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Navigating the Interactive Markers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 558
Getting Deep with the Extrude Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559
Using the Extrude Tool and Property Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 560
Interactive Extrude Tool States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 560
Setting Extrusion Shape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 560
Setting 3D Rotation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 564
Putting a New Spin on an Extruded Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569
Adding Lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569
Working with Extrude Light Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 571
Setting Extrude Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573
Speak of the Bevel! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 576
Using Vector Extrude Presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 579
Working with Extrude Preset Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 580
Using the Extrude Docker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 581
Controlling Extrude Complexity Using Facet Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 582
PART VII Creating Special Effects
CHAPTER 20 Envelope and Distortion Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 589
What Does an Envelope Do? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 590
Creating Envelope Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 591
Using the Envelope Tool and Property Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 591
The Envelope, Please . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 592
Using the Envelope Docker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 593
Creating Envelopes via the Docker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 594
Envelope Tool Cursor States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 595
Choosing an Envelope Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 596
Saving and Applying Envelope Presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 598
Creating and Using an Envelope Preset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 599
Choosing Envelope Mapping Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 599
Creating a Text Envelope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 602
Constraining Single Arc Envelopes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 604
Using Envelope Shapes Between Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 605

Copying Properties from Other Envelopes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 605
Envelopes Based on Existing Envelopes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 606
Creating Envelopes from Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 606
Clearing an Envelope Shape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 607
Copying Envelopes with the Attributes Eyedropper Tool . . . . . . 607
Mastering Distortion Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 608
Using the Distort Tool and the Property Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 610
Choosing Distortion Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 611
Push and Pull Distortion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 611
Zipper Distortion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 612
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Twister Distortion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 615
Getting Hands-On with the Distortion Tool Markers . . . . . . . . . . 616
Using Distortion Presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 619
Exploring Distortion Presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 620
CHAPTER 21 Blends and Contours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 621
Blend and Contour Effects: Similarities with Distinctions . . . . . . . . . . . 622
Blending as Illustration Shading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 622
The Blend Tool and Property Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 625
Creating a Simple Blend Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 626
A Basic Blend Between Very Different Shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 626
Looking at the Components of a Blend . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 627
Editing Blend Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 629
Setting Blend Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 629
Creating Extraordinary, Complex Blend Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . 634
Splits and Blends: The Fun Never Ends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 636
Assigning a Blend Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 638
Blending Objects along a Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 639
Working with Multi-Object Blends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 642
Copying and Cloning Blends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 644

Using the Blend Docker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 644
Tapping into Contour Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 645
Exploring CorelDRAW’s Contour Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 646
Using the Contour Tool and Property Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 647
Applying a Contour Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 648
Editing Contours Interactively . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 649
Choosing Contour Direction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 650
Setting Contour Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 652
Creating Special Effects with Contours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 654
Controlling Contour Acceleration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 656
Using Contour Presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 658
Using the Contour Docker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 658
CHAPTER 22 Lens Effects, Transparency, Shadows, Glows, and Bevels . . . . . . . 661
What’s Behind a Lens Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 662
Using the Lens Docker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 662
Working with a Lens Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 663
Exploring the Lens Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 664
Brighten Lens Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 664
Color Add Lens Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 664
Color Limit Lens Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 664
Deepening a Selected Color Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 665
Custom Color Map Lens Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 667
Fish Eye Lens Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 667
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Changing Object Size with the Fish Eye Lens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 668
Heat Map Lens Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 668
Invert Lens Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 669
Magnify Lens Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 670
Tinted Grayscale Lens Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 670

Transparency Lens Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 671
Wireframe Lens Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 671
Using Lens Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 672
Using the Frozen Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 672
Making a Frozen Treat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 672
Changing a Lens Viewpoint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 674
Using the Remove Face Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 676
Clearing Things Up with the Transparency Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 676
Using the Transparency Tool and Property Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 677
Creating a Dimensional Drawing Through Transparency . . . . . . 678
Setting Transparency Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 679
Property Bar Options for Transparency Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 681
Additional Fountain Transparency Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 683
Using Transparency Operations (Merge Modes) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 683
Creating Multi-Stage Transparencies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 686
Pattern and Texture Transparencies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687
Using Transparency Freeze . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688
Using the Bevel Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 689
Creating Soft Edge Bevel Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 691
Using the Drop Shadow Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 692
Using the Drop Shadow Tool and Property Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 694
Working the Property Bar and Shadow-Making Markers . . . . . . 695
Manually Adjusting a Drop Shadow Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 696
PART VIII The Bitmap Side of Corel Graphics Suite
CHAPTER 23 Bitmap Boot Camp: Working with Photographs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 701
The Properties of a Pixel-Based Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 702
Pixel Artwork vs. Vector Artwork . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 702
Bitmaps and Pixels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 705
Importing Bitmaps into a Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 709
Placing and Modifying an Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 713

