Contents 1 | Introducing CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X6 ........................................................ 2 2 | Customer profiles ............................................................................................... 4 Graphics professionals .................................................................................................................... 4 Occasional graphics users ...............................................................................................................
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Introducing CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite X6 CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite X6 is a trusted and comprehensive solution for designing visual communications for any medium. Whether you’re an experienced or an aspiring designer, its intuitive workflow and content-rich environment will help you to efficiently express your creativity. You can start smoothly, learn quickly, and create with confidence.
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Customer profiles Graphics professionals Occasional graphics users Graphics professionals in advertising and printing industries spend much of their time creating and editing graphics, working with text, and retouching photos. With time-saving features such as interactive layout tables, live text formatting, and independent page layers, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X6 provides innovative design tools that optimize their workflow.
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What’s included? Applications Content • CorelDRAW® X6: This intuitive vectorillustration and page-layout application meets the demands of today’s busy graphics professionals and graphics non-professionals. • 10,000 high-quality clipart and images • Corel® PHOTO-PAINT™ X6: This professional image-editing application lets you quickly and easily retouch and enhance photos.
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Top new and enhanced features CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X6 is trusted illustration and design software. Its intuitive and content-rich environment fits seamlessly into your workflow to help you express your creative ideas compellingly. You can get started immediately, learn as you go, and design with confidence for any medium. content. For example, you might be working on a project that requires photos, vector graphics, and bitmap icons.
such as a person in the photo. The versatile Object Removal brush lets you choose to paint either the area of the photo that you want to preserve or the area that you want to remove. You can also use the Smart Carver to change a photo’s aspect ratio without distorting anything in the photo. For example, if you want to resize a photo to print at a certain size, you can paint the photo’s subjects and then use the Smart Carving presets to contract or expand the photo’s background vertically and horizontally.
Give it a try Using the Smear tool 1 In CorelDRAW X6, create an object of any kind. For example, choose the Ellipse create a circular shape. 2 Click the Smear tool to tool. 3 To adjust the radius of the brush nib, type a value in the Nib radius box on the property bar. 4 On the property bar, click either the Smooth or the Pointy smear button. The difference between a smooth smear and pointy smear is noticeable only with higher Pressure values.
New & Enhanced! Object Properties docker: In CorelDRAW X6, the redesigned Object Properties docker now presents only object-dependent formatting options and properties. By grouping all object settings in one location, this time-saving docker helps you finetune your designs faster than ever before. For example, if you create a rectangle, the Object Properties docker automatically presents outline, fill, and corner formatting options, as well as the rectangle’s properties.
Create layouts with ease With new and improved Master Layer functionality, new temporary Alignment Guides, new advanced OpenType support, and enhanced complex script support for working with foreign language text, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X6 makes it easier than ever before to lay out your project.
New! Interactive frames: CorelDRAW X6 provides interactive frames that help you efficiently generate mock-ups of design ideas. The new empty PowerClip and text frame functionality lets you populate your designs with placeholder PowerClip and text frames, which makes it easier to preview a layout before finalizing its individual content components.
New! Placeholder text: With CorelDRAW X6, the new Insert Placeholder Text command lets you right-click any text frame and immediately populate it with placeholder text. This makes it easier to assess the appearance of your document prior to finalizing its content. For convenience and flexibility, you can also use custom placeholder text in any language supported by CorelDRAW.
Design with style and creativity With its dramatically improved styles engine, new Object Styles docker, new Color Styles implementation, new Color Harmony functionality, and content-ready picture frames, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X6 helps you focus on bringing your unique sense of style and creativity to your designs. New! Styles engine and docker: The completely revamped styles engine introduces a new Object Styles docker that simplifies the creation, application, and management of styles.
New! Color harmonies: The new color harmony functionality lets you group a document’s color styles so that you can quickly and easily produce iterative designs with varying color schemes. By combining two or more color styles into a harmony, you are linking the colors into a hue-based relationship. This lets you modify them collectively, altering the color composition of your artwork in one step to quickly prepare a variety of alternate color schemes.
New! Interactive websites: With a collection of Asynchronous JavaScript® and XML (AJAX) widgets, Corel Website Creator X6 makes it easy to design websites that feature dynamic user interactivity. You can instantly add customizable page elements, such as accordions, tabbed panels, and toggle panes, which provide a more interactive experience for website visitors. The Corel Website Creator X6 workspace.
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CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite user favorites CorelDRAW Graphics Suite users continue to enjoy many of the following features that have been cornerstones of the suite for years. Corel® PowerTRACE™: This utility lets you quickly and accurately convert bitmaps into editable and scalable vector images, which is especially useful for design work that’s based on existing artwork. PowerTRACE generates a color palette, which lets you instantly edit, merge, or delete specific colors used by the original artwork.
Mesh Fill tool: You can create unique effects by filling an object with a mesh fill. For example, you can create smooth color transitions in any direction without having to create blends or contours. The Mesh Fill tool lets you specify the grid’s intersecting points as well as the number of columns and rows in the grid. Smart Fill tool: This convenient tool detects the edges of an area and creates a closed path so that the area can be filled. By using the Smart Fill tool, you can fill practically anything.
Drop Shadow tool: You can create drop shadows that simulate light falling on an object from either a flat, right, left, bottom, or top perspective. You can also easily adjust attributes of the drop shadow, such as color, opacity, fade level, angle, and feathering. Color Proof Settings docker: This docker helps you efficiently prepare artwork for various output devices.
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Summary of new and enhanced features The following is a list of the new and enhanced features offered by CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X6. Work faster and more efficiently • Quickly design website pages with simple drag-and-drop capability that lets you place text, images, and other elements exactly where you want them. • Work faster than ever before with large files in CorelDRAW and large images in Corel PHOTOPAINT thanks to native support for 64-bit processors.
• Instantly add pages numbers — alphabetic, numeric, or roman — on all pages of a document, starting on a specific page, or starting at a particular number by using the new Insert Page Number command. • Take advantage of new and improved odd, even, and all-pages Master Layers to create page-specific designs for your multipage documents easier than ever before. Design with style and creativity • Easily create outline, fill, character, and paragraph styles with the new Object Styles docker.
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