Reviewer’s Guide
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Table of Contents 1 | Introducing CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3 ....................1 More than 20 Years of Innovation...................................................................... 1 Putting the Customer First .................................................................................. 1 2 | CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3 Customer Profiles..........3 Design Professionals ............................................................................................ 3 Occasional Business Users .......
1 Introducing CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite X3 More than 20 Years of Innovation In 1985, Corel was founded on the promise of CorelDRAW®. Back then, a small development team building desktop-publishing solutions realized that there should be a better way to create graphics with a computer. Their eureka moment became CorelDRAW, a startlingly original application that set a new standard for graphics software.
images, the new Corel® PowerTRACE has been added. This makes bitmap-tovector conversion quick and easy. In addition, the new, integrated Image Adjustment Lab simplifies the process of correcting image color and tone — with professional results. CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3 also introduces several new tools that help design professionals and occasional business users achieve their intended result faster. The new Star, Complex Star, Crop, and Smart Fill tools are sure to save users valuable time.
2 CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite X3 Customer Profiles Design Professionals Design professionals in the advertising and printing industries spend much of their time creating and editing graphics, working with text, and retouching photos. These users frequently work on layout and design projects, such as creating logos and multipage brochures. Other design professionals focus primarily on sign making, screen printing, and engraving, and they may also work on other projects.
3 What’s Included with CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite X3? Main Applications • CorelDRAW® X3: CorelDRAW X3 is an intuitive graphic design and page layout application that meets the demands of today’s busy design professionals and occasional business users. It delivers results fast, whether users are creating a company logo or working toward demanding production schedules.
Documentation • User Guide • New! CorelDRAW® Handbook – Insight from the Experts: This new book provides insights from CorelDRAW experts and showcases practical, real-world examples of accomplished designs. By deconstructing designs and sharing their wisdom and best practices, experts from a variety of industries demonstrate the power of CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3. • Digital Content Guide • Quick Reference Card • Help files Training • Training videos by lynda.
4 Top New Features for Design Professionals CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3 provides more than 40 new and enhanced features that benefit the workflow of design professionals, whether they work in advertising, printing, sign-making, engraving, or manufacturing. Illustrate — It’s about Productivity Professional designers often work toward demanding production schedules, sometimes for multiple projects simultaneously. They need intuitive tools that give them expected results the first time.
area can be filled. For example, the Smart Fill tool can fill the loops of a freehand line that crosses over itself. The Smart Fill tool creates a path around the area, so the filled object can be moved, copied, or edited. The Smart Fill tool was used on a freehand sketch (left) to color the objects (center), and to color the entire sketch (right). Give it a try Using the Smart Fill tool 1 Click the Freehand 2 Open the Smart tools tool, and draw some concentric circles.
Original text (top), the Emboss effect (middle), and the Bevel effect (bottom). Give it a try Using the Bevel docker 1 Click the Text type. tool, click anywhere in the drawing window, and 2 Select the text, and click a green color swatch on the on-screen color palette. 3 Click Window ` Dockers ` Bevel. 4 On the Bevel docker, choose Shaded from the Style list box. 5 In the Bevel offset area, enable the To Center option. 6 From the Shadow Color list box, choose a color.
Enhanced! Interactive Contour tool: With the enhanced Interactive Contour tool, users can quickly and easily contour objects with optimal curve results. Enhanced! Optimize nodes in existing objects: CorelDRAW X3 provides convenient, new options on the property bar for optimizing the nodes of currently selected objects. Professional designers often encounter vectorized images and other content containing curves with extra nodes. The extra nodes can sometimes number in the thousands.
commands work across layers, making it simple to position objects precisely in the stacking order and reducing the need to use the Object Manager docker. Give it a try Changing the order of objects 1 Select an object.
Enhanced! Clone command: The Clone command has been added to the Edit menu, allowing users to access it more quickly. A clone is a copy of an object, or image area, that is linked to a master object or image area. Changes made to the master object are automatically applied to its clones. Trace — It’s about Accuracy CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3 provides a more streamlined, integrated tracing solution that delivers accurate and optimized bitmap-to-vector tracing results.
