Reviewer’s Guide
Contents 1 | Introducing CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X7 ............................................. 2 2 | Customer profiles .................................................................................... 6 3 | What’s included? ..................................................................................... 8 4 | Top new and enhanced features ........................................................... 12 Get up and running easily.......................................................................
1 Artwork by Lineking Russia
Introducing CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite X7 CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite X7 is an intuitive graphics switching back and forth among them. And for those solution that empowers you to make a major impact with who work with multiple monitors, you can drag a your artwork. Whether you’re creating graphics and layouts, document out of the application window and place it editing photos, or designing web sites, this complete suite within a second screen.
Guidelines docker in both applications makes it easier to add and arrange guidelines. Choose your purchase option In the interest of user choice, we’re offering several We’ve also made several enhancements to the Color Styles docker that make it easier to view, arrange, and CorelDRAW Graphics Suite purchase options. edit color styles.
2 Artwork by Piti Pintor Brazil
Customer profiles Graphics and creative professionals Occasional graphics users Graphics and creative professionals in advertising and Entrepreneurs and small to medium-sized businesses printing industries spend much of their time creating often create marketing and communications materials and editing graphics, working with text, and retouching in-house. Often self-taught in graphic design, these photos.
3 Artwork by Stephan Swanepoel South Africa
What’s included? Applications • Supporting applications CorelDRAW® X7: This intuitive vector-illustration font manager for the Windows operating system today’s busy graphics professionals and graphics helps you find, preview, and install fonts. • the generation of bar codes in a wide range of image-editing application lets you quickly and easily industry-standard formats. ™ • • Corel PHOTO-PAINT.
Minimum system requirements • 75 interactive text frames • 75 interactive PowerClip frames • more than 100 image lists • more than 400 Artistic Media • Intel Core 2 Duo, AMD Athlon 64 • 75 content-ready photo frames • 2 GB of RAM • more than 1,000 fonts • 1 GB of hard disk space • more than 400 pattern fills • 1280 × 768 or higher monitor resolution • DVD drive for installation by disc • Mouse or tablet Documentation • Windows 8/8.
4 Artwork by Jose Tzontilimatzi López USA
Top new and enhanced features CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X7 is an intuitive and choose from a variety of workspaces that were designed complete graphics solution that empowers you to make for different proficiency levels and specific tasks. For a major impact with your artwork. example, there are Page Layout and Illustration workspaces, a Classic option for longtime users, as well Get up and running easily as a Lite option for new users.
designed to make each application’s most commonly used tools more readily accessible and easier to find. New! Default and Classic workspaces: The new default workspaces for CorelDRAW X7 and Corel PHOTO-PAINT X7 have been refashioned to offer a more intuitive and efficient configuration of tools, menus, status bar, property bars, and dialog boxes. Plus, the Classic workspaces are still included for longtime users who may prefer the suite’s legacy appearance.
Give it a try Customizing the toolbox New! Lens corrections: The new Correct lens distortion slider in the Straighten Image dialog box helps you preview and adjust your image to quickly and easily remove pincushion and barrel distortions. Pincushion distortions make photos 1 In CorelDRAW X7, click the Quick Customize button below the toolbox. 2 To add a tool, enable the check box beside its name; to remove a tool, disable the check box beside its name.
Work faster and more efficiently Give it a try With advanced fill and transparency options, a new docker for trying out fonts, and many workspace improvements, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X7 offers new ways to help you Working with fountain fills 1 circle, and then click Window ` Dockers ` Object Properties. work fast and efficiently — from concept to production.
New! Fill picker: With both CorelDRAW X7 and Corel PHOTO-PAINT X7, a new Fill picker makes browsing, searching, previewing, and selecting fills quick and easy. The Fill picker also provides access to both locally stored fills and those available in the Content Exchange. You can now save and share personally created or modified vector pattern and bitmap pattern fills.
New! Font Playground: In both CorelDRAW X7 and Corel PHOTO-PAINT X7, the new Font Playground docker Give it a try introduces an easier way to browse, experiment with, Previewing fonts with the Font Playground and choose the perfect font. You can easily add sample text to view its appearance in different fonts, and a 1 The Font Playground docker opens, displaying a series of Lorem Ipsum text samples. handy Zoom slider lets you quickly adjust the size of sample text.
New! Brush selector: With Corel PHOTO-PAINT X7, the new Brush Selector helps you find the brush you’re seeking quicker by combining all brush categories and brush types in one location. It also stores the settings for the last five brushes you’ve used. You can quickly find a font’s available characters, symbols, and glyphs by using the enhanced Insert Character docker.
equal combination of both. By positioning an outline New! Object Styles previews: A new pop-up now appears inside an object, you can more easily create layouts with when you hover over a style in the Object Styles docker, specific sizes because the outline will be rendered within offering a quick preview of the style before it’s applied. the object’s original dimensions. You can now specify an outline’s position so that it appears outside (left), inside (right), or centered (middle).
New! Multiple document interface: You can now work New! Support for high resolution monitors: The suite’s with multiple documents in a tabbed view, which helps applications have been optimized for high DPI resolutions, you stay organized and quickly switch between several ensuring that user interface elements appear crisp and active documents. legible when displayed on high resolution monitors.
