Practical Project

• Create Visiting Cards
• Create Invitation Cards
• Create Wedding Cards
• Create HandBills
• Create Bill Books
• Create Broucher
• Create Road Hordings
• Create Sign Borad
• Logo Design

CorelDRAW basics

• Understanding vector graphics and bitmaps
• Starting and opening drawings
• Acquiring images from scanners and digital cameras
• Undoing, redoing, and repeating actions
• Zooming, panning, and scrolling
• Previewing drawings
• Choosing viewing modes
• Working with views
• Saving drawings
• Backing up and recovering files
• Adding and accessing drawing information
• Closing drawings and quitting CorelDRAW
• Exploring basic tasks

Working with lines, outlines, and brushstrokes

• Drawing lines
• Drawing calligraphic, pressure-sensitive, and preset lines
• Formatting lines and outlines
• Adding arrowheads to lines and curves
• Closing multiple line segments
• Applying brushstrokes
• Spraying objects along a line
• Drawing connector, callout, and dimension lines

Drawing shapes

• Drawing rectangles squares, ellipses, circles, arcs, and pie shapes
• Drawing polygons and stars
• Drawing spirals grids and predefined shapes

Shaping objects

• Using curve objects
• Selecting and moving nodes
• Manipulating segments
• Adding, removing, joining, and aligning nodes
• Using node types
• Transforming nodes
• Breaking the path of curve objects
• Skewing and stretching objects
• Smudging objects
• Roughening objects
• Applying distortion effects
• Shaping objects by using envelopes
• Cropping, splitting, and erasing objects
• Trimming objects
• Filleting, scalloping, and chamfering corners
• Welding and intersecting objects
• Creating PowerClip objects

Working with color

• Understanding color models
• Using the Document palette
• Creating and editing custom color palettes
• Organizing and displaying color palettes
• Displaying or hiding color palettes in the Palette libraries
• Setting the properties of color palettes
• Working with color management presets
• Working with color trapping and overprinting

Filling objects

• Applying uniform fills
• Applying fountain fills
• Applying pattern fills
• Applying texture fills
• Applying mesh fills
• Applying fills to areas

Using Color Management

• Understanding color management
• Converting colors to other color profiles
• Working with color management presets
• Using a safe CMYK workflow

Changing the transparency of objects

• Applying transparencies
• Applying merge modes

Using lenses with objects

• Applying lenses
• Editing lenses

Adding 3D effects to objects

• Contouring objects
• Applying perspective to objects
• Creating extrusions
• Creating bevel effects
• Creating drop shadows
• Blending objects

Adding and formatting text

• Adding and Selecting text
• Changing the basic properties of text
• Finding, editing, and converting text
• Aligning text
• Spacing text, Shifting and rotating text
• Fitting text to a path
• Formatting paragraph text
• Combining and linking paragraph text frames
• Wrapping paragraph text around objects, artistic text, and text frames
• Displaying nonprinting characters

Using writing tools

• Using QuickCorrect
• Using the spelling checker and Grammatik
• Using the thesaurus
• Customizing the writing tools
• Using checking styles
• Using word lists
• Checking statistics

Working with graphics, text, and color styles

• Creating, applying, and editing graphics styles or text styles
• Customizing the Graphic and Text Styles docker
• Creating and applying color styles
• Editing and sorting color styles
• Moving and copying color styles

Working with pages and layout tools

• Specifying the page layout
• Choosing a page background
• Adding, duplicating, renaming, and deleting pages
• Using the rulers & Calibrating the rulers
• Setting up the grid
• Setting up guidelines
• Setting the drawing scale

Working with bitmaps

• Converting vector graphics to bitmaps
• Importing bitmaps
• Cropping bitmaps
• Changing the dimensions and resolution of bitmaps
• Applying special effects in bitmaps
• Using the Image Adjustment Lab
• Adjusting color and tone
• Using the Tone Curve filter
• Editing Bitmap with Photoshop

Working with bitmap color modes

• Changing the color mode of bitmaps
• Changing bitmaps to black-and-white images
• Changing bitmaps to duotones

Tracing bitmaps and editing traced results

• Tracing bitmaps
• PowerTRACE controls
• Fine tuning traced results
• Adjusting colors in traced results
• Setting default tracing options

Printing basics

• Printing your work
• Laying out print jobs
• Previewing print jobs
• Applying print styles

Preparing files for print service providers

• Preparing a print job for a print service provider
• Working with imposition layouts
• Printing printers’ marks
• Printing color separations
• Working with color trapping and overprinting

Creating objects for the Web

• Exporting bitmaps for the Web
• Exporting objects with transparent colors and backgrounds

File formats

• Importing and exporting files
• Exporting to PDF
• Supported file formats

Customizing and automating

• Setting basic preferences
• Customizing CorelDRAW
• Using macros and scripts to automate tasks