Contents
1 | Introducing CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X6 ........................................................ 2
2 | Customer profiles............................................................................................... 4
Graphics professionals .................................................................................................................... 4
Occasional graphics users ...............................................................................................................4
3 | What’s included?................................................................................................ 6
4 | Top new and enhanced features........................................................................ 8
Work faster and more efficiently......................................................................................................8
Create layouts with ease............................................................................................................... 12
Design with style and creativity ....................................................................................................15
5 | CorelDRAW Graphics Suite user favorites ........................................................ 20
6 | Summary of new and enhanced features ........................................................ 24
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Alexandra Malysheva
Ukraine
Introducing CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite X6
CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite X6 is a trusted and
comprehensive solution for designing visual
communications for any medium. Whether you’re
an experienced or an aspiring designer, its
intuitive workflow and content-rich environment
will help you to efficiently express your creativity.
You can start smoothly, learn quickly, and create
with confidence.
Work faster and more efficiently
Developed natively for 64-bit processors,
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X6 continues to
support 32-bit processors. The suite provides
robust vector illustration, page layout, photo
editing, tracing, web graphics, and web site
creation tools that help you work faster and more
®
efficiently. The refined Corel
workflow makes it easier to acquire content and
organize your projects. It’s also your entry point
to a huge library of customizable content, which
will help you save time bringing your concepts to
life on any screen.
CONNECT™ X6
Create layouts with ease
With CorelDRAW X6, you’ll create layouts with
ease thanks to robust vector illustration tools,
improved Master Layer behaviors, and new
®
support for advanced OpenType
, which will help
you produce elegant typography. Plus, enhanced
complex script support makes it easier to work
with foreign language text, so you can create
layouts that resonate and engage your audience
— no matter where they reside.
You can now instantly add page numbering in
various formats and lettering styles, and the new
temporary Alignment Guides will save you time
when positioning objects on the page. In
addition, the new Insert Placeholder Text
command and interactive frame functionality
make it faster and easier to create mockups of
your design ideas, which is especially useful for
providing clients with a variety of choices.
Design with style and creativity
®
With Corel
of templates and Site Styles
Website Creator™ X6 and its dozens
®
, you can easily
design, build, and maintain a web presence
without having to learn how to code. In addition,
®
CorelDRAW
X6 provides four new shaping tools
— Smear, Twirl, Attract, and Repel — that extend
your creative possibilities when refining objects,
and the redesigned Object Properties docker will
save you time by dynamically revealing only
available formatting options for the currently
selected object.
®
PHOTO-PAINT™ X6 introduces the Smart
Corel
™
Carver
, a new tool that makes quick work of
resizing photos or removing unwanted areas. In
addition, the new Create Clip Mask and Pass
Through Merge Mode options lets you apply
effects or lenses to groups of objects without
modifying the individual objects within the
group.
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X6 also provides many
features that help you design with style and
creativity. An overhauled styles engine, new
Object Styles docker, new Color Styles
functionality, and the introduction of color
harmonies all serve to let you focus on creating
expressive, captivating designs.
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X6 also boasts
marketing-leading file format compatibility with
enhanced support for Adobe
®
Adobe
Microsoft
Photoshop®, Adobe® Acrobat®, and
®
Publisher, so you can assuredly
®
Illustrator®,
exchange files with clients and colleagues.
What’s more, an updated and visually stunning
Guidebook is included to enrich the experience of
new and veteran users alike.
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Image created by
Gabriel Gonzalez Diaz
Mexico
Customer profiles
Graphics professionals
Graphics professionals in advertising and
printing industries spend much of their time
creating and editing graphics, working with text,
and retouching photos. With time-saving features
such as interactive layout tables, live text
formatting, and independent page layers,
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X6 provides innovative
design tools that optimize their workflow.
graphics professionals focus primarily
Other
on sign making, screen printing, and engraving.
These users frequently repurpose and combine
such content as graphic designs, scanned logos,
clipart images, and fonts. With powerful imageediting capabilities, specialized fonts, tracing
software that turns bitmaps into editable vector
graphics, and high-quality content,
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X6 gives them a
comprehensive, versatile, and affordable solution.
Creative professionals focus primarily on
graphic design for print and for the web. In
addition to its intuitive page-layout and design
tools, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X6 delivers
market-leading compatibility with commonly
used file formats. The suite also provides several
features developed specifically for creating web
graphics, such as the new Pixels view, support for
hex color values, and more.
