CorelDraw

Course Code: CD01

Introductory Level
A One Day Course, but two days recommended to cover the full outline. This course is run on a customised basis. Please ask for details of dates and prices.

Course Objectives
This course enables trainees to:
edit/manipulate shapes, text or imported images
create custom colour separations.

The outline below is a one day course, but we recommend two days which would also incorporates the topics overleaf.

Course Outline

Tools & Controls
Toolbox, Status Bar, Tool-Bars, Wire Frame & Preview Displays, Roll-Up

Menu Boxes
Manipulating Objects
Selecting; Moving; Rotating; Skewing, Cancelling & Deselecting, Using Shift Key; Applying to Duplicate

Page Set-up
Frame, Colour, The Text Tool, Artistic & Paragraph Text, Using Text Toolbar; Typefaces or Fonts, Modifying Artistic Text, Fit Text to Path Roll-up

Other Text Tools
Spell Checker: Thesaurus: Find & Replace; Import file via File Menu, & Multi-column Text; Create Multiple Text Blocks; Paragraph Command; Bullets

Grouping & Shaping Objects
Grouping, Un-grouping & Combining; Breaking Apart; Weld, Intersection & Trim

Outline & Fills
Line Attributes; Dashing & Arrowheads; Corners & Line Caps; Uniform colour; CMYK (Process) & RGB Colour; Fountain Fills; Presets; Stripes; Rainbow & Custom Fountain Fills

Grid & Guidelines
The Shape Tool
Selecting, Moving, Joining & Editing Nodes

The Shape Tool with Text
Character-spacing, Attributes & Movement; Nudging Characters; Line Spacing

Importing Images
Types of Graphics File; Clip Art; Working with Bitmaps

Exporting Images
File Formats; Export; Windows Metafile; Encapsulated PostScript (EPS); Computer Graphic (CGM)

Target Audience
This course is intended for people who have not used graphics packages before. It can be adapted for users who already have some experience.

Pre-requisites
Delegates should have experience in using PCs and Windows. We have training courses for people who require this background - please ask for details

Further Topics

Drawing Objects

Arranging Objects
Aligning, combining, grouping, shaping, layering, ruler, snap-to-grids, guidelines and objects, constraining, flattening, joining, matching, reducing

Text Work
Fonts; Fitting to shape

Graphics
Presentation techniques

Clipboard
Copy, paste, paste special

Page Layout
Frames; Orientation; Backgrounds; Templates; Multiple Pages

Working with Bitmaps
Cropping; Editing; Export considerations; Skewing; Rotating;Transforming

ClipArt Effects
Blend; Envelope, Lens; Perspective

Filling
Fountain Fills; Gradients; Textures

Importing and Exporting
Bullet Lists
Saving and File Management
And More…