Michael Ward
Graphics and Web Design

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Tutorials, Exercises, Cheat Sheets, and Dirty Tricks

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CorelDraw Corel PhotoPaint & Corel Trace Photoshop Dreamweaver

NVU IrfanView The GIMP OpenOffice

These are all PDFs (except as noted). Most are illustrated instructions for some procedure, and most are not difficult, although anything involving Flash I wouldn't recommend to a novice. They were created by different people, for different versions of CD, anything from 7 to 12.

Some are entirely my own creation, others are slightly edited versions of tutorials from other web sites; see the Tutorials on the Web links for each section. Some documents are just information indicated by (info).

FREE PDF READER click here. Not that bloatware from Adobe, a different one, a tenth the size.

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CorelDraw

**Course Outline** - not written in stone **Tutorials on the Web** (plain text) Create your own icons Screen Shots and other dirty tricks Steal a web page and save as a PDF Using the paintbrush tool Wrapping text around a shape Create a Moonscape Landscape, mountains, forest, sunrise (or sunset) Perspective - what it means (info) Power Clips: seeing an object through another object 3D textured Text Gel Text "Cracked" Text 3D Buttons for web sites Glossy Buttons for web sites "Yahoo" Buttons Screen Resolution and Colour Depth (info)

Chiseled Bevels part 1 Chiseled Bevels part 2 Animated GIFs Flowers with Distortion Effects Newsletter Basics (info) Newsletter Layout (info) Converting Shadows to Spot Colours Tile Printing (info) Tracing with Bezier Curves Designing Company Logos (info) Machine Threads Node Editing Complex 3D Objects with Mesh Fills Creating Interactive PDF Documents About PostScript Options (info) Flash Rollover Buttons Convert an Animated GIF to Flash

Other fun things to do with CorelDraw

Still working on this stuff (below).

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Photoshop

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Dreamweaver

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Corel PhotoPaint

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Corel Trace

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NVU

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IrfanView

HTML thumbnail pages

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The GIMP

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OpenOffice

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