Updated to cover new features and improved functions, CorelDRAW® X6: The Official Guide is your resource for learning the skills you need to create captivating, impressive commercial graphics and expressive designs. Draw photorealistic illustrations, create layouts and templates in a flash, import and edit photos, build solid desktop publishing skills, transform 2D objects into 3D artwork, work smarter, faster, and have some fun, too! You’ll also get tips for printing high-quality work and publishing web pages you design in Corel® Website Creator™ X6. Step-by-step tutorials use dozens of example files you can download. Get started designing artwork the CorelDRAW way, right away, with this practical, comprehensive reference.
- Configure and set up the menus, palettes, and dockers to suit your personal needs
- Create expressive drawings that evoke traditional media with Artistic Media brushes and Mesh Fill, Smudge, Roughen and the new Twirl and Smudge brushes
- Lay out brochures, flyers, and other multi-page documents
- Work with refined text properties on the revised Object Property docker
- Put digital color theory into practice with Styles and the updated Color Harmonies feature
- Work between applications with CorelDRAW’s expanded, robust set of import/export filters
- Create 3D objects with the Extrude tool
- Add elements of photorealism to your drawings with lens effects, transparency, shadows, glows, and bevels
- Import, edit, and retouch photos and use Corel® PHOTO-PAINT™ X6 for advanced editing
- Ensure what you design will print accurately by mastering CorelDRAW’s advanced output features