This 2-day course provides an introduction to CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 and teaches graphic design professionals how to use its drawing, bitmap editing, and page layout tools. Over the course of 13 lessons, students will learn how to create and modify vector objects, work with text, apply color effects, import and export files, and publish documents as PDFs. The class is designed for graphic professionals familiar with basic computer skills and provides course materials to help students improve their workflows and maximize productivity.

1. CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4
Duration: 2 days
Course Synopsis: Getting Started with CorelDRAW Graphics Suite is designed to help you get
up to speed quickly with CorelDRAW and its new features. This class begins
with an overview of the application, including a tour of the interface
and a guide to the basic drawing tools, then moves on to more advanced topics,
such as adding text, controlling page layout, publishing PDFs, and printing final
documents. Tips and specific examples that teach users how to improve
workflows and maximize productivity are also included.
Who Should Attend: Graphic professionals who need an essential understanding of the drawing and bitmap editing tools
in CorelDRAW Graphics Suite. Experienced users will also benefit from the many tips and tricks and
special exercises.
Prerequisites: Because of the amount of material we cover in class, we do require students to be comfortable using
a mouse, opening and saving files, and the general operations of computers. While we will make
every reasonable effort to help, students with insufficient skills may be required to observe the class
lessons or do their best to keep up without slowing down the rest of the class. We highly recommend
working with the application tutorial before coming to the course.
What You Will Learn: • Drawing, Filling, and Adding Effects • Working with templates
• Transforming Objects • Using the Step and Repeat docker
• Working with Paragraph Text • Layers and the Object Manager
• Importing, Publishing, Exporting • Using the Image Adjustment Lab
Time: Class time is 9:00 a.m.- 4:00/4:30 p.m.
Breaks are scheduled throughout the day and lunch is typically scheduled 12-1. Students provide
their own lunch.
Course Materials: Course materials are provided. Our goal is to make sure your class meets your objectives, not ours.
Therefore, all of our outlines are treated as guides to help steer the workshop. We may change or
alter course topics to best suit the classroom situation.
Locations: We have company operated facilities in Atlanta, Chicago, Denver, San Diego and Washington DC. We
also work with a network of rental facilities to offer our classes regularly across the United States and in
Canada. Please double-check the location of your class with our office to make sure you get to the right
location.
Related Courses: We recommend the following courses that relate to this class: Advanced Adobe Photoshop, Adobe
InDesign and Adobe Illustrator. Please take a look at our other course outlines at our web site,
http://www.ledet.com.
Goals: Sterling Ledet and Associates realizes the importance of education and we take pride in being able
to offer you classes that are more custom fit to your needs. Call us at (770) 414-5007 if you have any
special questions or e-mail us at sales@ledet.com.
Registration: Please fill out our registration form and fax it to us at (312) 896-9094.
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2. CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4
LESSON PLANS
LESSON 1 LESSON 6 Viewing Your Work
Design Time Savers View modes
Introduction Preview modes
Cut, copy and paste
Welcome to CorelDRAW Using the View Manager
Duplicating and cloning objects
What’s new in CorelDRAW Using the Zoom Tool
Using the Step and Repeat docker
Getting assistance Find and Replace
Undo/redo/repeat
Vector vs. rasters/bitmaps Find and replace objects
Working with symbols
Find and replace text
LESSON 2 LESSON 7
Jumping Right Into CorelDRAW LESSON 11
Working with Artistic Text
Welcome to the Welcome Screen Bitmaps
Working with the Text Tool to create
Touring the user interface Applying effects to a bitmap
Artistic Text
Creating drawings Using the Image Adjustment Lab
Fitting text to a path
Saving your masterpieces Cropping bitmaps
The character formatting docker
Spelling and Quickcorrect Converting vector objects to bitmaps
Shaping Objects
LESSON 3 Shaping objects
PowerClipping objects
Working with Pages and Layout LESSON 8 Adding envelopes
Working with multiple pages Working the corners
Working with Paragraph Text
Customizing the page layout
Working with the Text Tool to create
Working with Guidelines and the Snap To
Paragraph Text
options
The paragraph formatting docker LESSON 12
Linking paragraph text frames The Interactive Tools Flyout
Working with columns Interactive Blend Tool
LESSON 4 Additional paragraph features Interactive Contour Tool
Creating Objects Interactive Distortion Tool
Drawing shapes Interactive Drop Shadow Tool
Polygons, stars, and graph paper LESSON 9 Interactive Extrude Tool
The Perfect Shapes Collection Interactive Transparency Tool
Color Outlines and Fills Interactive Fill Tool
Lines and curves
Introducing color palettes
Node editing using the Shape Tool
Color filling options
Color outline objects
Using the Eyedropper and Paintbucket Tools LESSON 13
Using the Smartfill Tool Importing, Publishing, Exporting
Importing and exporting Files
LESSON 5 Publish to PDF
Transforming Objects Export for Office
Selecting/deleting objects
LESSON 10 Printing basics explained
Modifying objects Layers and the Object Manager Print preview basics
Arranging objects Working with layers
Working with multiple objects Layer properties
Converting objects Using the master layer
This outline is an overview of what we generally intend to cover in our classes; however specific items (topics) that
are actually discussed in class may vary per location. It is the desire of the instructor and the policy of Sterling Ledet
& Associates, Inc. to focus on meeting the objectives of the students who registered for the class, rather than going
through a course outline systematically.
URL: http://www.ledet.com • Local: (770) 414-5007 • Toll Free: 1-877-819-COOL 2