Corel Corel Draw Graphics Suite - X7 Reviewer's Guide

Reviewer’s Guide

Contents

1 | Introducing CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X7 ............................................. 2

2 | Customer profiles .................................................................................... 6

3 | What’s included? ..................................................................................... 8

4 | Top new and enhanced features ........................................................... 12

Get up and running easily..................................................................................................... 12

Work faster and more efficiently ........................................................................................... 15

Design with creativity and confidence ................................................................................... 21

Share and expand your experience........................................................................................ 27

5 | CorelDRAW Graphics Suite user favorites ............................................. 32

Artwork by

Lineking

Russia

Introducing CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite X7

CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite X7 is an intuitive graphics solution that empowers you to make a major impact with your artwork. Whether you’re creating graphics and layouts, editing photos, or designing web sites, this complete suite helps you get started quickly and stay on track.

Get up and running quickly

With CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X7, the redesigned Welcome Screen now greets you as a docked tab in your workspace. You can choose to keep the Welcome Screen open, or float it in a separate window, so that you have ready access to its wealth of content and helpful resources.

In addition to refashioned and more efficient default workspaces, there are also a variety of alternatives to choose from, including a Lite option geared for new users, a Classic option, and advanced tailor-made options for Illustration and Page Layout workflows. Plus, the toolbox, dockers, and property bars now include Quick Customize buttons, which make it easier than ever before to adjust the workspace to suit your particular needs.

Work faster and more efficiently

CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X7 offers new ways to help you work fast and efficiently. You can now maintain multiple open documents in a tabbed view, instantly

switching back and forth among them. And for those who work with multiple monitors, you can drag a document out of the application window and place it within a second screen. There’s also a new Font Playground docker that offers an easy way to give fonts, and their OpenType features, a dry run before committing them to your artwork.

You’ll experience greater control and improved methods for applying and adjusting fills. The enhanced Object Properties docker introduces new interactive controls that will help you browse, preview, and transform all fill types. And you can now create elliptical and rectangular fountain fills, and apply transparency at the node level within fountain fills. You can also save and share fountain fills, vector pattern fills, and bitmap pattern fills in the new community-driven Content Exchange.

Design with creativity and confidence

CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X7 offers a refined user experience and imaginative new options that will help you

design with creativity and confidence. With CorelDRAW docker provides more immediate access to alignment choices. And in Corel alignment guides appear on the fly to help you position objects quickly, easily, and accurately. Plus, the new

X7,

a new Alignment and Dynamic Guides

PHOTO-PAINT™ X7, new

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Guidelines docker in both applications makes it easier to add and arrange guidelines.

We’ve also made several enhancements to the Color Styles docker that make it easier to view, arrange, and edit color styles. And with new harmony rules, you can instantly find complementary color schemes, which is especially useful for producing iterative versions of your artwork. CorelDRAW X7 also offers extensive options for creating unique, artistic, and scalable QR codes.

Corel PHOTO-PAINT X7 includes various new tools and creative options for retouching photos, such as the Liquid tools, Unsharp Mask Lens, Planar Mask tool, a series of camera effects, and interactive brushstroke feathering and transparency.

Share and expand your experience

With the introduction of the Content Exchange, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X7 offers a convenient way to help you discover, use, and share fountain fills, vector pattern fills, and bitmap pattern fills. In both CorelDRAW and Corel PHOTO-PAINT, the Content Exchange provides a new Fill picker that makes it easy to vote for and sort your favorite assets. And the Content Exchange is also searchable from Corel assets to your project trays. What’s more, two free companion mobile apps, Patterns for iOS7 and Designs for Windows 8 Modern UI, are available to help you gather and share Content Exchange assets while you’re on the go.

CONNECT™, so you can easily add

Choose your purchase option

In the interest of user choice, we’re offering several CorelDRAW Graphics Suite purchase options.

