Corel
Corel surfaced when computers first arrived on the scene in the graphics arts industry. At that point there wasn't a definitive software package for the industry. Macs had a 'great' program, Illustrator, where you could draw curved lines without having to use a 'Fench curve'. (how many of you know what a 'French Curve' is?) PC's had a program called CorelDraw which could draw the curves and the biggest advantage was that one could type headlines in about 20 typefaces instead of using Letraset (more vintage stuff).
At the time it seemed Corel was the winner mainly because it had lots of extras with it, like clip art, and some other program called PhotoPaint. We are talking about CoreDraw version 2 or 3.
The graphics arts industry went for Macs but some stuck with the PC. Mainly because with CorelDraw you got 3 or 4 programs for the price of one Mac program. This is still true today on version X3. You get:
CorelDraw - a vector drawing program which is great for laying out brochures, packaging, ads, etc.
Corel PhotoPaint - this is PhotoShop in a different pack.
Corel Capture - a handy screen capture program.
CorelTrace - use this for convertng your bitmap images into editable vector images.
Fonts, Clipart and Photos - there's about 2,000 fonts, probably the same amount of vector clip art and a few hundred photos also included.
Currently the version is X3 (in 2006) or 13 if your not suspicious. If you are thinking about getting a general graphics package this is recommended. Don't buy version X3 if you are just trying it out. If you can get your hands on version 8 or later you will have a decent set of tools. The differences between version 11 and X3 are hard to see but which ever version you go for you will get good value.
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