Corel Draw Graphics Suite X3 Owner's manual

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Table of contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i
Welcome to CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
CorelDRAW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19
Corel PHOTO-PAINT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .247
CorelDRAW Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .431
Corel PHOTO-PAINT Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .451
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Table of contents
Section I: Welcome to CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3
Welcome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3 applications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
What’s new in CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Installing CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3 applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Changing the language of the user interface and Help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Registering Corel products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Updating Corel products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Corel Support Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Documentation conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Getting help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
VBA Programming Guide. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Customer feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Other resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
About Corel Corporation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Section II: CorelDRAW
Workspace tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19
CorelDRAW terminology and concepts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
CorelDRAW application window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
CorelDRAW workspace tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Getting started in CorelDRAW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33
About vector graphics and bitmaps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Starting and opening drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Finding, inserting, and storing drawing content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Exploring the basic features of CorelDRAW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Undoing, redoing, and repeating actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Zooming and panning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Saving drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Closing drawings and quitting CorelDRAW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
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Working with lines, outlines, and brush strokes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45
Drawing lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Drawing calligraphic, pressure-sensitive, and preset lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Formatting lines and outlines. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Copying, converting, and removing outlines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Applying brush strokes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Spraying objects along a line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Drawing flow and dimension lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Drawing shapes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .63
Drawing rectangles and squares . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Drawing ellipses, circles, arcs, and pie shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Drawing polygons and stars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Drawing spirals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Drawing grids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Drawing predefined shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Drawing by using shape recognition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Working with objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .77
Selecting objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Copying, duplicating, and deleting objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Creating objects from enclosed areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Creating a boundary around selected objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Copying object properties, transformations, and effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Positioning objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Aligning and distributing objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Snapping objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Using dynamic guides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Changing the order of objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Sizing and scaling objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Rotating and mirroring objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Grouping objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Combining objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Shaping objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .107
Using curve objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
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Shaping curve objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Applying distortion effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Shaping objects by using envelopes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Cropping, splitting, and erasing objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Filleting, scalloping, and chamfering corners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Welding and intersecting objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Creating PowerClip objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Filling objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .133
Applying uniform fills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Applying fountain fills. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Applying pattern fills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Applying fills to areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Working with fills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Working with color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .141
Choosing colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Adding three-dimensional effects to objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .145
Contouring objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Applying perspective to objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Creating vector extrusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Creating bevel effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Creating drop shadows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Blending objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Changing the transparency of objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .163
Applying transparencies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Working with pages and layout tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .165
Specifying the page layout. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Choosing a page background. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Adding, renaming, and deleting pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Using the rulers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Setting up the grid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Setting up guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
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Working with layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .175
Creating layers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Changing layer properties and stacking order. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Moving and copying objects between layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Adding and formatting text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .181
Adding and selecting text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Changing the appearance of text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
Finding, editing, and converting text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
Aligning and spacing text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
Shifting and rotating text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Moving text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
Fitting text to a path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Formatting paragraph text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Hyphenating text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
Combining and linking paragraph text frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Wrapping paragraph text around objects and text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Inserting formatting codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
Working with bitmaps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .207
Converting vector graphics to bitmaps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Adding bitmaps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
Cropping and editing bitmaps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Applying special effects to bitmaps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Adjusting color and tone quickly in the Image Adjustment Lab . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
Editing bitmaps in Corel PHOTO-PAINT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
Tracing bitmaps and editing traced results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .213
Tracing bitmaps. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Previewing traced results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Controlling the colors of traced results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
Tips for tracing bitmaps. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
Printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .221
Printing your work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Laying out print jobs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
