Corel Draw Training Course
2KO's Corel Draw course is
aimed at teaching students how to create and bring out
their
imagination in designing their own graphics and imagery.
People who think they cannot draw or have art skills,
realize they can in Corel Draw. By the end of this
course they will be able to create their own logos,
business cards and posters.
Duration:
2 Days
Corel Draw Essential Skills
This specialised course is a must for those wanting to create and design graphics from concept to print production. The Corel Draw course in Cape Town lays the groundwork to develop skills in graphic design and is an introduction to some of the special affects possible. It is important to realise that Corel draw is a layout and publishing utility. Prerequisites Attendees must be thoroughly conversant with Windows, mouse use and an existing computer application. Course objectives Topics Covered
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CorelDRAW Screen Control
File Handling
Views and Page Layout
Drawing
Editing and Transforming
Text
Projects
Manipulating Objects
Importing other Files
Fitting Text to a Path
Editing Tools
Special Effects
Layers / Object Manager
Productivity Tools
Exporting Objects
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Projects
Course materials The course materials include books either printed, pdf or hardcover, stationary and trial software.
Course outline
CorelDRAW Screen Control
File Handling
Views and Page Layout
Drawing
Editing and Transforming
Text
Manipulating Objects
Fitting Text to a Path
Editing Tools
Special Effects
Layers / Object Manager
Productivity Tools
Exporting Objects
Printing
Preferences
CorelDRAW Screen Control
File Handling
o Opening partial files, Cropping, Saving, Templates
Views and Page Layout
o Magnify tools, View Manager, Wireframes, Draft, Grids, Rulers, Paper size, Orientation, Booklet, Trifold
Drawing
o Rectangle, Ellipse, Pentagon/Star, Spiral, Graph, Line, Bezier tools, Outlining and Filling
Editing and Transforming
o Stretching, Scaling, Rotating, Mirror, Skew, Clone
Text
o Artistic, Paragraph, Symbols, Converting Artistic/Paragraph text, Text Frames, Type Assist
Manipulating Objects
o Combining, Grouping, Arranging, Aligning
Tracing
o Using bitmap conversion and auto tracing
Fitting Text to a Path
o Adding Text to Curves
Editing Tools
o Shaping, Knife, Eraser Tool, Node Edit
Special Effects
o Blend, Extrude, Perspective, Contour, Envelopes, Power Clip, Lenses
Layers / Object Manager
o Multiple layers for large graphics
Productivity Tools
o Multimedia Manager, Presets, Scripts
Exporting Objects
o EPS, BMP etc file types
Printing
Coral Draw courses run every few months in Greenpoint, Cape Town
Coral Draw X3, X4 and X5 is now also available
