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Entered CNET Catalog: 05/17/2003
SKU: 11CGSPCMENGO
Manufacturer: Corel Corp.
CNET editors' review
- Editors' Choice: No
- Reviewed on: 08/27/2002
CorelDraw 11.0
Of all the technical drawing tools currently available, CorelDraw is our runaway favorite (read our full review here). Its easy-to-master interface and exhaustive feature set, which includes pressure-sensitive brushes and myriad filter effects, provides designers with the tools and muscle they need to create complex, professional vector illustrations. At last, CorelDraw 11.0 supports symbols, which are pieces of artwork that you can save to a central library, then drag and drop into any document. Symbols are faster and less resource intensive than copying and pasting objects, and you can change all instances of an object simply by editing the master symbol. Best of all, CorelDraw's cross-platform support makes it an ideal app for integrated offices that house both Macs and PCs.
Corel Photo-Paint 11.0
As a freebie adjunct to CorelDraw, Photo-Paint has a lot to like. But as a direct competitor to Adobe Photoshop 7.0, it leaves much to be desired. Although Photo-Paint and Photoshop offer roughly equivalent tools for selecting and editing images, the two are miles apart in both feel and performance. Where Photoshop is streamlined and speedy, for instance, in applying paint to canvas, Photo-Paint is clunky and hesitant. Although Photo-Paint complements and supplements the CorelDraw suite as a whole, it won't suffice as a high-performance, feature-filled image editor.
Making life simpler
Photo-Paint does, however, have most of the basics covered. At first glance, Photo-Paint's brushes, pencils, and other implements deliver professional-caliber image editing. For example, you can add trendy special effects to your images using Photo-Paint's filters, lighting, natural media paintbrushes, and image sprayer, which squirts single or multiple objects onto the canvas randomly or in a sequential pattern. Photo-Paint can even make common tasks a little easier to perform. For example, the new Cutout masking dialog box lets you easily isolate and remove sections of a picture so that they can be edited or used elsewhere. In our tests, we were generally pleased with the results, but Photoshop's similar Extract command provides more control for selecting images with subtle edges, such as hair.
If you want to generate Web graphics, Photo-Paint now easily creates rollover images, such as buttons or graphics, that change appearance depending on the position of the cursor. And the new slicing tool lets you divide an image into smaller pieces so that it will load more efficiently in a surfer's browser.
Tools need sharpening
Sadly, Photo-Paint suffers from jerky scrolling and an all-too-perceptible delay between applying your paintbrush and seeing the stroke appear on the canvas. Worse, it took Photo-Paint 78 seconds to load a 118MB file into the main screen, using a 1.2MHz PC with 512MB of RAM. Photoshop accomplished this task in 6 seconds with the same setup. We consider Photo-Paint virtually useless for files larger than about 50MB, especially in a production environment where time is money.
For photographers, Photo-Paint offers slightly brighter news. Version 11.0 now contains a red-eye-removal tool, as well as a stitching feature that can piece multiple photographs together into a single image.
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User Rating: 
10/10
Convenient editor
Pros: Best image editor
Cons: requires much memory
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User Rating: 
9/10
LOVE IT! COULDN'T GET ALONG WITHOUT IT!
Pros: It does everything! The package is totally complete from word processing to 4-color digital artwork.
Cons: For the paint program, I use Adobe Photoshop. This is one place Corel doesn't measure up.
User Rating: 
8/10
Nothing better for the money
Pros: Easy to use.
Cons: I do not know why other people are having problems with crashing. I dont have crash problems on my PC. What else are those people running??? I am not a newbie, I have 25 years experience with PCs and these people may be running too many FAT APPS. Slim it
User Rating: 
7/10
All-in-one CAD and Toon.
Pros: This is the best for creating CAD design believe me crating animation from CAD to live motion has never been easier . For puting animation together its best used with Corel R.A.V.E 2004.
Cons: Does not support animation in CorelDraw at all and Corel Photopaint early version are better trust me if your a beginner!
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3/10
Corel(CRASH)Draw
Pros: OK to use.
Cons: Still unstable! This is very bad. Example: Right click on a layer icon, select properties and CRASH she goes (again). That is only one cause for crashes. There are many others.
User Rating: 10/10
Greatest thing since sliced bread!!!
Pros: I am not a graphic's professional. I'm just a dude who wanted to find a high quality drawing program that's easy to use with tons of great features, I FOUND IT!! It took me 2 days to get the jest of corel draw unlike Illustrators near impossible learnin
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1/10
as a 20 year veteran of digital imaging, i can say that this is the worst Corel ever.
Pros: As always, full scale artboard is great, but the new add-ins I like cause it to crash...
Cons: vba applications & macros hang, redraw is slow, align tool causes system freeze, NOT RECOMMENDED FOR PROFESSIONAL DESIGNERS....
User Rating: 8/10
Oh yes
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User Rating: 3/10
Does not save its settings
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User Rating: 10/10
FreeHand or Illustrator donīt have the gift!
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User Rating: 8/10
Draw is nice, PhotoPaint stinks
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User Rating: 10/10
It's better than Illustrator
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User Rating: 8/10
depends on what you wanna do
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4/10
Not enough stuff...
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User Rating: 7/10
Adobe alternative but not replacement
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