RS COMPUTER EDUCATION INSTITUTE

DTP FILE
Name – Anubhav

Roll-no = RS/0723-176

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

 CORELDRAW

Coreldraw is a versatile and powerful vector graphics editing software designed for a wide range of creative
and professional applications. As a project purpose it is essential to understand the significance and
capabilities of Coreldraw, as it plays a crucial role in graphic design, illustration, and layout design across
various industries. This two aims to define Coreldraw, highlight its key features, and outline its potential
applications in different projects and fields.

Coreldraw software extension is = .cdr

 Key Features of Coreldraw:

 Vector Graphics Creation: Coreldraw excels at creating vector graphics, allowing users to design logos,
illustration, typography and more. Its intuitive Bezier tool and shape manipulation features make it
easy to create intricate designs.
 Precise Control: The software offers fine control over anchor points, curves and lines enabling precise
adjustments and customization. This level of control is especially important for creating complex and
detailed graphics.
 Typography Tools: Coreldraw includes advanced text-handling capabilities, enabling users to work with
custom fonts, styles, and paragraph formatting. This is crucial for designing eye-catching text elements
in various projects.
 Page Layout: in addition to graphic design, Coreldraw provides page layout features, making it a
versatile tool for creating brochures, posters, business cards, and other printed materials.
 Integration: Coreldraw can seamlessly integrate with other Corel software, such as Corel PHOTO-PAINT
for image editing, expanding its capabilities.

Applications of Coreldraw:

The applications of Coreldraw are broad and extend to a variety of professional and creative projects,
including;

 Graphic Design: Coreldraw is the go-to software for graphic designers to create visually stunning logos,
branding materials, and marketing collateral for business and individuals.
 Illustration: Artists and illustrators rely on Coreldraw to produce intricate illustrations, digital art,
comics, and graphic novels.
 Print Media: Coreldraw plays a pivotal role in designing printed material likes magazines, flyers,
banners, and packaging, thanks to it page layout features.
 Web design: it is used to design web graphics and elements such as icon, buttons, and banners that
enhance the visual appeal of websites.
 Embroidery Design: it is used to design web graphics and elements such as icons, buttons, and banners
that enhance the visual appeal of websites.
 Vinyl Cutting and signage: Coreldraw is a vital tool in the fashion and textile industry for designing
complex and detailed embroidery patterns.

Project Purpose of Using Coreldraw

The purpose of using Coreldraw in a project varies significantly based on the industry and specific
objectives. Here are some common project purposes for which Coreldraw is instrumental:

 Logo Design: Creating a unique and memorable logo for a business or organization is one of the
primary uses of Coreldraw. Logos are essential for branding, as they defines a company’s identity and
leave a lasting expression.
 Advertisement Design: Advertising agencies utilizes Coreldraw for developing compelling visual
elements in print and digital advertisements. It ensures that marketing materials stand out and
effectively convey the intended message.
 Illustrative Artwork: Illustrator and artists use Coreldraw to create digital illustrations for books,
magazines, websites, and various media. Its precision and flexibility help bring artists visions to life.
 Print Media Layout: In the publishing industry, Coreldraw is indispensable for designing layouts for
books, magazines, are visually engaging and well organized.
 Textile and Fashion Design: Coreldraw assists in the creation of patterns and designs for textiles,
fashion, and apparel. It allows designers to experiment with colors, shapes, and patterns to develop
unique clothing and fashion designs.
 Architectural and Engineering diagrams: Architects and engineers amply Coreldraw to create technical
diagrams, floor plans, and schematics, benefiting from its precision and scalability.
 Craft and Hobby Projects: Enthusiasts and hobbyists use Coreldraw to design and cut intricate patterns
for crafts such as card making, scrapbooking, and woodworking allowing for personalized and creative
projects.
Conclusion: Coreldraw is versatile and essential tool for a wide range of professional and creative projects. Its
vector based approach and extensive features set unable creators to create high quality graphics, illustrations,
and layouts. The pro9ject purpose for using Coreldraw is the harness its capabilities to achieve specific design
and visual communications goals in various professional and creative contexts. Whether it’s logo design,
illustration, advertising are any other visual project, Coreldraw remains a pivotal assists for creative
professionals and enthusiasts alike.

