CorelDraw Training

CorelDraw (styled CorelDRAW) is a vector graphics editor developed and marketed by Corel Corporation of Ottawa, Canada. It is also the name of Corel's Graphics Suite, which bundles CorelDraw with a bitmap image editor, Corel Photo-Paint, and other graphics-related programs (see below).

Several innovations to vector-based illustration originated with CorelDraw: a node-edit tool that operates differently on different objects, fit text-to-path, stroke-before-fill, quick fill/stroke color selection palettes, perspective projections, mesh fills and complex gradient fills.

CorelDraw's competitors include Adobe Illustrator and Xara Photo & Graphic Designer. Although all of these are vector-based illustration programs, the user experience differs greatly between them. While these programs will read their native file types and vice versa, the translation is rarely perfect.

CorelDraw can open Adobe PDF files: Adobe PageMaker, Microsoft Publisher and Word, and other programs can print documents to PDF using the Adobe PDFWriter printer driver, which CorelDraw can then open and edit every aspect of the original layout and design.

CorelDRAW can also open PowerPoint presentations and other Microsoft Office formats with little or no problem. We Provide CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3, X4, X5, X6, X7, 2017, 2018, 2019 and CorelDRAW 2020.

Course Content:

Introduction:

• Welcome to CorelDRAW
• What's new in CorelDRAW

Jumping Right Into CorelDRAW X7:

• Welcome to the Welcome Screen
• Touring the user interface
• Creating drawings
• Saving your masterpieces

Working with Pages and Layout:

• Working with multiple pages
• Customizing the page layout
• Working with Guidelines and the Snap To options

Creating Objects:

• Drawing shapes
  • Polygons
  • stars
  • graph paper
• The Perfect Shapes Collection
• Lines and curves
• Node editing using the Shape Tool

Transforming Objects:

• Selecting/deleting objects
• Modifying objects
• Arranging objects
• Working with multiple objects
• Converting objects
• Locking objects

Design Time Savers:

• Cut, copy and paste
• Duplicating and cloning objects
• Using the Step and Repeat docker
• Undo/redo/repeat
• Working with symbols

Working with Artistic Text:

• Working with the Text Tool to create Artistic Text
• Fitting text to a path
• The character formatting docker
• Spelling and Quickcorrect

Working with Paragraph Text:

• Working with the Text Tool to create Paragraph Text
• The paragraph formatting docker
• Linking paragraph text frames
• Working with columns
• Additional paragraph features

Color Outlines and Fills:

• Introducing color palettes
• Color filling options
• Color outline objects
• Using the Eyedropper and Paintbucket Tools
• Using the Smartfill Tools

Layers and the Object Manager:

• Working with layers
• Layer properties
• Using the master layer

Viewing Your Work:

• View modes
• Preview modes
• Using the View Manager
• Using the Zoom Tool

Find and Replace:

• Find and replace objects
• Find and replace text

Bitmaps:

• Applying effects to a bitmap
• Using the Image Adjustment Lab
• Cropping bitmaps
• Converting vector objects to bitmaps

Shaping Objects:

• Shaping objects
• PowerClipping objects
• Adding envelopes
• Working the corners

The Interactive Tools Flyout:

• Interactive Blend Tool
• Interactive Contour Tool
• Interactive Distortion Tool
• Interactive Drop Shadow Tool
• Interactive Extrude Tool
• Interactive Transparency Tool
• Interactive Fill Tool

More Special Effects:

• Adding perspective
• Using the lens effect
• Adding bevels

Importing, Publishing, Exporting:

• Importing and exporting Files
• Publish to PDF
• Export for Office

Customizations:

• Customizing your toolbars and menus
• Customizing your color palettes

Printing:

• Printing basics explained
• Print preview basics

The Rest of the Suite:

• Using Corel Capture
• Tracing bitmaps using PowerTrace
• CorelPHOTO PAINT: Cutout Lab
• CorelPHOTO PAINT: Effects
• Working with the Corel Design Collection