Corel Draw 2018 manual
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Index
- System requirements
- Preparing for installation
- Installing CorelDRAW Graphics Suite applications
- Installation options
- Modifying and repairing installations
- Uninstalling CorelDRAW Graphics Suite
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Authenticating CorelDRAW Graphics Suite
- Checking account settings
- Updating Corel products
- Changing user credentials
- Corel Support Services
- About Corel
- Creative
- Productive
- Innovative
- Finding out what was new in previous versions
- Getting help
- Using the Help and tooltips
- Using Hints
- Welcome screen
- Quick Start Guide
- Insights from the Experts
- Video learning resources
- Community website for developers
- Network deployment guide
- Web-based resources
- Starting and quitting CorelDRAW
- Changing the language
- Changing startup settings
- Understanding vector graphics and bitmaps
- Starting and opening drawings
- Scanning images
- Working with multiple drawings
- Undoing, redoing, and repeating actions
- Zooming, panning, and scrolling
- Previewing drawings
- Choosing viewing modes
- Working with views
- Saving drawings
- Working with locked files
- Backing up and recovering files
- Adding and accessing drawing information
- Closing drawings
- Exploring basic tasks
- CorelDRAW terms
- Application window
- Standard toolbar
- Exploring the toolbox
- Property bar
- Dockers
- Status bar
- Choosing a workspace
- Acquiring applications, plug-ins, and content
- Finding content with the CONNECT docker
- Accessing content
- Browsing and searching for content
- Viewing content
- Using content
- Installing fonts
- Managing content
- Syncing trays with OneDrive
- Changing content locations
- Content types
- Using touch
- Using wheel devices
- Drawing lines
- Drawing calligraphic and preset lines
- Sketching naturally with intelligent stroke adjustment
- Formatting lines and outlines
- Adding arrowheads to lines and curves
- Copying, converting, and removing outlines
- Applying brushstrokes
- Applying brushstrokes that respond to pen pressure, tilt, and bearing
- Spraying objects along a line
- Drawing connector and callout lines
- Drawing dimension lines
- Using pressure-sensitive pens and devices
- Drawing rectangles and squares
- Drawing ellipses, circles, arcs, and pie shapes
- Drawing polygons and stars
- Drawing spirals
- Drawing grids
- Drawing predefined shapes
- Drawing by using shape recognition
- Using curve objects
- Selecting and moving nodes
- Aligning and distributing nodes
- Manipulating segments
- Joining curves
- Copying and cutting segments
- Adding, removing, and joining nodes
- Using node types
- Transforming nodes
- Breaking the path of curve objects
- Mirroring changes in curve objects
- Skewing and stretching objects
- Smudging and smearing objects
- Roughening objects
- Smoothing objects
- Shaping objects by attracting or pushing away nodes
- Applying distortion effects
- Adding twirl effects
- Shaping objects by using envelopes
- Cropping and erasing objects
- Splitting objects
- Trimming objects
- Filleting, scalloping, and chamfering corners
- Welding and intersecting objects
- Creating PowerClip objects
- Setting options for nodes, handles, and previews
- Creating symmetry groups
- Editing symmetry groups
- Fusing curves in symmetry groups
- Removing symmetry and breaking symmetry links
- Selecting objects
- Transforming objects
- Copying, duplicating, and deleting objects
- Creating objects from enclosed areas
- Creating a boundary around selected objects
- Using object coordinates to draw and modify objects
- Copying object properties, transformations, and effects
- Cloning objects
- Positioning objects
- Aligning and distributing objects
- Applying object hinting
- Snapping objects
- Using dynamic guides
- Using alignment guides
- Changing the order of objects
- Sizing and scaling objects
- Rotating and mirroring objects
- Using the Object Properties docker to modify objects
- Fitting objects to a path
- Grouping objects
- Combining objects
- Locking objects
- Finding and replacing objects
- Hiding and displaying objects
- Constraining objects
- Inserting bar codes
- Inserting QR codes
- Editing QR codes
