CorelDraw Graphics Suite by Tracy Rowan

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.