- Cover Page
- CorelDRAW® X5 The Official Guide
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- About the Author
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- PART I CorelDRAW X5 Essentials
- CHAPTER 1 What’s New in CorelDRAW X5?
- Features for the Graphics Designer
- The Create a New Document Dialog Box
- Drawing Tool Enhancements
- Scaling an Arrowhead
- New Corner Edits for Rectangles
- Revamped Mesh Fill Tool
- More Power to PowerTRACE
- New Pixel View
- New Document Palette
- Eyedroppers All Over the Place
- Adobe Application Compatibility
- Introducing Corel CONNECT
- Connecting with Your Content
- For the Business Professional
- Features for the Graphics Designer
- CHAPTER 2 Exploring Your Workspace
- CHAPTER 3 CorelDRAW’s Ins and Outs: Importing, Exporting, and Saving Design Work
- CorelDRAW X5’s Welcome Screen
- Opening Your First New Document File
- Opening Document Files
- Saving and Closing Documents
- Working with Templates
- Clipboard Commands
- Undoing and Redoing Changes
- Scrapbooks, An Old Favorite
- Importing and Exporting Files
- Set Up Color Management Before Importing
- Importing Files and Setting Options
- Exporting Files and Choosing Options
- Choosing Export File Formats
- CHAPTER 4 Navigation and Page Setup
- CHAPTER 5 The X5 Test Drive
- CHAPTER 1 What’s New in CorelDRAW X5?
- PART II Getting Started with CorelDRAW X5
- CHAPTER 6 Working with Single- and Multi-Page Documents
- CHAPTER 7 Measuring and Drawing Helpers
- CHAPTER 8 Creating Basic Shapes, Applying Transformations
- CHAPTER 9 Moving, Scaling, Rotating: Basic Transformations
- CHAPTER 10 Drawing and Editing Objects
- CHAPTER 11 Editing Objects
- PART IV Working with Text
- CHAPTER 13 Typography Rules and Conventions
- CHAPTER 14 Getting Your Words Perfect
- Using CorelDRAW’s Writing Tools
- Using the Proofing Tools
- Setting Spell Checker Options
- Using Grammatik
- Using the Thesaurus
- Using QuickCorrect
- Finding and Replacing Text and Special Characters
- Finding and Replacing Text Properties
- Tables
- Creating a Table
- Using the Proper Tool for the Job
- Table Options When the Pick Tool Is Active
- Table Options When the Shape Tool Is Active
- Editing a Table When the Table Tool Is Active
- Working with Text and Graphics in a Table
- Converting a Table to Text
- Converting an Existing Text to a Table
- Importing a Table from Another Application
- PART V Attributes for Objects and Lines
- CHAPTER 15 Filling Objects
- CHAPTER 16 Outline Attributes
- PART VI Creating the Illusion of 3D Objects
- CHAPTER 18 Working with Perspective
- The Optical Principle of Perspective
- Experiments in Perspective
- Creating One-Point Perspective
- Working with Two-Point Perspective
- Creating a 3D Ground Plane
- Copying Perspective and Creating a 3D Scene
- Perspective Scenes via Copying
- Mirroring Perspective Control Handles
- Building a Bowling Alley
- Pre-Visualizing Designs in Perspective
- Pre-Visualizing a Design on a Product
- CHAPTER 19 Extruding Objects
- CHAPTER 18 Working with Perspective
- PART VII Creating Special Effects
- CHAPTER 21 Blends and Contours
- Blend and Contour Effects: Similarities with Distinctions
- Blending as Illustration Shading
- The Blend Tool and Property Bar
- Creating a Simple Blend Effect
- Looking at the Components of a Blend
- Editing Blend Effects
- Using the Blend Docker
- Tapping into Contour Effects
- Exploring CorelDRAW’s Contour Effects
- Using the Contour Tool and Property Bar
- Controlling Contour Acceleration
- Using Contour Presets
- Using the Contour Docker
- CHAPTER 22 Lens Effects, Transparency, Shadows, Glows, and Bevels
- What’s Behind a Lens Effect
- Using the Lens Docker
- Exploring the Lens Effects
- Brighten Lens Effect
- Color Add Lens Effect
- Color Limit Lens Effect
- Deepening a Selected Color Area
- Custom Color Map Lens Effects
- Fish Eye Lens Effect
- Changing Object Size with the Fish Eye Lens
- Heat Map Lens Effect
- Invert Lens Effect
- Magnify Lens Effect
- Tinted Grayscale Lens Effect
- Transparency Lens Effect
- Wireframe Lens Effect
- Using Lens Options
- Clearing Things Up with the Transparency Tool
- Using the Transparency Tool and Property Bar
- Using Transparency Operations (Merge Modes)
- Creating Multi-Stage Transparencies
- Pattern and Texture Transparencies
- Using Transparency Freeze
- Using the Bevel Effect
- Using the Drop Shadow Effect
- PART VIII The Bitmap Side of Corel Graphics Suite
- CHAPTER 24 Advanced Photography Techniques with CorelDRAW
- CHAPTER 25 An Introduction to PHOTO-PAINT
- CHAPTER 26 PHOTO-PAINT Effects and Advanced Editing
- PART IX Thinking Outside of the (Tool) Box
- CHAPTER 27 Printing: Professional Output
- CHAPTER 28 Basic HTML Page Layout and Publishing
- Web Page Navigation Buttons and Hotspots
- CorelDRAW’s Internet Toolbar
- Publishing Web Documents
- Setting Web Publishing Preferences
- Flash and Web Pages
- Exploring SWF Files
- Objects and Fills that Flash Supports
- Exporting a Static Flash Vector Design
- Making a Single-Frame Flash File
- Exporting SWFs to SwishMiniMax
- A Taxi-Driver’s Tour of SwishMiniMax
- Beginning an Animation
- Creating Animation
- Using the Fade in Preset
- Text as Flash Actor
- Setting an Overall Flash Video Duration
- The End-Of-Book Special
- Index
About the Author
Gary David Bouton is 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 textbook Italian 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.
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