Fundamentals of CorelDRAW! 12.0

Objectives

This course is designed for anyone who needs to understand the fundamental features and uses of the application and the best way to use these to produce drawings, artwork and illustrations of all kinds.


Pre-requisites:

Experience of the Windows or Macintosh operating system or previous attendance on the equivalent training course.


Course Includes:

A comprehensive set of reference notes covering course topics, follow-up telephone support and, for training on Transmedia premises, lunch and refreshments.


Course Outline


Introduction


· Understanding vectors and bitmaps
· Introduction to the main screen
· The Toolbox, Icon and property bar
· Menus and Dockers
· Colour Palette
· Multipage, multi size documents


Creating basic shapes


· Working with various line options
· Creating and constraining filled shapes
· Working with quick keys


Outlines and fills


· Editing line styles
· Adjusting fills normally and interactively
· Accurately selecting colours


Node editing


· Refining shapes
· Shaping curves
· Precision edits


Creating text


· Using "Artistic" and Paragraph text
· Formatting text
· Special character editing
· Fit text to path
· Importing text files
· Controlling the flow of long text files







Manipulating objects


· Using align and distribute
· Copying properties from objects
· Duplicate and Clone
· Group and Ungroup
· Combine and break apart
· Trim, intersections and weld


Importing and exporting


· Importing clipart
· Understanding file types
· Compatibility issues
· Exporting Draw graphics


Special effects (including live editing)


· Perspective and Distortion
· Envelope effects and extrusions
· Blends
· Shadows
· Lens
· Contours
· Powerclip
· Mesh fill


Printing


· Print documents from within CorelDRAW!
· Sending documents to print bureaux
· Understanding the benefits of PDF files


New Features in Version 12.0