminous effect, so if you want to get better effect, choose a lively font.