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Graphic Tools

Notes Whether they are creating proposals or executing on a client’s vision down to every last
detail, David says, “in so many ways, CorelDRAWGraphics Suite X3 aids in the success of
our business immensely”.
Questions:
1. Study and analyze the case.
2. Write down the case facts.

3. What do you infer from it?
Source: http://www.corel.com/cdgsx3/an_original_occasion_case_study/CDGSX3_An_Original_
Occasion_Case_Study.pdf
8.4 Summary

z CorelDraw is an enormously powerful graphic design package used to create newsletters,
brochures, logos and web graphics.

z The Artistic media tool treats a path as though it’s a skeleton to which you can apply any
number of CorelDraw preset skins.
z Live Smoothing, Mesh Fills, Eyedropper, New Eraser Nib Shape are some tools available
to apply different types of effects on a CorelDraw document.
z CorelDraw can Map Text to HTML Style and provide enhanced internet features.
z It supports Corel PHOTO-PAIN, Adobe Photoshop File Formats and Ixla Digital Camera
Interface.
z To crop a bitmap image in CorelDraw the Bitmap Crop feature comes in handy. It prevents
the users to crop bitmap images in Corel photo-paint.
z Many of the bitmap effects features used in Corel photo-paint are now available in
CorelDraw now. For example, art strokes like charcoal, crayon, etc.

z CorelDraw can make use of features like 3D filters, blur filters, Colour Transform Filters,
Contour Filters, etc. to provide multiple effects to its images and text.

8.5 Keywords

Artistic Media Tool: It treats a path as though it’s a skeleton to which you can apply any number
of CorelDraw preset skins.
Bitmap: It is a mapping from some domain (for example, a range of integers) to bits (values zero
or one).
Deinterlace: It lets you remove lines from scanned or interlaced images
Eyedropper Tool: It is the tool with which you can easily do a variety of things: from simply
copying solid colours to copying gradients, etc.
Halftone: It is an image that has been converted from a continuous tone image to a series of dots
of various sizes to represent different tones.

Jaggies: They are stair like lines that appear where there should be smooth straight lines or
curves.
Mesh Fill Tool: It allows users to add color to a certain section of an image or photograph by
using a grid-like pattern.

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