CORELDRAW SHORT-CUT KEYS

KEYS USES
1. B - Aligns selected objects to the bottom
2. E - Horizontally aligns the centers of the selected object
3. C - vertically aligns the center of the selected object
4. L - aligns selected objects to the left
5. R - aligns selected objects to the right
6. Alt+f12 - align text to the baseline
7. T - aligns selected objects on top
8. I - draws curves and applies Preset, brush, spray, calligraphic or
Pressure sensitive effect
9. Ctrl+PgDn - back one
10. Ctrl + k - breaks apart the selected object
11. Ctrl + b - brightness
12. Ctrl + enter - brings up the property bar and gives focus to the first visible
I tem that can be tapped to
13. P - aligns the center of the selected object to page
14. Ctrl + t - character formatting
15. Ctrl + shift + b - color balance
16. Ctrl + l - combines the selected objects
17. Ctrl + f9 - opens the contour Docker window
18. Ctrl + f8 - converts artistic text to paragraph text or vice versa
19. Ctrl + q - converts the selected object to a curve
20. Ctrl + c - copies the selection and places it on the clipboard
21. Ctrl + shift + q - converts an outline to an object
22. Ctrl + insert - copies the selection and places it on the clipboard
23. Ctrl + x - cuts the selection and places it on the clipboard
24. Shift + delete - cuts the selection and place sit on the clipboard
25. Delete - deletes the selected(s)
26. Shift + b - distributes the selected objects to the bottom
27. Shift + e - horizontally distributes the center of the selected object
28. Shift + c - vertically distributes the center of the selected objects
29. Shift + r - distributes selected objects to the right
30. Shift + l - distributes selected objects to the left
31. Shift + p - horizontally distributes the space between the selected
 32. Shift + a - vertically distributes the space between the selected objects
33. Shift + t - distributes selected objects on top
34. Ctrl + d - duplicates the selected objects and offsets by a specified
amount
35. + - duplicates the selected object at their current location
36. Alt + shift + d - show or hides the dynamic guides (toggle)
37. Ctrl + shift + t - opens the edit text dialog box
38. F7 - draw ellipses and circles
39. Ctrl + f7 - opens the envelope docker window
40. X - erases part of the graphic or split an object into closed path
41. Alt + f4 - exits Coreldraw and prompts to save the active Drawing
42. Ctrl + e - exports text or object to another format
43. Ctrl + NUMPAD2 - decreases font size to previous point size
44. Ctrl + NUMPAD8 - increases font size to next font size
45. Ctrl + NUMPAD6 - increase font size to next sitting in font size list
46. Ctrl + NUMPAD4 - decrease the font size to previous setting available in list
47. Ctrl + PgUp - Forward one
48. F11 - applies fountain fills to objects
49. F5 - draw lines and curves in freehand mode
50. F9 - displays a full screen preview of the drawing

IMPORTANT QUESTIONS

Q.1 what is the use of fountain full?

Ans. The use of fountain fill provides us with in depth training on design actually. When we click on fountain
fill option in a tool then we can apply a preset design of fountain fill on an object. We can also add a color to
fountain fill by dragging a color from the color pallet to an object’s interacting vector handle.

Types of fountain fill are:

1. Linear fountain fill: this is a default fountain fill style and it’s very useful for shading rectangular shapes
to suggest lightning on a dimensional plane or 3D object. This makes actually changes color from a
linear path.
2. Radial fountain fill: this is useful in shading round objects. It also changes color in concentric circles
from the center outwards.
3. Conical fountain fill: by this type we can change color in a conical shape. This fill produce s a strongly
shaded and unique transition between two or more colors.
4. Square fountain fill: this fill produces an effect of a four pointed star burst. So, fountain fill option
bring a dialog box from which we can fill. Gradients are formed by merging multiple coolers together.
So we can also use the fountain fill in this way

Q.2 what is the use of extrude tool?

Ans. Extrude tool creates rendered design with a sense of depth. The features of extrusion in Coreldraw which
enables to apply depth to a single object and rotate it interactively. I would like to say one more point that one
of the cool thing that which we can do with extrusion sis to convert them to ordinary objects by breaking apart
and ungrouping (ctrl + u) the extrude positions. Then see our extrude effect is now converted to separate
objects. So this tool is used to extend an object and create the 3d effect.

Q.3 what is the use of blend tool?

Ans. Blend tool creates a series of shapes by blending the two objects eighth each other. We can also adjust
the number, path and color of blending shapes. By this tool we can applied a special effect on object and also
modified the object in different ways.

Q.4 what is a shape? How do we use a shape in Coreldraw?

Ans. A shape is the form of an object or its external boundary, outline or external surface, as opposed to other
properties such as color and texture. In other words, a geometric figure such as a square, triangle or rectangle,
polygon retch. Is called shape. So Coreldraw provides five tools for different types of shapes like:

Basic shapes, arrow shapes, Flowchart shapes, star shapes and callout shapes.

Working with particular shape first we should open the properties of the object set the outline to none. By
using any shape tool we can make different designs. Shape tool is used for reshaping the objects. Every vector
object in Coreldraw is controlled by nodes and we can move these nodes by mouse and make changes in the
object by the shape tool.

Q.5 what is pen tool? How do we trace an alphabet or image in Coreldraw?

Ans. pen tool is key to design extract logos, patterns etc. basically pen tool is round in curves fly out in textbox.
We can select pen tool by clicking on that. So, we should use pen tool in this way. Firstly to draw a curved
segment, click ware we want to place the next node. Release the mouse button, and then drag the control
handle to create the curve we want. By charging a vector then we can do editing eve enlarge of any size will
not be broken. So by pen tool we can draw curves one segment at a time. S by using this we can trace image
also.

