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Summary: My most used reference book besides my dictionary.
Review: Corel Draw8's table of contents leads me to answers in seconds. I have highlighted a third of my book. Everything from color models to exporting in never heard of formats. Clear examples that lead to great results. Comparatively inexpensive do to it's vast knowledge of know-how.
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Summary: A solid learning tool/reference for ANY Draw 8 user.
Review: Do you have a time to study DRAW in so much details without beign able to study the rest of the suite? If you are professional and want to get a hand on every aspect of DRAW then using help index of the software is more sensible approach anyway than reading a book so short on excitement and creativity. And another thing - if a professional cannot come up with better illustrations than those in the book, is it worth to spend time studying that software at all???
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Summary: Pointless Book
Review: Do you have a time to study DRAW in so much details without beign able to study the rest of the suite? If you are professional and want to get a hand on every aspect of DRAW then using help index of the software is more sensible approach anyway than reading a book so short on excitement and creativity. And another thing - if a professional cannot come up with better illustrations than those in the book, is it worth to spend time studying that software at all???
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Summary: Enough basic information for both PC & Mac users.
Review: Having only the desire and no formal training in graphic art programs I find that by using this book I can logically work my way through the projects described in Corel Draw 8. I have attended two of their seminars and the book is like having Foster and Peter beside me.
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Summary: Like having Foster and Peter by my side
Review: Having only the desire and no formal training in graphic art programs I find that by using this book I can logically work my way through the projects described in Corel Draw 8. I have attended two of their seminars and the book is like having Foster and Peter beside me.
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Summary: From Corel3 to COREL8!
Review: Imagine my surprise when I went from Corel 3 to Corel 8! My monitor screen suddenly took on the appearance of a cockpit of a 747! Lucky for me,(and Amazon.com) Foster Coburn and Peter McCormick got together and published Corel Draw 8-THE OFFICAL GUIDE. It has easy to understand directions and graphics that helps makes sense out of the bevy of upgrades I wasn't used too.I can extrude, rotate, weld,convert my curves and interact all without breakin' a sweat. If you've gotten behind on your upgrades, as I did, get the OFFICIAL GUIDE to Corel 8. It's great. Except NO SUBSTITUTIONS!!
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Summary: Poor
Review: Simply put it - this book is about as poor and rigid as CorelDRAW 8 as a software. Too hard? Well, if compared with Painter 5 or Adobe Photoshop 5 then you know what I am talking about. One needs to spend hours to develop an image that take few mouse clicks with Painter. CorelDRAW has powerfull drawing program and integrates a lot of other things but none of them is equal to specialty software. The book shows that clearly - very technical and rigid introduction in subject with no imagination and rather poor graphics. If this is what experts can do in DRAW, what is to be expected from a beginner??? If I need an index, I would use program's index files anyway! However there is more than that - check Hunt's book. Don't waste money on this book unless you really need to. There are no too many good books about DRAW around, but this one is certainly not among them.
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Summary: Enough basic information for both PC & Mac users.
Review: Some of the information does not come with enough technical details but with lengthy comment E.g.: On page 49, the author spent a lot of time comparing the Eraser feature of Corel 7 to Corel 6!!! Who needs that? We are reading a book about Corel 8 not Corel 7 or 6. The book is more than 900 pages thick. Compared to other publications with the same subject, the fonts here are much bigger to artificially increase the thicknes of the book. If you need to use Corel 8 on both PC & Mac, this is the book to buy. Otherwise, "Corel 8 secrets" and "Corel 8 bible" contain more details.
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Summary: A solid learning tool/reference for ANY Draw 8 user.
Review: The authors clearly and solidly put themselves mentally in the shoes of a beginning user. Yet there is no padding or chaff. There are maybe a half dozen software books that come close to equalling them in this respect. The many illustrations would admittedly be much more attractive in color. But you have to DO it to learn it. And you get the color on screen as you do. A MUST, and a BEST BUY, whether you are a beginner, an initiated, or a pro.
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Summary: Near Perfect coverage of a complex program
Review: Well, after working with every version of Corel for more than 9 years, I still find myself needing a good book to help me through the sections that I don't often use or are just plain hard.... This book is a great reference to a complex program. CorelDraw 8 is a near do everything program and it takes a "Large" book to cover it all... this one sure does that. Thanks for all the help. Well written and to the point.
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