Corel PHOTO PAINT User Guide X5 Operating Instructions EN

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Contents
Welcome
- Installing CorelDRAW Graphics Suite applications
- Changing languages
- Changing startup settings
- Starting and quitting Corel PHOTO-PAINT
- Registering Corel products
- Working with trial versions
- Updating Corel products
- Corel Support Services
- About Corel Corporation
What’s new in CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X5?
- Connect to your content
- Get going quickly
- Create with confidence
- Use color with certainty
- Output with ease
- Finding out what was new in previous versions
Learning resources
- Getting help
- Using the Help and tooltips
- Guidebook
- Video tutorials
- Using Hints
- Welcome screen
- CorelTUTOR
- Tips and tricks
- Macro programming guide
- Network deployment guide
- Web-based resources
- Customized training and integration resources
Corel PHOTO-PAINT workspace tour
- Corel PHOTO-PAINT terms
- Corel PHOTO-PAINT application window
- Toolbars
- Toolbox
- Property bar
- Dockers
- Color palette
- Status bar
Setting options
- Changing workspace options
- Disabling warning messages
- Improving the display quality of images
- Corel Application Recovery Manager (Windows XP)
Bringing images into Corel PHOTO-PAINT
- Opening images
- Importing files
- Acquiring images from scanners and digital cameras
- Creating images
- Working with vector graphics
Displaying images and image information
- Viewing images
- Zooming
- Viewing image information
- Detecting and embedding Digimarc watermarks
Using the guidelines, grid, and rulers
- Setting up guidelines
- Setting up the grid
- Setting up the rulers
Undoing, redoing, repeating, and fading actions
- Undoing and redoing actions
- Reverting to an earlier image state
- Repeating and fading actions
Saving and closing
- Saving images
- Exporting images to other file formats
- Closing images
Finding and managing content
- Exploring Corel CONNECT
- Browsing and searching for content
- Viewing content
- Using and managing content
Collaborating
- Using CorelDRAW ConceptShare
Changing image dimensions, resolution, and paper size
- Changing image dimensions
- Changing image resolution
- Changing paper size
Cropping, stitching, and changing orientation
- Cropping images
- Stitching images together
- Straightening images
- Rotating and flipping images
Retouching
- Improving scanned images
- Removing red-eye
- Removing dust and scratch marks
- Cloning image areas
- Sharpening images
- Removing artifacts and noise from JPEG images
- Erasing image areas
- Smearing, smudging, and blending colors
Adjusting color and tone
- Using the Image Adjustment Lab
- Using individual color-adjustment effects and tools
- Exploring adjustment filters
- Working with color channels
Working with lenses
- Creating lenses
- Editing lenses
- Combining lenses with the image background
Working with color
- Understanding color models
- Understanding color depth
- Choosing colors
- Using the Image palette
- Creating and editing custom color palettes
- Organizing and displaying color palettes
- Displaying or hiding color palettes in the Palette libraries
- Setting the properties of color palettes
- Using spot color channels
Changing color modes
- Changing the color mode of images
- Converting images to the black-and-white color mode
- Converting images to the paletted color mode
- Converting images to the duotone color mode
Using color management
- Understanding color management
- Getting started with color management in Corel PHOTO-PAINT
- Installing, loading, and embedding color profiles
- Assigning color profiles
- Converting colors to other color profiles
- Choosing color-conversion settings
- Soft proofing
- Working with color management presets
- 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
Filling images
- Applying uniform fills
- Applying fountain fills
- Applying bitmap fills
- Applying texture fills
- Applying gradient fills
- Applying transparency patterns to fills
Working with masks
- Distinguishing protected and editable areas
- Defining editable areas
- Defining editable areas by using color information
- Expanding and contracting editable areas
- Inverting and removing masks
- Moving and aligning editable areas
- Transforming editable areas
- Adjusting the edges of editable areas
- Adjusting the transparency of masks
- Cutting out images
Using paths to define image areas
- Creating paths
- Managing paths
- Shaping paths
- Adding and deleting path nodes
- Joining and breaking paths
- Changing node types
- Applying brushstrokes to paths
- Working with clipping paths
Managing multiple masks with alpha channels
- Creating and editing alpha channels