- Validating QR codes
- Creating layers
- Changing layer properties
- Moving and copying layers and objects
- Creating, editing, and deleting symbols
- Using symbols in drawings
- Managing collections and libraries
- Reference: Working with symbols
- Inserting linked or embedded objects
- Editing linked or embedded objects
- Setting up the project database
- Assigning and copying object data
- Viewing an object data summary
- Tracking project time
- Understanding color models
- Understanding color depth
- Choosing colors
- Using the Document palette
- Creating and editing custom color palettes
- Organizing and displaying color palettes
- Displaying or hiding color palettes in the Palette libraries
- Setting the properties of color palettes
- Applying uniform fills
- Applying fountain fills
- Applying vector and bitmap pattern fills
- Applying two-color pattern fills
- Applying texture fills
- Applying PostScript fills
- Applying mesh fills
- Applying fills to areas
- Working with fills
- Applying uniform transparency
- Applying fountain transparency
- Applying pattern transparency
- Applying texture transparency
- Copying, freezing, and removing transparencies
- Applying merge modes
- Finding and viewing fills and transparencies
- Managing fills and transparencies
- Saving fills and transparencies
- Understanding color management
- Getting started with color management in CorelDRAW
- Installing, loading, and embedding color profiles
- Assigning color profiles
- Converting colors to other color profiles
- Choosing color-conversion settings
- Soft proofing
- Working with color management presets
- Working with color management policies
- Managing colors when opening documents
- Managing colors when importing and pasting files
- Managing colors for print
- Using a safe CMYK workflow
- Managing colors for online viewing
- Applying lenses
- Editing lenses
- Contouring objects
- Applying perspective
- Creating extrusions
- Creating bevel effects
- Creating drop shadows
- Adding block shadows
- Blending objects
- Creating vector mosaics with the Pointillizer effect
- Creating bitmap mosaics with the PhotoCocktail effect
- Importing and pasting text
- Adding artistic text
- Adding paragraph text
- Adding columns to text frames
- Combining and linking paragraph text frames
- Aligning text by using the baseline grid
- Selecting text
- Finding, editing, and converting text
- Shifting, rotating, mirroring, and flipping text
- Moving text
- Wrapping text
- Fitting text to a path
- Inserting special characters, symbols, and glyphs
- Embedding graphics
- Working with legacy text
- Choosing typefaces and fonts
- Formatting characters
- Changing text color
- Kerning a range of characters
- Changing text case
- Working with OpenType features
- Adjusting character and word spacing
- Adjusting line and paragraph spacing
- Adding bullets to text
- Inserting drop caps
- Changing character position and angle
- Aligning text
- Adding tabs and indents
- Working with text styles
- Hyphenating text
- Inserting formatting codes
- Displaying nonprinting characters
- Formatting Asian text
- Using line-breaking rules for Asian text
- OpenType support for Asian text
- Formatting multilingual text
- Displaying text correctly in any language
- Changing the default font
- Substituting fonts
- Embedding fonts
- Viewing fonts
- Filtering fonts
- Searching for fonts
- Acquiring more fonts
- Identifying fonts
- Choosing fonts with Font Playground
- Using Corel Font Manager
- Using QuickCorrect
- Using the spelling checker and Grammatik
- Using the thesaurus
- Working with languages
- Customizing the writing tools
- Using checking styles
- Using rule classes
- Analyzing a drawing
- Using word lists
- Checking statistics
- Reference: Using writing tools
- Searching for templates
- Using templates
- Creating templates
- Editing templates
- Creating styles and style sets
- Applying styles and style sets
- Editing styles and style sets
- Managing default object properties
- Exporting and importing style sheets
- Assigning keyboard shortcuts to styles or style sets
- Finding objects that use a specific style or style set
- Breaking the link between objects and styles or style sets
- Creating and applying color styles
