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Table of Contents

Introduction
Welcome to Corel R.A.V.E.ô . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
About Corel Corporation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Corel support and services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Customer Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Installing and uninstalling components. . . . . . . . . 7
Registering Corel R.A.V.E.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Starting and quitting Corel R.A.V.E. . . . . . . . . . . 8
Accessing Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Corel R.A.V.E. terms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Exploring the Corel R.A.V.E. work area . . . . . . . . 11
Exploring the toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Exploring the toolbox. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Exploring the Timeline Docker window . . . . . . . . 17
Exploring the movie playback controls . . . . . . . . 18
Getting started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Starting and opening movies . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Importing files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Setting the properties of movies . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Saving movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Creating Animation
Creating animation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Understanding animation methods and terms . . . . . 29
Setting the life span of objects. . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Tweening objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Animating blends. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Animating objects frame-by-frame . . . . . . . . . . 36
Using animated GIF files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Previewing animation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Editing animation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Adding sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Repeating animated objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Reference: Creating animation . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Creating interactive objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Creating rollovers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Editing rollovers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Repeating animation in rollovers . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Adding sound to rollovers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Creating hyperlinks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Drawing
Drawing lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Drawing lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Drawing shapes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Drawing rectangles and squares . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Drawing ellipses, circles, arcs, and wedges . . . . . . 54
Drawing polygons and stars . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Drawing spirals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Drawing grids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Drawing pre-defined shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Working with objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Selecting objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Copying, duplicating, and deleting objects . . . . . . 61
Positioning objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Sizing and scaling objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Rotating and mirroring objects. . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Changing the order of objects . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Grouping objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Aligning and distributing objects. . . . . . . . . . . 65
Blending objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Shaping objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Applying distortion effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Shaping objects using envelopes . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Filling objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Applying uniform fills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Applying fountain fills. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Applying texture fills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Working with color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Choosing colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Adding three-dimensional effects to objects . . . . . 79
Contouring objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Creating drop shadows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Changing the transparency of objects . . . . . . . . . . 83
Applying a transparency. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Working with bitmapped images . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Adding bitmapped images. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Applying special effects to bitmapped images . . . . . 89
Working with text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Adding and selecting text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Moving text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Changing the appearance of text. . . . . . . . . . . 93
Formatting paragraph text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Shaping text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Wrapping paragraph text around objects and text . . . 95
Fitting text to a path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Output
Exporting and publishing movies . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Exporting movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Publishing movies to the World Wide Web. . . . . . 102
Printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Printing your work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

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