COURSE OUTLINE SUMMARY
- Lesson 1 - What’s New in CorelDraw X9
- Lesson 2 - Exploring Your Workspace
- Lesson 3 - CorelDraw’s Ins and Outs: Importing, Exporting, and Saving Design Work
- Lesson 4 - Navigating and Page Setup
- Lesson 5 - CorelDraw Test Drive
- Lesson 6 - Working with Single-and Multi-Page Documents
- Lesson 7 - Measuring and Drawing Helpers
- Lesson 8 - Creating Basic Shapes, Applying Transformations
- Lesson 9 - Moving, Scaling, Rotating: Basic Transformations
- Lesson 10 - Drawing and Editing Objects
- Lesson 11 - Editing Objects
- Lesson 12 - Getting Artistic with Text
- Lesson 13 - Typography Rules and Conventions
- Lesson 14 - Getting Your Words Perfect
- Lesson 15 - Filling Objectives
- Lesson 16 - Outline Attributes
- Lesson 17 - Digital Color Theory Put to Practice
- Lesson 18 - Working with Perspective
- Lesson 19 - Extruding Objects
- Lesson 20 - Envelope and Distortion Effects
- Lesson 21 - Blends and Contours
- Lesson 22 - Lens Effects, Transparency, Shadows, Glows, and Bevels
- Lesson 23 - Bitmap Boot Camp: Working with Photographs
- Lesson 24 - Advanced Photography Techniques with CorelDraw
- Lesson 25 - Graphic Designing Secrets
- Lesson 26 – Free Essential Tools for Graphic Designers
COURSE OUTLINE DETAILS
Lesson 1 - What’s New in CorelDraw X9 2017
- 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 Power TRACE
- New Pixel View
- New Document Palette
- Eyedroppers All Over the Place
- Adobe Application Compatibility
- Introducing Corel CONNECT
- Connecting with Your Content
- Clip Art and Photographs
- Fonts
- Templates
Lesson 2 - Exploring Your Workspace
- The CorelDraw X9 Workspace
- Specific Toolbar and Dialog Values
- Working with Dockers
- Using the Toolbox
- Working with Toolbars
- Using the Color Palette
Lesson 3 - Importing, Exporting, and Saving Design Work
- CorelDraw X9’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
- Choosing Export File Formats
Lesson 4 - Navigating and Page Setup
- Setting View Mode
- Zooming and Panning Pages
- Special View Modes
- Using the View Navigator
- Using the View Manager Docker
- Working with Views of a Document’s Depth: Layers
Lesson 5 - The CorelDraw Test Drive
- Begin a Design with a Concept
- Setting Up the Page for the Logo
- Using the Polygon Tool to Design a Gear Shape
- Welding an Edge to a Typed Character
- A Brief Excursion into Gradient Fills
- Going 3D
- Adding Text to the Logo
- Align, Group, Scale, Flip and Print
- The Test Drive Cross-Reference
Lesson 6 - Working with Single-and Multi-Page Documents
- Setting Up Your Document Page
- Naming Pages
- Page Commands
Lesson 7 - Measuring and Drawing Helpers
- Using the Ruler
- Introducing the Indispensable CorelDraw Grids
- Working with Guidelines, Dynamic Guides, and Guide Layers
- Working with Dynamic Guides
- Controlling the Guides Layer
- Using the Dimension Tools
Lesson 8 - Creating Basic Shapes, Applying Transformations
- CorelDraw X9’s Smart Drawing Tool
- Using the Rectangle Tool and Property Bar
- Using the Ellipse Tool and Property Bar
- Using Polygons and the Property Bar
- Using the Spiral Tool
- Using the Graph Paper Tool
- Using Perfect Shape Tools
- Using the Convert Outline to Object Command
Lesson 9 - Moving, Scaling, Rotating: Basic Transformations
- Basic Object Selection
- Moving Objects
- Transforming Objectives
- Applying Precise Transformations
- Controlling the Order of Things
Lesson 10 - Drawing and Editing Objects
- Introducing CorelDraw X9’s Curve Tools
- Using the Artistic Media Tool
- How to Draw in CorelDraw
- Drawing Arcs with the 3-Point Curve Tool
- Using the Bézier and Pen Tool
- Editing Bézier Paths
- Controlling Freehand and Bézier Tool Behavior
- Working with Compound Paths
Lesson 11 - Editing Objects