- Editing color styles
- Viewing color styles
- Exporting and importing color styles
- Breaking the link between a color style and an object
- Specifying the page layout
- Choosing a page background
- Adding, duplicating, renaming, and deleting pages
- Inserting page numbers
- Using the rulers
- Calibrating the rulers
- Setting up the document grid
- Setting up the baseline grid
- Setting up guidelines
- Modifying guidelines
- Setting the drawing scale
- Adding tables to drawings
- Selecting, moving, and navigating table components
- Inserting and deleting table rows and columns
- Resizing table cells, rows, and columns
- Formatting tables and cells
- Working with text in tables
- Converting tables to text
- Merging and splitting tables and cells
- Manipulating tables as objects
- Adding images, graphics, and backgrounds to tables
- Importing tables in a drawing
- Converting vector graphics to bitmaps
- Importing bitmaps
- Cropping bitmaps
- Changing the dimensions and resolution of bitmaps
- Straightening bitmaps
- Correcting perspective distortions
- Using Digimarc watermarks to identify bitmaps
- Removing dust and scratch marks from bitmaps
- Working with colors in bitmaps
- Using the Image Adjustment Lab
- Adjusting color and tone
- Using the Tone Curve filter
- Transforming color and tone
- Editing bitmaps with Corel PHOTO-PAINT
- Applying special effects in bitmaps
- 3-D special effects
- Art strokes special effects
- Blur special effects
- Camera special effects
- Color transform special effects
- Contour special effects
- Creative special effects
- Custom special effects
- Distort special effects
- Noise special effects
- Sharpen special effects
- Texture special effects
- Changing the color mode of bitmaps
- Changing bitmaps to black-and-white images
- Changing bitmaps to duotones
- Changing bitmaps to the paletted color mode
- Tracing bitmaps
- PowerTRACE controls
- Previewing traced results
- Fine-tuning traced results
- Adjusting colors in traced results
- Setting default tracing options
- Tips for tracing bitmaps and editing traced results
- Using RAW camera files
- Bringing RAW camera files into CorelDRAW
- Adjusting the color and tone of RAW camera files
- Sharpening and reducing noise in RAW camera files
- Previewing RAW camera files and obtaining image information
- Printing your work
- Laying out print jobs
- Previewing print jobs
- Applying print styles
- Fine-tuning print jobs
- Printing colors accurately
- Printing to a PostScript printer
- Using print merge
- Viewing preflight summaries
- Preparing a print job for a print service provider
- Working with imposition layouts
- Printing printers’ marks
- Maintaining OPI links
- Printing color separations
- Working with color trapping and overprinting
- Specifying In-RIP trapping settings
- Printing to film
- Preparing banners for printing
- Working with a print service provider
- Exporting bitmaps for the web
- Exporting and uploading bitmaps to WordPress
- Saving and applying web presets
- Exporting objects with transparent colors and backgrounds
- Creating web-compatible text
- Creating rollovers
- Adding bookmarks and hyperlinks to documents
- Adding hotspots and alternate text to objects
- Importing files
- Exporting files
- Exporting documents as PDF files
- Including hyperlinks, bookmarks, and thumbnails in PDF files
- Reducing the size of PDF files
- Working with text and fonts in PDF files
- Specifying an encoding format for PDF files
- Specifying a viewing option for EPS files
- Specifying color management options for exporting PDF files
- Setting security options for PDF files
- Optimizing PDF files
- Viewing preflight summaries for PDF files
- Preparing PDF files for a print provider
- Importing files from office productivity applications
- Exporting files to office productivity applications
- Adding objects to documents
- Adobe Illustrator (AI)
- Adobe Type 1 Font (PFB)
- Windows Bitmap (BMP)
- OS/2 Bitmap (BMP)
- Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM)
- CorelDRAW (CDR)
- Corel Presentation Exchange (CMX)
- Corel PHOTO-PAINT (CPT)
- Corel Symbol Library (CSL)
- Cursor Resource (CUR)
- Microsoft Word (DOC, DOCX, or RTF)
- Microsoft Publisher (PUB)
- Corel DESIGNER (DES, DSF, DS4, or DRW)