Occasional graphics users
For entrepreneurs and small to medium-size
businesses interested in creating marketing and
communications materials in-house, CorelDRAW
Graphics Suite X6 provides powerful text and
page-layout tools that ensure professionallooking results. Self-taught in graphic design,
occasional users can confidently turn to
these
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X6 to modify existing
designs, to retouch photos, and to create ads,
flyers, and other marketing collateral.
Business users in medium-size to large
enterprises value the ability to work with more
than 100 file formats as well as create
professional, graphically rich projects — from
sales presentations to web graphics. They also
spend considerable time working with existing
designs and retouching photos to use in their
marketing and communications materials.
Hobbyists use graphic design software
occasionally to create projects — such as
newsletters, calendars, banners, and photo
layouts — for personal or community use. With
an extensive collection of learning tools,
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X6 makes it easy to
create impressive results without needing
intensive training in graphics software.
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Image created by
Prem Kumar
India
What’s included?
Applications
• CorelDRAW
illustration and page-layout application meets
the demands of today’s busy graphics
professionals and graphics non-professionals.
Corel® PHOTO-PAINT™ X6: This professional
•
image-editing application lets you quickly and
easily retouch and enhance photos.
Corel® PowerTRACE™ X6: This utility lets you
•
quickly and accurately convert bitmaps into
editable vector graphics.
•
Corel® Website Creator™ X61: This
application offers a fast and easy way to
design, build, and manage websites.
Corel CAPTURE™ X6: This one-click screen-
•
capture utility lets you capture images from
your computer screen.
•
Corel® CONNECT™ X6:
lets you peruse the suite’s digital content and
search your computer or local network to quickly
find the perfect complement for a design. Fully
integrated, it is also available as a docker in both
CorelDRAW and Corel PHOTO-PAINT.
• PhotoZoom Pro 2: This plug-in lets you
enlarge digital images and export them from
Corel PHOTO-PAINT X6.
®
X6: This intuitive vector-
This full-screen browser
Content
• 10,000 high-quality clipart and images
• 1,000 all new professional, high-resolution
digital photos
®
•1,000 OpenType
fonts, such as Helvetica
fonts, including premium
®
• 2,000 vehicle templates
• 350 professionally designed templates
• 800 frames and patterns
Documentation
• An updated, visually rich Guidebook introduces
each application’s workspace and includes tips
and techniques for users of all skill levels,
in-depth tutorials, and insights from various
industry experts
• Quick-reference card
•Help files
Training
• More than 2 hours of training videos on DVD,
™
and on Corel’s YouTube
channel
Minimum system requirements
Supporting applications
• Barcode wizard: This wizard lets you
generate bar codes in a wide range of
industry-standard formats.
•
Duplexing wizard: This wizard helps you
optimize your work for printing two-sided
documents.
•
Bitstream® Font Navigator®: This award-
winning font manager for the Windows
operating system helps you manage, find,
install, and preview fonts.
1. Corel.com account required to download the
application
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•Windows® 7 (32-bit or 64-bit editions), Windows
®
(32-bit or 64-bit editions), or Windows® XP
Vista
(32-bit), all with latest service packs installed
•Intel® Pentium® 4, AMD Athlon™ 64 or AMD
Opteron
™
•1 GB of RAM
• 1 GB of hard disk space for installation without
content
®
• 1024 × 768 or higher monitor resolution
(768 × 1024 on a Tablet PC)
• DVD drive for installation by disc
• Mouse or tablet
•Microsoft
®
Internet Explorer® 7 or higher
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Dhananjay Garg
India
Top new and enhanced features
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X6 is trusted
illustration and design software. Its intuitive and
content-rich environment fits seamlessly into your
workflow to help you express your creative ideas
compellingly. You can get started immediately,
learn as you go, and design with confidence for
any medium.
Work faster and more efficiently
From organizing project assets and accessing the
suite’s vast content library, to more quickly
identifying available formatting options and
removing unwanted areas in photos, CorelDRAW
Graphics Suite X6 offers several workflow
innovations that help you be more efficient and
productive.
New!
was developed natively for 64-bit processors, it
continues to support 32-bit processors. For 64-bit
users, you can now work faster than ever before
with large files in CorelDRAW and with large
images in Corel PHOTO-PAINT.