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Previewing print jobs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
Commercial printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .225
Preparing a print job for a service bureau. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
Printing printers’ marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
Printing color separations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
Printing to film . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
Publishing to PDF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .233
Saving documents as PDF files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
Setting security options for PDF files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
Importing and exporting files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .239
Importing files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Exporting files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Section III: Corel PHOTO-PAINT
Corel PHOTO-PAINT workspace tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .247
Corel PHOTO-PAINT terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
Exploring the application window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
Toolbars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
Toolbox. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
Property bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256
Dockers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
Status bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
Viewing images and obtaining image information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .259
Viewing images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
Zooming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
Obtaining image information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
Working with color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .263
Choosing colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
Creating custom color palettes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
Using spot color channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
Changing color modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .273
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Changing the color mode of images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
Changing images to the paletted color mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274
Bringing images into Corel PHOTO-PAINT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .277
Opening images. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
Importing files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
Acquiring images from scanners and digital cameras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278
Working with vector graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
Cropping and changing orientation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .281
Cropping images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281
Stitching images together . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
Changing image orientation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
Adjusting color and tone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .287
Adjusting color and tone quickly in the Image Adjustment Lab . . . . . . . . . . . . 287
Adjusting image color and tone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
Working with color channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
Changing image dimensions, resolution, and paper size. . . . . . . . . . . .301
Changing image dimensions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301
Changing image resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302
Changing the paper size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303
Painting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .305
Drawing shapes and lines. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305
Applying brush strokes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307
Spraying images. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310
Repeating brush strokes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312
Using a pressure-sensitive pen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313
Retouching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .315
Improving scanned images. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315
Removing red-eye . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316
Removing dust and scratch marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
Cloning image areas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319
Sharpening images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321
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Erasing image areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323
Smearing, smudging, and blending colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325
Working with lenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .327
Creating lenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
Editing lenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328
Combining lenses with the image background. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330
Masking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .331
Distinguishing protected and editable areas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331
Defining editable areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332
Defining editable areas by using color information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334
Inverting and removing masks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338
Cutting out images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338
Applying special effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .343
Working with special effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343
Applying preset styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345
Applying color and tone effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346
Managing plug-ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347
Filling images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .349
Applying uniform fills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349
Applying fountain fills. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350
Applying bitmap fills. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352
Applying texture fills. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354
Applying gradient fills. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355
Working with objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .357
Creating objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357
Grouping and combining objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360
Modifying objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .363
Transforming objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363
Changing the edges of objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367
Adding drop shadows to objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370
Creating images for the Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .373
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Exporting and optimizing images for the Web. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373
Creating and editing rollovers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375
Saving and closing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .381
Saving images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381
Exporting images to other file formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382
Closing images. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384
Managing color for display, input, and output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .385
Working with color profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385
Choosing advanced color management settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387
Correcting colors for display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388
Printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .389
Printing your work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389
Laying out print jobs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390
Previewing print jobs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391
Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .393
Section I: Welcome to
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3
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Welcome
CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite X3 delivers powerful software for graphic design, page
layout, and photo editing.
In this section, you’ll learn about
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3 applications
what’s new in CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3
installing CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3 applications
changing the language of the user interface and Help
registering Corel products
updating Corel products
Corel® Support Service™
documentation conventions
getting help
customer feedback
•other resources
about Corel Corporation
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3 applications
This section describes the major applications included in CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3.
CorelDRAW
CorelDRAW is an intuitive graphics design application that gives designers an
enjoyable work experience. The program is built to meet the demands of today’s
graphics professionals. Whether you work in advertising, printing, publishing, sign
making, engraving, or manufacturing, CorelDRAW offers the tools you need to create
accurate and creative vector illustrations and professional-looking page layouts.
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Corel PHOTO-PAINT
Corel PHOTO-PAINT® is a complete image-editing application that lets you retouch
and enhance photos. Whether you’re correcting red-eye or exposure problems, cutting
out image areas, or creating and publishing images for the Web, Corel PHOTO-PAINT
gives you powerful tools that are fast and easy to use.
What’s new in CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3
This section outlines the new features in CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3.
What’s new in CorelDRAW
New features and enhancements in the following areas will boost your productivity by
helping you complete many tasks more easily and in less time.
