What is CorelDRAW?
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The 3 User Profiles that use CorelDRAW Graphic Suite
• Profile 1 – Graphics and Creative Professionals
• Profile 2 – Production Professionals
• Profile 3 – Occasional Graphic Users
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The CorelDRAW Graphic Suite X8 Package
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Get Started in CorelDRAW
• Starting and Quitting CorelDRAW
• Launching CorelDRAW for the First Time
• Welcome Screen
• Choosing A Workspace
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Understanding The Fundamentals
• About Vector Graphics and Bitmaps
• Pantone Matching System
• CMYK = Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black.
• RGB = Red, Green and Blue
• What's the difference between JPEG, PNG, GIF and TIFF?
• Other File Formats – CDR, AI, PDF and EPF Files
• High Resolution or Low Resolution?
• DPI and Printers
• Top 3 Large Format Printing Requirements
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Starting a New Drawing
• Starting and Opening Drawings
• Starting New Drawings
• Opening Existing Drawings
• Start a New Drawing (Create a New Document Dialogue Box)
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CorelDRAW Workspace
• CorelDRAW Terms
• CorelDRAW Application Window
• Customizing Workspace Appearance
• Standard Toolbar
• More About Toolbars
• Customizing toolbars
• Property Bar
• Status Bar
• Dockers
• Exploring the Toolbox
• Locating tools in the Toolbox
• Exploring the Tools
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Working with Multiple Drawings
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Undoing, Redoing and Repeating Actions
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Zooming, Panning and Scrolling
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Previewing Drawing
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Choosing Viewing Modes
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Saving Drawings
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Embedding Fonts & Substituting Fonts
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Importing Files & Exporting Files
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Backing Up and Recovering Files
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Closing Drawings
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Drawing Lines
• Freehand and Polyline Tools
• 2-
• Bezier and Pen Tools
• B-
• 3-
• Smart Drawing Tool
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Artistic Media Tool
• Drawing calligraphic, pressure-
• Applying Brushstrokes
• Spraying objects along a line
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Formatting Lines and Outlines
• Creating Cuttable Outlines
• Adding Arrowheads to Lines and Curves
• Closing Multiple Line Segments
• Drawing Dimension Lines
• Drawing Connector and Callout Lines
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Pressure-
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Drawing Shapes
• Drawing Rectangles and Squares
• Rounded, Scalloped and Chamfered Corners
• Drawing Ellipses, Circles, Arcs and Pie Shapes
• Drawing Polygons and Stars (Star and Complex Stars)
• Drawing Grids and Spirals
• Drawing Predefined Shapes
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Working with Objects
• Selecting Objects
• Copying, Cutting and Deleting Objects
• Duplicating Objects
• Copying objects at a specified position
• Copying Objects Quickly
• Copying Object Properties, Transformations and Effects
• Sizing and Scaling Objects
• Rotating and Mirroring Objects
• Grouping Objects
• Aligning and Distributing Objects
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Filling Objects
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Changing the Transparency
• Applying Uniform Transparency
• Applying Fountain Transparency
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Adding Three-
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Creating Extrusions, Bevels Effects
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Creating Drop Shadows
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Text
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Inserting Special Characters, Symbols, and Glyphs
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Tracing Bitmaps and Editing Traced Results
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Printing
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