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Contents
Chapter 1: Welcome
- What’s included in CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X6
- About this guidebook
- Guidebook conventions
- Other learning resources
Chapter 2: Installation and Support
- Installing CorelDRAW Graphics Suite applications
- Changing languages
- Updating Corel products
- Corel Support Services
- About Corel Corporation
Chapter 3: What’s New
- Work faster and more efficiently
- Create layouts with ease
- Design with style and creativity
Chapter 4: CorelDRAW Basics
- Workspace overview
- Starting a document
- Zooming, panning, and scrolling
- Creating objects
- Working with bitmaps
- Selecting, sizing, and transforming objects
- Coloring and styling objects
- Positioning objects
- Grouping and combining objects
- Organizing objects
- Working with pages
- Sharing your work
- Setting preferences
Chapter 5: Corel PHOTO-PAINT Basics
- Workspace overview
- Acquiring images
- Cropping and rotating
- Changing image size and resolution
- Changing color modes
- Retouching
- Adjusting color and tone
- Working with masks
- Working with objects and lenses
- Sharing your work
- Setting preferences
Chapter 6: Color Basics
- How are colors defined?
- Choosing a color mode
- Using process and spot colors
- Choosing colors
- Working with color styles and harmonies
- Using the Document palette, Color Styles palette, and Image palette
- Displaying and organizing color palettes
- Creating custom palettes
Chapter 7: Color Management
- Understanding color management
- Color management settings in CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X6
- Working with color profiles
- Soft proofing
- Working with color management policies
- Managing colors when opening documents
- Managing colors when importing and pasting files
- Managing colors for print
- Using a safe CMYK workflow
- Managing colors for online viewing
Chapter 8: Working with Text
- Adding artistic and paragraph text in CorelDRAW
- Adding text in Corel PHOTO-PAINT
- Formatting characters
- Working with OpenType fonts
- Spacing text
- Aligning text
- Additional text effects
- Working with text frames
- Working with text from an older version of CorelDRAW Graphics Suite
Chapter 9: Styles and Style Sets
- Understanding styles and style sets
- Creating styles and style sets
- Applying styles and style sets
- Editing styles and style sets
- Exporting and importing style sheets
- Finding objects that use a specific style or style set
- Breaking the link between an object and a style or style set
Chapter 10: Finding and Managing Content
- Exploring Corel CONNECT
- Accessing content
- Browsing and searching for content
- Using and managing content
Chapter 11: Content Types
- Fonts
- Symbol fonts
- Clipart
- Photos
- Photo objects
- Interactive frames
- Patterns
- Artistic media
- Brushes
- Photo frames
- Image lists
Chapter 12: Templates
- Using preset templates
- Modifying template-based documents
- Creating templates
Chapter 13: Sign Making
- Scanning a hand-drawn concept
- Setting the dimensions or scale
- Creating a border
- Incorporating and creating content
- Getting client approval
- Fabricating the sign
- Examples
Chapter 14: Illustration
- Setting up the document
- Setting up a pen tablet
- Sketching by hand
- Drawing brushstrokes
- Drawing objects
- Applying color
- Applying effects
- Examples
Chapter 15: Page Layout
- Setting up the document
- Adding text
- Adding images
- Preparing the file for output
- Examples
Chapter 16: Design of a Soccer Club Logo
- Establishing the client’s needs
- Researching the logo elements
- Time to design
- Image digitalization
- Final steps
- Topics for the logo style guide
- Designing the style guide
Chapter 17: The Story of a Reader Chair
- Ideas and sketches
- Tracing the basic shape
- Ergonomics
- Adding colors
- Creating a 3D visualization
- Creating a presentation booklet
- Production drawings
Chapter 18: Concept Art
- Sketching the first ideas
- Defining composition, dimensions, and point of view
- Setting up texture brushes
- Creating brush nibs from mask content
- Adding colors
- Defining the shapes
- Adding texture and details
- Making color corrections
- Preparing the image for the Web
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