Introduction

• About CorelDraw?
• Understanding Bitmap and Vector graphics
• Different File Types
• The Welcome Screen
• Workspace Tour and Overview
• Help Documentation
• General Settings and Customization

Customizing the Workspace

• Working wit your workspace
• Customizing toolbars and menus
• Customizing color palettes

Getting Started with your Artwork

• Creating a new file
• Customizing a page
• Opening a file
• Saving a file
• Importing files
• Exporting Files
• Exporting to MS Word

Pages and Layouts

• Page navigator
• Creating multiple pages
• Managing multiple pages

Guideline and Grids

• Working with Guidelines
• Working with Grids
• Snap To options

Creating Objects

• Creating shapes
• Polygons, stars, and graph paper
• The Perfect Shapes Collection
• Lines and curves
• Node editing using the Shape Tool

Objects Transformation

• Selecting/deleting objects
• Modifying objects
• Arranging objects
• Working with multiple objects
• Converting objects
• Locking objects

Design Time Savers

• Cut, copy and paste
• Duplicating and cloning objects
• Using the Step and Repeat docker
• Undo/redo/repeat
• Working with symbols

Working with Artistic Text

• Working with the Text Tool to create Artistic Text
• Fitting text to a path
• The character formatting docker
• Spelling and Quickcorrect

Working with Paragraph Text

• Working with the Text Tool to create Paragraph Text
• The paragraph formatting docker
• Linking paragraph text frames
• Working with columns
• Additional paragraph features

Color Outlines and Fills

• Introducing color palettes
• Understanding Spot Color
• Color filling options
• Color outline objects
• Using the Eyedropper and Paint bucket Tools
• Using the Smartfill Tool

Layers and the Object Manager

• Working with layers
• Layer properties
• Using the master layer

Viewing Your Work

• View modes
• Preview modes
• Using the View Manager
• Using the Zoom Tool

Find and Replace

• Find and replace objects
• Find and replace text

Bitmaps

• Applying effects to a bitmap
• Using the Image Adjustment Lab
• Cropping bitmaps
• Converting vector objects to bitmaps

Shaping Objects

• Shaping objects
• Power Clipping objects
• Adding envelopes
• Working the corners

The Interactive Tools

• Interactive Blend Tool
• Interactive Contour Tool
• Interactive Distortion Tool
• Interactive Drop Shadow Tool
• Interactive Extrude Tool
• Interactive Transparency Tool
• Interactive Fill Tool

More Special Effects

• Adding perspective
• Using the lens effect
• Adding bevels

Converting Bitmap to Vector thru Tracing

• Tracing Basics
• Bezier Tool vs Pen Tool
• Manipulating lines and curves
• Comparing bitmap from your trace output

Printing

• Printing basics explained
• Print preview basics