Introduction Level
The ribbon bar
Magnification and views
Setting preferences
Using CorelDRAW's dockers
Custom guidelines
The guide manager
Creating diagonal lines and
perspective grids
Measurements and Rulers
Bitmapped and raster images
Using the drawing tools:
rectangle, polygon, star, spiral,
ellipse, graph paper
Arcs & pies
Rounded cornered rectangles
Transforming objects to include:
moving, resizing, reflecting,
rotating & skewing
Using the transform roll-up
Selection methods:
single, multiple, marquee & child
Cutting, copying & pasting objects
Moving & copying objects
Controlling stacking order
Grouping & ungrouping
Aligning & distributing objects
Locking & unlocking objects
Combining, welding, intersecting & trimming objects
Adding perspective drop shadows
Understanding béziers
Drawing béziers curves & lines
using the pen tool
Drawing freehand curves
Converting to curves
Using the node edit tool
Using the node edit docker
Adding and deleting nodes
Using cusp, smooth &symmetrical nodes
Using the shape tool
Cutting and joining paths
Using the knife tool
Using the eraser tool
Colour:
Colour swatch & palette
Using multiple colour palettes
Process colour
Pantone and spot colour
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Intermediate Level
Using the eyedropper &paint bucket tools
Applying fill & outline colour
Customising:
- fountain fills
- two colour fills
- bitmap patterns
- texture fills
- PostScript fills
Using the gradient mesh tool
Using the interactive transparency tool
Artistic text tool
Paragraph text tool
Creating and editing type
Type on a path
Type effects explored
Converting text to curves
Customising page layout & shape
Customising & saving views using the view manager
Customising documents
Importing images
Importing & embedding bitmap images
Converting vector images to bitmaps
Exporting images
File formats explained
Saving CorelDRAW files
Printing CorelDRAW files
Using print preview
Saving CorelDRAW files for the web
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Advanced Level
Advanced bézier work to include:
using elastic mode, rotating &
skewing nodes, auto reduce &
aligning nodes
Dimension lines:
horizontal, vertical, diagonal
& angled lines
Creating callout lines
Calligraphic lines & the natural pen tool
Layers:
Printing, viewing, locking
& organising layers
Creating & deleting layers
Moving objects to layers
Copying objects to layers
Using multi-layers
Object manager controls:
Using drag and drop option:
- to order, group & ungroup objects
- to create & edit power clips
- to control layer properties:
adjust, add & delete layers
- to control the styles of text &
graphic objects
Exploring the effects menu options
Setting & saving graphic styles
Setting & saving text styles
Adding & editing perspective
Envelope docker
Blend docker
Extruder docker:
creation of 3D graphics & text effects
Contour docker
Powerline docker:
create & edit custom outlines
Using the artistic media dockers
Using & customising the
object sprayer tool
Using the lens docker:
transparency, magnify, wireframe,
invert, colour add, colour limit, tinted
greyscale, heat map & fish eye
Using the Power clip docker to
create & edit masks
Bitmap colour mask docker:
to add & remove colours
Using the bezier effects menu
Cloning & copying effects
Tracing within CorelDRAW
AutoTrace tool
FreeHand tracing
Customising tracing settings
Using Corel OCR trace
Saving and exporting traced files
Using the scrapbook
Using the scripts & preset manager
Using the lines manager
Creating booklets & tent cards
using the print manager
Printing theory
Colour separations
Colour trapping
Halftones & screen angles
Converting spot colour to
process colour
Define custom colour palettes
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