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18/10/2022

Adam has found a clipart image but it isn't exactly what he wants and he needs help to modify it.

29/09/2022

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16/06/2022

Great reasons for a CorelDraw Training Course – Part Three

If you have the right picture in the wrong format, CorelDraw could be just what you need to get you out of a fix.

CorelDraw and its stable-mate Corel Photo-Paint can import and export files in just about any format you're ever likely to need.

I'm a bit of a dinosaur in the IT world these days so I can remember the days when just about everyone who created a software application had a proprietary file format to go with it...

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09/06/2022

Continuing my series of "Great reasons to choose a CorelDraw training course", welcome to...

Reason No. 2

It's not just a vector graphics drawing tool. It's also a full-featured DTP (Desktop Publishing) programme, and, if you purchase it as part of the Corel Graphics Suite...

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31/05/2022

Great reasons to use CorelDraw

I've always thought that CorelDraw gets a pretty rough ride from folks in the graphics/design world where Adobe still reigns supreme. But starting today and over the next few weeks I'm going to give you some great reasons for choosing CorelDraw over its better-known competitors.

Reason No. 1

It's available to purchase as a perpetual licence rather than by subscription, although there's a subscription plan option as well if that's what you prefer.

In my experience annual subscription models – at least for Windows users, which is where most CorelDraw users live – are a waste of money. They incentivise software developers to hold back on new features that they could have included this year so that they have something to shout about next year. But more often, the new features in the 'upgrades' year on year aren't really worth shouting about in the first place. I can't remember the last time an upgrade to any graphics product included something really new and innovative that made it worth the cost but I can recall a number of occasions when useful features were removed from 'upgrades', often only to be re-introduced a couple of years later when they were then touted as new features in a subsequent upgrade.

I have an old copy of version CorelDraw 12 (the current 2022 release is version 23) that still works perfectly and runs on a Windows 10 machine. It doesn't have all the bells and whistles of the current release but I'd say it does easily 85% of what the newest release can do, so if I hadn't bought in to any of the subsequent releases that's 10 years of subscriptions I could have saved myself.

PPA runs regular CorelDraw courses, in-class, online or on your own premises. Visit https://ppatraining.co.uk/courses/corel/coreldraw/introductory-course/ to learn more about our CorelDraw training courses.

23/05/2022

Do you have an interest in IT training, either as a delegate or as a buyer of training – or both?

We're hoping to get some valuable insights about how, if at all, people's approaches to IT training might have changed as a result of the different ways of working brought about during the Covid 19 pandemic. We'd really appreciate it if you could take 2 minutes to complete a short survey that we've put together here https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/S2LQKHR.

Thank-you in advance if you're able to help.

31/01/2022

THE CLASSROOM IS BACK

After nearly two years of delivering only online courses I'm delighted to announce that in-person training in a real classroom is finally back on our schedule.

The ability to deliver courses online has undoubtedly been a lifeline for many of us, and I know that for many of you as well it has proved to be a better alternative than attending classes in-person. Not having to travel to a training venue is an obvious advantage, and providing courses in 3-hour chunks instead of a full day has made it much easier for those working from home to organise their day. So online training is here to stay as well, and over the next few months we'll be scheduling online and in-class versions of courses in alternate months.

Nothing quite beats the learning experience of having your trainer on-hand and in-person though, and I'm really looking forward to seeing as many new and old faces as possible again. From a trainer's point of view, it's been quite tough to know exactly who and how well people in online sessions have understood the content. So much is communicated non-verbally in face-to-face training and I've really missed that. When a person is in the room with me, it's easy to know when they're struggling to understand something. It can be a facial expression, a sigh, a gasp of frustration – a curse even – that lets me know all isn't well. And even if there are no non-verbal cues, I can always just stand near them and watch what they're doing to see how they're getting on.

So, welcome back and I hope to see you soon.

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21/10/2021

As winter approaches and the risks associated with the covid pandemic are far from over, we're continuing to offer all scheduled courses online only – which, let's face it, is not without its lighter moments and some advantages.
We'll be happy to come to your premises to deliver in-person training as long as you're able to provide a covid-secure environment. If you aren't able to host a training session on your own premises but still want in-person training, we can also arrange suitable venues in many parts of the UK and Ireland, so just get in touch and let us know what you need, and we'll do the rest.
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22/04/2021

We Hear You

The last twelve months or so have been a bit of a learning curve for all of us. Working from home whilst home-schooling the kids, feeding the baby, walking the dog and seeing to the laundry has been a real eye-opener for many of us. It's given us some hilarious moments too of course. Who will ever forget the American lawyer who appeared in virtual court as a cat, or the time Dr. Kelly's adorable young children photo-bombed a very serious BBC TV News interview.

Hilarity aside, one of the things you've been telling us is that a full day training course that largely follows the same format as a face-to-face classroom course is a tough ask for all sorts of reasons. Quite apart from the numerous other commitments and distractions that come with working from home, an all-day zoom meeting, even with frequent breaks, is just too long for most people to maintain any decent level of concentration.

We hear you.

Last year we took the decision to spread our two-day courses over a week with the second day taking place a week or so after the first, but that still meant two full days online learning. So starting next month, all scheduled online PPA training courses will be broken down into shorter three-hour sessions. One-day courses will now run over two three-hour sessions several days apart, and two-day courses will run over four three-hour sessions with several days between the sessions.

So you see, we're still learning and we're trying to do everything we can to help you carry on learning too.

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07/01/2021

Here we go again...

When covid19 officially became a worldwide pandemic in March last year I'm sure we all thought that by the time we saw in 2021 we'd be looking back on lockdown 1.0 as a bit of a novelty that caused many of us to rethink our priorities and perhaps make some long overdue adjustments to our work/life balance...

When covid19 officially became a worldwide pandemic in March last year I'm sure we all thought that by the time we saw in 2021 we'd be looking back on lockdown 1.0 as a bit of a novelty that caused many of us to rethink our priorities and perhaps make some…