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Author: Gary David Bouton
ISBN : 0071790071
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The only official guide to CorelDRAW—fully updated throughout to cover all the new features of the latest release
CorelDRAW X The Official Guide is the one-stop tutorial/reference for learning how to create gorgeous graphics for a variety of print and web uses. Veteran graphic designer and author Gary Bouton shows you how to use the new product features, and shows off beautiful graphics and techniques in this Corel-authorized guide. Packed with examples and techniques, this book delivers details no CorelDRAW user can afford to be without!
Ideal for beginners through experts getting started on the new release, the book explains how to install the software, use the illustration and drawing tools, work with text, apply colors, fills, and outlines, apply special effects, and work in 3D.
CorelDRAW X The Official Guide
- Offers hundreds of tips, tricks, and shortcuts that show how to get the most out of product features, not just what the features do
- Includes online access to 30+ video tutorials of hands-on instruction from the author, plus CorelDRAW native files, stock images for tutorials in Corel PHOTO-PAINT, custom typefaces designed by the author, and other useful starter pieces for learning CorelDRAW
- Includes a full-color insert demonstrating results of various filters and effects
- Provides a comprehensive CorelDRAW X reference as well as drawing tips and illustration techniques
- Discusses print and web use and potential issues
- Explains how to use PHOTO-PAINT, Corel’s image-editing tool
Books with free ebook downloads available CorelDRAW X6 The Official Guide [Paperback] Free Download
- Series: The Official Guide
- Paperback: 864 pages
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media; 1 edition (July 24, 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0071790071
- ISBN-13: 978-0071790079
- Product Dimensions: 1.7 x 7.2 x 9 inches
- Shipping Weight: 3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
CorelDRAW X6 The Official Guide Free Download
I'm a professional freelance artist and designer recently moving from Adobe Ai and Ps (10+ years of experience) to the CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X6. I purchased this book after having read through the introductory Guidebook included with the software because, as an Adobe Ai user trying CorelDRAW for the first time, I feared that the often forewarned steep learning curve for the new software might make me give up on learning it altogether either out of frustration or as the result of an impaired workflow that would ultimately affect my productivity.
Thankfully, my fears did not materialize because of this book, and I am still as impressed with it as I am with the software: the detailed and simple-to-follow step-by-step instructions, the abundant and thoroughly annotated illustrations, and the opportune tips, tricks and clarifications allowed me to not only learn my way around CorelDRAW and the CDGSX6 in less than 3 weeks (basically the time it took me to read the book and put the how-to lessons into practice) but learn it well enough to improve my previous workflow (customizing the software to my needs) to the point of accomplishing the same results I normally achieved with Adobe Ai but in a lot less time.
One of the strengths of this book is that the material is organized in a logical progression that invariably moves from basic concepts to advanced features, making it not only easy to gain a full understanding of each concept but also to use the accumulated knowledge as a solid foundation for further and more complex learning and experimentation, all the while aiding long-term retention of the lessons.
CorelDraw is a powerful application for putting together very detailed and complex graphical designs. In the hands of someone who knows how to use it, it is an amazing software application and it provides a staggering amount of power and control. For the less knowledgeable it is simply overwhelming, likely causing more frustration than anything else. For many years I have played with CorelDraw but my knowledge has been only on the absolute surface - I never really harnessed the real power available and it was more of an expensive plaything instead of a tool. I finally decided with CorelDraw X6 to truly learn how to use the application, and after a little bit of research I settled on buying CorelDraw X6: The Official Guide. This has been one of the better book purchases I have made and has provided me with exactly what I have needed to get moving.
The book presents topics with tutorial information that allows the reader to actually work through a concept rather than simply read about it, and this approach definitely works. Each tutorial is laid out in a numbered step-by-step manner and makes following along very easy and straightforward. Support files for the tutorials are available online and it is a very good idea to get these files so that the tutorials make a lot more sense.
The tutorials are usually spot on. However, one thing that has been slightly frustrating is that the CorelDraw interface uses button groups instead of individual buttons and this means that on occasion there are specific buttons needed for a tutorial that are not visible as the default in the group. On several occasions this has meant, for me, digging through the online help in search of information on where to locate a function.