Corel Course Overview
This course is designed for students who are familiar with CorelDRAW® 11 and would like to use more advanced features to create professional documents. Students will use advanced drawing tools and advanced text features to create a professional, multi-page brochure.
Prerequisites:
To ensure your success, we recommend you first take the following courses or have equivalent knowledge:
- Mac OS 10: Introduction
- CorelDRAW 11: Level 1
- CorelDRAW 11: Level 2
Delivery Method:
Instructor-led, group-paced, classroom delivery learning model with structured, hands-on activities.
Course duration:
1 day.
Hardware/Software Requirements:
You will need:
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A Power Mac G3 or higher.
- A minimum of 128 MB of RAM.
- A minimum of 250 MB of hard disk space for CorelDRAW 11.
- Either a local CD-ROM drive or access to a networked CD-ROM drive.
- A mouse or tablet.
- A monitor with 1024 x 768 screen resolution.
- A Typical installation of Mac OS 10.1.
- A Typical installation of CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite 11.
- A color printer is optional for some tasks in the “Advanced Output
Options” lesson.
Performance-Based Objectives:
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Use the components of the Master Page to set up a new drawing environment.
- Create a technical drawing using the Bezier Tool, the Dimension
Tool, the Callout Tool, the Spiral Tool, and the Graph Paper Tool, among others.
- Work with paragraph text frames, as well as create columns of text,
bulleted lists, and use the Envelope and PowerClip™ features.
- Import, crop, and convert bitmap images.
- Publish a document to PDF format and use the Prepare For Service
Bureau Wizard to gather files for a professional printing service.
Corel Course outline
Lesson 1: Working with Layers
- Topic 1A: Examining a Master Page
- Topic 1B: Creating a Master Layer
- Topic 1C: Working with Layers
Lesson 2: Using Advanced Tools to Create a Technical
Drawing
- Topic 2A: Creating a Technical Drawing Using Advanced
Tools
- Topic 2B: Using Brush Tools and Adding Objects
- Topic 2C: Working with Interactive Tools
Lesson 3: Using Advanced Techniques for Text Manipulation
- Topic 3A: Working with Paragraph Text
- Topic 3B: The PowerClip Feature and the Envelope Tool
- Topic 3C: Creating Bulleted Lists
Lesson 4: Working with Vector and Bitmap Graphics
- Topic 4A: Converting Vector Objects to Bitmaps
- Topic 4B: Working with Bitmap Graphics
- Topic 4C: Introduction to CorelTRACE®
Lesson 5: Advanced Output Options
- Topic 5A: Preparing a Document For Printing
- Topic 5B: Other Printing Options
