Corel photo paint x3 tutorials pdf
You can apply these shape commands to all corners of an object selected by using the Pick Tool, or apply the effects only to specifically selected points by using the Shape Tool (see below). Scalloping enables you to create a flattened-corner effect of a specific length. These corner-shaping effects can be applied to a specific radius value by using a new a docker (shown below), essentially eliminating the time-consuming workarounds needed to accomplish the same effect.Ĭhamfering enables you to apply inside rounding to straight corners, while filleting applies the inverse of this shaping effect (as shown below). You can now instantly apply symmetrical chamfering, filleting, or scalloping commands to objects. If you've ever tried to manually round or bevel the point where two straight lines join, you'll appreciate the three new shaping commands in CorelDRAW X3. These markers also appear while you're drawing curves with the Bezier Tool. Nodes and curve markers now appear in blue, and curve handles now sport arrowhead shapes (see below), making them easier to differentiate from surrounding elements. Vector editing is now easier and more intuitive thanks to the new Shape Tool onscreen feedback during node editing sessions. When making node selections, a new Property Bar option now enables you to choose between Freehand or Rectangular selection modes (see below). The Shape Tool has been enhanced to provide improved interactive feedback when you're making node selections and while manipulating nodes and curve segments. Shapes created with the Complex Star Tool now include glyph nodes for controlling the position of the outer points when editing their shape at the node level (see below). The Complex Star Tool enables you to create the more complex stars shapes previously drawn with the Polygon Tool (as shown below). The Star Tool now enables you to draw simplified star shapes (formerly created using the Star mode of the Polygon Tool). The Polygon Tool seen in previous versions has been split in two separate tools to make drawing stellated (star) shapes easier for experts and less mysterious for new users. Just marquee-select the area you wish to preserve, and double-click to permanently eliminate the unwanted pixels (as shown below). The Crop Tool enables you to interactively redefine the rectangular boundaries of an existing bitmap. The Smart Fill Tool simultaneously performs a shaping command and applies new fill and outline colors to the new object. The result is a new shape that exactly matches the area you clicked. Just use the Property Bar options to choose your fill and outline colors and the outline width, and click an enclosed area where any two shapes overlap (as shown below). The Smart Fill Tool doesn't just apply fill colors to shapes, it also creates the shapes. The new innovations include an ingenious new Smart Fill tool, a new bitmap-cropping tool, an overhauled star-drawing tool, and significant improvements to the Shape Tool.
Take a look at what's new, and you'll see what I mean.ĬorelDRAW X3 boasts a myriad of new and improved Toolbox components. Maybe, it's the subtle sophistication that comes with maturity. But it's the quality woven into the very fabric of the suite that really caught my eye. Two years of development and more rigorous testing have brought to the suite better reliability and performance along with the many new tools, effects, and advancements. In fact to cover over the ever-widening cracks Corel has had to resort to bundling in a cut-down copy of Pixmantec’s RawShooter for handling RAW format files – a core capability if ever there was one in the age of the digital camera.CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3 Advances to the Next LevelĪ peek under the hood of the CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3 hints at a change in the wind at Corel. So what else is new? The Cutout Lab for extracting objects from their backgrounds now offers tools to restore and remove detail, an undo capability and the ability to export results as a new layer or as a clipping mask. The X3 suite’s Image Adjustment Lab provides centralized global colour correction.
More fundamental is the new support for spot colours which can be created with the Channels docker and saved to both PHOTO-PAINT CPT and Photoshop PSD formats. More useful is the new Image Adjustment Lab which doesn’t add new power but brings together the most common existing correction commands in one dialog. To begin with there’s the new Hints docker that provides information about the current active tool and a Help menu option to highlight what’s changed over the last few releases (answer: not much). As you’d expect, some of Photo- PAINT’s new features are shared with the main CorelDRAW module.