Q.6 what is the default paper type and size when we open Coreldraw windows?

Ans. When we open Coreldraw windows the default paper type is letter and the size of that paper is 8.5inch
by 11 inch.

Q.7 what is use of text tool?

Ans. There are two type so text tool. first is “paragraph text”. When we create a paragraph text frame then we
should use text tool by making a text frame and by use of all text properties. Even if to add paragraph text to
the inside of an object, and when the pointer changes to an insert cursor, begin typing.

So text tool is used for creating text object also. When we press enter then enters applies only when we
complete. A paragraph text. Even if we extract the text content.

PHOTOSHOP

What is Photoshop?

Adobe Photoshop is a raster graphic editor developed and published by adobe Inc. for windows and macOS. It

was originally created in 1987 by Thomas and john knoll. It was initially released in February 19, 1990; 33 years

ago. And it is written in c++ language. And its operating system is windows 10 (64 bit) 22 h2 and later in

macOS 11.0 and later in iPadOS 14.0 and later in android 9.0 and later and it is also available in 26 languages.

File extension = .psd

versions When released

Version 1 February 1990
Version 2 June 1991
Version 3 September 1994
Version 4 November 1996
Version 5 May 1998
Version 6 September 2000
Version 7 March 2002
CS2 (version 9) May 2005
CS3 (version 10) April 2007
CS4 (version 11) 0ctober 2008
CS5 (version 12) April 2010
CS6 (version 13) May 2012
CC (version 14) June 2013
CC 2014 (version 15) June 2014
 CC 2015 (version 16 and version 17) June 2015
CC 2017 (version 18) November 2016
CC 2018 (version 19) October 2017
CC 2019 (version 20) October 2019
2020 (version 21) November 2019
2021 (version 22) October 2020
2033 (version 23) October 2021
2023 (version 24) October
2024 (version 25) September 2023

Important questions

Q.1 what are 4 main purposes of photoshop?

Ans. It is widely used for image editing, retouching, creating image compositions, website mockups, and
adding effects. Digital or scanned images can be edited for us online or in-print. Websites layouts can be
created with in photoshop; their designs can be finalized before developers move on to the coding stage.

Q.2 what are the basic parts of the photoshop?

Ans. The options consists of various commands used to edit and compose images in the software. File, edit,
image, layer, select, filter, view, window & help are the basic commands.

Q.3 what is gradient tool?

Ans. The gradient tool creates a continuous, even blend of colors. It can also be used to blend colors and
transparency. There are various forms of this tool you can choose from depending on how you want to use the
gradient tool in photoshop.

Q.4 what is advantage of photoshop?

Ans. It allows you to create and edit images for both print and web. Photoshop itself gives the user complete
control over all kinds of image manipulation, editing and special effects and can be used for exact calibration
of images for all output methods.

Q.5 what is healing tool?

Healing tool is used in photoshop to hide the unwanted spots or pictures that appeared in your original picture
and makes the picture look like real without any changes. The tool use complicated algorithm to calculate
what would be the area of the picture based on the surrounding pixels.

Q.6 what is Gaussian blur?

It is tool that blurs the edges of the images to make it more real and adaptive to the surrounding. Often it is
believed that Gaussian blur can only blurs the image but if it is used cleverly it will not blurs the image but
enhance the appearance.
What is PageMaker and it uses?

it is one of the firs desktop publishing(DTP) software introduced three decades ago. It is page layout

application, commonly used in the print media, publication industry, advertising graphics designing and every

other domain where paper printing is a common practice.

Q. who invented PageMaker?

Ans. Aldus Corporation was an American Software company best known for its pioneering desktop publishing

software. PageMaker, the company’s most well-known product, ushered in the modern era of the desktop

computers such as Macintosh seeing widespread use in the publishing industry.

Shortcut keys of PageMaker:

User interface
Display/hide all palettes Tab
Display/hide all palettes except tools Shift + tab
Display/hide control palette Ctrl + ‘
Display/hide colors palette Ctrl + j
Display/hide style palette Ctrl + b
Define style Ctrl + 3
Display/hide master pages palette Ctrl + shift + 8
Display/hide layers palette Ctrl + 8
Display/hide hyperlinks palette Ctrl + 9
TOOL PALETTE
Rotation tool Shift + f2
Line tool Shift + f3
Rectangle tool Shift + f4
Ellipse tool Shift + f5
Polygon tool Shift + f6
Hand tool Shift + f7
Text tool Shift + alt + f1
Cropping tool Shift + alt + f2
Constrained line tool Shift + alt + f3
Rectangle frame tool Shift + alt + f4
Ellipse frame tool Shift + alt + f5
Polygon frame tool Shift + alt + f6
Zoom tool Shift + alt + f7