Native 64-bit support: While the suite
content. For example, you might be working on a
project that requires photos, vector graphics, and
bitmap icons. By keeping these types of content
in separate trays, you can organize project assets
for efficient discovery. As an added convenience,
you can open files from the tray to get a full-size
preview. You can also rename trays or change the
default folder to which trays are saved.
New!
Multi-core processor support:
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X6 has been
optimized for the latest multi-core processors.
The increased support lets you keep working
while the suite performs resource-intensive tasks
in the background. The result is fast and
responsive performance, which means less
waiting when you export files, print multiple
documents, or copy and paste large objects.
New!
Multiple trays in Corel® CONNECT™:
Corel CONNECT now lets you work with several
trays concurrently, which gives you increased
flexibility for organizing assets for multiple
projects. Trays help you gather content from
various folders or online sources, and are shared
between CorelDRAW, Corel PHOTO-PAINT, and
Corel CONNECT.
With the ability to maintain multiple trays, you
could use separate trays for disparate types of
You can keep multiple trays open in Corel CONNECT X6.
New!
Search capability in Corel® CONNECT™:
The new Corel CONNECT search toolbar lets you
instantly extract images from a client’s web site.
®
In addition to searching iStockphoto
and Flickr
®
, you can now simply type a web
, Fotolia,
address in the Search box and Corel CONNECT
immediately gathers all images defined with an
HTML <img> tag from the web site. This makes
it quick and easy to leverage content assets from
online sources. You can also type search terms or
a folder path to have Corel CONNECT scour your
computer, network, or other online resources for
content.
New!
Smart Carver: Corel PHOTO-PAINT X6
includes the new Smart Carver, which makes it
easy to remove unwanted areas from a photo and
simultaneously adjust the photo’s aspect ratio.
For example, you might want to define an area of
a photo that you would like to keep or remove,
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such as a person in the photo. The versatile
Object Removal brush lets you choose to paint
either the area of the photo that you want to
preserve or the area that you want to remove.
You can also use the Smart Carver to change a
photo’s aspect ratio without distorting anything
in the photo. For example, if you want to resize a
photo to print at a certain size, you can paint the
photo’s subjects and then use the Smart Carving
presets to contract or expand the photo’s
background vertically and horizontally.
New! Shape tools: CorelDRAW X6 introduces
four additional shaping tools that provide new
creative options for refining your vector objects.
The new
Smear tool lets you shape an object by
pulling extensions or making indents along its
outline. The size of the brush nib and the Pressure
setting let you control the intensity of the effect,
and you can choose between smooth curves or
curves with sharp corners. Alternatively, you can
use the pressure of your digital pen to determine
the intensity of the smear effect.
The new
Twirl tool lets you apply twirl effects to
objects. The size of the brush nib lets you
determine the size of the twirls, and the Rate
setting lets you control the speed of the effect.
You can also choose either a counterclockwise or
a clockwise twirl.
The new Smart Carver makes it easy to remove
unwanted areas and adjust the photo’s aspect ratio.
Give it a try
Using the Smart Carver
1 In Corel PHOTO-PAINT X6, open a photo that
contains an area that you want to remove, and
Image Smart Carver.
click
2 In the
3 In the preview window, paint over the image
4 In the
Object removal area, click the
Remove button.
areas that you want to remove.
For precise control, you can use the
box to adjust the size of the brush nib.
Smart carving area, click the Auto-
contract horizontally
contract vertically
image and simultaneously remove the area
covered by the red overlay.
or the Auto-
button to scale the
Nib size
In addition, you can use the new
Attract and
Repel tools to shape curves by attracting nodes
or by pushing nodes away from other nodes in
close proximity. To control the shaping effect, you
can vary the size of the brush nib and the speed
at which the nodes are attracted or repelled.
5 Click
OK.
The new shaping tools provide creative options for
refining vector objects; for example, smearing an
object (top left), adding a twirl effect (top right), using
the Attract tool (bottom right), and using the Repel
tool (bottom left).
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Give it a try
Using the Smear tool
1 In CorelDRAW X6, create an object of any kind.
For example, choose the
create a circular shape.
Ellipse tool to
New! Freehand Pick tool: This new tool helps
you save time by giving you greater control over
object selection and transformation. Especially
useful for selecting curved objects and non-linear
shapes, the Freehand Pick tool lets you drag a
freehand marquee around the objects or shapes
you want to select.
2 Click the
3 To adjust the radius of the brush nib, type a
value in the
4 On the property bar, click either the
smear
The difference between a smooth smear and
pointy smear is noticeable only with higher
Pressure values.
