Yesterday was my 2000th blog post so today is the start of the second 2000 and I wanted to take a walk down memory lane. Last week I had to film a quick screen test for a local filmmaker who would like to do some video projects with me. I’m definitely...
CorelDRAW X5 Unleashed Archives
All about the CorelDRAW X5 Unleashed multimedia training.
I had a user contact me last week. Part of their workflow involved making quite a few duplicates of an object (or group of objects) to be positioned on the page. In short, they wanted a bunch of copies of the graphic to be output at specific positions on the page. I...
Last week I explained how the speed of text in CorelDRAW X6 could be lower in Windows XP due to the new OpenType features in CorelDRAW X6, Text Speed and Windows XP. Speed is something always discussed by users and slow performance is always sure to draw a complaint....
This past week I went to Las Vegas to meet with a client. Of course one of the questions someone always asks when someone returns from Las Vegas is “did you win?”. My schedule was quite busy the whole trip so I didn’t get a chance to even visit a...
At first glance, this post has a lot to do with college sports. What most people don’t know is that there is a huge connection between the CorelDRAW Unleashed products, New Orleans and the Final Four. Let’s first talk about the results of last...
The first three parts of this series have covered installing the operating system, installing your software and loading your content libraries. Today is the final installment and we’ll talk about your data and keeping the data safe.As I started this series I...
Not a day goes by where I don’t see someone asking the best way for them to learn CorelDRAW. I am certainly biased since I create training products, but there is not a universal answer. The first place to start is by RTFM (read the fine manual…though some...
I don’t know how often you refer to our CorelDRAW X5 Unleashed Multimedia Training, but I do it quite often. There is just no way I can remember everything included. As I was going over some thing yesterday, I was reminded of the important of converting outlines...
Over the past eighteen months, I have featured almost all of the individual lessons contained in CorelDRAW X5 Unleashed, CorelDRAW X5 Unleashed Advanced Topics and Corel PHOTO-PAINT X5 Unleashed. The few lessons that haven’t been featured individually are highly...
It was a holiday weekend and I did my best to have some fun. But I was also spending long hours trying to put the finishing touches on Corel PHOTO-PAINT X5 Unleashed. This is the first training product we’ve created dedicated to learning Corel PHOTO-PAINT. As...
Last week I told you about a quick, but hidden, way to create a bounding box in CorelDRAW. Sometimes it is hard for me to know what little tips users already know and what they don’t know. That one must have hit the spot for many users as I got a lot of e-mails...
I got an e-mail from a loyal reader asking me how CorelDRAW X5 Unleashed is different from the previous versions. He went on to say that looking at the Table of Contents didn’t reveal any major changes. I’ll do my best to outline what I think are some of...
I’m proud to announce that the CorelDRAW X5 Unleashed Multimedia Training is nearing completion and will ship by the end of June 2010. I’ll provide details on it below, including the ability for you to pre-order a copy. Please note that this is a pre-order...
Many of you have utilized the previous CorelDRAW Unleashed books to become more proficient in CorelDRAW. I’ve been hard at work on the next series of CorelDRAW Unleashed books to help you get the most out of CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X5. Did you catch my wording?...