CorelDraw Level 1

Course

In Washington and Newcastle Upon Tyne

£ 495 + VAT

Description

  • Type

    Course

  • Level

    Beginner

CorelDraw is still a very popular drawing application with some fairly impressive features. This course, aimed at those with no previous knowledge of CorelDraw, will introduce the essential tools and techniques through hands on exercises and theory. Delegates will gain an understanding of CorelDraw's great features.

Facilities

Location

Start date

Newcastle Upon Tyne (Tyne and Wear)
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Cuthbert House, City Road, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 2ET

Start date

On request
Washington (Tyne and Wear)
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Suite 13, Vermont, House Concorde, NE37 2SQ

Start date

On request

Start date

On request

About this course

Good Mac or PC skills

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Course programme

Course Overview

CorelDraw is still a very popular drawing application with some fairly impressive features. This course, aimed at those with no previous knowledge of CorelDraw, will introduce the essential tools and techniques through hands on exercises and theory. Delegates will gain an understanding of CorelDraw's great features.
Prerequisites

  • Good Mac or PC skills

Whats Included

  • Comprehensive colour course manual and exercises
  • Use of a Modern Training suite with 19 inch flat screen monitors
  • 1 delegate per computer
  • Lunch (When at our training venue)
  • Refreshments (When at our training venue)
  • Relaxed refreshment area at our training room

Course Content
Overview of
The Basics

  • Personalising CorelDraw
  • Examining the screen
  • Overview of its features
  • Who uses it
  • What is CorelDraw
  • Introduction

Page setup

  • Setting ruler units
  • Zooming
  • Navigating
  • Multiple pages
  • Setting page size and orientation
  • Starting a new illustration

Basic drawing

  • Sending to front and back
  • Cloning
  • Copy dragging
  • Duplicating
  • Copy and paste
  • Selecting multiple objects
  • Basic fills and lines widths
  • Adjusting standard shapes
  • Altering line styles
  • Freehand drawing
  • Standard shapes

Bezier drawing

  • Manual tracing
  • Manipulating curves
  • Reshaping objects
  • Using the bezier tool

Combining shapes

  • Break apart and ungroup
  • Group, combine
  • Unite, trim, weld

Transformations

  • Clearing transformations
  • Skewing
  • Reflecting
  • Rotating
  • Scaling
  • Moving

Filling objects

  • Copying attributes
  • Other fills
  • Patterned fills
  • Gradient fills
  • Pantone colours
  • Mixing colours
  • Using the colour palette

Framing objects

  • Applying arrowheads
  • Setting line the colour
  • Changing line styles

Basic text control

  • Basic paragraph formatting
  • Creating paragraph text
  • Change text attributes
  • Creating artistic text

Special text effects

  • Reshaping text
  • Converting text to shapes
  • Placing text onto curves

CorelDraw Level 1

£ 495 + VAT