Section I: Welcome to CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 12
CorelDRAWGraphicsSuite12applications
What’snewinCorelDRAWGraphicsSuite12
Installing And Uninstalling Applications Changing the language of the user interface and Help
Registering Corel products Updating Corel products Corel Support Services
Documentation conventions
Getting help
Using Corel TUTOR
VBA Programming Guide Otherresources
About Corel Corporation
Section II: CorelDRAW
Workspace tour
CorelDRAW terminology and concepts
CorelDRAW application window CorelDRA Wworkspacetools
Getting started in CorelDRAW
Starting and opening drawings Finding and inserting drawing content ExploringthebasicfeaturesofCorelDRAW
CorelDRAW Working With Templates Undoing,redoing,and repeating actions
Accessing Drawing Information
Zooming And Panning
Previewing a drawing Backing Up And Recovering Files
Saving drawings and quitting CorelDRAW
Working With Lines,outlines,and brushstrokes
Drawing lines
Formatting lines and outlines
Closing multiple line segments
Applying Brushstrokes
Spraying Objects Along Line
Drawing flow and dimension lines
Drawing shapes
Drawing rectangles and squares
Drawing ellipses, circles, arcs, and wedges
Drawing polygons and stars
Drawing spirals
Drawing grids
Drawing Predefined Shapes
Drawing using shape recognition
Working With Objects
Selecting objects
Copying, duplicating, and deleting objects Copying Object Properties ,transformations,and effects
Positioning objects
Aligning and distributing objects
Snapping Objects
Using Dynamic Guides
Changing The Order Of Objects
Sizing and scaling objects
Rotating And Mirroring Objects
Grouping objects
Combining objects
Shaping objects
Working With Curved Objects
Skewing And Stretching Objects
Smudging Objects
Roughening Objects
Applying Distortion Effect Shaping Objects Using Envelopes Splitting and erasing portions of objects
Trimming objects
Welding and interacting objects
Blending objects
Creating Power Clip objects
Working With Symbols
Creating,editing,and deleting symbols Using symbols in drawings Managing collections and libraries Sharing symbols between drawings
Filling Objects
Applying Uniform Fills
Applying Fountain Hills
Applying Pattern Fills Applying Texture Fills Applying Mesh Fills
Working With Frills
Working with color
Choosing Colors
Creating Custom Color Palettes
Managing Color for display,input,and output
Understanding the Color management dialog box Working with color profiles Choosing advanced color management settings
Correcting Colors For Display
Adding three-dimensional effects to objects
Contouring objects
Applying Perspective To Objects
Creating Vector Extrusions
Creating drop shadows
Changing the transparency of objects
Applying transparencies
Applying Merge Modes
Using Lenses With Objects
Applying lenses
Editing lenses
Working with pages and layout tools
Specifying the page layout
Choosing a page background
Adding, renaming, and deleting pages
Using the rulers
Calibrating the rulers
Setting up the grid
Setting up guidelines
Setting the drawing scale
Working with layers
Creating layers
Changing layer properties and stacking order
Moving and copying objects between layers
Printing layers
Adding and formatting text
Adding And Selecting Text
Encoding Text
Changing The Appearance Of Text
Finding, editing, and converting text Aligning and spacing text
Shifting and rotating text
Moving text
Fitting Text To A Path
Formatting Paragraph Text Combining and linking paragraph text frames Wrapping paragraph text around objects and text
Embedding graphics and adding special characters
Managing fonts
Substitutingunavailablefonts
Embeddingfonts
UsingBitstreamFontNavigator
Working With Bitmaps
Converting Vector Graphics To Bitmap
Adding Bitmaps Cropping And Editing Bitmaps
Applyingspecialeffectstobitmaps Applyingcolorandtoneeffects Removingdustandscratchmarksfrombitmaps
Changing Color Modes In Bitmaps
Changing the Colormode Of Bitmaps Changingbitmapstoblack-and-whiteimages
CreatingWeb-enabled objects
UsingpresetInternetobjects
Optimizing bitmap for the WorldWide Web
Creatingrollovers
CreatingWeb-compatibletext Workingwithbookmarksandhyperlinks
Publishing to the Web
PreparingfilesandobjectsforWebpublishing PublishingtoHTML
Managing Projects
Setting Up The Project Database
Assigning and copying object data
Viewing an object data summary
Printing
Printingyourwork
Laying out print jobs
Previewing print jobs
Commercial printing
Preparing a print job for a service bureau
Working with imposition layouts
Printing printer’s marks
Printing color separations
Specifying In-RIP trapping settings
Printing to film
PublishingtoPDF
Saving documents as PDF files
Reducing PDF file size
Preparing PDF files for a service bureau
Optimizing PDF files
Importing and exporting files
Importing files
Exporting files
Working with graphic,text, and color styles
Creating, applying, and editing graphic or text styles
Creating and applying color styles
From Adobe Illustrator to CorelDRAW
Comparing terminology
Comparing tools
Section III: Corel R.A.V.E.
Workspace tour
CorelR.A.V.E. terminology and concepts
CorelR.A.V.E. application window
CorelR.A.V.E. toolbox
Getting started in Corel R.A.V.E
How CorelR.A.V.E. works
Setting The Properties Of Movies
Animating objects
Understanding animation methods and terms. Increasing the lifespan of objects
Tweening objects
Editing and previewing animation
Workingwithtimelines Workingwithtweens
Previewinganimation
Animating text
Tweeningtext
Creatinganimatedtexteffects
Section IV: Corel PHOTO-PAINT
Corel PHOTO-PAINT workspace tour
CorelPHOTO-PAINTterms
Exploring The Application Window
Toolbars Toolbox
Property bar Dockers
Status bar
Viewing images and obtaining image information
Viewing images
Zooming
Obtaining image information
Working with color
Choosing colors
Creating custom color palettes
Changing color modes
Changing the color mode of images
Changing Images to the paletted Color mode
Bringing images into Corel PHOTO-PAINT
Opening images
Importing files
Loading photos from a digital camera
Working with vector graphics
Cropping and changing orientation
Cropping images
Stitching Images Together
Changing image orientation
Adjusting Color And Tone
Adjusting image color and tone
Working with color channel
Changing image dimensions, resolution, and paper size
Changing image dimensions
Changing Image Resolution
Changing the paper size
Retouching
Improving scanned images
Removing Red-eye Removing Dust And Scratch Marks
Cloning image areas
Sharpening images
Erasing image areas
Smearing, smudging, and blending colors
Working with lenses
Creating lenses
Editing lenses
Combining lenses with the image background
Masking
Distinguishing protected desirable areas
Defining editable areas
Defining editable are as using color information
Inverting and removing masks
Cutting out image areas
Applying special effects
Working with special effects.
Applying preset styles
Applying color can’t one effects
Managingplug-ins
Painting
Drawing shapes and lines
Applying brush strokes
Spraying images
Repeating brush strokes
Using a pressure-sensitive pen
Fillingimages
Applying uniform fills
Applying fountain fills
Applying Bitmap Fills
Applying Texture Fills
Applying Gradient Fills
Working with objects
Creating objects
Grouping and combining objects
Modifying objects
Transforming objects
Changing the edges objects
Adding drop shadows to objects
CreatingimagesfortheWeb
Exporting and optimizing images for the Web Creatingandeditingrollovers
Saving and closing
Saving images
Exporting images to other file formats
Closing images
Managing color for display,input, and output
Working with color profiles
Choosing advanced color management settings
Correcting colors for display
Printing
Printing your work
Laying out print jobs
Previewing print jobs