Coreldraw 9 for Dummies

by Mcclelland, Deke

• ISBN13: 9780764505232
• ISBN10: 0764505238
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-07-01
• Publisher: HUNGRY MINDS INC

Summary

Yes, you can turn out professional-looking graphics without going to art school! Following the simple step-by-step instructions in this book, you'll soon be creating your own illustrations and logos -- and spiffing up your documents with more ease than you ever thought possible. Author Deke McClelland's vast experience and infectious sense of humor make it all easy to grasp -- and lets you get up and running in CoreIDRAW 9 right away. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Winner of the Ben Franklin Best Computer Book Award in 1989 and five-time Computer Press Award winner, Deke McClelland is a true desktop graphics guru. He has written more than 50 books about desktop publishing and graphics programs, including Photoshop 5 For Windows For Dummies, Photoshop 5 Studio Secrets, Web Design Studio Secrets, and all previous versions of CorelDRAW For Dummies. Deke is a contributing editor for Macworld and Publish magazines.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Why a Book ... For Dummies?	p. 1
How to Use This Book	p. 2
How This Book Is Organized	p. 3
Icons Used in This Book	p. 5
Where to Go from Here	p. 5
How to Bug Me	p. 6
The Stuff Everyone Pretends They Already Know	p. 7
What's with All These Programs?	p. 9
CorelDraw	p. 9
Corel Photo-Paint	p. 10
CorelDraw and Photo-Paint Duke It Out	p. 12
CorelTrace	p. 14
Corel Capture	p. 14
Corel Texture	p. 14
And the Rest	p. 15
But Wait, There's More	p. 15
Feeling Overwhelmed?	p. 15
See CorelDraw Run	p. 17
Draw on the March	p. 17
Interface in Your Face	p. 18
The Mouse Is Your Willing Slave (And Other Children's Stories)	p. 25
How to Deal with Complete Tools	p. 26
Les Menus sans Soupe du Jour	p. 31
The Incessant Chatter of Dialog Boxes	p. 33
Dockers You Can't Wear	p. 35
Ladies and Gentlemen, Insert Your Pocket Protectors!	p. 37
Spank the Baby	p. 38
Tools for Getting around the Drawing Area	p. 43
Pull Your Image into View	p. 48
The Screen Is What You Make It	p. 50
Save or Die Trying!	p. 54
Put Your Drawing to Bed	p. 56
Let the Graphics Begin	p. 57
The Secret Society of Simple Shapes	p. 59
Shapes from Your Childhood	p. 60
Ways to Change Shapes	p. 65
Arrow Tool Techniques (Or Tricks of the Pick)	p. 74
Kiss It Good-bye	p. 77
Aaaugh, It's Gone!	p. 77
Drawn It, Shaped It, Ready to Go Free-Form	p. 79
Do Some Doodling with the Pencil	p. 80
Nodes as You Never Knew Them	p. 88
Meet the Node Edit Thingies	p. 94
How to Upgrade Simple Shapes	p. 102
Celebrating Your Inner Draftsman	p. 103
You Need to Be Disciplined	p. 104
Tell Your Objects Where They Can Go	p. 114
Gang Behavior	p. 121
Your Drawing Is a Plate of Flapjacks	p. 122
Making Your Shapes Look Like Something	p. 125
Fills, Spills, and Chills	p. 126
Make New Colors in Your Spare Time	p. 129
The Thick and Thin of Outlines	p. 134
I Don't Like the Default Setting!	p. 141
Fill and Outline Join Forces	p. 141
The World of Wacky Fills	p. 143
Save Time with Find and Replace	p. 150
The Fine Art of Cloning	p. 153
Clipboard Mania Cut, Copy, and Paste	p. 153
The Gleaming Clipboard Bypass	p. 157
They Look Alike, They Act Alike, You Could Lose Your Mind	p. 160
Do the Drag and Drop	p. 163
The Twisty, Stretchy, Bulgy World of Transformations	p. 165
Scaling, Flipping, Rotating, and Skewing	p. 166
Distortions on Parade	p. 176
A Lesson in Perspective	p. 176
Envelope of Wonders	p. 179
Well, Extru-u-ude Me!	p. 185
