Hii,

Whats the best and easiest way to learn a coreldraw 12 and adobe photoshop 7.0 with a short period of time. The books are very voluminous and the manual are a bit difficult to go thru within short period of time.

just get down to practice. Click click click while you use the help key often.
if you have had earlier version no quams
practice make what?,

Buy an international standard magazine. Look at the designs and layouts. Learn how to draw a rectangle. Type text. Draw sphere etc. Paint them with colors. Use ur transparency tool.

Then start applying the knowledge by making look alike stuffs from the magazine. What i'm tryna say is try copy the pro from there

I must confess to u its not so easy but I think practice is just the secret, try ur hands on different patterns, spend more timeon ur pc practicing, that will do.