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John
John, I downloaded the trial and am looking forward to learning everything! I did order Corel drawx4 and have a question. Would a Wacom artpad be helpful? Do a lot of people use them with corel? I'm excited to learn everything I can so i can show clients what my designs are and create something that will captivate, evoke, enthrall, or in some other way stimulate. I'm hoping Corel will be faster and better by taking place of full size drawings that I have done in the past by hand. Is there a good tutorial online for Corel ?
The CorelDRAW Graphics Suite is too large to suggest a single good tutorial online. Do check the Learning Tools that come with it. Do a search on this forum for "tutorial" and you'll find quite a few good ones for specific purposes.
Foster Coburn has just come out with CorelDRAW Unleashed for X4 - an eBook and DVD with a wealth of good stuff in it. http://coreldrawunleashed.com/
LVS Online is on break for the summer, but I'll have a brand new Intro to CorelDRAW X4 class available there for the session starting the end of August. See http://www.lvsonline.com for descriptions of the X3 course. The X4 course will be completely different in scope and broken into two Intro courses simply because the X3 course covered too much ground too fast, but you can get an idea. The Intro to X4 description should be up in a couple of weeks.
Those last two resources aren't free, but I promise they're good.
I use a Wacom tablet often with CorelDRAW, more often with PhotoPaint and other bitmap programs. Just depends on what I'm doing. Most folks come to love the tablet after a period of adjustment. Unless you're going for a very large tablet or very high end one, I don't recommend the mouse that comes with it since it only works on the limited tablet surface. I use a regular mouse along with my Wacom pen and tablet. Some folks never use a mouse at all and only use the pen. Just depends on what you do and how you work/play at the computer.
Have fun!
Val P.