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xsBusiness - CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 [DVD]
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List Price: $429.00
Our Price: $299.07
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Manufacturer: Corel
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Binding: DVD-ROM
Brand: Corel
EAN: 0735163119206
Feature: Powerful, versatile and affordable graphics suite that includes everything you need for professional graphics illustration, layout and digital image editing
Format: DVD-ROM
Is Autographed: 0
Is Memorabilia: 0
Label: Corel
Manufacturer: Corel
Model: CDGSX4ENPC
Platform: Windows Vista
Publisher: Corel
Release Date: 2008-02-22
Studio: Corel
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Features
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Powerful, versatile and affordable graphics suite that includes everything you need for professional graphics illustration, layout and digital image editing
Innovative design tools, including advanced layout tables, live text formatting and separate layers per page, to optimize your workflow
Easy-to-use interface supported by learning videos, tutorials and intelligent Hints-Dockers
Market-leading file compatibility with over 100 import/export filters to make sharing your designs with colleagues and clients easy
Trusted by millions of professional users, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 is recognized as the standard design application in many industries
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating: 
Summary: An excellent product with one drawback
Comment: Writing this review has been on my to-do list for a long time. That's because this is a wonderful product, with one big drawback. I've been hoping either to find other drawbacks that could justify a less enthusiatic review, or a solution to that one flaw.
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite will do everything you want it to do, whether you're creating brochures or websites or scrapbook pages. The learning curve is no steeper that it has to be for a product with this robust a range of options. The images and fonts included will come in handy over and over.
The only problem is: everyone else you work with will probably be using Adobe. You will have issues when you collaborate with others, you won't find tutorials that work for you, you won't be able to swap tips at the water cooler.
If that doesn't matter to you, then this is pretty much the perfect graphics package.
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Summary: An amateur's perspective
Comment: I'm no artist. I want to be. But, I'm not. I do, however, have a need to create and customize graphics, especially for websites now.
So, I picked up a copy of CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4.
I've used Adobe Photoshop in the past, and although I know it is the industry leader among graphics software, I find it difficult for a novice like myself to learn.
When I call myself a novice, it is strictly in the realm of computer artistry. I'm very adept technically, and work in the IT industry as a senior systems engineer. I know software.
I figured that with the tutorials and help system in the CorelDRAW software, I should be able to easily learn what I needed to know. Corel didn't disappoint me.
Not only are the commands a bit more intuitive than those in Adobe Photoshop, but the help system has quickly answered all of my questions so far regarding how to do anything I've needed. Watching the video tutorials has helped teach me graphics concepts that may never have occurred to me to explore on my own.
The tools in this suite have aided me in creating custom banners, graphics, and editing pictures. I've found the process to be easy and fun.
The program is a bit slow to open, even on a PC with a 3 GHz processor and 2 GB of RAM. Once open, however, it responds very well. The slowness to launch seems to be standard with such programs, however, so I am not sure it is really a fault with the software or if it is simply the nature of the beast.
There you have it - an amateur's perspective. I'm not knowledgeable enough with graphics to review every little nuance, but for those of you who hope to be able to muddle your way through graphics creation, as I hoped, you will find this a useful and informative tool.
Customer Rating:
Summary: CorelDRAW GS X4
Comment: I've been a CorelDRAW owner since version 1. V100 camee on one floppy. This product is a serious 2 DVD set. I love it.
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Summary: Very good product but it's not Adobe.
Comment: The product offers similar features to Adobe's Illustrator but lacks in special effects such as easy type warping and 3-D objects. It did not allow me to save as a pdf file. This software was easy to use even for a beginner. It has some of the same tools you would find in a vector program i.e. pen, line, shapes, selections, etc. Building new color swatches was a snap too. When you needed to look for a feature or option, they were also easy to find, and you did not have to waste a lot of time digging. Overall a very good product.
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Summary: Startlingly Good
Comment: Long-time Photoshop user here, and I have to tell you that I am impressed with how far Corel has brought its suite of graphics software in the few years since I've used it. In spite of it being a suite, it isn't bloated with a lot of specialized applications. You get a good, solid image handling program, a vector-based drawing program and a screen cap one. No website builders, 3D stuff or video applications which are likely to take up a ton of space on your hard drive and never be used.
In many ways I find the drawing program better than anything I've seen from Adobe. The controls are far more intuitive. And in fact, since one of the ways I judge how well a program performs is by how easy it is to get it up and running at a basic level without reading any of the manuals, I'd have to say that in many ways the whole suite is as good or better than Adobe's offerings in the intuition department. If you can handle Photoshop, you can certainly learn Corel fairly quickly.
There's a lot I could say, but I'd prefer to recommend that you check the program info on this page and see if it sounds like something you can use. I don't think you'll be disappointed in the quality, nor do I believe you'll be defeated by the learning curve. I think you'll find this suite well worth having either on its own or as an addition to the graphics programs you already use.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Bring together the worlds of layout, photo editing, illustration and bitmap-to-vector tracing with CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4. It's easy to collaborate with its market-leading file compatibility. New content and tutorials get you started fast. This Suite gives you the tools and resources to create a wide variety of projects. Speed up the design process with easy online access to font identification and client feedback. Upload scanned images of fonts, and you will get the closest match. All this is done through CorelDRAW ConceptShare docker. Share designs with colleagues and clients in real time from within CorelDRAW. Plenty of included clip-art and fonts help you speedily create just what you need, without the hassle of searching. CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 helps transform your graphic ideas into reality and makes it seem quick and easy.
CorelDRAW Handbook CorelTUTOR - Online, project-based instruction Support for RAW camera files Straighten images Histogram feedback Enhanced Tone Curve dialog box Accelerate layout and text editing Training videos - Delve into hours of new training videos Modernized user interface
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