Let's Get Funky Now	p. 192
Getting the Message Out There (Wherever "There" Is)	p. 199
The Care and Planting of Text	p. 201
A Furst Luk at Tekst	p. 202
Pick Up Your Text Tool	p. 202
How to Flow Text between Blocks	p. 209
Before You Can Format, You Must Select	p. 212
Okay, Now You Can Format	p. 214
Please Check Your Spelling	p. 223
Shortcut to Typographic Happiness	p. 224
A Different Kind of Alphabet	p. 226
Mr. Typographer's Wild Ride	p. 229
Learning the Rules of the Park	p. 229
Playing Bumper Cars	p. 230
Riding the Roller Coaster	p. 236
Meddling with Type	p. 246
Creating Creepy Text	p. 247
The Corner of Page and Publish	p. 249
Pages upon Pages	p. 250
Your Logo on Every Page	p. 254
I Need a Bigger Page!	p. 258
Those Poor, Helpless Trees	p. 261
Reviewing the Basic Steps	p. 262
Making Sure Everything's Ready to Go	p. 263
Printing Those Pages	p. 265
Still More Printing Options	p. 267
Taking It to the Wide Web World	p. 275
CorelDraw and the Web	p. 275
Setting Up for the Web	p. 275
Creating a Web Document	p. 276
Checking Out Your Web Document	p. 279
Saving Your Document as an HTML File	p. 279
Viewing Your HTML File	p. 284
Corel's Other Amazing Programs	p. 285
Everyone Say Hello to Corel Photo-Paint	p. 287
Blasting Off with Photo-Paint	p. 288
Opening Existing Images	p. 290
Viewing Your Image	p. 292
Dividing Up Your Screen	p. 296
Creating a Brand Spanking New Image	p. 296
Changing the Resolution and Color of Photographs	p. 300
Saving, Printing, and Closing	p. 301
Spare the Tool, Spoil the Pixel	p. 303
Pawing through Your Toolbox	p. 303
Loading Your Tools with Color	p. 305
Lifting Colors Right Off the Canvas	p. 306
Erasing and Undoing Your Way Back to the Good Old Days	p. 307
Drawing Lines	p. 312
Drawing Geometric Shapes	p. 314
Filling Your Entire Image	p. 316
Plunking Down the Paint	p. 317
Creating Custom Gradients	p. 319
Painting with a Tackle Box Full of Brushes	p. 320
Smudging, Lightening, Colorizing, and Blurring	p. 323
Painting One Portion of an Image onto Another	p. 325
Spray Painting with Images	p. 326
Twisting Reality around Your Little Finger	p. 329
Specifying Which Part of the Image You Want to Edit	p. 330
Things to Do with a Selected Image	p. g340
Combining Images	p. 342
Correcting Focus and Contrast	p. 344
Setting Your Selections Free	p. 349
Stamping Some Text into Your Image	p. 355
Tracing for the Artistically Challenged	p. 359
Finding, Acquiring, and Opening Images to Trace	p. 359
Navigating around Your Windows	p. 362
Giving Your Images a Makeover	p. 363
Putting Your Color on a Diet	p. 364
Going through the Transformations	p. 365
The Main Event	p. 366
Stopping and Saving Your Stuff	p. 368
The Part of Tens	p. 371
Ten Way-Cool Special Effects	p. 373
Draw a Planet with a Ring around It	p. 374
Morph between Two Shapes	p. 376
Create a Shadow for Your Text	p. 377
Make Type Bulge Like a Balloon	p. 379
Wrap Paragraph Text around a Graphic	p. 380
Put Your Message in the Sky	p. 381
Turn Your Object into a Ghost of Its Former Self	p. 382
Shuffle the Colors in a Photograph	p. 385
Make the Pixels Beg for Mercy	p. 386
Design Your Own Repeating Pattern	p. 389
Ten File Formats and Their Functions	p. 393
Native CorelDraw: CDR and CMX	p. 393
Encapsulated PostScript: EPS and AI	p. 394
Metafile formats: CGM and WMF	p. 394
Corel Photo-Paint: CPT and WI	p. 394
PC Paintbrush: PCX	p. 395
Tagged Image File Format: TIFF	p. 395
Windows bitmap: BMP	p. 395
CompuServe bitmap: GIF	p. 396
Joint Photographic Experts Group: JPEG	p. 396
Kodak Photo CD: PCD	p. 396
Index	p. 397
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