CorelDRAW X8 · the Official Guide by Bouton, Gary David -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Contents at a Glance Contents Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction PART I Student Orientation Weekend

CHAPTER 1 Welcome! What’s New (and Also Exciting) in CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X8!

If You’re New to Vector Drawing Programs

What Vector Drawing Is and Isn’t Your One-Stop Shop for Extra Content: CorelCONNECT Get Started from the Get-Go

The CorelDRAW Application Window CONNECTing to Your Workspace

Using Your Universal Connection

From Corel Content to Your Content, “Add to Page” Style From Corel’s Content Server to CorelDRAW’s Tray So What Else Is New?

The Elliptical Fountain Fill An Improved Knife Tool Copying Paths

Making Use of the New Copy Segment Feature

CHAPTER 2 The Roadmap to Features and Productivity in DRAW

The CorelDRAW Workspace

The Page Shadow: It’s a Command Control

Defining and Saving a Custom Page Size

Page Options on the Property Bar

Can You Give Me a Hint?

CTRL, ALT, and SHIFT Are Your Friends Choosing Tones from the Color Wells

Surprises When You Right-click and Use the Wheel

Tapping into the Power of the Right-click Menu

Dropping a Copy of a Selected Object

Page Navigation: Panning and Zooming the Smart Way

Not to be Overlooked on the Standard Bar…

Shortcut Keys You’ll Want to Memorize

Global versus Local A Brief Anatomy Lesson on Dockers

Opening, Moving, and Closing Dockers Nested (Grouped) Dockers

CHAPTER 3 Diving In to DRAW!

Working with the Star Tool to Build a Pattern Making the Background: Putting the Star Tool to Work

Tweaking the Star Object

Reshaping a Star: Technique 1 Reshaping a Star: Technique 2

Making a Pattern of Stars

Creating More Stars Than a Hollywood Agent Rotating and Scaling to Populate the Pattern Area Shaping Operations and Combining Objects Trimming the Stars to the Background and Beyond An Introduction to Enveloping Objects Enveloping and Trimming the Welded Stars

Adding Shading to Your Composition

Adding Lighting to the Beach Ball

Adding Highlights and a Shadow Blending Yourself a Cast Shadow

Making a Cast Shadow with Blends

Adding a Background and a Floor in Perspective

A Starry Ball Sitting on a Floral Rug Completing the Composition with Embellishments Framing Your Composition

PART II Getting Started with CorelDRAW X8

CHAPTER 4 Working with Single- and Multipage Documents

Setting Up Your Document Page

Controlling Page Size and Orientation Paper Type/Size Page Viewing Options Controlling Page Background Color

Changing a Background Bitmap

Using Layouts and Labels

Naming Pages

Using the Rename Page Command Saving Details with Your File Navigating a Multipage Document Using the Object Manager

Page Commands

Inserting Pages and Setting Options Deleting Pages Moving and Duplicating Pages Using the Page Sorter

Working with Guidelines and Guide Layers

Using Guidelines Working with the Guides Layer Making an Object a Guideline

The New Alignment and Dynamic Guides Docker

Alignment Properties on the Docker Adding Margins to the Mix Dynamic Guides

CHAPTER 5 Creating Basic Shapes, Applying Transformations

Using the Rectangle Tool and Property Bar

Drawing a Rectangle Setting Rectangle Corner Properties Creating 3-Point Rectangles

Using the Ellipse Tool and Property Bar

Drawing an Ellipse

Round 1 with the Ellipse Tool

Controlling Ellipse States Creating 3-Point Ellipses

Using Polygons and the Property Bar

Drawing and Editing Polygons

Reshaping a Polygon

Stars and Complex Stars

Using the Spiral Tool Using the Graph Paper Tool Power-Drawing a Grid with Graph Paper Using the Convert Outline to Object Command

CHAPTER 6 Arranging and Organizing Objects

Basic Object Selection

Pick Tool Selections Picking and Freehand Picking Selection Techniques Selecting Objects by Type

Moving Objects

Using the Pick Tool Using Nudge Keys

Transforming Objects

Transforming Objects Using the Cursor

Off-center Object Rotation to Create a Design

Using the Free Transform Tool

Straightening Objects via Attributes Applying Precise Transformations

Positioning (Moving) Objects Rotating Objects Scale and Mirror Objects Sizing Objects Precision Skewing

