Gary David Bouton Author - CorelDRAW X8: The Official Guide

Gary Bouton (Central New York) is an award-winning CorelDRAW illustrator and author of hundreds of expert design and drawing tutorials. Out of the 30 books he has written in his career, almost a third of them have been on CorelDRAW. His other works include coverage of Photoshop, vector illustration packages, the creation of 3D models, and the production of Hollywood-style special effects. For McGraw-Hill, Gary has written Xara Xtreme 5: The Official Guide and co-authored Photoshop CS4 QuickSteps. He is a former Madison Avenue art director and has been a professional illustrator for 40 years. He currently runs a full-service design graphics firm specializing in video training. Gary has also served on Corels CorelDRAW feature review board and was a finalist in the Corel World Design contest.

William Schneider (Athens, Ohio) currently teaches computer graphics and digital photography in the School of Visual Communication at Ohio University. He has been a finalist in the annual Corel World Design contest on two occasions and has written numerous magazine articles about photography and computer artwork. Williams photographs and graphical designs have been published in a number of venues, including Italian Renaissance Art: A Source Book, for which he created hundreds of illustrations and photographs. When not working at the computer or printing in the darkroom, William likes woodworking and ice skating.

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This is for Wilma Elkins Mancuso, my spouse Barbaras mother,
who passed away last year, all too early. Wilma refused to be negative.
She was the most outgoing soul Ive ever had the privilege of knowing
and saw that everywhere she looked the world was never boring.
Your family misses you a lot, Wilma.

Whether youre a new user or have lived and breathed CorelDRAW for years, we know that youll find tremendous benefit in the wealth of information available here in CorelDRAW X8: The Official Guide. Thanks to the long-standing relationship weve enjoyed with McGraw-Hill Education and author Gary David Bouton, were confident that this book will provide you with everything you need to know to become a power user of CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X8.

A pioneer in the graphics industry, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X8 is a complete collection of graphics tools that helps designers, artists, and business users to bring their creative imagination to life. Combining an extensive toolset for illustration, page layout, typography, photo editing and other design tasks, this suite provides everything graphic professionals and aspiring designers need to turn their ideas into amazing pieces of art. With an emphasis on productivity, as well as unmatched support for Windows 10 and cutting-edge hardware compatibility, the new CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X8 makes your workflow faster and simpler, all while giving you more controlespecially when working with fonts and editing images and objects.

With CorelDRAW X8: The Official Guide, Gary David Bouton has created the total training package, introducing you to the new features that are unique to the latest release of CorelDRAW X8. This essential resource will show you everything you need to know to become a pro, as well as give you tips and tricks to make you efficient and productive. The Official Guide demonstrates the significant enhancements made to many of the suites essential tools and capabilities to achieve the professional results you want and need. We welcome you to explore this invaluable reference, and to learn why CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X8 is the optimal environment for anyone creating graphics on Windows versions 7, 8, and especially the latest version, 10.