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 xviii CorelDRAW X5 The Official Guide 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 Contents xix xx CorelDRAW X5 The Official Guide 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 Contents xxi xxii CorelDRAW X5 The Official Guide 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 Contents xxiii 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 xxiv CorelDRAW X5 The Official Guide 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 xxvi CorelDRAW X5 The Official Guide 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: ● 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. ● 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. ● 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. ● 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 . 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: ● To Megg Morin. Once again, Megg has played the gracious. 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. 2010 xxvi CorelDRAW X5 The Official Guide 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