2KO's Corel Draw course is aimed at teaching students how to create and bring out imagination in creating their own graphics and imagery. People who think they can’t 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  

• 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

• 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