Shaping
•The Crop tool lets you remove unwanted areas from vector objects and bitmaps.
For more information, see “Cropping, splitting, and erasing objects” on page 120.
You can now shape curve objects much more easily. Using the freehand marquee
selection mode, you can select multiple nodes in the most complex curves. The
newly designed control handles can also help you in selecting and editing nodes. In
addition, you can move line segments more easily. For more information, see
“Shaping curve objects” on page 108.
You can reduce the number of nodes in curve objects, which can help in the output
of your projects to devices such as vinyl cutters, plotters, and rotary engravers. For
more information, see “To reduce the number of nodes in a curve object” on
page 113.
You can shape objects by filleting, scalloping, or chamfering their corners. For more
information, see “Filleting, scalloping, and chamfering corners” on page 125.
You can automatically create a path around selected objects to create a boundary.
This boundary can be used for creating outlines, keylines, or cut lines. For more
information, see “Creating a boundary around selected objects” on page 83.
Tracing
You can trace (vectorize) bitmaps, such as photos, or scanned images and drawings,
directly in CorelDRAW, converting them to editable and scalable vector graphics. You
can then easily integrate the vector graphics into your designs. Preset styles let you
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achieve optimum results for any bitmap that you want to trace. In addition, you can
easily preview and edit traced results by using the controls in Corel PowerTRACE. For
more information, see “Tracing bitmaps and editing traced results” on page 213.
Effects and Fills
Bevel effects let you add three-dimensional depth to graphic and text objects. Bevel
effects can contain both spot and process (CMYK) colors, so they are ideal for
printing. For more information, see “Creating bevel effects” on page 153.
•The Smart fill tool lets you apply fills to areas created by overlapping objects.
Unlike other fill tools, which fill only objects, the Smart fill tool detects the edges
of an area and creates a closed path, so that the area can be filled. For more
information, see “Applying fills to areas” on page 138.
Copying objects
When duplicating objects, you can easily specify the distance between the original
object and the object’s duplicate. For more information, see “To duplicate an
object” on page 81.
You can create multiple copies of objects and specify their position. For example,
you can distribute object copies horizontally, to the left or right of the original
object. For more information, see “To create copies of an object at a specified
position” on page 81.
Drawing stars
The Star and Complex star tools let you draw stars quickly. For more information, see
“Drawing polygons and stars” on page 67.
Changing the order of objects
The enhanced Arrange ` Order command lets you easily change the stacking order of
objects on a layer or page. For more information, see “To change the order of an object”
on page 97.
Formatting text
•The Paragraph formatting and Character formatting dockers give you easy
access to commonly used text formatting options. In addition, the new commands
on the Te x t menu let you easily add tabs, columns, bullets, and drop caps and
insert formatting codes, such as em dashes and nonbreaking spaces.
You can fit text to any path by using the dynamic preview, which helps you position
the text. After fitting text to a path, you can further adjust the text’s position. For
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example, you can easily offset the text from the path and mirror the text
horizontally or vertically, or both.
You can easily choose the right fonts for your project. In addition to previewing
selected text with different fonts applied, you can now quickly view a list of the
available font families and identify the fonts and styles available within each family.
You can insert optional hyphens, which let you specify where to break the word
when it is at the end of a line. You can also create custom definitions for optional
hyphenation, which allows you to specify where a hyphen is inserted in a specific
word whenever that word is entered in CorelDRAW.
Spot colors
Support for spot colors has been greatly enhanced. You can import, export, and preview
files that contain spot colors. Vector effects, such as bevels, drop shadows, transparency,
mesh fills, and blends, can now contain both process and spot colors, which makes them
ideal for printing. In addition, spot colors beneath vector effects are now preserved
rather than converted to process colors.
Simulating overprinted colors
You can preview a simulation of how overprinted colors will mix by using the Enhanced
with overprints viewing mode. This feature is useful for proofing your projects.
Correcting bitmaps
The Image Adjustment Lab lets you correct the color and tone of photos and other
bitmaps quickly and easily, in one location. For more information, see “Adjusting color
and tone quickly in the Image Adjustment Lab” on page 212.
