This guide to CorelDRAW 8 is officially endorsed by the Corel Corporation, guaranteeing the quality of the information. The technical review is provided by Corel's own product development team. There are step-by-step detailed tutorials that teach how to use and implement CorelDRAW 8 and its features, including: Corel TEXTURE, Object Data Manager, Interactive Distortion, and 3D Tools, automated Drop Shadows on Vector Objects and a new way of fitting text to path. Project chapters detail how to start and complete a variety of projects, including: advertisement and newsletter page layout; business cards; designing custom fonts; special text effects; landscapes; and chrome effects. The product suite contains three separate applications: DRAW, PHOTO-PAINT and DREAM-3D. Foster Coburn and Peter McCormick are the authors of the "CorelDRAW! Unleashed" books and "CorelDRAW 7: The Official Guide".
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This comprehensive tome teaches you all about CorelDRAW 8 for Windows and Macintosh--from the most rudimentary to the most sophisticated features. The guide features step-by-step instruction, a thorough discussion of each feature and technique, large screen shots, and a full-color insert, which displays artwork by many contributors and a brief mention of how the artists undertook their projects. Where applicable, you get tips on using Corel Photo-Paint, the bitmap editor that comes with CorelDRAW, and on using the companion utilities.
In the first section, the authors help you install the software; learn the new features in this version; study the interface elements, such as menus and toolbars; draw basic shapes and lines; create text; transform objects and shape them using the Shape, Knife, and Eraser tools; and apply colors and use color models and palettes. (The full-color insert shows you colors and CMYK percentages in the default Custom Color Palette). You also apply special fills, outline objects, and view your work in various ways.
The second section lets you dig a little deeper by working with layers and the Object Manager; by using grids, guidelines, and rulers; and by managing objects via, for example, the Combine, Break Apart, Weld, and Trim commands and the alignment and distribution features. The third section shows you special effects, such as the Enveloping tool, Interactive Distortion Tool, and the perspective feature. Other effects include extrusion, lighting, beveling, blending, contouring, lens, transparency, and color adjustments. You also learn how to fit text to a path.
In the fourth section, you learn about inputting and outputting your artwork. Here the authors explain the Color Profile Wizard, the CorelSCAN utility, importing and exporting features, page setup features, and printing your work and preparing it for a service bureau. In the fifth section, you use the spelling and grammar checkers and other writing tools, text-extracting and merging features, styles and templates, and the find-and-replace tool. You also create bar codes, object databases, and custom patterns and symbols; use the font-management tools; produce Web images and pages; and customize and automate the CorelDRAW interface.
The level of detail and the clarity of this book are invaluable. If you need an all-in-one guide to learning and mastering CorelDRAW, CorelDRAW 8 is highly recommended. --Kathleen Caster
From the Back Cover
The Only DRAW Book Complete and Accurate Enough to Warrant Corel's Official Endorsement! Take a tour of the world's most popular vector drawing program with two of the industry's best CorelDRAW authors. No other book gives you as much in-depth coverage on DRAW 8's new and improved features or provides you with more detailed and easy-to-follow instructions on how to use DRAW 8's powerful tools than CorelDRAW 8: The Official Guide. Inside athis official guide, you'll find all the information you need to: Install and customize CorelDRAW 8 using new owrkspaces and Docker Windows features; Learn skills fo basic drawing techniques as well as complex procedures, including creating and shaping images, manipulating objects, and using layers; Master DRAW 8's new interactive distortion and extrude tools and incredible color theme pallets; Create spectacular, professional-level special effects; Utilize DRAW 8's advanced Web features, including JPEG and GIF previews, WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) HTML support, and Web forms; Plus, you'll find artistic inspiration inside the book's 16-page color insert-See the world's finest CorelDRAW masterpieces! No matter how simple or complex your design needs may be, don't settle for less than the best! Get CorelDRAW 8: The Official Guide and learn how to turn your wildest ideas into reality.
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28 of 30 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Enough basic information for both PC & Mac users.,
By A Customer
This review is from: Coreldraw 8: The Official Guide (Paperback)
Some of the information does not come with enough technical details but with lengthy comment E.g.: On page 49, the author spent a lot of time comparing the Eraser feature of Corel 7 to Corel 6!!! Who needs that? We are reading a book about Corel 8 not Corel 7 or 6. The book is more than 900 pages thick. Compared to other publications with the same subject, the fonts here are much bigger to artificially increase the thicknes of the book. If you need to use Corel 8 on both PC & Mac, this is the book to buy. Otherwise, "Corel 8 secrets" and "Corel 8 bible" contain more details.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
From Corel3 to COREL8!,
By A Customer
This review is from: Coreldraw 8: The Official Guide (Paperback)
Imagine my surprise when I went from Corel 3 to Corel 8! My monitor screen suddenly took on the appearance of a cockpit of a 747! Lucky for me,(and Amazon.com) Foster Coburn and Peter McCormick got together and published Corel Draw 8-THE OFFICAL GUIDE. It has easy to understand directions and graphics that helps makes sense out of the bevy of upgrades I wasn't used too.I can extrude, rotate, weld,convert my curves and interact all without breakin' a sweat. If you've gotten behind on your upgrades, as I did, get the OFFICIAL GUIDE to Corel 8. It's great. Except NO SUBSTITUTIONS!!
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Near Perfect coverage of a complex program,
By A Customer
This review is from: Coreldraw 8: The Official Guide (Paperback)
Well, after working with every version of Corel for more than 9 years, I still find myself needing a good book to help me through the sections that I don't often use or are just plain hard.... This book is a great reference to a complex program. CorelDraw 8 is a near do everything program and it takes a "Large" book to cover it all... this one sure does that. Thanks for all the help. Well written and to the point.
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