5 To set the amount of smearing, type a value in
the
6 Click inside the object, close to its edge, and
drag outwards.
To smear the outside of the object, click outside
the object, close to its edge, and drag outwards.
Smear tool.
Nib radius box on the property bar.
Smooth
or the Pointy smear button.
Pressure box on the property bar.
New! Create clip mask: With Corel PHOTOPAINT X6, you can adjust the properties of a
group of objects in a way that is non-destructive
to the individual objects within the group. For
example, you can adjust transparency levels for
the whole group without altering the pixels of the
individual objects.
New!
Pass Through Merge Mode: Corel
PHOTO-PAINT X6 introduces a new Pass Through
Merge Mode that you can apply to groups, which
gives you more control when applying a lens or
effect. For example, if you turn on Pass Through,
the lens or effect will apply to all objects,
including those layered below the group.
New!
Integrated web development: The
Corel Website Creator X6 workspace supports a
wide range of the latest web development
technologies, such as RSS feeds, CSS, XHTML,
®
PHP, ASP.NET, ColdFusion
, and JSP. You can take
advantage of a WYSIWYG design environment
that offers the simplicity of wizards along with
advanced HTML object and CSS inspectors.
New!
Drag-and-drop web design: Corel
Website Creator X6 provides drag-and-drop
design capability. You can place images, text, or
other page elements exactly where you want.
New & Enhanced!
Content: The refined Corel
CONNECT provides quick and easy access to all
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X6 content, while also
helping you to acquire additional content from
online vendors. A thousand all new, professional
quality high-resolution photos are included.
The new Create Clip Mask option gives you greater
control when applying effects to groups of objects.
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Corel CONNECT helps you access the suite’s vast
content library.
New & Enhanced! Object Properties
docker:
In CorelDRAW X6, the redesigned
Object Properties docker now presents only
object-dependent formatting options and
properties. By grouping all object settings in one
location, this time-saving docker helps you finetune your designs faster than ever before.
For example, if you create a rectangle, the Object
Properties docker automatically presents outline,
fill, and corner formatting options, as well as the
rectangle’s properties. If you create a text frame,
the docker will instantly display character,
paragraph, and frame formatting options, as well
as the text frame’s properties.
Enhanced! Adobe
®
Plug-in support:
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X6 now supports both
32- and 64-bit plug-ins for Adobe Photoshop.
Enhanced!
Hints docker: The Hints docker
now includes a Videos tab, which provides a
collection of instructional videos that cover a
range of topics, from creating basic shapes and
basic object transformations to applying
interactive contours and transparencies. This
helpful learning docker appears in both
CorelDRAW and Corel PHOTO-PAINT and provides
context-sensitive information on the currently
selected tool. This makes it easier for new users to
learn how to use the tools in the toolbox.
The redesigned Object Properties docker groups all
object settings in one location.
New & Enhanced! Adobe
®
Microsoft
Publisher support: The enhanced
import and export support for Adobe
®
Adobe
Photoshop®, and Microsoft® Publisher, as
well as import support for Adobe
®
CS and
®
Acrobat®,
®
Illustrator®,
ensure that you can exchange files with colleagues
and clients.
Enhanced support for Adobe Creative Suite, Adobe
Acrobat, and Microsoft Publisher files facilitates file
exchange with colleagues and clients.
The Hints docker provides information on how
to use the currently selected tool.
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Create layouts with ease
With new and improved Master Layer functionality,
new temporary Alignment Guides, new advanced
OpenType support, and enhanced complex script
support for working with foreign language text,
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X6 makes it easier than
ever before to lay out your project.
New!
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X6, the reengineered
text engine lets you take greater advantage of
advanced OpenType
contextual and stylistic alternates, fractions,
ligatures, ordinals, ornaments, small caps,
swashes, and more. OpenType fonts are based on
Unicode, which makes them ideal for crossplatform design work, and the extended character
sets offer outstanding language support.
Accessible from the Object Properties docker, the
OpenType features let you choose alternative
appearances for individual characters, or glyphs, to
suit your stylistic preference provided that the font
supports advanced OpenType. For example, you
can apply a different number, fraction, or ligature
glyph to achieve a certain look for your text. In
addition, with the Interactive OpenType feature,
CorelDRAW X6 will suggest eligible OpenType
features that you can apply to your text.
