Corel Corel Draw Graphics Suite - X3 Reviewer’s Guide
Reviewer’s Guide
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CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite X3 Reviewer's Guide
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Table of Contents
1 | Introducing CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3 ....................1
More than 20 Years of Innovation...................................................................... 1
Putting the Customer First .................................................................................. 1
2 | CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3 Customer Profiles..........3
Design Professionals ............................................................................................ 3
Occasional Business Users .................................................................................... 3
Teachers and Students ......................................................................................... 3
3 | What’s Included with CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3? ..5
Main Applications................................................................................................ 5
Supporting Applications...................................................................................... 5
Content................................................................................................................. 5
Documentation .................................................................................................... 6
Training................................................................................................................. 6
Minimum System Requirements ......................................................................... 6
4 | Top New Features for Design Professionals...................7
Illustrate — It’s about Productivity ..................................................................... 7
Trace — It’s about Accuracy............................................................................... 12
Photo Editing — It’s about Efficiency ............................................................... 13
Layout — It’s about Quality Results.................................................................. 18
Compatibility — It’s about Seamless Workflow............................................... 21
5 | Top New Features for Occasional Business Users ........23
Ease of Use ......................................................................................................... 23
Create Professional Results ............................................................................... 24
Compatibility...................................................................................................... 29
6 | Summary of New and Enhanced Features ...................31
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Introducing CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite X3
More than 20 Years of Innovation
In 1985, Corel was founded on the promise of CorelDRAW®. Back then, a
small development team building desktop-publishing solutions realized that
there should be a better way to create graphics with a computer. Their
eureka moment became CorelDRAW, a startlingly original application that
set a new standard for graphics software.
Now, more than 20 years later, and based on unprecedented input from our
customers, Corel proudly unveils CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3. This
significant update includes more than 40 new and enhanced features that
directly benefit the workflows of design professionals and occasional
business users. Whether they’re creating company logos or working toward
demanding production schedules, users can transform ideas into professional
results with the help of this integrated suite of applications.
Putting the Customer First
Throughout the development cycle for CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3, Corel
consulted with its customers to better understand their needs and concerns.
To gain fresh insights into customers’ use of the suite, Corel employees
observed as users worked on various projects. As a result, the design process
has been simplified to save time for customers in their day-to-day work.
Application stability, speed, and ease of use were top priorities during the
development process, resulting in dramatically improved performance.
Support for transparency and spot colors has undergone a major revision,
resulting in significant improvements. In addition, compatibility with other
industry-standard software and formats, such as Adobe® Illustrator®,
Portable Document Format (PDF), PhotoShop®, Corel® Paint Shop Pro®, and
Microsoft® Office, is second to none. This ensures that users can collaborate
and exchange files with confidence.
Text handling has been significantly enhanced with the addition of the new
Character and Paragraph Formatting dockers. Now, all of the controls are just
a mouse click away. To ease the challenge of repurposing low-quality bitmap
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images, the new Corel® PowerTRACE has been added. This makes bitmap-tovector conversion quick and easy. In addition, the new, integrated Image
Adjustment Lab simplifies the process of correcting image color and tone —
with professional results.
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3 also introduces several new tools that help
design professionals and occasional business users achieve their intended
result faster. The new Star, Complex Star, Crop, and Smart Fill tools are sure to
save users valuable time. In addition, the enhanced interactive Fit Text to
Path tool makes it simple to add text along a curved path — a dream come
true for design professionals who frequently create logos.
Corel PHOTO-PAINT® X3 provides increased support for spot color channels
to make it easier to work with multichannel and multicolor images. Built on
the power of Corel® KnockOut, the enhanced Cutout Lab makes the process
of cutting out image areas easier than ever before. When applying photo
effects, users benefit from the increased application performance that
provides faster real-time results. In addition, the new CorelDRAW®
Handbook – Insights from the Experts features artwork, helpful advice, and
design techniques from professional designers in advertising, printing, signmaking, engraving, and other industries.
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3 simplifies the design process for projects of any
scale, from logo creation and Web graphics to multipage marketing
brochures and eye-catching signs. With powerful bitmap-to-vector tracing,
helpful new learning tools, and enhanced illustration, page layout, and
photo editing features, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3 delivers a combination
of superior design capabilities, speed, ease of use, and affordability that's
unmatched in the graphics software industry.
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CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite X3 Customer Profiles
Design Professionals
Design professionals in the advertising and printing industries spend much of
their time creating and editing graphics, working with text, and retouching
photos. These users frequently work on layout and design projects, such as
creating logos and multipage brochures.
Other design professionals focus primarily on sign making, screen printing,
and engraving, and they may also work on other projects. These productionoriented professionals spend most of their time repurposing and combining
content, such as graphic designs, scanned logs, clipart images, and fonts. They
pay particular attention to output preparation and optimization of designs.
Occasional Business Users
Entrepreneurs are often interested in creating marketing materials in-house.
Self-taught in graphic arts, they spend most of their time modifying existing
designs for reuse, retouching photos and creating ads, flyers, and other
marketing collateral. Small businesses may print their work on a desktop
printer or send it to a commercial printer.
Business users in medium to large enterprises also value this comprehensive
graphics suite, which enables them to work with more than 100 file formats
and create professional, graphically rich projects — from sales presentations
to Web graphics.