- AutoCAD Drawing Database (DWG) and AutoCAD Drawing Interchange Format (DXF)
- Encapsulated PostScript (EPS)
- PostScript (PS or PRN)
- GIF
- JPEG (JPG)
- JPEG 2000 (JP2)
- Kodak Photo CD Image (PCD)
- PICT (PCT)
- PaintBrush (PCX)
- Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF)
- HPGL Plotter File (PLT)
- Portable Network Graphics (PNG)
- Adobe Photoshop (PSD)
- Corel Painter (RIF)
- Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
- Adobe Flash (SWF)
- TARGA (TGA)
- TIFF
- Corel Paint Shop Pro (PSP)
- TrueType Font (TTF)
- Visio (VSD)
- WordPerfect Document (WPD)
- WordPerfect Graphic (WPG)
- RAW camera file formats
- Wavelet Compressed Bitmap (WI)
- Windows Metafile Format (WMF)
- Additional file formats
- Recommended formats for importing graphics
- Recommended formats for exporting graphics
- General notes on importing text files
- Disabling warning messages
- Viewing system information
- Saving and restoring defaults
- Creating workspaces
- Importing and exporting workspaces
- Customizing workspace appearance
- Customizing keyboard shortcuts
- Customizing menus
- Customizing toolbars
- Customizing the toolbox
- Customizing the property bar
- Customizing the status bar
- Customizing filters
- Customizing file associations
- Comparing terminology
- Comparing tools
- Using the Adobe Illustrator workspace
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Corel Draw 2018 specifications
Below you will find the product specifications and the manual specifications of the Corel Draw 2018.
Corel Draw 2018 is a popular software that caters to the needs of graphic designers, artists, and illustrators. It offers a wide range of features and tools to create professional and high-quality designs. When it comes to software licenses, Corel Draw 2018 offers both perpetual and subscription-based options. A perpetual license allows users to access the software indefinitely, while a subscription-based license requires users to pay a monthly or annual fee to continue using the software. The choice between these licenses depends on the user's preferences and budget. As for the extension of Corel Draw 2018, it provides users with additional functionalities and capabilities. Extensions are add-ons or modules that can be integrated into the software to enhance its performance. These extensions are designed to address specific needs and requirements, allowing users to customize their experience and maximize their productivity. However, the specific extensions available for Corel Draw 2018 may vary and depend on the version and edition of the software. In conclusion, Corel Draw 2018 is a comprehensive graphic design software that offers a range of features and tools. It provides users with the flexibility to choose between perpetual and subscription-based licenses. Additionally, the availability of extensions allows users to tailor the software to their specific needs and requirements.
| Brand | Corel |
| Model | Draw 2018 |
| Product | software licenses & extension |
| Language | English |
| Filetype | User manual (PDF), Quickstart Guide (PDF) |
Frequently Asked Questions
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How can I make easy corrections and enhancements to my RAW or JPEG photos using Corel AfterShot 3 HDR?
To make easy corrections and enhancements to your RAW or JPEG photos using Corel AfterShot 3 HDR in Corel Draw 2018, follow these steps: 1. Adjust the color and tone of RAW camera files by using settings like color depth, white balance, temperature slider, tint slider, and saturation slider. 2. Capture the current version of your image by creating a snapshot and making tonal adjustments using the Shadow slider. 3. Show clipped shadow areas by clicking the button to the left of the histogram and clipped highlight areas by clicking the button to the right of the histogram. 4. Change color or tone settings incrementally by clicking in the box next to a slider and using the Up or Down arrow keys. 5. Sharpen RAW camera files by importing the file, accessing the Detail tab in Camera RAW Lab, and moving the Sharpness slider. 6. Reduce noise in RAW camera files by importing the file and selecting the noise reduction option in the Camera RAW Lab.