Advanced OpenType® support: With
®
typography features, such as
New! Alignment Guides: With CorelDRAW
X6, the new Alignment Guides help you position
objects more quickly, appearing on the fly with
suggested alignments to the existing artwork on
your page. These temporary guidelines appear
when you create, resize, or move objects in
relation to the center or edges of other nearby
objects. Alignment Guides interactively connect
the centers and the edges of objects, and you
also can choose to display Alignment Guides from
the edges of one object to the center of another
object.
You can modify the default settings for Alignment
Guides to suit your needs. For example, if you
were working with a group of objects, you could
display Alignment Guides for individual objects
within the group, or for the bounding of the
group as a whole. In addition, you can specify
margins for Alignment Guides to help you align
objects at a set distance. You can also choose to
display the Alignment Guides to follow the
margins only, or to follow the actual edges of the
object.
Support for advanced OpenType gives you access to
alternate appearances for selected characters.
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The new Alignment Guides appear as you move an
object, helping you position objects more quickly.
Give it a try
Using the new Alignment Guides
1 In CorelDRAW X6, click View Alignment
Guides
2 Create an object of any kind.
For example, choose the
create a rectangle.
3 Move the object around the page and note
how the Alignment Guides appear.
.
Rectangle tool to
New! Interactive frames: CorelDRAW X6
provides interactive frames that help you
efficiently generate mock-ups of design ideas. The
new empty PowerClip and text frame
functionality lets you populate your designs with
placeholder PowerClip and text frames, which
makes it easier to preview a layout before
finalizing its individual content components.
Give it a try
2 Right-click the object, choose Frame Type,
and click
3 To add content, simply drag an object to the
frame.
The frame will be highlighted when the object
hovers over the frame.
Create Empty PowerClip Frame.
With CorelDRAW X6, you can also now drag
content over a PowerClip frame, and then choose
either to add the content to the frame or to
replace any existing frame content. PowerClip
frames also now give you the option of centering
content within the frame or scaling content to fit
proportionally within the frame. In addition, you
can now easily create text frames from any closed
curve object, and you can then edit the frame to
take on any shape imaginable.
4 Drop the object into the frame by releasing the
mouse button.
New! Complex script support: With
CorelDRAW X6, the enhanced complex script
support built into the overhauled text engine
ensures proper typesetting for glyphs used by
Asian and Middle Eastern languages.
The empty PowerClip feature helps you visualize a
layout before adding content.
Give it a try
Using interactive frames
1 In CorelDRAW X6, create an object that you
want to use as a PowerClip frame.
For example, choose the
create a polygon frame.
Polygon tool to
Support for complex scripts ensures that multilingual
glyphs display correctly in your documents.
New! Page numbering: With CorelDRAW X6,
the new Insert Page Number command helps you
instantly add page numbers on all pages of a
document, starting on a specific page, or starting
at a particular number. This flexibility is ideal for
working with multiple CorelDRAW files that will
eventually become a single publication.
You can choose from alphabetic, numeric, or roman
formats, and you can display page numbers in lower
or upper case lettering. You can also insert a page
number inside existing artistic or paragraph text.
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New! Placeholder text: With CorelDRAW X6,
the new Insert Placeholder Text command lets you
right-click any text frame and immediately
populate it with placeholder text. This makes it
easier to assess the appearance of your document
prior to finalizing its content.
For convenience and flexibility, you can also use
custom placeholder text in any language
supported by CorelDRAW. You simply create an
RTF file containing the text you want to use, save
it to the default placeholder text folder, and
CorelDRAW X6 will use that text whenever you
invoke the Insert Placeholder Text command. For
more information on creating a custom
placeholder text file, please see the online Help.
New & Enhanced! Master Layers: With
CorelDRAW X6, the new and improved odd,
even, and all-pages Master Layers make it easier
to create page-specific designs for multi-page
documents. It’s now a breeze to incorporate
page-specific headers, footers, and page
numbers, which is particularly useful for creating
multi-page flyers, as well as 16- and 32-page
brochures. For example, you might want a
different header design to appear on even pages
than the one that appears on odd pages.
You can instantly add placeholder text to preview
layouts before finalizing content.
Give it a try
Inserting placeholder text
1 In CorelDRAW X6, click the Text tool.
2 Drag in the drawing window to size the text
frame.
3 Right-click the text frame and choose
Placeholder Text
.
Insert
CorelDRAW X6 page layouts with differing odd- and
even-page master layers.
