INCLUDES A SPECIAL COMPANION CD-ROM
The companion CD-ROM includes demos of multiple versions of CorelDraw, sample artwork, fonts, and stock photos, as well as other third-party graphics software
Editorial Reviews
The CorelDraw Wow Book, a four-color guide to CorelDraw, helps users of every level of expertise learn how to create superb, unique artwork. The book is divided into basic categories--drawing, coloring, transforming, adding dimension, working with type, and preparing artwork for the Web. Each category contains discrete tasks (broken down into individual steps) that help you with features, design techniques, and shortcuts.
For example, the chapter on color has a number of sections that help you use tools like texture, pattern, and fountain fills, as well as creating shimmering color, building a shine, and using blends. You'll find that this book is more than just a substitute for the CorelDraw manual.
Within every individual task explained in the book, the authors use the work of a real artist as an example and show you what this artist did to produce the effect in question, including the combinations of features and techniques that helped produce such unique artwork.
Each chapter ends with a gallery of professional-quality artwork and an explanation of everything the artist did, from beginning scan to final color tweaking. There are dozens of contributing artists, and the appendix contains their contact information should you want to learn more.
The WOW! book covers CorelDRAWversions 3 through 8 of the CorelDraw software, a smart move since even some of the older versions still have their share of devotees. The companion CD-ROM has demos of multiple versions of CorelDraw, sample artwork, fonts, and stock photos, as well as other third-party graphics software. --Kathleen Caster
Book Description
Peachpit's Wow! series has set new standards in computer graphics publishing. Readers have come to expect not only practical advice on using the software, but also techniques and solutions developed by working artists and designers, as well as galleries of professional-quality artwork. The CorelDraw Wow! Book is the latest in the series, extending this unique approach to one of the most popular graphics applications of all time, CorelDraw.
The CorelDraw Wow! Book includes results-oriented and time-saving techniques and tips aimed at users at all skill levels. Throughout the book, real-world commercial design and illustration projects for print, packaging, and the World Wide Web by dozens of artists inspire the reader and demonstrate CorelDraw techniques.
Step-by-step instructions in the book are accurate for CorelDraw Windows versions 3 through 8, and also for CorelDraw on the Mac. (Until recently all versions from CorelDraw 3 forward were still actively sold independently or bundled.)
Techniques include special effects for eye-catching headline type, logo
development, perspective drawing, getting a hand-drawn look, capturing and colorizing hand-drawn art, and photorealistic illustration.
This book provides the hard-to-get practical info that readers can't find elsewhere for getting the most out of CorelDraw's patterns, textures, lenses, presets, and blends. It includes examples of how to use CorelDraw with its ancillary programs (Photo-Paint, Dream, Trace, and others), and tells how to avoid some of the pitfalls of input and output.
The accompanying dual-platform CD-ROM contains artwork from the book, tutorials, clip art, stock illustrations, fonts, demos, shareware and freeware, CorelDraw scripts, extensions, and more.
This book combines both the highest quality CorelDraw-created art and designs with savvy techniques and solution developed by working professionals all over the world. It contains practical, results-oriented advice that readers of all levels of expertise can apply to their own projects. .
Artists and designers of all abilities. Readers have come to expect not only eminently practical advice on using the software, but also creative new techniques and solutions developed by working professionals and full-color galleries of their artwork.
The CorelDRAW Wow! Book extends this unique approach to one of the most popular graphics applications of all time.
Whatever your skill level, you'll find results-oriented advice that you can apply to your own projects. Using the highest-quality professional CorelDRAW art as examples, the authors provide step-by-step instructions for techniques that showcase the latest features in CorelDRAW while providing workarounds for earlier versions of the program.
The CorelDraw Wow! Book also comes with a CD-ROM that includes some of the inspiring artwork you'll find throughout the book. That way, you can dissect the examples and see up close what went into these creations.
From the author, Shane Hunt bark@slimydog.com , May 18, 1999
The best CorelDRAW artwork from around the world, showcased in the best CorelDRAW book you can buy. Beautiful, full-color pages throughout show you amazing tips and tricks, and walks you through each process at the click-and-drag level.
Learn from the pros with techniques gleaned from their award-winning artwork. Reference galleries for all of the Preset Fountain fills, Lens effects, Texture fills and the like make the book an invaluable resource. Great for users of all levels, using versions 3 thru 9, Mac or PC.
If you buy one CorelDRAW book, this should be it!
REAL USER REVIEWS
All I can say is WOW!, July 27, 1999
Reviewer: cbranner@eaze.net from Texas
I have waited for what seemed like forever for this WOW book to hit the shelves and I must say it was well worth the wait. I have other books written by both Shane Hunt and Linnea Dayton and I'm glad to say they have maintained their rep of putting out good references for the rest of us. Every time I open it I see something else I want to try or gives me ideas for new things.
This book is well designed and written - not too techie for novices and chock full of great illustrations. If you dislike working your way through the effects menus, you'll love the pages that show all the fountain presets, bitmap filters, etc. I appreciate the authors remembering all of us who do not upgrade every year or who use more than one version (or Macs). Every CorelDRAW user, using any version, should get this book. You'll be glad you did.
Clear, well written, and an inspiration.., November 18, 1999
Reviewer: Quentin Roper (quentin@qdesign.co.nz) from New Zealand
I first bought coreldraw7 a couple of years ago, at student price.. and it didnt come with a manual. So I figured out a lot of techniques thru trial and error. But I missed out on a lot of the Coreldraw features, although I thought it was great software all the same, and did a lot of drawing with it.
Just last week I bought the Coreldraw Wow book, and ..at last! ..the tools and features of this software are revealed to me in an amazing compendium of techniques, tips and excellent information.
Shane Hunt's 'The Coreldraw Wow! Book' is clear, well written, and an inspiration. Full of useful techniques, it's an excellent book to really show the power and versatility of Coreldraw.