Controlling the Order of Things Working with Views of a Document’s Depth: Layers

Exploring the Object Manager Navigating Pages, Objects, and Layers

Navigating and Mastering Layers

Using Object Manager Editing and View States Controlling Layer Properties Working with Master Page Layers

Working with Master Page Items

PART III Working with DRAWing Tools

CHAPTER 7 Choosing (and Understanding) the Right Path Tools

Sidling Up to CorelDRAW’s Curve Tools How to Draw in CorelDRAW

Drawing with Freehand and Polyline Tools

Drawing Arcs with the 3-Point Curve Tool 3-Point Curves and Closed Objects

The 2-Point Line Tool

Using the Bézier and Pen Tools

Getting a Handle on Béziers

Drawing Curves and Straight Line Segments Editing Bézier Paths Editing Paths with the Shape Tool Copying and Pasting Subpaths Increasing the Number of Holes in Swiss Cheese Controlling Freehand and Bézier Tool Behavior

Working with Compound Paths Combining Objects Breaking Paths Apart Converting Objects to Curves

CHAPTER 8 Exploring Special Shapes, Connectors, and Other Office Automation Helpers

CorelDRAW’s Smart Drawing Tool CAD: CorelDRAW-Assisted Drawing Reshaping a Perfect Shape Using Perfect Shape Tools Creating Perfect Objects

Editing Glyph Nodes

Working with the Dimension Tools

Using Dimension Tools Checking Out Dimension Lines

Using Dimension Lines

Segment Dimensions An Exercise in Dimensioning to Scale

Drawing Scale, Windows Calculator, and Dimension Lines

Working with Callouts

The Connector Tools Tables

Creating a Table Using the Proper Tool for the Job Table Options When the Pick Tool Is Active Table Options When the Shape Tool Is Active Editing a Table When the Table Tool Is Active Working with Text and Graphics in a Table Converting a Table to Text Converting an Existing Text to a Table

CHAPTER 9 Editing Objects, Rearranging Paths, and Using Boolean Ops

Shaping and Reshaping Object Shapes

Shaping Commands and the Property Bar

Working Examples of Object Shaping

Getting Nutty With the Trim Operation Fillet/Scallop/Chamfer Down and Dirty and the Shape Tool

Reshaping Objects With the Shape Tool Editing Shapes via Their Nodes and Control Points PowerClips PowerClipping a Design Onto an Object The Knife Tool

Types of Cuts With the Knife Tool Setting Knife Tool Behavior

Using the Eraser Tool

Working With Eraser Operations

Power Erasing

Setting Eraser Tool Properties The Reduce Nodes Option

Using the Virtual Segment Delete Tool Cropping an Illustration

PART IV Working with Text in Composition

CHAPTER 10 Paragraph Text, Artistic Text, and When (and How) to Use Them

CorelDRAW’s Text Tool

Entering and Editing Artistic Text

Options for Formatting Characters

Use the Property Bar to Change Characters

Using Object Styles with Paragraph Text

Combining and Breaking Apart Artistic Text Converting Artistic Text to Curves Entering and Editing Paragraph Text

Creating Linked Paragraph Text Frames Wrapping Text Around Other Shapes

Fitting Text to Curve

Text Along a Curve Embedding Objects into Text

Using the Insert Character Docker Using the Symbol Manager

Creating, Saving, and Using Symbols CorelDRAW’s Font Playground: Take a Ride!

CHAPTER 11 Intermediate Desktop Publishing and Proofing Tools

A Few Paragraphs Covering Advanced Paragraph Features

Working With Columns Column Settings Moving Text Within a Paragraph Converting Between Artistic Text and Paragraph Text

The Text Bar and Special Paragraph Formatting

Formatting Bulleted Lists

Creating a Bullet Motif

Changing Text Case

Formatting Paragraph Text

Paragraph Alignment Spacing Paragraph and Line Spacing Language, Character, and Word Spacing Indentation and Margins of Paragraph Text Formatting Tabs Adding, Moving, and Deleting Tabs from the Dialog Formatting Tab Leaders from the Dialog Using the Ruler to Set Tabs

Take Me to Your Leader Spelling and Grammar Using CorelDRAW’s Writing Tools

Assigning Language Codes Using the Proofing Tools Common Buttons Setting Spell Checker Options

Using Word Lists

Using Main Word Lists Other Spell-Checking Options Main Spell-Checking Options

Using Grammatik

Checking and Correcting Grammar Turning Grammatik’s Rules On and Off

Using the Thesaurus

Setting Thesaurus Options

Finding and Replacing Text and Special Characters

Finding Text Replacing Text

PART V Attributes for Objects and Lines

CHAPTER 12 Options for Filling Objects

Examining the Fill Types Using the Color Palette From Uniform to Non-Uniform Object Filling

