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Manufacturer: Corel
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Product Description
The CorelDRAW Graphics Suite combines three heavyweight graphics tools--CorelDRAW 11, Photo-Paint 11, and R.A.V.E. 2--which can be used individually or together. Now in version 11, the CorelDRAW Suite shows Corel still has plenty of ideas on how to improve the effectiveness and ease-of-use of these major applications. For example, in CorelDRAW there are now new "three-point" tools for drawing rectangles, ellipses, and curves. With each, you click to fix the first point, stretch out to define an axis or baseline, and click again to complete the object. The new Polyline tool enables you to create lines and objects segment by segment, where each segment can be straight or curved. The Pen tool offers a quick way to create Bezier curves. CorelDRAW 11 introduces Symbols to its repertoire, too, so you can save and reuse drawing elements in a clip-board-style library. Using symbols saves considerable file space, which can be particularly important when drawing Web graphics. Corel Photo-Paint 11 is to bitmap editing what CorelDRAW is to vector drawing. In many ways a competitor to Adobe Photoshop, the new version of Photo-Paint includes more improvements for Web artists. You can now slice images into a number of small parts to aid quick downloads and create rollovers for buttons and image maps, so they appear differently when pointed to or clicked. The program also supports JPEG 2000 files, so you can save your images in this new high-compression format. The Cut-out masking tool helps extract foreground images from picture files and create objects from them that you can incorporate into other pictures. While not as comprehensive as Corel's own stand-alone KnockOut product, it's a useful tool in its own right. Red-eye removal from portrait photos can be a nuisance, but the new red-eye removal tool replaces red pixels with their greyscale equivalents. Various other effects within Photo-Paint add to its usefulness--things like enhanced lens flare, improved bevels, and reworked image stitching for panoramic photos. The third part of the suite is Corel R.A.V.E., a Macromedia Flash animation creator. This module now uses a very similar interface to CorelDRAW and incorporates most of the same tools. It also offers tools and effects specific to its animation role, such as tweening of text on a path and of the program's predefined library objects, Perfect Shapes. Export of graphics to Macromedia Flash has been improved and includes the ability to export text as text rather than curves, which saves considerable file space. Overall, the latest version of Corel Graphics Suite shows the company has once again proven itself to be a real player in the graphic design space. --Simon Williams
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Customer Rating: Summary: The song remains the same Comment: In the last ten years I've purchased Corel 3,4,5,6,and 7. I distinctly remember every version being slow and buggy. You'd buy the software and then have to phone Corel until they'd agree to send you software patches to fix the problems. But since there were never any complete solutions, I kept upgrading to newer versions, hoping maybe eventually, they would work out all the problems. I lost my hope around corel 7, but recently decided to upgrade again. After all, they've had at least 5 years to design better, faster routines. Guess what - Corel 11 is even slower than Corel 7. Now it seems to be popular these days to blame all speed problems on insufficient RAM. But I don't buy it. Corel 11 is really not that much different than Corel 7, and I think 5 years of development should give massive speed improvements. I also think that it is very arrogant for software developers to build their systems a way that forces the end user to upgrade his computer. The other issue of bugginess is also still with us. Immediately after getting the software, I was informed that I should get the servicepak in order to overcome some of the bugs. The entire thing is an exact replay of my experience ten years ago. Don't get me wrong, I really like the software - otherwise I wouldn't have upgraded so many times. But the software should be perfect before the company ships it and ... get ready to laugh at me ... the software should be capable of running quickly on a DX-100 486 with 32 megs of Ram under Win95. That was what I was using in 1996 and Corel 7 still ran faster than today's version on a Pentium. Ha Ha Ha Customer Rating: Summary: IMPROVED.....BUT..... Comment: "CorelDraw Graphics Suite 11 Upgrade" spots an improved interface. All the major components: CorelDraw 11, PhotoPaint 11, and R.A.V.E. 2 have become easier to use, while at the same time donning new graphics capabilities. Still, experienced versatile users who have tried comparable software, will tell you that this software needs to grab a few more items in order to match both "Adobe Illustrator" and "Macromedia FreeHand". In CorelDraw, the most significant additions are new drawing tools, symbols, and shaping tools; (all of which provide extra flexibility for drawing elements). PhotoPaint received a red-eye removal brush, improved Web capabilities, and a new cutout tool. The R.A.V.E. or Flash animator's text manipulating strength has increased. It also boasts of a library docker for symbols. However, the fact is that either the equivalent of these enhancements or their superiors are present in the latest "Adobe Illustrator" and "Macromedia FreeHand" suites. Any user who has tested these software will vindicate me. Again, this "CorelDraw Graphics Suite 11" runs slower than both 'Illustrator' and 'FreeHand', which is the main reason why versatile users regard it as being less polished. Another fact about this Corel software is that its hunger for memory is voracious. Don't rely on the recommended 128MB of RAM that is written on its packet. If your PC's RAM is less than 512MB, this software may compel you to buy extra RAM modules; or else, you may not enjoy the luxury of having more than two other Applications open while running it. If you do, your PC may resort to a snail's speed after some minutes, in order to carry on with its rudimentary tasks. But apart from these few negative issues, this software will serve you well. It is not bad at all!
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