Design with creativity and confidence CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X7 continues to refine the user experience, providing you with new alignment tools and color controls, and new creative options that help you design with creativity and confidence.
Give it a try Creating a QR code 1 In CorelDRAW X7, click Object ` Insert QR Code. You must be a CorelDRAW member to access this feature. 2 3 saturation and hue while you adjust the color. The Color Styles docker also offers convenient View Options, including Hint View, which provides a visual indication of all document objects that use a specific color In the CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X7 dialog box, type your name and password, and then click Sign in.
Give it a try Using the Smooth tool 1 In CorelDRAW X7, click the Freehand tool (F5). 2 On the property bar, drag the Freehand smoothing slider to the left to minimize its value, and then drag in the document window to create a jagged line. 3 In the toolbox, click the Smooth tool. To adjust the size of the brush nib, type a value in the Harmony rules help you to quickly find complementary colors that are based on a color harmony. Nib size box on the property bar.
New! Guidelines docker: With the new Guidelines docker in both CorelDRAW X7 and Corel PHOTO-PAINT X7, it’s never been easier to add, manage, and modify guidelines. You can position guidelines with precision by using x and y coordinates, alter the line style and color, set objects and editable areas to snap to guidelines, and lock guidelines to avoid accidental changes. Plus, you can set up angled guidelines and specify their angle of rotation.
New! Liquid tools: In Corel PHOTO-PAINT X7, four new, pressure-sensitive Liquid tools — Smear, Attract, Repel, Give it a try and Twirl — offer fresh creative options for retouching Using the Liquid Smear tool photos. You can use these tools to reshape specific image areas to produce unique artistic effects. Each tool responds to the pressure of your digital pen or stylus, and provides options that help you control the intensity of the effect.
editable area along parallel lines. When combined with a blur effect, you can simulate depth of field, giving focus to Give it a try a particular object while blurring areas outside the planar Applying interactive brushstroke transparency mask. You can modify the effect of the planar mask by moving or rotating the lines, and you can also use mask modes with the Planar Mask tool. 1 In Corel PHOTO-PAINT X7, start a new image, and then click the Paint tool in the toolbox.
Share and expand your experience With a new Content Exchange, fill sharing options, and supportive mobile apps, you’ll discover new ideas and keep your artwork fresh with access to communitygenerated and premium cloud-based content. New! Content Exchange: The new Content Exchange Corel PHOTO-PAINT X7 provides new camera effects to help you create images with unique visual appearances.
New! Content Exchange - Favorites: You can Give it a try instantly set any asset that catches your eye in the Content Exchange as a favorite, which is a quick and Using the Content Exchange 1 In CorelDRAW X7, start a new document, and then click Help ` Sign In. 2 Type your email address and password in the appropriate fields, and then click Sign in. 3 Create an object of any kind, and then click Window convenient way to keep a list of content that you might want to download later.
New! Patterns: With this free new mobile iOS7 app, you New! Designs: Whether you’re on the go, or in the can create seamless bitmap patterns from digital photos. office, this new Windows 8 app offers an easy way to Available from the Apple Store for both iPhone and iPod find and share the perfect image. Available for free from touch, Patterns offers intuitive controls for fine-tuning the the Windows App store, you can use Designs to search for brightness, color, and luminance of your new patterns.
5 Artwork by Ophand Albana Indonesia
CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite user favorites CorelDRAW Graphics Suite users continue to enjoy many Color harmonies: You can group a document’s color of the following features that have been cornerstones of styles into a color harmony, which makes it quick and the suite for years. easy to produce iterative designs with varying color schemes. A color harmony combines two or more color Interactive frames: You can efficiently generate mock- styles into a hue-based relationship.
Smart Carver™: In Corel PHOTO-PAINT, you can use the Create clip mask: With clip masks in Corel PHOTO-PAINT, Smart Carver to easily remove unwanted areas from a you can adjust the properties of a group of objects in a photo and simultaneously adjust the photo’s aspect way that is non-destructive to the individual objects within ratio. The versatile Object Removal brush lets you choose the group.
Cutout Lab: This intuitive utility simplifies the process of accurately cutting out specific areas of an image. For example, you might want to extract a specific part of a photo into its own object. Image Adjustment Lab: This time-saver makes it easy to correct common color balance and tone problems from a single dialog box. The Interactive Fill tool helps you apply bitmap pattern (top row), fountain, vector pattern (bottom row), and two-color fills.
Mesh Fill tool: You can create unique effects by filling an object with a mesh fill. For example, you can create smooth color transitions in any direction without having to create blends or contours. The Mesh Fill tool lets you specify the grid’s intersecting points as well as the number of columns and rows in the grid. Dimension tools: CorelDRAW includes several dimension tools that make it easy to detail precise measurements in your design.
Drop Shadow tool: You can create drop shadows that simulate light falling on an object from either a flat, right, left, bottom, or top perspective. You can also easily adjust attributes of the drop shadow, such as color, opacity, fade level, angle, and feathering. Color Proof Settings docker: This docker helps you efficiently prepare artwork for various output devices.
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