Putting a Picture into a Car Advertisement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 714
Resampling a Photo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 716
Cropping with the Shape Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 717
Importing Nonstandard Bitmaps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 718
Working with Layered Bitmaps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 718
Working with RAW Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 721
Correcting RAW Image Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 722
An Everyday Bitmap-Oriented Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 727
Creating a Catalog Cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 727
Working in the Image Adjustment Lab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 727
Adjusting a PNG Image in the Lab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 727
Photo Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 730
Filtering a Photo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 732
Exporting Your Composition to Bitmap Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . 734
Saving a Bitmap Copy of Your CorelDRAW Composition . . . . . 734
CHAPTER 24 Advanced Photography Techniques with CorelDRAW . . . . . . . . . . 737
Cropping a Placed Photograph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 738
Nondestructive Cropping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 739
Using the Shape Tool to Crop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 739
Masking Through Nondestructive Cropping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 740
Trimming Away Unwanted Image Areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 740
Background Removal, Technique 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 741
Boolean Operations as a Trimming Technique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 744
Background Removal, Technique 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 744
Compositions with Mixed Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 746
Composing a Design Using Vector and Image Shapes . . . . . . . . 746
Working with Alpha Channels and Image Transparency . . . . . . . . . . . . 749
Using CorelDRAW’s Bitmap Color Mask . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 750
Removing a Color from Around a Subject . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 750
Working with Partial Transparency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 752

Creating a Photorealistic Glass Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 753
Blending Photos with Transparency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 756
Creating a Transition Between Two Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 756
Bitmaps to Vector Art: Using PowerTRACE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 759
Bitmap Conversions for Logo Alterations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 759
Pre-Touching: Use PHOTO-PAINT for Cleanup
Before Tracing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 759
Working Between CorelDRAW and PHOTO-PAINT . . . . . . . . . 760
PowerTRACE Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 761
Performing a Trace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 764
Reworking a Logo Using Vectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 764
PowerTRACE for Traditional Artists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 767
Digi-tooning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 767
CHAPTER 25 An Introduction to PHOTO-PAINT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 771
The Building Block of Digital Photos: The Pixel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 772
Pixels and Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 772
Image Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 774
Resolution, Pixel Count, and Printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 774
Resizing a Photograph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 776
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Resampling and Resizing Photos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 781
Making a Thumbnail Image Suitable for Printing . . . . . . . . . . . . 782
Automation: Recording Your Cropping and Resampling . . . . . . 786
Flipping Images…with a Twist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 793
CHAPTER 26 PHOTO-PAINT Effects and Advanced Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 799
Turning a Snapshot into a Photograph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 800
Objects and the Path Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 800
Using Paths as Masks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 801
Replacing the Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 805

Putting a Background Behind an Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 806
Adding a Shadow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 810
Painting Detail into the Picture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 810
Creating a Fantasy Composition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 812
Using the Brush Mask Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 813
Stroking to Select an Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 813
Working in the Cutout Lab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 815
Cutting a Complex Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 815
Final Edits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 819
Erasing and Scaling the Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 820
Adding a Reflection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 822
Santa Needs to Do Some Personal Reflecting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 823
Performing Subtle Image Edits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 827
Cloning Away the Background Window Sticker . . . . . . . . . . . . . 828
Replacing Color with the Clone Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 828
Masking an Area with the Brush Mask Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 829
Stroking to Define an Image Area for Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 830
Creative Blurring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 832
Using Motion Blur . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 832
Creating an Animated GIF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 834
Playing with a Paper Airplane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 834
Adding Text and Exporting a CorelDRAW Drawing . . . . . . . . . . 835
Animation: Defining Frames and Basic Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 837
Building a GIF Animation: Part 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 837
Finishing the Animation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 840
Exporting an Animation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 841
PART IX Thinking Outside of the (Tool) Box
CHAPTER 27 Printing: Professional Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 847
Printing a Document to a Personal Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 848
Printing Single- and Multiple-Page Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 848

Setting Print Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 851
Setting General Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 851
Using Print Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 853
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Saving a Print File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 854
Using the Color Tab Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 855
Correct Colors Using . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 857
Rendering Intent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 857
Choosing a Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 857
Printing Separations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 860
Setting Prepress Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 868
Choosing PostScript Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 870
CorelDRAW’s Printing Issues Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 872
Previewing Your Printed Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 873
Browsing and Viewing Previews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 874
Print Preview Tools and the Property Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 876
Setting Printing Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 879
General Printing Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 880
Driver Compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 883
Printing Issues Warning Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 883
Corel’s Duplexing Wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 884
Using the Collect for Output Wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 885
Print Merge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 886
CHAPTER 28 Basic HTML Page Layout and Publishing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 891
Web Page Navigation Buttons and Hotspots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 892
CorelDRAW’s Internet Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 892
Creating Rollover Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 894
Creating Different Looks for Rollover States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 894
Setting Internet Object Behavior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 897
Creating Bookmark Links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 899

