Learn the essential tools and techniques to create expressive art and designs with CorelDRAW, the powerful graphics application.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Become proficient in CorelDRAW
- Getting started
- Using one of the workspaces
- The Store tab
- Exploring the drop-down menus
- Examining the toolbars
- Discovering the toolbox
- Understanding dockers
- The Mac interface
- Setting up the page
- Starting with a template
- Grids, rulers, and guides
- Calibrating the screen
- Managing multi-page documents
- Master pages and page numbering
- Understanding file formats
- The export docker
- Using the Pick tool
- Exploring the Shape edit flyout
- Exploring the Crop tool flyout
- Using the Zoom & Pan tools
- Exploring the curve flyout
- Drawing tools
- Creating basic shapes
- Dealing with dimension lines
- Outlines and corner control
- Looking at the interactive tool flyout
- Other interactive tools
- Understanding fonts
- Installing fonts
- Corel Font Manager
- Types of text
- Working with Variable fonts
- Homework: Create three collections with at least ten fonts in each and export them
- Shaping commands
- Grouping and ungrouping
- Various alignment commands
- Copying vs. duplicate and Paste Special
- Challenge: Creating a logo
- Solution: Creating a logo
- Importing bitmaps
- Cropping, resizing, and rotating bitmaps
- Reshaping bitmaps
- PowerTRACE
- Resampling bitmap images
- Exporting web graphics
- Bitmap effects
- Working with PowerClips
- Using Find & Replace
- Exploring Corel CONNECT
- Drawing in perspective
- Examining scripts and macros
- Publishing to PDF
- Learning all about object styles
- Color theory
- Color palettes
- Creating a new color palette
- Getting started with color management in CorelDRAW
- Challenge: Creating a business card
- Solution: Creating a business card
- Discovering the print dialogs tabs
- Working with Print Merge on the PC
- Print Merge on the Mac
- Challenge: Print Merge
- Solution: Print Merge
- Creating keyboard shortcuts on the PC
- Keyboard shortcuts on the Mac
- Workspace customization on the Mac
- Creating a custom toolbar
- Changing the appearance
- Changing the default properties
- Exporting and sharing workspaces
- Resetting all defaults
- Workspace homework assignment
- Next steps
Taught by
Roger Wambolt