- Reshaping Things
- Shaping and Reshaping Object Shapes
- Working Examples of Object Shaping
- Fillet/Scallop/Chamfer
- Power Clips
- The Knife Tool
- Using the Eraser Tool
- Using the Virtual Segment Delete Tool
- Cropping an Illustration
- Using the Smudge Brush
- Using the Free Transform Tool
- The Roughen Brush
Lesson 12 - Getting Artistic with Text
- CorelDraw’s Text Tool
- The Text Bar and Special Paragraph Formatting
- Formatting Paragraph Text
- Wrapping Text Around Other Shapes
- Embedding Objects into Text
- Changing and Proofing Formatted Text
- Text and Styles
Lesson 13 - Typography Rules and Conventions
- Font Families and Font Styles
- Finding the Font you Need
- Finding and Saving Important Characters
- Font Etiquette: Using Fonts with Style and Appropriateness
Lesson 14 - Getting Your Words Perfect
- Using CorelDraw’s Writing Tools
- Using the Proofing Tools
- Setting Spell Checker Options
- Using Grammatik
- Using the Thesaurus
- Using Quick Correct
- Finding and Replacing Text and Special Characters
- Finding and Replacing Text Properties
- Tables
Lesson 15 - Filling Objectives
- Examining the Fill Types
- Using the Color Palette
- From Uniform to Non-Uniform Object Filling
- Uniform Color Fill Options on the Property Bar
- Applying a Fountain Fill
- Applying Pattern Fills
- Applying Texture Fills
- Applying PostScript Fills
- Applying Mesh Fills
- Sampling and Applying Fill Colors
Lesson 16 - Outline Attributes
- Applying Outline Pen Properties
- Outline Pen Options and the Property Bar
- Using the Outline Tool
- Exploring the Outline Pen Dialog
- Turning an Outline into and Object
Lesson 17 - Digital Color Theory Put to Practice
- Digital Color Terms and Definitions
- Using Color-Related Dockers
- Moving from Color Models to Other Ways to Define Color
- Using Fixed and Custom Palettes
- Color and Color Correction
Lesson 18 - Working with Perspective
- The Optical Principle of Perspective
- Experiments in Perspective
Lesson 19 - Extruding Objects
- Navigating the Interactive Markers
- Using the Extrude Tool and Property Bar
- Using Vector Extrude Presets
- Using the Extrude Docker
- Controlling Extrude Complexity Using Facet Size
Lesson 20 - Envelope and Distortion Effects
- Creating Envelope Effects
- Constraining Single Are Envelopes
- Using Envelope Shapes Between Objects
- Mastering Distortion Effects
- Using the Distort Tool and the Property Bar
- Using Distortion Presets
Lesson 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
Lesson 22 - Lens Effects, Transparency, Shadows, Glows, and Bevels
- What’s Behind a Lens Effect
- Using the Lens Docker
- Exploring the Lens Effects
- 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
Lesson 23 - Bitmap Boot Camp: Working with Photographs
- The Properties of a Pixel-Based Image
- Importing Bitmaps into a Document
- Placing and Modifying and Image
- An Everyday Bitmap-Oriented Workflow
Lesson 24 - Advanced Photography Techniques with CorelDraw
- Cropping a Placed Photograph
- Nondestructive Cropping
- Masking Through Nondestructive Cropping
- Boolean Operations as a Trimming Technique
- Working with Alpha Channels and Image Transparency
- Bitmaps to Vector Art: Using Power TRACE
Lesson 25 – Graphic Designing Secrets
- Concept Development
- Have Purposeful Hierarchy
- Practice Appropriate Word Spacing
- Use The Correct Alignment
- Always Use A Grid
- Always Design For Your Audience
- Have A Logical Color Palette
- Have A Consistent Font Palette
- Never Use Display Fonts For Body Copy
- Never Stretch Type
- Avoid Color Discord
- White Space
- Use The Right Tools
- Consider Your Medium
- Keep it simple
Lesson 26 – Free Essential Tools for Graphic Designers
- Free vector graphics
- Free templates and formats
- Free icons
