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Table of Contents 1. Cover Page 2. Table of Contents 3. CorelCONNECT 4. Getting Started 5. Creating A Document 6. Object Manager 7. Page Sorter 8. Tool Bar 9. Dropping A Copy 10. Transformations 11. Text 12. Artistic Text 13. Paragraph Text 14. Align Objects 15. Controlling the Order 16. Fit to Path 17. Create Boundary 18. Crop 19. CorelTRACE 20. Blend Tool 21. Contour Tool 22. QR Codes
Corel CONNECT Welcome! After installation of your new software, or when first launching CorelDRAW, a box will pop up on your screen that asks you to sign into your Corel Account or Create An Account. Although this is an optional step, Corel CONNECT gives you access to an online community of users. Two types of accounts Standard Membership: Free and guarantees all the fonts, clipart, and media that you would receive with a program disc. Premium Membership: Monthly subscription fee and comes with a lot more of the extras you would expect to receive with a PREMIUM Account.
Getting Started Shows the most common options to choose from when you want to start a new drawing or open a saved file. Multiple workspace options: Lite - limited Toolbox and other features Classic and Default - Similar to previous versions Advanced - More customizable to make Desktop Publishing/Illustrator features more prominent Other - Interface allows users to set up CorelDRAW to remind users of Adobe Illustrator[or similar programs] Destination to learn about all new features in a more detailed but brief document Displays a brief list of resources you can access online and directly within the program to get started. VIDEO TUTORIALS can be found here. Enjoy images that have been created by fellow CorelDRAW users. Stay current. Clicking on this icon allows you to check for the latest software and product updates. Connects you to the CorelDRAW community and online world. Another opportunity to Sign Up for the Standard or Premium service. Optional, but highly recommended if you want access to the fills, fonts, and media within the program.
Creating A Document When saving a document, you can name it. If you name the document at the beginning of your session, all you need to do is press CTRL+S at any time to save your work. A destination in computer graphics terms means where the design you draw will be displayed These options are where to set your page size. There are a number of different units of measurements you can choose from and select Landscape or Portrait orientation. You can add, take away, and rearrange a multiple page document at the beginning of your session, or anytime throughout. Color mode for graphics file holds great importance. It affects how colors are printed and displayed. You can choose from RGB or CMYK. The word resolution here means how many dots you want the printer to use to render your artwork to the desired material(s). The best option is Enhanced mode. It will provide the maximum viewing quality. This is a crucial feature that greatly affects and protects your artwork when printed.
Tool Bar PICK TOOL SHAPE TOOL CROP TOOL ZOOM TOOL FREEHAND TOOL SMART FILL TOOL RECTANGLE TOOL ELLISPE TOOL POLYGON TOOL TEXT TOOL PARALLEL DIMENSION TOOL STRAIGHT LINE CONNECTOR TOOL DROP SHADOW TOOL TRANSPARENCYTOOL COLOR EYE DROP TOOL INTERACTIVE FILL TOOL PICK TOOL OUTLINE PEN EDIT Fill
Page Sorter is a view that provides you with a broad look at your document and all its pages. In this view, you can add, delete, move, or copy pages in a single view. You can also change the Paper/Type Size and the page orientation of all the pages or just selected pages. A CorelDRAW document can contain pages of different sizes, which can be very handy when you are designing matching business cards and letterheads or other similarly related materials. To open your document and all its pages in Page Sorter View, Choose VIEW ---> Page Sorter View A single click selects a page. Holding SHIFT while clicking pages enables you to select or deselect contiguous multiple pages. Holding CTRL while clicking enables you to select or deselect noncontiguous pages.
Object Manager The Object Manager docker offers the advantage of mass editing page names from within a single docker. To open the Object Manager, choose Windows -> Dockers -> Object Manager. Once the docker is open, you want to be able to see all the pages in your document, so first make sure the Layer Manager View is set to All Pages, Layers, and Objects.
Dropping A Copy Right-click + Drag, Release, use the pop up menu This is the easiest way to copy an object quickly if you are just getting used to a point-and-click device Left-click + drag, then click both buttons, release. This is considered the traditional drop a copy CorelDRAW technique. Hit the Spacebar Key repeatedly while left + dragging a shape to make multiple copies. This method is used for duplicating when you want a quick way to populate a page with the same object.
