Sesame Street Elmo's Preschool

Elmo helps kids boost early academic skills such as phonics, vocabulary, counting and problem solving, and develop real-world common sense on topics such as safety, sharing and recycling. Children will enjoy continuous challenge, as activities are automatically adjusted to match growing skills, and a hint structure keeps the fun and learning on track.

Learning Buddies- backgrounds and layouts. Live Effects make it easy to experiment without losing your previous work. Plus, share files easily with over 70 import and 40 export filters, including Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Word, Windows Metafile, animated GIF and JPG.

CorelDRAW Essentials--your total creativity package.

CorelDRAW Essentials Features and Benefits

Value
- Two award-winning applications: express your creativity with the powerful yet easy-to-use graphics, photo-editing, painting, page layout and text tools in CorelDRAW and Corel PHOTO-PAINT
- Osborne/McGraw-Hill learning resources: discover helpful design tips, tricks and techniques in modified digital versions of CorelDRAW 9
- Canto Cumulus Desktop LE 5.0: generate thumbnail images of your files and photos, then index them for easy retrieval
- Corel CAPTURE 9: create snapshots of what you see on screen, then import these screen shots into your projects
- Professionally designed content: enhance your work with high-quality clipart images, symbols, photos, photo objects and fonts

Ease of Use and Creative Flexibility
- Intuitive user interface: a consistent look and feel across the suite makes it easy to move between CorelDRAW and Corel PHOTO-PAINT
- QuickTour movie: get started quickly with this video introduction that provides an overview of key features
- Project-based tutors: learn the basics about various CorelDRAW and Corel PHOTO-PAINT tools
- Customisable templates: start with a preset project layout or background, then add your own creative touch
- Context-sensitive Help: quickly find answers to questions about the task at hand
- Live Effects: experiment as you go and see the results in real time without losing your previous work when adding effects such as drop shadows, transparencies, mesh fills and distortions to images
- Text and layout tools: jazz up reports by defining columns and headers/footers, controlling text spacing, wrapping text around an image and assigning different page sizes and orientations to individual pages
- Image Sprayer tool: create realistic collage effects in Corel PHOTO-PAINT
- Artistic Media brushes: choose from preset brushes or define your own brush types for a variety of creative options
- Masking tools: produce stunning image compositions with powerful tools that let you accurately control the areas you mask

Compatibility
- Colour accuracy: take advantage of International Colour Consortium (ICC) standard profiles to ensure consistency between the colours on screen and those in your scanned and printed images
- File format support: enjoy compatibility with Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Word, Windows Metafile, animated GIF and JPG formats
- Import/export filters: share your images easily with support for more than 70 import filters and 40 export filters for many standard graphics, image and text file formats
- Compliance with TWAIN-compatible interfaces: ensure an easy connection to image sources such as desktop scanners and digital cameras
- Plug-in support: extend the creative possibilities of Corel PHOTO-PAINT with support for industry-standard bitmap plug-in effects, including KPT
- Websafe colour palette: achieve consistent colour in your Web graphics (GIFs)

Functionality
- Print capabilities: design your own brochures, flyers, signs, posters and reports. Plus, create large banners and posters using standard paper sizes with powerful tiled printing functions in CorelDRAW
- Web power: produce HTML layouts, image maps and links using wizard-driven Web-publishing features
- Publish to PDF: output directly to PDF for easy and secure file distribution on or off-line
- Special projects: seamlessly stitch together QuickTime VR panoramas using your own photos, and create layout diagrams for planning home and garden renovations or additions
- Great gift ideas: personalise greeting cards, postcards and invitations for friends and family