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Design with style and creativity
With its dramatically improved styles engine,
new Object Styles docker, new Color Styles
implementation, new Color Harmony
functionality, and content-ready picture frames,
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X6 helps you focus on
bringing your unique sense of style and creativity
to your designs.
New!
completely revamped styles engine introduces a
new Object Styles docker that simplifies the
creation, application, and management of styles.
A style is a set of properties that governs the
appearance of objects in your document.
CorelDRAW X6 also introduces new Style Sets,
which are groups of styles that make it easier to
have consistent formatting across multiple
objects, produce iterative versions, and apply
formatting with speed and consistency.
Styles engine and docker: The
You can create and apply Styles and Style Sets to
graphic objects, artistic and paragraph text,
callout and dimension objects, and objects
created with Artistic Media tools. For example,
you can define an outline style by specifying
attributes such as outline width, color, and line
type. For text objects, you can define a character
style by specifying font type, font style and size,
text color, background color, character position,
caps and more.
With Style Sets, you can combine multiple styles,
which lets you combine properties from different
types of styles at the same time. For example, you
could use a Style Set to define fill and outline
properties for a graphic object, or you could define
character and paragraph styles to set the
appearance of paragraph text. This makes it faster
and easier to later adjust those properties, which is
especially convenient for creating iterative designs.
You can also create child styles or child style sets
that retain some but not all of the properties in
the parent style or parent style set. This is
particularly useful when working with long
documents. For example, you could assign a
parent character style for headings and a child
character style for subheadings.
You can use Style Sets to quickly modify objects that
share formatting attributes.
New!
Color Styles: The new Color Styles docker
lets you add the colors used in a document as
color styles, which makes it easier than ever before
to implement a color change throughout a project.
To create a color style from an object, you simply
drag the object onto the Color Styles docker. If you
apply that color style to other objects, you can
quickly change the color and have it instantly
applied to all objects linked to it.
In addition, you can break the link between an
object and its color style at any time, so that you
can then edit the object independently. Plus, you
can also convert color styles to different color
modes or to spot colors to prepare your
document for production printing.
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The new Color Styles docker makes it easy to manage
the colors used in a document.
New! Color harmonies:
The new color
harmony functionality lets you group a document’s
color styles so that you can quickly and easily
produce iterative designs with varying color
schemes. By combining two or more color styles
into a harmony, you are linking the colors into a
hue-based relationship. This lets you modify them
collectively, altering the color composition of your
artwork in one step to quickly prepare a variety of
alternate color schemes. You can also edit the
individual color styles in a harmony.
In addition, you can also create a special type of
color harmony called a gradient, which consists
of one master color style and a number of varying
shades of that color. When you alter the master
color, the gradient colors automatically adjust to
the same degree that the master color was
altered. This is especially useful when outputting
multiple color variations of the same design.
Give it a try
Creating a color style
1 In CorelDRAW X6, press Ctrl + F6 to open the
Color Styles docker.
2 Create an object and fill it with color.
3 In the
4 In the Create Color Styles dialog box, enable
5 Click
Color Styles docker, click the New
Color Style
from Selected
one of the following options in the
color style from
Object fill – creates a color style from the
•
color of the object fill
Object outline – creates a color style from
•
the color of the object outline
Both fill and outline – creates color styles
•
from the object fill and outline colors
OK.
The new color style appears as a swatch in the
Color Styles docker.
You can also create a new color style by simply
dragging any object onto the top portion of
the Color Styles docker.
button, and choose New
.
Create
area:
Color harmonies make it easy to change
combinations of colors.
Give it a try
Creating a color harmony
1 In the Color Styles docker, click the New Color
Harmony
Harmony
A folder icon for the color harmony appears in
the bottom part of the gray area.
2 Drag any color swatches or color style swatches
to the harmony folder.
button, and choose New Color
.
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New! Interactive websites: With a collection
®
of Asynchronous JavaScript
and XML (AJAX)
widgets, Corel Website Creator X6 makes it easy
to design websites that feature dynamic user
interactivity. You can instantly add customizable
page elements, such as accordions, tabbed
panels, and toggle panes, which provide a more
interactive experience for website visitors.
The Corel Website Creator X6 workspace.
New! Timeline Editor: Corel Website Creator
X6 provides a Timeline Editor that helps you give
life to static website content, such as text,
photos, graphics, and video. You can easily create
sophisticated animations using the familar dragand-drop editing environment.
