CorelDRAW 11 is
a vector graphics editor developed and marketed by Corel Corporation of
Ottawa, Canada. It is also the name of Corel's Graphics Suite. Its
latest version, named X5 (actually version 15), was released in February
2010.
The
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite combines three heavyweight graphics
tools--CorelDRAW 11, Photo-Paint 11, and R.A.V.E. 2--which can be used
individually or together. Now in version 11, the CorelDRAW Suite shows
Corel still has plenty of ideas on how to improve the effectiveness and
ease-of-use of these major applications.
For
example, in CorelDRAW there are now new "three-point" tools for drawing
rectangles, ellipses, and curves. With each, you click to fix the first
point, stretch out to define an axis or baseline, and click again to
complete the object. The new Polyline tool enables you to create lines
and objects segment by segment, where each segment can be straight or
curved. The Pen tool offers a quick way to create Bezier curves.
CorelDRAW
11 introduces Symbols to its repertoire, too, so you can save and reuse
drawing elements in a clip-board-style library. Using symbols saves
considerable file space, which can be particularly important when
drawing Web graphics.
Corel
Photo-Paint 11 is to bitmap editing what CorelDRAW is to vector
drawing. In many ways a competitor to Adobe Photoshop, the new version
of Photo-Paint includes more improvements for Web artists. You can now
slice images into a number of small parts to aid quick downloads and
create rollovers for buttons and image maps, so they appear differently
when pointed to or clicked. The program also supports JPEG 2000 files,
so you can save your images in this new high-compression format.
The
Cut-out masking tool helps extract foreground images from picture files
and create objects from them that you can incorporate into other
pictures. While not as comprehensive as Corel's own stand-alone KnockOut
product, it's a useful tool in its own right. Red-eye removal from
portrait photos can be a nuisance, but the new red-eye removal tool
replaces red pixels with their greyscale equivalents. Various other
effects within Photo-Paint add to its usefulness--things like enhanced
lens flare, improved bevels, and reworked image stitching for panoramic
photos.
The
third part of the suite is Corel R.A.V.E., a Macromedia Flash animation
creator. This module now uses a very similar interface to CorelDRAW and
incorporates most of the same tools. It also offers tools and effects
specific to its animation role, such as tweening of text on a path and
of the program's predefined library objects, Perfect Shapes. Export of
graphics to Macromedia Flash has been improved and includes the ability
to export text as text rather than curves, which saves considerable file
space.
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