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X5 The Official Guide

Gary David Bouton

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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

AT A GLANCE

Part I CorelDRAW X5 Essentials

1 What’s New in CorelDRAW X5? 3

2 Exploring Your Workspace 23

3 CorelDRAW’s Ins and Outs: Importing, Exporting, and Saving Design Work 45

4 Navigation and Page Setup 87

5 The X5 Test Drive 115

Part II Getting Started with CorelDRAW X5 6 Working with Single- and Multi-Page Documents 143

7 Measuring and Drawing Helpers 167

8 Creating Basic Shapes, Applying Transformations 207

9 Moving, Scaling, Rotating: Basic Transformations 237

Part III Working with Object Tools 10 Drawing and Editing Objects 263

11 Editing Objects 297

Part IV Working with Text

12 Getting Artistic with Text 331

13 Typography Rules and Conventions 375

14 Getting Your Words Perfect 401

Part V Attributes for Objects and Lines 15 Filling Objects 433

16 Outline Attributes 473

17 Digital Color Theory Put to Practice 495

Part VI Creating the Illusion of 3D Objects 18 Working with Perspective 533

19 Extruding Objects 553

Part VII Creating Special Effects 20 Envelope and Distortion Effects 589

21 Blends and Contours 621

22 Lens Effects, Transparency, Shadows, Glows, and Bevels 661

Part VIII The Bitmap Side of Corel Graphics Suite 23 Bitmap Boot Camp: Working with Photographs 701

24 Advanced Photography Techniques with CorelDRAW 737

25 An Introduction to PHOTO-PAINT 771

26 PHOTO-PAINT Effects and Advanced Editing 799

Part IX Thinking Outside of the (Tool) Box 27 Printing: Professional Output 847

28 Basic HTML Page Layout and Publishing 891

Index 935

vi CorelDRAW X5 The Official Guide

Foreword xxv

Acknowledgments xxvii

Introduction xxix

PART I CorelDRAW X5 Essentials CHAPTER 1 What’s New in CorelDRAW X5? 3

Features for the Graphics Designer 4

The Create a New Document Dialog Box 4

Drawing Tool Enhancements 5

Scaling an Arrowhead 6

New Corner Edits for Rectangles 8

Revamped Mesh Fill Tool 9

More Power to PowerTRACE 12

New Pixel View 13

New Document Palette 14

Eyedroppers All Over the Place 15

Adobe Application Compatibility 15

Introducing Corel CONNECT 16

Connecting with Your Content 16

For the Business Professional 20

Clip Art and Photographs 20

Fonts 20

Templates 20

X5 Extras 20

CHAPTER 2 Exploring Your Workspace 23

The CorelDRAW X5 Workspace 24

CorelDRAW X5’s Application Window 24

Drawing Windows 26

Specifying Toolbar and Dialog Values 29