Give it a try 4 In the Trace dialog box, adjust either of the following sliders in the Trace Control area: • Smoothing — to smooth curved lines and control the number of nodes in the traced result • Detail — to control preservation of original detail 5 To adjust the colors of the traced result, click the Colors tab, click a color swatch, and then click Edit. Use the Select Color dialog box to pick a new color, and click OK. 6 To change the color mode, choose a new color mode from the Color Mode list box.
use of image cache provides significantly increased response time for previewing most effects and for manipulating objects. Left to right: original object with handles; original object with rotate handles; rotated object with rotate handles; rotated object with resize handles. New! Pixmantec® RawShooter™ essentials: This raw workflow tool provides the highest-quality output and fastest conversion time of any raw converter on the market today.
The Image Adjustment Lab provides a before and after preview, snapshots, and image correction controls. Give it a try Using the Image Adjustment Lab in Corel PHOTO-PAINT® X3 1 Click File ` Open. 2 In the Open An Image dialog box, select an image, and click Open. 3 Click Adjust ` Image Adjustment Lab.
Give it a try Using the Image Adjustment Lab in CorelDRAW® X3 1 Click File ` Import. 2 In the Import dialog box, select an image to adjust, click Import, and click where you want to place the image. 3 Click Bitmaps ` Image Adjustment Lab. 4 In the Image Adjustment Lab, click Auto-adjust. This automatically corrects color and contrast by setting the image’s white point and black point.
Give it a try Using the Cutout Lab 1 Start Corel PHOTO-PAINT X3, and open an image. 2 Click Image ` Cutout Lab. 3 In the Cutout Lab dialog box, click the Highlighter tool. 4 In the preview window, draw a line along the edges of the image area that you want to cut out. 5 Click the Inside Fill out. tool, and click inside the area you want to cut 6 Click Preview. 7 If necessary, use the Add Detail refine your cutout object.
Enhanced! Brush size and shape controls: Corel PHOTO-PAINT X3 now provides controls on the property bar that make it quick and easy for users to adjust brush size and shape. Users can quickly choose from many squared, rounded, and patterned nib shapes. Layout — It’s about Quality Results When designing logos, multipage brochures, signs, and posters, text is often a critical design element.
Give it a try Using the Character Formatting docker 1 Click the Text type. tool, click anywhere in the drawing window, and 2 With the text selected, click Text ` Character Formatting. 3 To change the font type, choose a font from the Font list. 4 To adjust the kerning, type a value in the Range Kerning box.
In addition, users can scale the text after it has been placed on a path by simply selecting both the text and the path and dragging one of the handles. Text and curve as separate objects (top left); choosing a path with Fit Text to Path tool (top middle); aligning the text while fitting it to the path (top right); text fitted to path (bottom left); interactive feedback while setting offset distance (bottom middle); and stretching the text and the curve by 200% horizontally (bottom right).
New! Preview overprints: With CorelDRAW X3, the new Enhanced With Overprints viewing mode simulates the color of areas where overlapping objects were set to overprint. This helps users to output projects for printing with confidence. Cyan, magenta, and yellow overlapping circles (left); the same circles with the Enhanced with Overprints viewing mode activated (right). Give it a try Viewing overprints 1 Click View ` Enhanced with Overprints. 2 Click the Ellipse window.
formats. Outstanding support for spot colors has been added for Adobe Illustrator, PhotoShop, and PDF. Enhanced! Color Management: Color management has been enhanced so that users can now control whether the color mode used for effects is RGB or CMYK. In addition, support for CMYK compositing color space has been added. When proper device profiles are used, this results in more accurate matching between the on-screen display and printed output of CMYK colors.
5 Top New Features for Occasional Business Users Powerful and easy to use, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3 provides many new and enhanced features to help occasional business users achieve professional results when producing marketing collateral, flyers, newsletters, brochures, Web graphics, and other projects. Ease of Use CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3 includes many new features that simplify the creation of professional-looking marketing and sales materials.
