CorelDRAW X7: The Official Guide. This item is unavailable.CorelDRAW X7: The Official Guide

Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.

The Only Corel-Authorized Guide to CorelDRAW X7CorelDRAW 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

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.