Drawing Shapes CorelDRAW offers a variety of tools for drawing shapes.
The Rectangle tool gives you the option to apple corner roundness based on a percentage value. Roundness can be set either manually by dragging a corner with the Shape tool or by using the Property bar s Corner Roundness option. If you unlock the Edit Corners Together toggle button, you can manually enter different values for each of the four corners. Corner Roundness is one of three different effects you can apply and dynamically edit when you re into rectangles. Corner Roundness, as well as the Scallop and Chamfer corner styles, can be applied to rectangle from a value of 0 to about one-half the overall length of one of its sides.
Text Text Text Object Position Object Size Angle of Rotation Font Mirror Horizontally OR Mirror Vertically Font Size Bold Italic Underline Alignment Text Properties Edit Text Text Text Text When you use the TEXT tool, you can produce two different types of text objects in a document: Artistic Text and Paragraph Text. Formatting options can be accessed from the TEXT Property Bar OR from the menu Text --> Character Formatting Text
Artistic Text Artistic Text is best for illustration headlines, callouts, and other occasions when you want to create text with a special effect such as extrusion, an envelope, text on a path, and so on. To add a line of Artistic Text to a document, with the Text tool, click an insertion point and then type your phrase; alternatively, after clicking an insertion point you can press CTRL+V to paste any text you have loaded on Windows Clipboard. To create several lines of Artistic Text, press ENTER when you want to skip to a new line and then continue typing.
Paragraph Text Paragraph text can be used for larger bodies of text that have greater formatting requirements. It is most often used when creating columns for names on a plaque, or wrapping text around an object.
Align Objects
Controlling the Order Object order is another of the basics you need to know to organize shapes. Setting the order of objects lets you set whether an object appears in front of, or behind another object. When overlapping objects are ordered, they appear in front of or behind each other, according to their order. BRIGHT IDEAS
The new Fit Text to Path or arcing option is a major change in CorelDRAW 7 compared to earlier versions. It is far more interactive, and it s much easier to use multiple paths on the same arc, or path. Text Orientation With Fit Text to Path, you can add artistic text along the path of an open object (a line) or a close object (a square). Distance from Path Horizontal Offset To Fit Text to a Closed Path Interactively 1. Select a text object using the Pick Tool Mirror Horizontally Or Mirror Vertically Tick Snapping Font List Font Height Text Properties Bold Italic CORELDRAW X7 2. Click TEXT > FIT TEXT TO PATH. The pointer changes to Fit text to path pointer. As you move the pointer over the path, a preview of where the text will be fitted is displayed. You will also see the distance between the text preview and the path displayed. Adjusting Text on a Path There are several options for adjusting your text on the Text on Curve/Object property bar shown above. After you fit text to a path, you can adjust the text s position relative to that path. Using the Pick Tool, you can move text along or off the path by dragging the red glyph that appears beside the text.
Crop Tool The Cropping Tool works with both vector and bitmap graphics. You could achieve the same with the Trim Option in the Shaping Tool, but it s far more time consuming.
Creating Boundary Paths from Multiple Objects
CorelTRACE Tracing Shapes Vector CorelTRACE allows you to quickly trace bitmap images with higher precision than in previous versions. Bitmap 96 dpi Bitmap 600 dpi
Blend Tool.25 inch.66 inch 6 x 8 Frame
Contour Tool Filled BEYER HIGH Outline BEYER HIGH Contour BEYER HIGH
QR Codes QR code (abbreviated from Quick Response Code) is the trademark for a type of matrix barcode (or two-dimensional barcode) QR-Code Data Capacities Numeric only Max 7,089 characters Alphanumeric Max 4,296 characters How They Work? Take a mobile phone such as the iphone in today s world; nearly every mobile phone has a digital camera. The camera, along with decoding software, can be used to capture a picture of the QR-Code, for which the QR-Code software decoder can then transform the data held within the QR-Code to a meaningful action for the mobile phone to: Connect to a web address Download a MP3 Dial a telephone number Prompt your email client with a sender address This can all be done within a matter of milliseconds making the transformation from a users mobile phone to the mobile web instantaneous.