Corel CorelDRAW Home & Student Suite X7 manual

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    CorelDRAW Home & Student Suite X7 CorelDRAW® Home & Student Suite X7 offers fully-integrated applications and complementary plugins that cover everything from vector illustration and page layout, to photo editing, bitmap-to-vector tracing, and website design. CorelDRAW Home & Student X7 W orkspace The W elcome screen The Welcome screen[...]

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    CorelDRAW Home & Student X7 toolbox T emplates Y ou can easily start a new project from a template. Y ou can browse, preview , or search for templates by name, category , keywords, or designer notes. Drawing lines The drawing tools from the Curve flyout let you draw curved and straight lines, and lines containing both curved and straight segmen[...]

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    Drawing shapes CorelDRAW Home & Student X7 offers a wide variety of tools for drawing shapes. Rectangles By dragging diagonally with the Rectangle tool , you can draw a rectangle or a square (when holding down Ctrl ). The 3-point rectangle tool lets you quickly draw rectangles at an angle. Ellipses Y ou can draw an ellipse by dragging diagonall[...]

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    Insert Character docker The Insert Character docker ( T ext  Insert Character ) presents all characters, symbols, and glyphs associated with a selected font, making it easier to find and insert characters into your documents. A filtering option lets you display only the character subsets that you want. For example, you can choose to display only[...]

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    Grid and baseline grid The grid is a series of intersecting dashed lines or dots that you can use to precisely align and position objects in the drawing window . The baseline grid consists of lines that follow the pattern of a ruled sheet, helping you to align text baselines. T o set up the grid and the baseline grid, click T ools  Options , and[...]

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    Shaping objects Y ou can change the shape of an object by using the Shape tool . Different types of objects can be shaped in different ways. Rectangles Y ou can drag any corner of a rectangle with the Shape tool to round all corners. Y ou can also create chamfered, scalloped, or rounded corners from the property bar when you click the Rectangle too[...]

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    Contour Y ou can contour an object to create a series of concentric lines that progress to the inside or outside of the object. T o apply a contour , select an object, click Effects  Contour , choose the settings you want in the Contour docker , and click Apply . Drop shadow Drop shadows simulate light falling on an object from one of five parti[...]

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    T o fill an object, choose the type of fill you want in the Fill area of the Object Properties docker , and choose the fill options you want. T o apply a mesh fill, use the Mesh fill tool . Choose colors A color palette is a collection of color swatches. Y ou can choose both fill and outline colors by using the default color palette. The selected f[...]

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    The Smart Carver ( Image  Smart Carver ) makes it easy to remove unwanted areas from a photo and simultaneously adjust the photo’s aspect ratio without distorting the remaining content. RAW camera files When importing RAW camera files, you can view information about file properties and camera settings, adjust image color and tone, and improve [...]

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    T ransparency Y ou can change the transparency of an object to reveal image elements underneath. Y ou can apply uniform, fountain, texture, or bitmap pattern transparencies. T o apply transparency in Corel PHOTO -P AINT Home & Student X7, click the Object transparency tool , and use the controls on the property bar , or use the T ransparency co[...]

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