Customizing Your Fountain Fills

Editing a Fountain Fill In-Place Uniform Color Fill Options on the Property Bar

Swatches and Preset CMYK “Color Chips”

Applying Pattern Fills

Two-Color Pattern Fills Vector Pattern Fills Bitmap Pattern Fills Controlling Pattern Fills Interactively

Customizing a Pattern Fill

Create Your Own Two-Color and Full-Color Patterns

Applying Texture Fills Applying PostScript Fills Working with Mesh Fills

Mesh Fill Options

Sampling Fills

Applying the Color Eyedropper Using the Attributes Eyedropper Tool

Dropping a Property

CHAPTER 13 Applying Strokes to Paths

Applying Outline Pen Properties

Outline Pen Options and the Property Bar

Going Long and Wide

Outline Tool Features on the Object Properties Docker

Exploring the Outline Pen Features

Setting Outline Color Choosing Outline Styles Creating and Editing Outline Styles Setting Outline Arrowheads

Drawing, Saving, and Editing an Arrowhead Style

Setting Corner Shape Setting Line Cap Shape Outline Pen Calligraphic Effects Scaling and Behind Fill Options

Turning an Outline into an Object Using the Artistic Media Tool

Applying Presets to Lines

Painting with a Drawing Program

Drawing with Brushes Applying the Sprayer Calligraphy Pens and Applying Media

Defining and Applying Calligraphic Brushstrokes

Pressure Mode

CHAPTER 14 Using Blends and Contours

Blend and Contour Effects: Similarities with Distinctions Blending as Illustration Shading The Interactive Blend Tool and Property Bar Creating a Simple Blend Effect A Basic Blend Between Very Different Shapes Looking at the Components of a Blend Editing Blend Effects

Setting Blend Options Creating Extraordinary, Complex Blend Effects Assigning a Blend Path

Blending Objects Along a Path

Working with Multi-object Blends

Tapping into Contour Effects Exploring CorelDRAW’s Contour Effects Creating Expensive Stationery Using the Contour Tool and Property Bar Applying a Contour Effect

Editing Contours Interactively Choosing Contour Direction Setting Contour Colors Creating Special Effects With Contours

Controlling Contour Acceleration Using the Contour Docker

CHAPTER 15 Mixing and Matching with Digital Color Models

Digital Color Terms and Definitions

Subtractive and Additive Color Models LAB Color YIQ Grayscale Registration

Using Color-Related Dockers

Using the Color Docker Finding and Applying Fixed Colors (and Tints)

Dyeing a Pair of Shoes

Using the Color Palette Manager Docker Using Fixed and Custom Palettes Using the Color Styles Docker

Making a Color Style and Changing It Introducing the New Color Harmony

Color Harmonies for Fashion Design

Changing the Color Harmonies of a Monochrome Drawing

Changing Groups of Dissimilar Colors

Recoloring a Logo with Color Styles Adjusting and Transforming Color

PART VI Creating the Illusion of 3D Composition

CHAPTER 16 The Perspective and Extrude Effects

The Perspective Effect: What Perspective Does to an Object

Getting a Perspective on Perspective

Experiments in Perspective Creating Two-Point Perspective

Working with Three-Point Perspective

Creating a 3D Ground Plane

Copying Perspective and Creating a 3D Scene

Perspective Scenes via Copying

Pre-visualizing Designs in Perspective

Pre-visualizing a Design on a Product Extruding Objects: How Extrude Works

Choosing and Applying an Extrude Effect Navigating the Interactive Markers

Going Deep with the Extrude Tool Using the Extrude Tool and Property Bar

Setting Extrude Depth Setting Vanishing Point Properties Setting 3D Rotation Using the Rotation Tools Adding Lights

Working with Extrude Light Options

Setting the Extrude Color

Using the Extrude Docker Assembly Instructions for a Kid’s Toy

Tinkering Around.cdr and a Beginning Point Concluding Touches to the Construction Cleaning Up After Assembling an Extrude Composition

CHAPTER 17 Using the Envelope Tool, Lens Effects, and Bevels

What Does an Envelope Do? Creating Envelope Effects

Using the Envelope Tool and Property Bar

The Envelope, Please

Using the Envelope Docker Choosing an Envelope Mode Choosing Envelope Mapping Options

