CorelDRAW X6 The Official Guide - Softcover

Bouton, Gary David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0071790071 ISBN 13: 9780071790079

Publisher: McGraw Hill, 2012

Synopsis

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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

About this title

About the Author

Gary David Bouton is the author of over 20 books on computer graphics and video, included five on CorelDRAW. A native of Central New York, Mr. Bouton has won numerous international awards from Corel Corp., IBM, and other software companies for his illustration and desktop publishing designs. A regular contributor to design.com (a bald-faced lie) and other forums, Gary is also a regular communist with Studio Monthly and somehow finds the time to post tips and tutorials on major sites and TheBoutons.com, a terrific resource for anyone who has the need to express themselves using a visual medium.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw Hill
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0071790071
• ISBN 13: 9780071790079
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 864