Simple, step-by-step instructions provide fast-track learning solutions. This guide details the powerful new features included in CorelDRAW's latest version. Handy page tabs offer easy access to specific tasks.

CorelDRAW 11 for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide offers step-by-step instructions covering all the basics of CorelDRAW 11, including all the newest features, page and document set-up, text special effects, object arrangement, symbols, clip art & bitmaps, and CorelDRAW components. Additional special topics include CorelDRAW and the Web, converting paragraph text to curves, and printing, preflighting, and creating PDF files. A must-have for all CorelDRAW 11 users.

Knowledge of desktop publishing is essential to securing a job as a computer operator or to start your own dtp studio. This 7- in - 1 book covers coreldraw, photoshop, pagemaker, quarkxpress, ms publisher, corel ventura, and adobe illustrator, besides necessary details about basics of printing and publishing all necessary components to create high quality brochures, books, flyers, newsletters, magazines etc.

CorelDRAW for Dummies simplifies this diverse bestselling graphics program and teaches task-specific features in an entertaining manner. Unlike other books on CorelDRAW that are dense, stern and over 1,000 pages, this book pulls readers into the book immediately with cleanly written, humorous text that explains how to accomplish tasks and build an array of skills necessary to using CorelDRAW.

The Only Corel-Authorized Guide to CorelDRAW X7 CorelDRAW X7: The Official Guide shows you how to create photorealistic illustrations, lay out text and graphics, import and edit photos, add special effects to vector art and photos, and transform 2D objects into 3D artwork. You'll also get expert tips for printing work that matches what you've designed on your monitor. Step-by-step tutorials based on downloadable sample files let you learn by doing. Explore and master CorelDRAW's menus, palettes, and dockers Add Paragraph Text, Artistic Text, and custom-shaped text to your designs Explore the new Content Exchange for access to new, exciting patterns and other fills Create the illusion of 3D objects with the Perspective and Extrude tools Dramatically edit objects with the Smear, Twirl, Attract, Repel, and Distortion tools Add elements of photorealism to your drawings with lens effects, transparency, shadows, glows, and bevels Combine photos with vector graphics in CorelDRAW, and perform advanced editing in PHOTO-PAINT

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

A visual guide to the features and functions of Adobe Photoshop explains how to alter or manipulate images with color, layers, text, light, filters, and masks.