CorelDRAW Home & Student Suite X7 CorelDRAW® Home & Student Suite X7 offers fully-integrated applications and complementary plugins that cover everything from vector illustration and page layout, to photo editing, bitmap-to-vector tracing, and website design. CorelDRAW Home & Student X7 Workspace Title bar: Displays the title of the open document. Rulers: Calibrated lines with markers used to determine the size and position of objects in a drawing.
CorelDRAW Home & Student X7 toolbox 1 2 3 4 1 The Pick tool flyout lets you access the Pick 2 access the Shape Smear 6 Repel 8 , , and tools. access the Crop , Knife 10 segment delete tools. , and Eraser 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 4 access the Zoom 5 and Pan tools. Bézier , Pen Polyline , 2-point line , B-spline , 3-point curve Smart drawing , , , and tools. The Artistic media tool provides access to the Preset, Brush, Sprayer, Calligraphic, and Pressure tools.
Drawing shapes CorelDRAW Home & Student X7 offers a wide variety of tools for drawing shapes. Rectangles By dragging diagonally with the Rectangle tool , you can draw a rectangle or a square (when holding down Ctrl). The 3-point rectangle tool lets you quickly draw rectangles at an angle. Ellipses You can draw an ellipse by dragging diagonally with the Ellipse tool . Hold down Ctrl to constrain the shape to a circle. The 3-point ellipse tool lets you quickly draw an ellipse at an angle.
Insert Character docker To navigate the pages in a document, use the document navigator in the lower left of the application window. The Insert Character docker (Text Insert Character) presents all characters, symbols, and glyphs associated with a selected font, making it easier to find and insert characters into your documents. A filtering option lets you display only the character subsets that you want.
Grid and baseline grid The grid is a series of intersecting dashed lines or dots that you can use to precisely align and position objects in the drawing window. The baseline grid consists of lines that follow the pattern of a ruled sheet, helping you to align text baselines. To set up the grid and the baseline grid, click Tools Options, and click Grid in the Document list of categories. Guidelines Guidelines are lines that can be placed anywhere in the drawing window to aid in object placement.
Shaping objects You can change the shape of an object by using the Shape tool . Different types of objects can be shaped in different ways. The Twirl tool lets you click an object and hold to apply a twirl effect. The Attract and Repel tools let you shape objects by pulling nodes together or by pushing nodes apart. The Roughen tool lets you drag along an object’s edge to apply a jagged or spiked effect. Rectangles You can drag any corner of a rectangle with the Shape tool to round all corners.
Contour Object Properties docker You can contour an object to create a series of concentric lines that progress to the inside or outside of the object. The Object Properties docker (Window Dockers Object Properties) presents objectdependent formatting options and properties. To apply a contour, select an object, click Effects Contour, choose the settings you want in the Contour docker, and click Apply.
To fill an object, choose the type of fill you want in the Fill area of the Object Properties docker, and choose the fill options you want. To apply a mesh fill, use the Mesh fill tool . Choose colors A color palette is a collection of color swatches. You can choose both fill and outline colors by using the default color palette. The selected fill and outline colors appear in the color swatches on the status bar.
The Smart Carver (Image Smart Carver) makes it easy to remove unwanted areas from a photo and simultaneously adjust the photo’s aspect ratio without distorting the remaining content. menu in CorelDRAW Home & Student X7 or the Effects menu in Corel PHOTO-PAINT Home & Student X7. Brush picker 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.
Transparency You can change the transparency of an object to reveal image elements underneath. You can apply uniform, fountain, texture, or bitmap pattern transparencies. To apply transparency in Corel PHOTO-PAINT Home & Student X7, click the Object transparency tool , and use the controls on the property bar, or use the Transparency control in the Object Manager docker.
In addition, you can find content located on your computer, local network, or the websites of selected online content providers. When you find the content you need, you can import it into your document, open it in its associated application, or collect it in a tray for future reference. You can browse the available content, search by keywords, mark your favorites, vote for content that you like, or copy content from the Content Exchange to your personal folder. Corel Corporation 1600 Carling Ave.
