Designed for professional Mac users in the graphic design, business, and educational communities, Corel Graphics Suite 10 features CorelDRAW 10, Corel Photo-Paint 10, Corel R.A.V.E., and Canto Cumulus 5.0. Interactive tools, context-sensitive toolbars, and Live Effects software put you in control of the design process. Advanced features, such as Web Image Optimizer and Web publishing, add flair to your sites. Built-in PDF output, professional color management, and industry-standard import and export filters ensure desired results.
Corel has packed virtually every graphics application a home or professional user needs into the Corel Graphics Suite lo box. The big guns include CorelDraw 10, a vector and design application; Photo-Paint 10, a bitmap editor; and RAVE, a Web animation app.
But wait, there’s more! You also get CorelTrace 10 for converting bitmapped images to vector format, 2,000 clip-art images, over 500 stock photos, and 2,000-plus fonts. Also included are Canto’s impressive Cumulus Desktop LE, an image cataloger for keeping track of all that clip art, and a copy of Font Reserve for font management.
The three main apps look and work a lot alike — once you learn how to align text to a path in one app, you can do it in all of them. The entire suite makes good use of user-definable command bars and tabbed palettes. A properties bar across the top of the screen provides instant access to the settings for any tool you use.
One of our favorite features is the Suite’s PDF-creation abilities, which support PDF 1.4 transparency so you don’t have to render vector images as bitmaps. You can create PDF documents with multiple page sizes as well as embedded fonts, color profiles, and URLs.
CorelDraw, the cornerstone of the suite, is by far the best of the bunch. Its new vector tools include support for dragand-drop gradient transparencies, drop shadows, and blends — all of which you can edit by hand or alter numerically from the properties bar. Also new is a 20-step Undo palette similar to Adobe Photoshop’s History palette.
We wouldn’t recommend CorelDraw’s design tools over those of QuarkXPress, but CorelDraw’s vector tools make it a powerful program. You can create multisize, multipage documents within CorelDraw — a feature that makes it easy, for example, to combine stationery, envelope, and business-card designs in a single document.
For bitmapped images you have PhotoPaint. The two best things about PhotoPaint are its drop-shadow and text-on-path features. To tweak a drop shadow, you simply drag it where you want it — no more trial and error in a dialog box. And creating text graphics is a breeze: Once you’ve mapped text to a path, both the text and the path itself are fully editable.
Photo-Paint has a lot of other impressive eatures, including filter-like photo effects that can remove red-eye in photos or blur parts of an image. It offers good masking and Bezier tools as well. Other big pluses include Painter-like artistic effects such as Crayons, Impressionist, and Crystallize, as well as some strong texture tools.
Rounding out the suite is RAVE, Corel’s entry into Web animation. RAVE comes equipped with basic animation tools, including tweening, keyframe animation, rollover creation, and Flash export. It also includes a few nifty tidbits like interactive object manipulation and the ability to add sound to animations. RAVE will please all but the most demanding Web animators, although it lacks the scripting of Flash 5 or the sophisticated HTML and JavaScript output of Fireworks.
Overall, Corel Graphics Suite 10 is a good package at a good price. CorelDraw is the equal of FreeHand or Illustrator, and while we wouldn’t give up Photoshop or Flash 5 just yet, Photo-Paint, RAVE, and CorelTrace are all solid applications. Our main complaints concern Graphic Suite’s user interface and speed. While the interface is configurable, it consumes a lot of real estate. Also, the whole package, especially Photo-Paint, is a bit on the sluggish side under OS X. That said, if you don’t already own a full library of graphics apps or are thinking about upgrading your current stable for OS X compatibility, Corel Graphics Suite is pretty sweet.
Sanchez, Rick. (February 2002). Corel Graphics Suite 10. MacAddict. (pg. 45).
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