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Image created by
Joseph Diaz
USA
CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite user favorites
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite users continue to
enjoy many of the following features that have
been cornerstones of the suite for years.
Corel® PowerTRACE™: This utility lets you
quickly and accurately convert bitmaps into
editable and scalable vector images, which is
especially useful for design work that’s based on
existing artwork. PowerTRACE generates a color
palette, which lets you instantly edit, merge, or
delete specific colors used by the original artwork.
You can use PowerTRACE to convert bitmaps to vectors.
Cutout Lab: This intuitive utility simplifies the
process of accurately cutting out specific areas of
an image. For example, you might want to
remove the background from an image.
Fit text to path:
Both CorelDRAW and
Corel PHOTO-PAINT let you add text along the path
of an open object (for example, a line) or a closed
object (for example, a circle). You can easily adjust
the position of the text in relation to the path.
PowerClip objects: You can create PowerClip
objects by placing vector objects and bitmaps,
such as photos, inside a container object. A
container can be any object, for example artistic
text or a rectangle. When you place an object into
a container that is larger than the container, the
object, called the content, is cropped to fit the
form of the container.
CorelDRAW® ConceptShare™: You can easily
share your design projects with invited
participants for markup and review.
Interactive Fill tool: You can add uniform,
linear, radial, conical, square, two-color pattern,
full-color pattern, bitmap, texture, and PostScript
fills by using the Interactive Fill tool.
Image Adjustment Lab: This time-saver makes
it easy to correct common color balance and tone
problems from a single dialog box.
You can save time by correcting images
with the Image Adjustment Lab.
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The Interactive Fill tool helps you apply
bitmap (top row), fountain, pattern (bottom row),
and two-color fills.
Mesh Fill tool: You can create unique effects by
filling an object with a mesh fill. For example, you
can create smooth color transitions in any
direction without having to create blends or
contours. The Mesh Fill tool lets you specify the
grid’s intersecting points as well as the number of
columns and rows in the grid.
Smart Fill tool: This convenient tool detects the
edges of an area and creates a closed path so
that the area can be filled. By using the Smart Fill
tool, you can fill practically anything. For example,
if you draw a freehand line that crosses over itself
to create loops, the Smart Fill tool will detect the
edges of the loops and fill them.
Drawing scale:
The drawing scale is especially
useful for technical or architectural drawings which
require accuracy and precision. CorelDRAW lets you
choose a preset or custom drawing scale, which
ensures that distances in your drawing are
proportionate to real-world distances. For example,
you can specify that 1 inch in the drawing
corresponds to 1 meter in the physical world.
Fillet / Scallop / Chamfer docker: This docker
makes it easy to shape the corners of curve
objects. Filleting produces a rounded corner;
scalloping rounds and inverts the corner to create
a notch; and chamfering bevels the corner so that
it appears flat.
The Smart Fill tool helps you fill enclosed areas.
Dimension tools: CorelDRAW includes several
dimension tools that make it easy to detail precise
measurements in your design. For example,
dimension lines can be used to display the size of
objects, or the distance or angle between objects.
You can choose from angular, parallel, horizontal,
vertical, or segment dimension tools.
Document palette: When you start a new
CorelDRAW document, a custom color palette is
automatically created. The palette is then saved
with your file, which gives you quick access to the
project’s specific colors in the future.
Adobe® Illustrator® workspace: CorelDRAW
includes an Adobe Illustrator workspace, which
makes it easier for new users to learn how to use
CorelDRAW within a familiar environment.
Adobe® Photoshop® workspace: Corel
PHOTO-PAINT includes an Adobe Photoshop
workspace, which makes it easier for new users to
learn how to use PHOTO-PAINT within a familiar
environment.
You can fillet, chamfer, or scallop the corners of objects.
Contour tool: This tool helps you create
interesting 3D effects and cuttable outlines for
output to devices, such as plotters, engraving
machines, and vinyl cutters. When you contour
an object, you add evenly spaced concentric
shapes that progress to the inside or the outside
of the object’s borders.
The Contour tool helps you create 3D effects.
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Drop Shadow tool: You can create drop
shadows that simulate light falling on an object
from either a flat, right, left, bottom, or top
perspective. You can also easily adjust attributes
of the drop shadow, such as color, opacity, fade
level, angle, and feathering.