New! CorelDRAW® Design Collection: The CorelDRAW Design Collection provides 100 creatively varied templates that are easily customized to suit specific needs. For business users, particularly small business owners that prefer to create marketing and sales materials in-house, these templates offer an easy way to carry a creative theme over multiple projects, such as business cards, brochures, and letterhead.
Give it a try Using the Image Adjustment Lab in CorelDRAW® X3 1 Click File ` Import. 2 In the Import dialog box, select an image to adjust, and click Import. 3 Click where you want to place the image, and then click Bitmaps ` Image Adjustment Lab. 4 In the Image Adjustment Lab, click Auto-adjust. This automatically corrects color and contrast by setting the image’s white point and black point.
Give it a try Using the Cutout Lab 1 Start Corel PHOTO-PAINT X3, and open an image. 2 Click Image ` Cutout Lab. 3 In the Cutout Lab dialog box, click the Highlighter tool. 4 In the preview window, draw a line along the edges of the image area that you want to cut out. 5 Click the Inside Fill out. tool, and click inside the area you want to cut 6 Click Preview. 7 If necessary, use the Add Detail refine your cutout object.
New! Paragraph Formatting docker: The new Paragraph Formatting docker gives users quick access to common text formatting settings, such as alignment, word and paragraph spacing, and indents. This dockers simplifies the process of adjusting the formatting of paragraph text. Give it a try Using the Paragraph Formatting docker 1 Click the Text tool, drag in the drawing window to size the paragraph text frame, and type a paragraph or two. 2 Select the text, and click Text ` Paragraph Formatting.
Give it a try Using the interactive Fit Text to Path tool 1 Click the Freehand 2 Click the Text type. tool, and draw a curved line to use as a path. tool, click anywhere in the drawing window, and 3 Click Text ` Fit Text To Path. The pointer changes to the Fit Text to Path pointer. As you move the pointer along the path, a preview of where the text will be fitted is displayed. 4 Move the pointer along the path and click to fit the text. With a closed path, the text is centered along the path.
New! Crop tool: A significant time-saver, the new Crop tool quickly lets users remove unwanted areas in objects and imported graphics — both bitmap and vector. This handy addition to the toolbox eliminates the need to ungroup objects, break linked groups apart, or convert objects to curves. The new Crop tool was used to crop separate objects in one step. New! Content: CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3 includes more than 10,000 clipart and digital images individually selected for the best quality.
accessed, edited, and reproduced. In addition, users can set a password that lets them control who can access a PDF file. Enhanced! Publish To PDF: Corel continues to help business users ensure that their designs are portable with updated Publish To PDF functionality. New enhancements for CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3 include full transparency and spot color support. In addition, users can now convert text in their designs to curves in the resultant PDF file.
6 Summary of New and Enhanced Features Illustrate — It’s about Productivity • Create perfect five-point stars every time with the new Star tool. • Quickly and easily create intricate stars with intersecting sides with the new Complex Star tool. • Use the unique, new Smart Fill tool to apply fills to any enclosed object area, such as the loops of a freehand line that crosses over itself. • Save time and steps when removing unwanted object areas with the new Crop tool.
• Easily discover new and enhanced features added since versions 9, 10, 11, and 12 with the new Highlight What’s New menu command. • View breathtaking projects and learn from the masters with the new CorelDRAW® Handbook - Insights from the Experts. • Take advantage of the new CorelDRAW Design Collection, which includes 100 customizable creative templates. • Leverage extra content for your designs with 10,000 individually selected images, 1,000 OpenType fonts, and 35 WGL4 fonts.
• Quickly and easily choose brush shapes and sizes with the new property bar options. • Obtain excellent results with minimum effort from the new Pixmantec® RawShooter™ essentials when working with digital images in raw format. • Gain control, improve accuracy, and simplify the process when cutting out image areas with the enhanced Cutout Lab. • Easily create new spot color channels for any image.
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