Fundamentals of CorelDRAW! X4

Duration: 2 Days

Objectives

This course is designed for anyone who needs to understand the fundamental features and uses of the application and the best way to use these to produce drawings, artwork and illustrations of all kinds.

Pre-requisites

Experience of the Windows operating system or previous attendance on the equivalent training course.

Course includes

A comprehensive set of reference notes covering course topics, follow-up telephone support and, for training on Transmedia premises, lunch and refreshments.

This course is available as a private or customised course. Please phone us on 0208 269 4260 or email us for further information and to customise this course to your exact requirements.

"Probably the best course I have been on. Very thorough and entertaining."

Cancer Research UK

Course outline

Introduction
• Understanding vectors and bitmaps
• Introduction to the main screen
• The Toolbox, Icon and property bar
• Menus and Dockers
• Colour Palette
• Multipage, multi size documents
Creating basic shapes
• Working with various line options
• Creating and constraining filled shapes
• Working with quick keys
Outlines and fills
• Editing line styles
• Adjusting fills normally and interactively
• Accurately selecting colours
Node editing
• Refining shapes
• Shaping curves
• Precision edits
Creating text
• Using “Artistic” and Paragraph text
• Formatting text
• Special character editing
• Fit text to path
• Importing text files
• Controlling the flow of long text files

Manipulating objects
• Using align and distribute
• Copying properties from objects
• Duplicate and Clone
• Group and Ungroup
• Combine and break apart
• Trim, intersections and weld
Importing and exporting
• Importing clipart
• Understanding file types
• Compatibility issues
• Exporting Draw graphics
Special effects (including live editing)
• Perspective and Distortion
• Envelope effects and extrusions
• Blends
• Shadows
• Lens
• Contours
• Powerclip
• Mesh fill
Printing
• Print documents from within CorelDRAW!
• Sending documents to print bureaux
• Understanding the benefits of PDF files
New Features in Version X4