User manual COREL GRAPHICS SUITE X5 BROCHURE

[. . . ] ® Reviewer's Guide Contents 1 | Introducing CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2 | Customer Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Graphics professionals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Graphics non-professionals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ] Round corners: You can now create chamfered, scalloped, or round corners from the Rectangle property bar. When you stretch a rectangle, rounded corners are preserved without distortion, and the original radius of a corner is maintained during scaling. In addition, corners are now expressed in units of true radii, which makes them easier to work with. You can stretch rectangles with scalloped, chamfered, and round corners without distorting the corners. Reviewer's Guide [ 13 ] Give it a try Working with round corners 1 In CorelDRAW X5, click File New, and then click OK in the New Document dialog box. tool and 2 In the toolbox, click the Rectangle drag on the drawing page to create a rectangle. 3 On the property bar, click the Round Corner button Together Enhanced!Objects docker: The improved Objects docker in Corel PHOTO-PAINT X5 helps you achieve greater workflow efficiency by enabling hierarchical organization of design elements and by making commonly used features more accessible. You can now use nested grouping when organizing a complex image, which facilitates round-tripping between multiple applications. Thumbnails of objects and masks have been improved and are easily adjusted at any time. The reorganized docker also better exposes many of the most commonly used operations. You can now lock objects, which prevents them from being accidentally selected, edited, or moved. and enable the Edit Corners button. 4 Type 0. 5 in one of the boxes in the Corner radius area and press Enter. button 5 Click the Relative corner scaling and then drag one of the corner handles to resize the rectangle. 6 In the toolbox, click the Shape tool. 7 Drag any node on the rectangle to adjust the radius of the corners. Photo effects: You can experiment with exciting new photo effects included with Corel PHOTO-PAINT X5 for modifying your photos. It adds richness to colors with low saturation while maintaining colors with high saturation. The Grayscale effect is ideal for removing the saturation of an object, layer, or region of a photo. The Photo Filter effect lets you simulate the result of having a camera lens filter installed when a picture was taken. Corel PHOTO-PAINT X5 includes exciting new photo effects. Reviewer's Guide [ 14 ] The vastly improved Objects docker enables better organization of design elements. Give it a try Using the Objects docker 1 In Corel PHOTO-PAINT X5, click File Open. finger gestures. Support for taskbar thumbnails lets you switch between open documents quickly. 2 On the DVD, browse to the Press Materials Reviewer's Guide Sample Files folder and double-click the filename objects docker. cpt. A check mark beside Objects indicates that the docker is already opened. 4 In the Objects docker, click both of the Group arrow buttons to expand each group. CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X5 supports Windows Touch. 5 Click object 4, press Shift and select objects 5, 6, and 7, and then click the New Group button. 6 Click Group 1, and press the Lock button. Use color with certainty CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X5 makes it easier than ever to achieve accurate color representation every step of the way. [. . . ] · Apply sample colors to other objects immediately now that the suite automatically activates the Paintbucket tool after use of Eyedropper tool. · Choose colors by using their hexadecimal (hex) value and view hex color values from multiple locations. Reviewer's Guide [ 21 ] About Corel Corel is one of the world's top software companies, with more than 100 million active users in over 75 countries. We develop software that helps people express their ideas and share their stories in more exciting, creative, and persuasive ways. Through the years, we've built a reputation for delivering innovative, trusted products that are easy to learn and use, helping people achieve new levels of productivity. [. . . ]