CorelDRAW 9 F/X and Design: Create and Perfect Non-Traditional Effects with a Traditional Design Tool

Written so that readers can retrieve files from the book's CD-ROM and build projects that take them on a journey toward creating extraordinary images for print, Web, and CD-ROM. Examines how to construct some of the hottest looks in graphic design — blurred and layered text, geometric collages, fish-eye lens across text, shredded and burned images. Covers creating eye-popping 3D effects using built-in tools and bundled applications such as CorelPHOTO-PAINT and CorelDREAM 3D. Shows readers how to design knock-out buttons, backgrounds, and animations and take them to the Web. The only book available that teaches the trend-setting, edgy illustrations that can be created with CorelDRAW — chisel images on rock, design tattoos, master comic-book-style drawing. Other books are traditional, tools-based tutorials. CorelDRAW 9 f/x and design appeals to the thousands of users who want to take the application to the next level and break out of the box. Features a 64-page Color Studio chock full of cutting-edge industrial, psychedelic, bizarre, and provocative illustrations that are also available on the CD-ROM. Updates the successful CorelDRAW 8 f/x, which received rave reviews such as this one: "In this book Hunt shows you how to use Corel to do some awesome designs. Its reverse approach makes it unique. You can pick a design you like from the color section and then look up how it's done. I love that. Plus: Every piece of artwork is on the included CD. Why can't life always be that easy?" Every piece of artwork described in the text and on display in the Color Studio is available in native CorelDRAW format for readers to load, learn, pick apart, or just plainsteal for their own use. It's an unprecedented bonus as most tutorial books do not include any artwork in editable digital format. Scripts and presets for creating instant effects. Font samples and demos for filters that will help readers take what they learn in the book and create their own unusual effects.