Coreldraw X6 The Official Guide

The only official guide to CorelDRAW—fully updated throughout to cover all the new features of the latest release CorelDRAW X The Official Guide is the one-stop tutorial/reference for learning how to create gorgeous graphics for a variety of print and web uses. Veteran graphic designer and author Gary Bouton shows you how to use the new product features, and shows off beautiful graphics and techniques in this Corel-authorized guide. Packed with examples and techniques, this book delivers details no CorelDRAW user can afford to be without! Ideal for beginners through experts getting started on the new release, the book explains how to install the software, use the illustration and drawing tools, work with text, apply colors, fills, and outlines, apply special effects, and work in 3D. CorelDRAW X The Official Guide Offers hundreds of tips, tricks, and shortcuts that show how to get the most out of product features, not just what the features do Includes online access to 30+ video tutorials of hands-on instruction from the author, plus CorelDRAW native files, stock images for tutorials in Corel PHOTO-PAINT, custom typefaces designed by the author, and other useful starter pieces for learning CorelDRAW Includes a full-color insert demonstrating results of various filters and effects Provides a comprehensive CorelDRAW X reference as well as drawing tips and illustration techniques Discusses print and web use and potential issues Explains how to use PHOTO-PAINT, Corel’s image-editing tool

The only official guide to CorelDRAW—fully updated throughout to cover all the new features of the latest release CorelDRAW X The Official Guide is the one-stop tutorial/reference for learning how to create gorgeous graphics for a variety of print and web uses. Veteran graphic designer and author Gary Bouton shows you how to use the new product features, and shows off beautiful graphics and techniques in this Corel-authorized guide. Packed with examples and techniques, this book delivers details no CorelDRAW user can afford to be without! Ideal for beginners through experts getting started on the new release, the book explains how to install the software, use the illustration and drawing tools, work with text, apply colors, fills, and outlines, apply special effects, and work in 3D. CorelDRAW X The Official Guide Offers hundreds of tips, tricks, and shortcuts that show how to get the most out of product features, not just what the features do Includes online access to 30+ video tutorials of hands-on instruction from the author, plus CorelDRAW native files, stock images for tutorials in Corel PHOTO-PAINT, custom typefaces designed by the author, and other useful starter pieces for learning CorelDRAW Includes a full-color insert demonstrating results of various filters and effects Provides a comprehensive CorelDRAW X reference as well as drawing tips and illustration techniques Discusses print and web use and potential issues Explains how to use PHOTO-PAINT, Corel’s image-editing tool

"CorelDRAW 7: The Official Guide" sold over 40,000 copies in its first four months. This updated coverage for version 8 is the only officially endorsed guide to Corel Corporation's premiere vector graphics illustration application, CorelDRAW 8, for both PC and Macintosh.

Packed with innovative tips and tricks to help you create spectacular effects, improved page layouts and more. Features a 32 page colour insert with award-winning designs and examples.

Cromosys Publication's Teach Yourself CorelDRAW X6 book is an optimal quality guide to the beginners and advanced learners. We are the leading book publisher of languages and technology. Our research and education center working for last fifteen years has made tremendous efforts to simplify the learning of CorelDRAW, and so we assure you that this book will walk you through in the simplest way in your entire course of learning, and will make you a master of this application in just one month of time. This all-inclusive book provides a thorough, step-by-step introduction to CorelDRAW X6 and explains the core concepts of objective illustrations used in vector graphics. This easy, effective, and reliable book provides an ideal introduction to the world of graphic design and is intended to enhance the skills required for designing. The lessons of this book also cover the new and enhanced features in CorelDRAW X6 and its basic geometrical tools to create objects on the Drawing page. An easy-to-understand language and step-by-step approach to the concepts are some of the features that make this book unique. The latest CorelDRAW X6 version helps you to transform your creative imagination into new and innovative concepts. This book explains the key as well as new features, such as Smear, Twirl, Attract, Repel, and complex script types of CorelDRAW X6. As you practice, you learn to work with curves, lines, and outlines; and to modify objects by using the fillet, scallop, chamfer, and envelope tools. The lessons conceived and prepared by us will help you start learning from real basic making your move amazing, astonishing, and exhilarating for you. It's cool, simple, and sublime! Niranjan Jha, the author of this and fifty other books published online, is the coiner, founder, and owner of Cromosys Corporation. His dedication in technological and linguistic research is significantly known to millions of people around the world. This book is the creation of his avowed determination to make the learning of CorelDRAW easy to the people. After you install the application on your system, you just have to follow the instructions of this book doing the same on your computer, and you will see that you are quickly learning everything. Just an hour of practice per day, and in a month of time you'll get a lot of knowledge, tips and tricks to work with this software. This is an unmatchable unique book of its kind that guarantees your success. The lessons are magnificently powerful to bring you into the arena of graphic design. With the industrial growth from the year 2014, the accurate and profound knowledge of this software has influenced millions of minds; therefore we conceived the idea of making this book a guideline to those who want to be perfect in this application starting from real basic. What CorelDRAW does, no other software can do. The quick and precise lessons with screenshots will help you enhance your creativity of crafting sophisticated high-quality designs. This book will get you acquainted to the object handling processes, such as duplicate, scale, mirror, combine, break, group, envelop, blend, contour, transparency, drop shadow, and extrude. In this book, you also learn the procedure by which you can work with new complex script types, and the process to create, format, merge, split, and set margins for tables. This book also includes the procedure to create, show, hide, edit, move, and delete layers from the Drawing page of CorelDRAW X6. Towards the end, you learn about image conversions and work with image adjustment lab command, as well as exporting a CorelDRAW drawing in the PDF format, for Web and MS Office applications. It is the need of time and that is why many people have been sharpening their knowledge to be good in it.

'On this CD are sample files so that you can follow along with exercises in the book, software to help you get the most out of CorelDRAW 9 and some multimedia tutorials to help you learn more about using CorelDRAW 9. This document will tell you how to get the most out of the CD and we've also provided links to sites on the Internet that we think you'll find useful'. (CD-ROM)

The Corel-Authorized Guide to CorelDRAW®—Updated for CorelDRAW X8 This thoroughly revised guide offers complete coverage of CorelDraw X8, including the revamped interface and brand-new features. CorelDRAW X8: The Official Guide shows anyone—from a beginner to an experienced illustrator—how to create top-drawer commercial graphics and exquisite artwork. You will learn to draw photorealistic illustrations, use shortcuts to create complex art, lay out text like a pro, add special effects, and transform 2D objects into 3D graphics. The book features tips for printing high-quality work that matches what you’ve designed on your monitor. • Work in the customizable interface redesigned to reflect Windows® Metro style • Explore and understand the software’s menus, palettes, and dockers • Lay out brochures, flyers, and other multi-page documents • Add paragraph, artistic, and custom-shaped text to your designs • Search the Content Exchange for fonts, vector patterns, background designs, and the Get More docker • Use the Perspective, Extrude, Smear, Twirl, Attract, Repel, and Distortion tools • Incorporate lens effects, transparency, shadows, glows, and bevels • Put all the elements together in a professional, visually compelling way with layout and design tips from the author

Simple, step-by-step instructions provide fast-track learning solutions. This guide details the powerful new features included in CorelDRAW's latest version. Handy page tabs offer easy access to specific tasks.