CorelDRAW X5 The Official Guide

1001 Pages·2010·36.23 MB·English

by  Gary David Bouton

CorelDRAW® X5
The Official Guide
Gary David Bouton
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About the Author
Gary David Boutonis a seasoned author and illustrator with over 20 books to his name,
covering programs such as CorelDRAW, Adobe Photoshop, and topics such as digital video
editing, content creation for the Web, and 3D modeling. Gary has been drawing and painting
both traditionally and electronically for close to 40 years and has been writing books and
articles on art since 1992. He has received four international awards for design and desktop
publishing and was a finalist in the CorelDRAW World Design Contest. In his other life,
Gary composes and records music and works on CGI special effects for films.
About the Technical Editor
Having degrees in both engineering and art, William Schneider currently teaches computer
graphics and darkroom photography in the School of Visual Communication at Ohio
University. He has twice been a finalist in the annual Corel World Design Contest.
He has written 16 magazine articles about photography and computer artwork, and has
had his graphic work published in a number of venues. For the textbookItalian Renaissance
Art: A Source Book,he was responsible for furnishing hundreds of illustrations and photos.
When he’s not working at the computer or printing in his darkroom, he likes to ice skate and
to build unusual loudspeakers in his shop.
CONTENTS
AT A GLANCE
Part I
CorelDRAW X5 Essentials
1
What’s New in CorelDRAW X5? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2
Exploring Your Workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
3
CorelDRAW’s Ins and Outs: Importing, Exporting,
and Saving Design Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
4
Navigation and Page Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
5
The X5 Test Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Part II
Getting Started with CorelDRAW X5
6
Working with Single- and Multi-Page Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
7
Measuring and Drawing Helpers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
8
Creating Basic Shapes, Applying Transformations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
9
Moving, Scaling, Rotating: Basic Transformations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
Part III
Working with Object Tools
10
Drawing and Editing Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
11
Editing Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
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CorelDRAW X5 The Official Guide
Part IV
Working with Text
12
Getting Artistic with Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331
13
Typography Rules and Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375
14
Getting Your Words Perfect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401
Part V
Attributes for Objects and Lines
15
Filling Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433
16
Outline Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473
17
Digital Color Theory Put to Practice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495
Part VI
Creating the Illusion of 3D Objects
18
Working with Perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533
19
Extruding Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553
Part VII
Creating Special Effects
20
Envelope and Distortion Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 589
21
Blends and Contours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 621
22
Lens Effects, Transparency, Shadows, Glows, and Bevels . . . . . . . . . . 661
Part VIII
The Bitmap Side of Corel Graphics Suite
23
Bitmap Boot Camp: Working with Photographs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 701
24
Advanced Photography Techniques with CorelDRAW . . . . . . . . . . . . 737
25
An Introduction to PHOTO-PAINT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 771
26
PHOTO-PAINT Effects and Advanced Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 799
Part IX
Thinking Outside of the (Tool) Box
27
Printing: Professional Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 847
28
Basic HTML Page Layout and Publishing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 891
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 935
CONTENTS
Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxv
Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxvii
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxix
PART I CorelDRAW X5 Essentials
CHAPTER 1 What’s New in CorelDRAW X5? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Features for the Graphics Designer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
The Create a New Document Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Drawing Tool Enhancements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Scaling an Arrowhead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
New Corner Edits for Rectangles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Revamped Mesh Fill Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
More Power to PowerTRACE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
New Pixel View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
New Document Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Eyedroppers All Over the Place . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Adobe Application Compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Introducing Corel CONNECT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Connecting with Your Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
For the Business Professional . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Clip Art and Photographs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Fonts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
X5 Extras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
CHAPTER 2 Exploring Your Workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
The CorelDRAW X5 Workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
CorelDRAW X5’s Application Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Drawing Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Specifying Toolbar and Dialog Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29