Review by Magic Mike J

This version does have a good number of new features, improvements, etc. But it suffers from the ‘change just for changes sake’ syndrome that a lot of software also falls victim to. As others have noted, Corel does seem to be listening to it’s users and making changes and fixing things according to feedback. But some things like the GUI overhaul is just to make it look different and try to make you think you need to upgrade.

You are able to customize a lot of things, such as grouping tasks and items together that you use often, but the icons look cheesy and are hard to read a lot of the time. They want to look and feel different than Adobe products, nothing wrong with that, but ugly isn’t really a good thing.

Some options are hard to find, and sometimes harder to setup, copy and paste is still weak, and it still crashes occasionally, usually at the most inopportune times. I am using it on a 4 gig memory equipped PC laptop, so i can only speak about the PC version, can’t say how the Mac version runs….

Corel has released patches that help, but to be truthful, if you have version 10, I don’t really see a need to upgrade….