Creating a Text Envelope What’s Behind a Lens Effect Using the Lens Docker Working with a Lens Effect

Exploring the Lens Effects

Changing Object Size with the Fish Eye Lens

Using Lens Options

Using the Bevel Effect

Creating Soft-Edge Bevel Effects Determining Altitude

PART VII Special Effects in CorelDRAW

CHAPTER 18 The Shape Editing Tools and Distortions

The Shape Edit Tool Group

Using the Smooth Tool The Smear Tool

Adding the Smear to Your Artistic Career

The Twirl Tool

Creating a Stylized Sun

The Attract and Repel Tools

Repelling a Polygon Object

Using the Smudge Brush The Roughen Brush

Roughing Out a Pumpkin’s Smilie Mastering Distortion Effects Using the Distort Tool and the Property Bar

Choosing Distortion Modes Push and Pull Distortion Zipper Distortion Twister Distortion Getting Hands On with the Distortion Tool Markers

Using Distortion Presets

Exploring Distortion Presets

CHAPTER 19 Transparencies and Shadows

The Importance of Objects Interacting with the Scene Clearing Things Up with the Transparency Tool Using the Transparency Tool and Property Bar Creating a Dimensional Drawing Through Transparency

Setting Transparency Properties New Controls and Locations for Transparency Options

Creating a Reflection on a Shiny Surface

Creating a Better Reflection Using a Bitmap

Filtering a Bitmap Copy

Additional Fountain Transparency Types Using Transparency Operations (Merge Modes) Creating Multistage Transparencies Pattern Transparencies Using Transparency Freeze

Using the Drop Shadow Effect

Using the Drop Shadow Tool and Property Bar

Working the Property Bar and Shadow-Making Markers

Manually Adjusting a Drop Shadow Effect Shadows as Glow Effects

PART VIII Bitmaps and Photos

CHAPTER 20 Understanding and Working with Pixel-Based Images

Cropping a Placed Photograph Nondestructive Cropping Using the Shape Tool to Crop Masking Through Nondestructive Cropping

Trimming Away Unwanted Image Areas

Background Removal, Technique 1 Background Removal, Technique 2

Background Removal, Last Technique! Compositions with Mixed Media

Composing a Design Using Vector and Image Shapes

The Easy Soft-Edge Shading Technique

Working with Alpha Channels and Image Transparency

Working with Partial Transparency

Creating a Photorealistic Glass Effect

Blending Photos with Transparency

Creating a Transition Between Two Images Bitmaps to Vector Art: Using PowerTRACE

Bitmap Conversions for Logo Alterations

PowerTRACE Options

The Color Tab in PowerTRACE Lines, Curves, and Excess Nodes The Solution to Messed-Up Text

Making New Text Along a Curve

PowerTRACE for Traditional Artists

Digi-tooning

CHAPTER 21 Common Image-Editing Techniques Using PHOTO-PAINT

The Building Block of Digital Photos: The Pixel

Pixels and Resolution Image Resolution Resolution, Pixel Count, and Printing

Resizing a Photograph Resampling and Resizing Photos Making a Thumbnail Image Suitable for Printing Automation: Recording Your Cropping and Resampling

Evaluating a Crop Area for a Collection of Photos

Recording Your Edits Fun and Fantastic Image-Retouching

Ridding a Photo of the Red-Eye Effect

Bye-bye, Red Eye

Face Replacement and Editing

Selecting a Face Getting A Head with PHOTO-PAINT Erasing and Liquefying the Subject

Flipping Images, with a Twist

PART IX Motion Graphics and Halting Thoughts

CHAPTER 22 Creating Animations in PHOTO-PAINT

Creating an Animated GIF

Playing with a Paper Airplane

Adding Text and Exporting a CorelDRAW Drawing

Animation: Defining Frames and Basic Setup

Building a GIF Animation: Part 1 Building a GIF Animation: Part 2

Finishing the Animation

Exporting an Animation Movie Animations

Limitations and Workarounds for GIF Movies

Capturing and Saving Video Frames

An Anticlimax with Fantastic Results Creating the Video Animation Sequence Timing Is Everything

Hold On to That Cat!

CHAPTER 23 Final Thoughts: Where Do We Go from Here?

No Skipping: You’ll Lose Points! Closing Thoughts

Guiding Yourself After All Is Written and Read Learning from Life Learning How to Learn

Indexing a Nugget of Wisdom in a Book Okay, Gary. Why’d You Write This Book?

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