Review by Raed Haed

I think the last time I had and used Corel Draw was back in the late 90’s. I actually took 3 semesters if college graphics arts courses using Photoshop so that is the program I am most familiar with so I never really got into the Corel graphics software. I think I had CorelDraw 7 way back then. It was before they started using suites. Anyway, though it was a good program then, I wasn’t as familiar with it so I always went back to the Photoshop and illustrator rather than try to learn more about CorelDraw.

Recently, Adobe has made changes to Photoshop that I don’t particularly like so when this came up for review I descided to give it a try. I’m still not very familiar with it. Big programs like these take a while to learn. But, I have played with it enough so far to get me excited about it. It seems to be pretty intuative and without ever reading a book I think I would eventually be able to utilize it well enough, however, I plan to order a book or CD so that I can really dig in and get the most out of it. I’m particularly excited about the webpage design creator and the raw photo editor. I used to make websites but it’s been so long that most HTML that I learned as long beeen deprecated. I came off the webuilding scene not long after CSS was born and that was a long time ago. Too long for this old brain to remember much.

I’m really hoping that once I get enough CorelDraw under my belt to be efficient with it, I can release Adobes hold on me and make the switch for good. And so far, it is looking good. Installation was easy. I will update as I learn more about this program and share what I know.