Graphic Design Series:

Desk Top Publishing with CorelDraw (CORELDRAW)

This course provides the necessary real-world Desk Top Publishing and basic graphic design skills to participants through hands-on training.

Target Audience

Those who wish to acquire Desk Top Publishing and basic graphic design skills for day to day usage.

Prerequisites

Working experience in Microsoft Windows environment is necessary.

Topics

Introduction CorelDraw

  • CorelDraw basics

CorelDraw Desktop

  • CorelDraw menu system
  • Smart Icons
  • Layer and Pasteboard
  • Ruler setup
  • Setting up guides
  • Color pallet
  • Status line

Page Setup

  • Defining page size
  • Selecting layout style
  • Defining page color
  • Inserting removing more pages

Toolbox

  • Pick Tool
  • Shape Tool
  • Zoom Tool
  • Drawing Tools
  • Rectangle Tool
  • Ellipse Tool
  • Text Tools
  • Outline Tool
  • Fill Tool

Objects

  • Creating objects
  • Selecting, Rotating, Moving, Resizing, Removing
  • Reshaping & Skewing
  • Working with Node Editor
  • Copying & Duplicating
  • Importing/Exporting
  • Changing outline attributes
  • Applying colors and patterns
  • Ordering
  • Aligning
  • Grouping
  • Combining
  • Welding
  • Trimming
  • Creating intersecting objects

Text

  • Entering Text to the layer
  • Changing attributes
  • Applying effects to text
  • Applying paragraph attributes
  • Entering Text to frames
  • Entering text in EDIT TEXT
  • Running Spell checker
  • Using Thesaurus
  • Setting text to a path
  • Effects

Adding Perspective

Enveloping

Working with shapes

Blending

  • Blending objects
  • Multiple blends
  • Setting a blend to a path
  • Color schemes in blends

Extruding

  • Applying dimensions to objects
  • Contouring

Powerlines

Applying special effects to lines

  • Lenses
  • Create lenses from objects

Power Clips

  • Inserting objects to containers

Creating Presets

  • Recording procedures
  • Applying presets

Printing

  • Printer setup
  • Printing specified pages