Color Proof Settings docker: This docker
helps you efficiently prepare artwork for various
output devices. You can save presets, choose
from a list of output devices to preview your
output, export soft proofs for client approval, and
print hard proofs from the docker.
You can prepare artwork for various output devices
with the Color Proof Settings docker.
Artistic Media: The Artistic media tool gives you
access to the Brush, Sprayer, Calligraphic, and
Pressure tools. With each of these tools, you can
create pressure-sensitive lines which vary in
thickness.
Transparency: With both CorelDRAW and
Corel PHOTO-PAINT, you can create interesting
effects by applying transparency to an object so
that all objects beneath it are partially visible.
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Image created by
Katarzyna Kobylkiewicz
Poland
Summary of new and enhanced features
The following is a list of the new and enhanced
features offered by CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X6.
Work faster and more efficiently
• Work faster than ever before with large files in
CorelDRAW and large images in Corel PHOTOPAIN T thanks to
processors
• Export files, print multiple documents, or copy
and paste large objects without delay, thanks
to
increased support for the latest multi-
core processors.
• Take advantage of greater flexibility when
organizing assets for multiple projects by
working with several trays concurrently
in Corel CONNECT X6.
• Instantly extract images from a client’s web site
by using the
toolbar.
• Easily remove unwanted areas from a photo
and simulateously adjust the photo’s aspect
ratio with the
Corel PHOTO-PAINT X6.
• Explore new creative possibilities for refining
your vector objects by using the
Twirl, Attract, and Repel tools.
• Save time and gain control when selecting
objects by using the
, which lets you drag a freehand marquee
tool
around the objects or shapes you want to select.
• Apply a clip mask on a group of objects
without modifying the individual objects within
the group with the
option
in Corel PHOTO-PAINT X6.
• Enjoy greater control when applying a lens of
effect to a group of objects by using the
Pass Through Merge Mode
Corel PHOTO-PAINT X6.
• Take advantage of a WYSIWYG,
web development
new Corel Website Creator X6.
native support for 64-bit
.
new Corel CONNECT search
new Smart Carver in
new Smear,
new Freehand Pick
new Create Clip Mask
new
in
integrated
environment with the
• Quickly design website pages with
drag-and-drop capability that lets you
simple
place text, images, and other elements exactly
where you want them.
•Use the
refined Corel CONNECT to acquire
content from online vendors, and to quickly and
easily access all CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X6
content, which includes clipart, photos, frames,
and much more.
• Fine-tune your designs faster than ever before
by using the
docker
redesigned Object Properties
, which presents only object-dependent
formatting options and properties.
• Confidently exchange files with colleagues and
clients because of
export support for Adobe Illustrator, Adobe
enhanced import and
Photoshop, and Microsoft Publisher, as well as
import support for Adobe Acrobat.
Create layouts with ease
•Use the reengineered text engine to take
greater advantage of
typography features, such as contextual
and stylistic alternates, fractions, ligatures,
ordinals, ornaments, small caps, swashes, and
more.
• Position objects more quickly with the
Alignment Guides, which appear on the fly
and suggest potential alignments to the
existing artwork on your page.
• Preview your design before finalizing the
individual content components by
PowerClip objects with placeholder
graphic and text frames
• Right-click any text frame and immediately
popluate it with placeholder text by using the
new Insert Placeholder Text command.
• Enjoy proper typesetting for glyphs used by
Asian and Middle Eastern languages thanks to
new complex script support built into
the
the overhauled text engine.
advanced OpenType®
new
populating
.
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• Instantly add pages numbers — alphabetic,
numeric, or roman — on all pages of a
document, starting on a specific page, or
starting at a particular number by using the
new Insert Page Number command.
• Take advantage of
even, and all-pages Master Layers
new and improved odd,
to
create page-specific designs for your multipage documents easier than ever before.
Design with style and creativity
• Easily create outline, fill, character, and
paragraph styles with the
Styles docker
•Use the
new Style Sets to create groups of
.
styles, which you can later edit once and have
the changes applied instantly throughout a
project.
• Implement color changes throughout a project
easier than ever before by using the
Color Styles docker to add the colors used in
a document as styles.
• Quickly and easily produce iterative designs
with varying color schemes by using the
Color Harmony functionality, which lets
you group a document’s color resources.
new Object
new
new
• Instantly add customizable website elements to
add dynamic user interactivity to your
web designs.
• Give life to static website content, such as text,
photos, graphics, and video stills with the
Timeline Editor
in Corel Website Creator X6.
new
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