Quick Start Guide
Table Of Contents
- CorelDRAW X8 Workspace
- The Welcome screen
- Workspace selection
- CorelDRAW X8 toolbox
- Templates
- Drawing lines
- Drawing shapes
- Text
- Page layout
- Working with objects
- Shaping objects
- Effects
- Fills and outlines
- Color management
- QR codes
- Importing files
- Pixels view
- Editing photos
- Tracing bitmaps
- Exporting files
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Corel Font Manager™
- Corel® CONNECT™
- Get More docker
Editing photos
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite offers a large number of features
to effectively and efficiently edit photos and other bitmaps.
Some of these features are available only in
Corel® PHOTO-PAINT®.
Remove unwanted areas from photos and
fix imperfections
The Cutout Lab in Corel PHOTO-PAINT (Image Cutout Lab)
lets you cut out image areas from the surrounding
background. This feature allows you to isolate image areas
and preserve edge detail, such as hair or blurred edges.
The Healing Clone tool
discreetly removes unwanted spots
and imperfections from an image
by painting with sampled texture
and matching it to the color of the
area that you’re retouching.
RAW camera files
When importing RAW camera files, you can view information
about file properties and camera settings, adjust image color
and tone, and improve image quality.
Straighten images
With the Straighten Image dialog box, you can straighten
photos that were taken or scanned at an angle, remove
pincushion and barrel lens distortions, and correct
perspective distortions. To access the Straighten Image Lab,
click Bitmaps
Straighten Image (CorelDRAW) or Adjust
Straighten Image (Corel PHOTO-PAINT).
Image Adjustment Lab
The Image Adjustment Lab consists of automatic and manual
controls, which are organized in a logical order for image
correction, starting in the upper-right corner. It is best to crop
or retouch any areas of the image before beginning the color
and tone corrections.
To access the Image Adjustment Lab, click Bitmaps
Image Adjustment Lab (CorelDRAW) or Adjust
Image
Adjustment Lab (Corel PHOTO-PAINT).
Special effects
Camera effects, such as Bokeh blur, Colorize, Sepia Toning,
and Time Machine, give your photos unique visual
appearance and help you recreate historic photographic
styles. Special effects can be accessed from the Bitmaps
menu in CorelDRAW or the Effects menu in Corel PHOTO-
PAINT.
Object Manager docker
The Object Manager docker in Corel PHOTO-PAINT (Window
Dockers Object Manager) lets you view and manage the
objects in your image. For example, you can hide, display,
rename, or change the stacking order of objects. You can also
choose a merge mode, which determines the way an object
blends with underlying objects.