Coreldraw 9 for Dummies
by Mcclelland, DekeFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1999-07-01
Publisher(s): HUNGRY MINDS INC
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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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