Background

CorelDRAW is one of the most popular professional illustration and page layout packages available.

This introductory course has been designed to enable new users to start using CorelDRAW’s extensive text handling and precision drawing features quickly and easily.

Who should attend

People who wish to prepare:

• Presentation material
• Illustrations for reports
• Plans and maps
• Graphic design

Course Outline

• Introduction to CorelDraw
  • Finding your way around The Ribbon bar
  • Setting up a new drawing
  • Multi-page documents
• An introduction to Objects
• Duplicating and cloning objects
• Transforming objects
• Drawing Objects
  • Using the drawing tools
  • The Guide Manager
  • Manipulating objects
  • Aligning objects
  • Filling objects with colours and patterns
• Editing Objects
  • Using the Transform Roll-Up
  • Combining, scaling, welding, intersecting and trimming objects
  • Converting straight-edged objects into curved objects
  • Understanding Beziers
  • Using styles and presets
  • Creating style formats
• Text Special Effects and Output
  • Selecting and applying outlines
  • Advanced typographical controls
  • Special effects with text
  • Placing text on a path
  • Adding perspective to objects
  • Creating visual effects such as envelope, lens effects, blend, extrude and contour
  • Using document info
  • Printing from CorelDRAW
  • Before you print - a pre-flight checklist
• Working with Colour
  • Using Roll-ups
  • Working with spot and process colour
  • Using the interactive fill tools
  • Working with Pantone colours
• Customising CorelDRAW
  • Creating your own palettes
  • Using CorelDRAW as a graphics database and linking to other applications
• PRACTICAL EXERCISES
• Questions and answers