Web Properties and the Object Properties Docker . . . . . . . . . . . . 901
Using the Links and Bookmarks Docker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 902
Applying a Page Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 903
Publishing Web Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 904
Setting General Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 904
Examining Web Page Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 905
Reviewing Web Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 906
Setting Advanced HTML Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 906
Browsing the Web Page Export Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907
Preflight Web Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907
Setting Web Publishing Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 909
Exporting Images for the Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 910
Exporting a Graphic with Transparency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 910
Web Text Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 912
Formatting Text for the Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 913
Use ALT Tags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 914
SVG: Export as Vector Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 915
Exporting Vectors as Vectors for the Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 915
Flash and Web Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 916
Exploring SWF Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 917
Objects and Fills that Flash Supports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 917
Exporting a Static Flash Vector Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 918
Making a Single-Frame Flash File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 918
Exporting SWFs to SwishMiniMax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 919
A Taxi-Driver’s Tour of SwishMiniMax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 921
Beginning an Animation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 922
Creating Animation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 925
Using the Fade in Preset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 927
Text as Flash Actor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 929
Setting an Overall Flash Video Duration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 930

The End-Of-Book Special . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 932
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 935
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FOREWORD
Having celebrated our 20th anniversary last year, it’s our second decade of creating and
refining our complete and easy-to-use graphic design suite. Learning resources remains a
key element to enable users of CorelDRAW Graphics Suite to get going quickly and create
amazing illustrations, layouts, graphics, and more. We are, therefore, including, in addition
to our help system, electronic documentation, and video tutorials, a full-color hard-cover
book of tips and techniques in the latest boxed version of the suite.
We’re excited about the new CorelDRAW X5 The Official Guide you hold in your hands,
because McGraw-Hill Professional and author Gary Bouton have taken a different approach
to grasping and ultimately mastering our suite of programs. Because the team at Corel has
covered the basics with our documentation, this has freed The Official Guide to focus on
methods for perfecting your craft and design ambitions. You’ll find expert instruction on
illustration techniques, not only how to use CorelDRAW, but also how to get the results you
have in mind. As you’ll see, all the examples in The Official Guide are explained in digestible
detail in a way that is relevant to a goal you have in mind. You’ll learn as you create; step-
by-step instructions are supported by dozens of example files you can download, and these
examples will also provide an idea book you can build upon for inspiration in your own work.
This comprehensive guide is the result of a valued partnership between Corel Corporation
and McGraw-Hill Professional. The author has worked closely with the product team at Corel
to ensure that professionals and aspiring designers using our product have the information they
need to quickly achieve stunning results.
Congratulations to our official guide author, Gary Bouton, for providing such a quality
book packed with references, insights, and an accomplished illustrator’s perspective on that
intangible item that makes artwork attractive to an audience: insight. As you go through
each chapter, I’m sure you’ll find this to be an invaluable resource for both beginners and
graphics professionals alike.
Both McGraw-Hill Professional and Corel present you with something truly new in this

book and in the X5 Graphics suite, because like any successful communication that has to be
open and two-way, you told us what you wanted, we listened, and The Official Guide is our
reply to you.
Happy CorelDRAWing!
Gérard Métrailler
Sr. Director, Product Management, Graphics
Corel Corporation
Ottawa, Ontario
August 2010
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
C’mon: you and I both know that no one reads the acknowledgments section in a book when
it’s much more fun to dive right into the meat of a detective novel, a historical fiction, and
even a book on computer software. But if I’ve by chance caught your eye here, I’d like you
to know that if you enjoy this book (the correct answer is yes, you will), the folks who
worked together had just as much fun creating it. I can’t think of a single book I’ve written
in the past when the author, the production and layout people, and the editors just clicked as
we did with this book. The bonus was that we got to know each other as we worked against
deadlines to bring you this hefty piece of documentation. I’d like to introduce my friends to
you now and to thank them for making my part in the CorelDRAW X5 The Official Guide the
best kick one could possibly have without breaking any federal laws:
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To Megg Morin. Once again, Megg has played the gracious asylum keeper. She has
freely offered me encouragement, advice, lots and lots of support for the direction in
which I wanted to move this book, at times has humored me, and has let me get silly
at least once in every chapter. Megg is good therapy for me, and this book will, in
turn, be good therapy for you in the way it’s written while you learn a very, very
deep suite of applications.
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To Meghan Riley, for not only keeping track of an immense amount of data, but also

for helping me stay organized, in the kindest, most gracious fashion a freelance
writer could hope for. Oh, oh; look, Meghan—the figure on page 285 is upside-
down!!! Onnnnnly kidding! Thank you, Meghan.
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Project Editor LeeAnn Pickrell. Let me make it known that LeeAnn didn’t just work
on copy for this book; she worked with me to bring a sense of organization, worked
with my style and not against it, and discussed chapters with me down to a level
where at times I felt she was sitting in my office. Unfortunately, I have only one
chair here, but I still want to thank you, LeeAnn, for making my mots into bon mots.
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Copy Editor Jan Jue. Jan went to extremes to ensure the book you’re holding is
accurate. I know of no other copy editor who actually installs the program a book is