With its extensive tools, techniques and special effects, CorelDRAW is one of the most popular drawing programs among PC-based graphic artists. This intensive workshop concentrates on the high-end capabilities of CorelDRAW for illustration and page layout.

What will be covered

• Creating and modifying, arranging and transforming objects
• Freehand drawing techniques
• Custom fills and outlines, gradient fills
• Color selection; creating custom colors
• Editing shapes
• Importing raster images, tracing, cropping & masking
• Using guidelines and grids for precise alignment
• Techniques for creating Web graphics and converting them to GIF/JPEG
• Text handling shortcuts for more professional results

• Using interactive tools: Drop shadows, transparencies, blends, distortions, fills and envelopes
• Blends — complex shapes, colors, compound & interactive blends
• Enveloping — straight, curved, free form & custom
• Perspective — fitting a drawing to an image
• Extrusion — rotate, color, highlight
• Contour techniques
• The graphing, spiral and polygon tools
• Creating and using symbols
• Bitmapped filter effects
• Using object/layer manager functions

Who should attend

This is a perfect workshop for those who have a basic understanding and some work experience with CorelDRAW and want to advance their skills. Small class sizes and plenty of over-the-shoulder guidance ensures you'll come away with practical techniques you'll put to use every day.

Prerequisites

To take this course, participants should have completed PCCI's CorelDRAW Fundamentals workshop, or have equivalent experience.

Presentation method

Class time will be divided between lecture-demonstrations and hands-on exercises. Each participant will have exclusive use of an IBM ThinkCenter (Pentium 4) workstation.