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Summary: "Very helpful"
Review: An easy step by step how - to guide book makes corel 8 simplified right down to the short cuts. Well done gentlemen !
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Summary: A must have for serious users
Review: As a certified CorelDRAW instructor, I teach the basics of how to use the tools. Given the power of the program, there are not enough hours in a one or even a two day class to teach what to do with the tools you have learned. This book is the next step. Step by step, the authors show you techniques to produce the images, Gary using DRAW and Dave using PhotoPaint. These well thought out and excellently illustrated exercises give you the next step in becoming an expert user of CorelDRAW. I recommend it to my students as a follow up to the classes I teach. If you are serious about using CorelDRAW as an illustration tool or CorelPHOTOPAINT as a bitmap manipulation tool, get this book. You will never regret it.
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Summary: An Apprenticeship:
Review: As an amateur graphic artist, I always felt that, had I the opportunity to apprentice under a master, I could truly learn my craft. However, this was not to be and I resorted to teaching myself in the stolen moments among life's responsibilities. Fortunately for me, I recently have had the opportunity to apprentice under TWO masters, thanks to the invaluable book by David A. Huss, Gary W. Priester , CorelDRAW Studio Techniques. Many thanks to Gary and Dave for providing this unique learning opportunity for those of us who were unable to receive formal training in this field.Catharina Hogarth
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Summary: Full Color Effects - But Not For Beginners
Review: Being already familiar with CorelDRAW and Photopaint, I found the book to be an excellent source of ideas. I cannot however recommend this book for the uninitiated. The authors assume a functional (read intimate) familiarity with the programs' tools and settings. The book presents an excellent balance between draw and paint and the authors write in light and whimisical manner, making the book a fairly easy read. What I found most useful is that it is published in full-color throughout. This makes following along with the projects much easier since there is no guessing how a particular effect should look. On the downside, the full-color also results in steep price for this 1/2" thick book. Overall, I would readily recommend it for advanced users, suggest it to intermediate users, and steer beginners to the "Visual Quickstart" or "Dummies" series.
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Summary: A must have for Corel useres
Review: CorelDRAW is the most powerful illustration package available on the market today. When I teach CorelDRAW classes I am only able to teach the tools, how to use the program. My students frequently ask where do they go from there. I used to say it was limited by their imagination, but now I can direct them to this book. Here are the techniques you can use to go from beginner to power user. If you use DRAW or PHOTOPAINT, you need this book. Thanks to Dave and Gary for filling a much needed void.
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Summary: Photoshop pretties come to Corel!
Review: Enough of converting Photoshop techniques over to PhotoPaint. Finally, the Prince & Duke have given the Corel community what the Photopaint users have had for years: A book full of easy recipes for awesome effects. This book belongs on every Corel user's bookshelf -- though it will probably spend most of its time propped open on your desk. I can't put it more clearly: If you use CorelDraw or Corel PhotoPaint, eat canned beans for a week if you have to, but GET THIS BOOK!
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Summary: This book helped me make more money!
Review: I am a graphic designer, not an illustrator, and sometimes I find myself with a lower than usually budget and I want to do as much of the project as I can myself. What I've learned from CorelDRAW Studio Techniques has helped me compete with the big boys. It's given me the confidence I need in the cut throat advertising and design business. If your serious about what you do, this book is worth every penny you pay for it and more. Thanks Guys!
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Summary: essential CorelDRAW book
Review: I bought this book when it first hit the shelves and I've got to say, it's one that I've opened again and again for ideas and inspiration. Gary and Dave are wonderful teachers, talented artists, and humorous writers. I'm so glad they combined their considerable Corelian knowledge to write such a great book!
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Summary: A 'must-have' for Corel Draw & Paint users...
Review: I bought this book when it first hit the shelves and I've got to say, it's one that I've opened again and again for ideas and inspiration. Gary and Dave are wonderful teachers, talented artists, and humorous writers. I'm so glad they combined their considerable Corelian knowledge to write such a great book!
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Summary: An excellent melding of technical skill and artistry
Review: I lead a CorelDraw User Group. When our first copies of this book were placed on our booktable, it sold out before our meeting even began! As a Corel certified instructor for Draw, I can recommend this book without hesitation. It is rare to find an author that possesses technical mastery of a program, fine artistic skills, *and* can make the technical aspects comprehensible. Finding two featured in one book is a bonus. Plus, they are funny... sometimes even intentionally. My only complaint, is that for the price, a companion CD would have been nice.
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