CorelDRAW X5 The Official Guide part 6. Learn to create outstanding fine art and eye-catching commercial graphics with one powerful tool! CorelDRAW X5: The Official Guide is your comprehensive reference and workbook to get you started designing visually captivating CorelDRAW artwork. Learn, step by step, how to create the illustrations you've imagined, quickly assemble layouts for print and package designs, import and edit photos, master the art of typography and the science of color theory, make 3D scenes from 2D objects, and apply special effects to ordinary pictures. Packed with expert techniques and advice for creating professional-quality art, this. | 14 CorelDRAW X5 The Official Guide New Document Palette Wouldn t it be nice to have a collection of the colors you ve used in a document all neatly arranged for future use Corel thought so too and now X5 sports the Document palette accessed via Window Color Palettes Document Palette. You can add a color to the palette by dragging one from an existing palette you can eyedropper-sample anything in the workspace including anything on a docker and you can even move CorelDRAW s application window down to then sample your Windows desktop or other application and add a sample to the Document palette. Colors can be deleted the palette can be saved as a global palette and other operations are performed through the palette s menu click the triangle icon to open the menu list. CHAPTER 1 What s New in CorelDRAW X5 15 Eyedroppers All Over the Place 1 Corel has simplified the task of getting the color you need at a moment s notice by adding eyedropper tools to several of the dockers tool option palettes and possibly the front door to Corel s offices in Ottawa. When you need a color X5 has you covered. Adobe Application Compatibility If you have a client or coworker who uses Adobe applications such as Photoshop or Illustrator file types such as PSD PDF and AI seamlessly import and export from and to these programs to and from CorelDRAW X5. Try starting a new document using sRGB as the color settings. Click the Color Settings double down-arrow in the Create a New Document dialog if sRGB is not apparent as a choice and then import Hot . As shown in Figure 1-6 this layered bitmap file was originally composed in Photoshop CS 5 FIGURE 1-6 Work with Photoshop layers in CorelDRAW as easily as done in Adobe programs. 16 CorelDRAW X5 The Official Guide saved in Photoshop with maximum backward compatibility enabled and it imports to a CorelDRAW page as a bitmap group with all the user names of the layers preserved. You can easily do the sort of editing shown in this figure 1. .
