Coreldraw

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CorelDraw

CorelDraw Overview
CorelDraw Installation
Module 1: Lines, shapes, outlines and brushstrokes
• Drawing lines
• Calligraphic, pressure-sensitive and preset lines
• Formatting lines and outlines
• Arrowheads
• Copying, converting, and removing outlines
• Multiple line segments
• Brushstrokes
• Spraying objects
• Connector and callout lines
• Dimension lines
• Drawing shapes
• Rectangles and squares
• Ellipses, circles, arcs, and pie shapes
• Polygons and stars
• Spirals and grids
• Predefined shapes
• Shape recognition
• Shaping objects
• Selecting and moving nodes
• Manipulating segments
• Adding, removing, joining, and aligning nodes
• Transforming nodes
• Breaking the path
• Mirroring changes
• Skewing and stretching objects
• Smudging and smearing objects
• Roughening objects
• Distortion effects
• Twirl effects
• Envelopes
• Cropping, splitting, and erasing objects
• Trimming objects
• Filleting, scalloping, and chamfering corners
• Welding and intersecting objects
• PowerClip objects

Module 2: Symbols, and layers

• Layers
• Creating layers
• Layer properties
• Moving and copying layers and objects
• Symbols
• Creating, editing, and deleting symbols
• Symbols in drawings
• Managing collections and libraries
• Linking and embedding objects
• Inserting
• Editing
• Managing projects
• Project database
• Assigning and copying object data
• Viewing an object data

Module 3: Color and fills

• Color
• Color models
• Color depth
• Document palette
• Color palettes
• Creating and editing
• Organizing and displaying
• Palette libraries
• Properties
• Filling objects
• Uniform, fountain fills, pattern and texture fills
• PostScript texture fills
• Mesh fills
• Fills to areas
• Color management
• Installing, loading, and embedding color profiles
• Assigning color profiles
• Converting colors to other color profiles
• Choosing color-conversion settings
• Soft proofing
• Color management presets and policies
• Safe CMYK workflow

Module 4: Special effects

• Changing the transparency of objects
• Transparencies
• Merge modes
• Using lenses with objects
• Applying lenses
• Editing lenses
• Adding 3D effects to objects
• Contouring objects
• Applying perspective to objects
• Extrusions, bevel effects and drop shadows
• Blending objects

Module 5: Text

• Adding and manipulating text
• Importing and pasting text
• Artistic text
• Paragraph text
• Columns to text frames
• Paragraph text frames
• Baseline grid
• Selecting text
• Finding, editing, and converting text
• Shifting, rotating, mirroring, and flipping text
• Moving text
• Wrapping text
• Fitting text to a path
• Embedding graphics and adding special characters
• Working with legacy text
• Formatting text
• Typefaces and fonts
• Formatting characters
• Text color
• Kerning a range of characters
• Text case
• OpenType features
• Character and word spacing
• Line and paragraph spacing
• Adding bullets
• Drop caps
• Character position and angle
• Aligning text
• Tabs and indents
• Text styles
• Hyphenating text
• Formatting codes
• Displaying nonprinting characters
• Managing fonts
• Substituting fonts
• Previewing and identifying fonts
• Bitstream Font Navigator
• Writing tools
• QuickCorrect
• Spelling checker and Grammatik
• Thesaurus
• Languages
• Checking styles
• Rule classes
• Word lists
• Checking statistics

Module 6: Templates and styles

• Working with templates
• Searching
• Using templates
• Creating
• Editing
• Styles and style sets
• Creating, Applying and Editing style sets
• Object properties
• Exporting and importing
• Assigning keyboard shortcuts
• Finding objects
• Breaking the link
• Color styles

Module 7: Pages and layout

• Working with pages and layout tools
• Specifying the page layout
• Page background
• Adding, duplicating, renaming, and deleting pages
• Inserting page numbers
• Rulers, grid and guidelines
• Scale
• Tables
• Adding tables to drawings
• Selecting, moving, and navigating table components
• Inserting and deleting table rows and columns
• Resizing table cells, rows, and columns
• Formatting tables and cells
• Text in tables
• Converting tables to text
• Merging and splitting tables and cells
• Manipulating tables
• Adding images, graphics, and backgrounds to tables
• Importing tables

Module 8: Bitmaps

• Working with bitmaps
• Converting vector graphics to bitmaps
• Importing bitmaps
• Cropping bitmaps
• Dimensions and resolution of bitmaps
• Straightening bitmaps
• Digimarc watermarks to identify bitmaps
• Removing dust and scratch marks from bitmaps
• Special effects
• Color and tone
• Tone Curve filter
• Bitmap color modes

Module 9: Web graphics

• Object creation
• Exporting bitmaps
• Saving and applying Web presets
• Exporting objects with transparent colors and backgrounds
• Creating rollovers
• Bookmarks and hyperlinks
• Hotspots and alternate text
• Exporting to HTML
• Setting preferences
• Creating Web-compatible text
• Previewing and verifying files
• Exporting to HTML
• File formats
• Importing files
• Exporting files
• Exporting to PDF
• Office productivity applications
• Supported file formats
• CorelDraw Customization

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