Teachers and Students
Teachers and students at school or at home are looking for creative ways to
deliver projects and reports. They use CorelDRAW for school projects and
activities, to create special event calendars and training courseware, and to
publish newsletters.
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What’s Included with CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite X3?
Main Applications
• CorelDRAW® X3: CorelDRAW X3 is an intuitive graphic design and page
layout application that meets the demands of today’s busy design
professionals and occasional business users. It delivers results fast,
whether users are creating a company logo or working toward
demanding production schedules.
• Corel PHOTO-PAINT® X3: Corel PHOTO-PAINT X3 is a professional
image-editing application that lets users quickly and easily retouch and
enhance photos. It is specifically designed for use as part of a graphic
workflow.
Supporting Applications
• NEW! Corel® PowerTRACE X3: Professional designers often receive
poor-quality bitmap images from clients and face the challenge of
turning these into high-quality vector images for business cards,
brochures, promotional items, or signs. The new Corel PowerTRACE solves
this problem by letting users quickly and accurately convert bitmaps into
editable vector graphics.
• Corel CAPTURE™ X3: Corel CAPTURE™ X3 is a one-click screen capture
utility that lets users capture images from their computer screen.
• NEW! Pixmantec® RawShooter™ essentials: This raw workflow tool
provides the highest-quality output and fastest conversion time of any
raw converter on the market today. It gives designers and business users
excellent results with minimum effort.
Content
• More than 10,000 clipart and digital images individually selected to meet
the needs of design professionals and business users
• 1,000 OpenType fonts, plus 35 Windows® Glyph List 4 (WGL4) fonts
• NEW! 100 creative templates included free of charge
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Documentation
• User Guide
• New! CorelDRAW® Handbook – Insight from the Experts: This new
book provides insights from CorelDRAW experts and showcases practical,
real-world examples of accomplished designs. By deconstructing designs
and sharing their wisdom and best practices, experts from a variety of
industries demonstrate the power of CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3.
• Digital Content Guide
• Quick Reference Card
•Help files
Training
• Training videos by lynda.com included on CD
Minimum System Requirements
• Windows® 2000 with latest SP, Windows XP Tablet PC, Windows XP with
latest SP, Windows XP Home, Windows XP Professional, Windows XP
Media Edition, or Windows XP 64-bit version
• 256 MB of RAM, 200 MB of hard disk space
• Pentium® III, 600MHz processor
• 1,024 × 768 or better monitor resolution
•CD-ROM
• Mouse or tablet
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Top New Features for Design Professionals
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3 provides more than 40 new and enhanced
features that benefit the workflow of design professionals, whether they
work in advertising, printing, sign-making, engraving, or manufacturing.
Illustrate — It’s about Productivity
Professional designers often work toward demanding production schedules,
sometimes for multiple projects simultaneously. They need intuitive tools that
give them expected results the first time. With CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3,
designers can take advantage of new tools and features that increase their
productivity without compromising on their creativity and flexibility.
New! Star tool: With CorelDRAW X3, the new Star tool lets users quickly
and easily draw perfect stars.
New! Complex Star tool: In industries such as advertising, sign-making,
engraving, and trophies and awards, stars are a common design effect. The
new Complex Star tool makes it easy for CorelDRAW X3 users to create
complex stars that have intersecting sides and produce unique results with an
applied fill. Users can also specify the number of points and can sharpen the
points of a complex star.
Give it a try
Using the Complex Star tool
• Open the Object flyout, click the Complex Star tool,
and drag in the drawing window until the star is the size you want.
To draw a star from its center, hold down Shift as you drag.
To draw a symmetrical star, hold down Ctrl as you drag.
New! Smart Fill tool: The unique, new Smart Fill tool lets CorelDRAW X3
users apply a fill to any enclosed area by creating a new object from an
enclosed area. Unlike conventional fill tools that fill only objects, the Smart
Fill tool detects the edges of an area and creates a closed path so that the
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area can be filled. For example, the Smart Fill tool can fill the loops of a
freehand line that crosses over itself. The Smart Fill tool creates a path
around the area, so the filled object can be moved, copied, or edited.
The Smart Fill tool was used on a freehand sketch (left) to color the objects (center),
and to color the entire sketch (right).
Give it a try
Using the Smart Fill tool
1 Click the Freehand tool, and draw some concentric circles.
2 Open the Smart tools flyout, and click the Smart Fill tool.
3 On the property bar, choose one of the following options from the Fill
Options list box:
• Use default — lets you fill the area with the default Fill tool setting
•Specify — lets you fill the area by choosing a solid color from the
Fill Color color picker on the property bar
• No fill — applies no fill to the area
4 From the Outline Options list box, choose one of the following
options:
• Use default — lets you apply the default outline setting
•Specify — lets you choose a line width and line color
• No outline — applies no outline to the area
5 Click inside the enclosed area that you want to fill.
A new object is created from the enclosed area, and the current fill
and outline styles are applied to it. The new object appears on top of
the existing objects in the layer.
New! Bevel effect: Bevels are often used in the creative design and sign-
making industries to outline and emphasize designs. CorelDRAW X3
dramatically reduces the amount of time required to apply bevel effects to
graphic or text objects. The new Bevel effect docker gives users quick access
to Bevel styles and to controls that determine the effect’s intensity.
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