- Saving masks and alpha channels
- Loading masks and alpha channels
- Managing alpha channels
Drawing and painting
- Drawing shapes and lines
- Applying brushstrokes
- Spraying images
- Painting symmetrical patterns and orbits
- Repeating brushstrokes
- Creating custom brushes
- Using a pressure-sensitive pen
- Understanding merge modes
Applying special effects
- Working with special effects
- Applying preset styles
- Applying color and tone effects
- Special effects categories
- Applying Bevel effects
- Applying Lens Flare effects
- Applying Lighting effects
- Gallery of special effects
- Managing plug-ins
Working with objects
- Creating objects
- Changing object properties
- Selecting objects
- Moving, copying, and deleting objects
- Displaying and arranging objects
- Locking objects
- Grouping and combining objects
- Working with clipping groups
Modifying objects
- Transforming objects
- Changing the edges of objects
- Adding drop shadows to objects
- Working with object transparency
- Using clip masks
- Protecting the area around an object
Linking and embedding objects
- Inserting linked or embedded objects into another application
- Editing linked or embedded objects
Creating and formatting text
- Adding and editing text
- Formatting text
- Anti-aliasing text
- Fitting text to a path
- Identifying fonts
Working with text in different languages
- Encoding settings to display text correctly
- Working with Asian text
Creating and editing movies
- Opening and playing movies
- Creating movies
- Modifying frame sequence and frame display time
- Saving movies
- Working with QuickTime VR movies
Creating images for the Web
- Exporting images for the Web
- Saving and applying Web presets
- Creating palette-based images with transparent colors and backgrounds
- Creating image maps
- Slicing images
- Creating and editing rollovers
- E-mailing images
Printing basics
- Printing your work
- Laying out print jobs
- Previewing print jobs
- Applying print styles
- Fine-tuning print jobs
- Printing colors accurately
- Printing to a PostScript printer
- Viewing preflight summaries
Preparing files for print service providers
- Preparing a print job for a print service provider
- Working with imposition layouts
- Printing printers’ marks
- Printing color separations
- Working with color trapping and overprinting
- Specifying In-RIP trapping settings
- Printing to film
- Working with a print service provider
Exporting to PDF
- Exporting documents as PDF files
- Including hyperlinks, bookmarks, and thumbnails in PDF files
- Reducing the size of PDF files
- Specifying an encoding format for PDF files
- Specifying color management options for exporting PDF files
- Setting security options for PDF files
- Optimizing PDF files
- Viewing preflight summaries for PDF files
- Preparing PDF files for a print provider
Working with office productivity applications
- Exporting files to office productivity applications
- Adding objects to documents
Working with RAW camera files
- Using RAW camera files
- Bringing RAW camera files into Corel PHOTO-PAINT
- Adjusting the color and tone of RAW camera files
- Sharpening and reducing noise in RAW camera files
- Previewing RAW camera files and obtaining image information
Supported file formats
- Adobe Illustrator (AI)
- Windows Bitmap (BMP)
- OS/2 Bitmap (BMP)
- Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM)
- CorelDRAW (CDR)
- Corel Presentation Exchange (CMX)
- Corel PHOTO-PAINT (CPT)
- Cursor Resource (CUR)
- AutoCAD Drawing Database (DWG) and AutoCAD Drawing Interchange Format (DXF)
- Encapsulated PostScript (EPS)
- PostScript (PS or PRN)
- GIF
- JPEG (JPG)
- JPEG 2000 (JP2)
- Kodak Photo CD Image (PCD)
- QuickTime Movie (MOV)
- PICT (PCT)
- PaintBrush (PCX)
- Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF)
- HPGL Plotter File (PLT)
- Portable Network Graphics (PNG)
- Adobe Photoshop (PSD)
- Corel Painter (RIF)
- TARGA (TGA)
- TIFF
- Corel Paint Shop Pro (PSP)
- WordPerfect Graphic (WPG)
- RAW camera file formats
- Wavelet Compressed Bitmap (WI)
- Windows Metafile Format (WMF)
- Additional file formats
- Recommended formats for importing graphics
- Recommended formats for exporting graphics
Customizing Corel PHOTO-PAINT
- Using multiple workspaces
- Customizing keyboard shortcuts
- Customizing menus
- Customizing toolbars
- Customizing the property bar
- Customizing the status bar
- Customizing feedback sounds
- Customizing filters
- Customizing file associations
Using macros and scripts to automate tasks
- Working with macros
- Working with scripts
Corel PHOTO-PAINT for Adobe Photoshop users
- Comparing terminology
- Comparing tools
Glossary
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