PDF security
You can set security options to protect the Adobe® Portable Document Format (PDF)
files that you create. Security options let you control whether, and to what extent, a
PDF file can be accessed, edited, and reproduced when viewed in Adobe® Acrobat®.
You can also open and import PDF files protected by a password.
File compatibility
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3 provides improved file compatibility with many
industry-standard file formats, such as encapsulated PostScript® (EPS), PostScript®
(PS or PRN), Corel DESIGNER®, Adobe® Illustrator® (AI), PDF, and Corel® Paint
Shop Pro® (PSP). For more information, see “File formats” in the Help.
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CorelDRAW Design Collection
The CorelDRAW Design Collection provides you with ready-to-use professional
templates developed around several design styles. Combining layouts and design styles,
you can create effective and original flyers, brochures, letterheads, envelopes, business
cards, and labels.
Learning tools
Hints help you master each tool in the toolbox as you are using the tool.
In Insights from the Experts, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite experts from diverse
graphics industries share with you their ideas, approaches, tips, and methods.
For more information about these new learning tools, see “Getting help” on page 12.
Features introduced in earlier versions of CorelDRAW
Features that were new in earlier versions of CorelDRAW — from versions 9 to 12 —
are easy to identify once you start the program. You can highlight all menu commands
and tools that were new for a specific version by clicking Help ` Highlight what’s new.
This feature is especially useful if you are upgrading from an earlier version of
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite.
What’s new in Corel PHOTO-PAINT
Photo editing
The Image Adjustment Lab lets you correct the color and tone of photos quickly and
easily, in one location. Using the automatic correction control, you can fix most color
and contrast problems. You can also manually remove color casts and adjust the
brightness, contrast, highlights, shadows, and midtones of a photo. To help you choose
the best photo-editing results, you can compare snapshots of a photo with different
settings applied. For more information, see Adjusting color and tone quickly in the
Image Adjustment Lab” on page 287.
Cutting out images
The Cutout Lab has been enhanced to make it even easier to isolate parts of images. You
can touch up your cutouts by adding and removing detail, and you can redo and undo
actions if necessary. To evaluate the results, you can preview the cutout in several ways.
In addition, you can choose to keep both the cutout and the original image or to create
a clip mask from the cutout. For more information, see “Cutting out images” on
page 338.
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Spot color channels
Spot color channels let you view, edit, add, and preserve spot color information in files.
Whether you are importing a file that uses spot colors, or you are adding spot colors in
Corel PHOTO-PAINT, spot color channels ensure that your color information is
maintained when you output the file. For more information, see “Using spot color
channels” on page 269.
File compatibility
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3 gives you improved file compatibility with many
industry-standard file formats such as encapsulated PostScript (EPS), PostScript (PS
or PRN), PDF, and Paint Shop Pro (PSP). For more information, see “File formats”
in the Help.
Raw camera file formats — RawShooter™ essentials 2005, an application included
in CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3, lets you open and manipulate raw camera files,
and save them as TIFF or JPEG files. For more information, see “Raw camera file
formats” in the Help.
Learning tools
Hints help you master each tool in the toolbox as you are using the tool.
In Insights from the Experts, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite experts from diverse
graphics industries share with you their ideas, approaches, tips, and methods.
For more information about these new learning tools, see “Getting help” on page 12.
Features introduced in earlier versions of Corel PHOTO-PAINT
Features that were new in earlier versions of Corel PHOTO-PAINT from versions 9
to 12 — are easy to identify once you start the program. You can highlight all menu
commands and tools that were new for a specific version by clicking Help ` Highlight
what’s new. This feature is especially useful if you are upgrading from an earlier version
of CorelDRAW Graphics Suite.
Installing CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3 applications
The installation wizard makes it easy to install CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3
applications and components. It lets you
install any applications included in your software package
add and delete components in the current installation
repair the current installation by reinstalling all application features
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Corel Draw Graphics Suite X3 Owner's manual

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