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CorelDRAW Home & Student Suite X7 CorelDRAW® Home & Student Suite X7 offers fully-integrated applications and complementary plugins that cover everything from vector illustration and page layout, to photo editing, bitmap-to-vector tracing, and website design.
CorelDRAW Home & Student X7 toolbox T emplates Y ou can easily start a new project from a template. Y ou can browse, preview , or search for templates by name, category , keywords, or designer notes.
Drawing shapes CorelDRAW Home & Student X7 offers a wide variety of tools for drawing shapes. Rectangles By dragging diagonally with the Rectangle tool , you can draw a rectangle or a square (when holding down Ctrl ). The 3-point rectangle tool lets you quickly draw rectangles at an angle.
Insert Character docker The Insert Character docker ( T ext Insert Character ) presents all characters, symbols, and glyphs associated with a selected font, making it easier to find and insert characters into your documents. A filtering option lets you display only the character subsets that you want.
Grid and baseline grid The grid is a series of intersecting dashed lines or dots that you can use to precisely align and position objects in the drawing window . The baseline grid consists of lines that follow the pattern of a ruled sheet, helping you to align text baselines.
Shaping objects Y ou can change the shape of an object by using the Shape tool . Different types of objects can be shaped in different ways. Rectangles Y ou can drag any corner of a rectangle with the Shape tool to round all corners.
Contour Y ou can contour an object to create a series of concentric lines that progress to the inside or outside of the object. T o apply a contour , select an object, click Effects Contour , choose the settings you want in the Contour docker , and click Apply .
T o fill an object, choose the type of fill you want in the Fill area of the Object Properties docker , and choose the fill options you want. T o apply a mesh fill, use the Mesh fill tool . Choose colors A color palette is a collection of color swatches.
The Smart Carver ( Image Smart Carver ) makes it easy to remove unwanted areas from a photo and simultaneously adjust the photo’s aspect ratio without distorting the remaining content.
T ransparency Y ou can change the transparency of an object to reveal image elements underneath. Y ou can apply uniform, fountain, texture, or bitmap pattern transparencies.
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