Perpetual

• CorelDRAW Standard Membership: anyone who

licenses a box or download of the suite is eligible for this free membership option, which includes access to performance and stability updates, as well as access to online content and fonts

• CorelDRAW Premium Membership: this paid

membership option includes access to exclusive online content, professional fonts, early access to new features and services as they become available, and automatic upgrades to the next major version of the suite for as long your membership is active

Subscription

• 30-day Subscription: this option lets you rent the

suite for 30 days, and includes complete access to online content, professional fonts, new features and

services as they become available, and automatic upgrades to the next major version of the suite

• 365-day Subscription: this option lets you rent the

suite for 365 days, and includes complete access to online content, professional fonts, new features and services as they become available, and automatic upgrades to the next major version of the suite

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Artwork by

Piti Pintor

Brazil

Customer profiles

Graphics and creative professionals

Graphics and creative professionals in advertising and printing industries spend much of their time creating and editing graphics, working with text, and retouching photos.

Other customers in this category focus primarily on sign making, screen printing, engraving, and graphic design for print and the web. These users frequently repurpose and combine such content as graphic designs, scanned logos, clipart images, and fonts.

Occasional graphics users

Entrepreneurs and small to medium-sized businesses often create marketing and communications materials in-house. Often self-taught in graphic design, these occasional users modify existing artwork, retouch photos, and create ads, flyers, and other marketing collateral.

Business users in medium-sized to large enterprises strive to create professional, graphically rich projects ranging from sales presentations to web graphics. They spend considerable time reworking existing projects and retouching photos to use in their marketing and communications materials.

Hobbyists are self-taught and use graphic design software occasionally for creative projects — such as newsletters, calendars, banners, and photo layouts — for personal or community use.

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Artwork by

Stephan Swanepoel

South Africa

What’s included?

Applications

• CorelDRAW® X7: This intuitive vector-illustration

and page-layout application meets the demands of today’s busy graphics professionals and graphics non-professionals.

• Corel

PHOTO-PAINT™ X7: This professional

image-editing application lets you quickly and easily retouch and enhance photos.

PowerTRACE™ X7: This utility is embedded

in CorelDRAW to help you quickly and accurately convert bitmaps into editable vector graphics.

CONNECT™ X7: This full-screen browser lets

you access the suite’s digital content, the new Content Exchange, and search your computer or local network to quickly find the perfect complement for a project.

Website Creator

™

: This application offers

a fast and easy way to design, build, and manage websites.

Supporting applications

• Bitstream Font Navigator: This award-winning

font manager for the Windows operating system

helps you find, preview, and install fonts.

• Barcode Wizard: This wizard guides you through

the generation of bar codes in a wide range of

industry-standard formats.

• Duplexing Wizard: This wizard helps you optimize

your projects for two-sided printing.

• PhotoZoom Pro 3: This plug-in lets registered

users export and enlarge digital images from

Corel PHOTO-PAINT.

• WhatTheFont: This online font identification

service is integrated with CorelDRAW.

• ConceptShare

™

: This docker in CorelDRAW is a

convenient online collaboration tool that lets you

share artwork and ideas with colleagues and clients.

Content

• Corel CAPTURE

™

X7: This one-click utility lets you

capture images from your computer screen.

* CorelDRAW Standard Membership required to

download this application.

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• more than 10,000 high-quality clipart images

• 2,000 photos

• more than 600 professionally designed templates

• more than 1,200 objects

• 75 interactive text frames

Minimum system requirements

• 75 interactive PowerClip frames

• more than 100 image lists

• more than 400 Artistic Media

• 75 content-ready photo frames

• more than 1,000 fonts

• more than 400 pattern fills

Documentation

• Quick Start Guide

• Quick-reference card

• Help files

Training

• New! More than 5 hours of training videos, with

1.5 hours of new content

• Windows 8/8.1 or Windows 7 (32-bit or 64-bit editions), with latest service packs

Intel Core 2 Duo, AMD Athlon 64

•

• 2 GB of RAM

• 1 GB of hard disk space

• 1280 × 768 or higher monitor resolution

• DVD drive for installation by disc

• Mouse or tablet

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 or higher

• Internet connection required for CorelDRAW Standard Membership, performance and stability updates, online content, and some features, such as QR Codes, ConceptShare, Content Exchange

• Hints docker

•Video Hints

• Tips & Tricks

• New! Insights from the Experts

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Artwork by

Jose Tzontilimatzi

López

USA