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BookPrices.net - CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 [DVD]
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List Price: $429.00
Our Price: $289.07
Your Save: $ 139.93 ( 33% )
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Manufacturer: Corel
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Binding: DVD-ROM
Brand: Corel
EAN: 0735163119206
Feature: Powerful, versatile and affordable graphics suite that includes everything you need for professional graphics illustration, layout and digital image editing
Format: DVD-ROM
Is Autographed: 0
Is Memorabilia: 0
Label: Corel
Manufacturer: Corel
Model: CDGSX4ENPC
Platform: Windows Vista
Publisher: Corel
Release Date: 2008-02-22
Studio: Corel
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Features
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Powerful, versatile and affordable graphics suite that includes everything you need for professional graphics illustration, layout and digital image editing
Innovative design tools, including advanced layout tables, live text formatting and separate layers per page, to optimize your workflow
Easy-to-use interface supported by learning videos, tutorials and intelligent Hints-Dockers
Market-leading file compatibility with over 100 import/export filters to make sharing your designs with colleagues and clients easy
Trusted by millions of professional users, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 is recognized as the standard design application in many industries
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Summary: An unprecedented combination of graphics design power and usability
Comment: I have to admit that I've bad-mouthed Corel more than once in my life, especially back before my employer saw the light and dumped WordPerfect Suite for Microsoft Office, but I have nothing but praise for CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4. Not only is this an impressive, powerful suite of graphics design tools, Corel doesn't throw you under the bus as soon as you install the software. If you're like me and don't have a single artistic bone in your body (I can't draw a straight line with a ruler), you would expect a fancy-pants software package like this to leave you dumbfounded from the start, with no clue on how to get started. Much to their credit, Corel throws you lifelines as soon as you jump in the pool and makes a diverse set of rescue resources near at hand for you at all times. I'm not saying you'll be a graphics design guru after a couple of hours - this is a really advanced, powerful set of programs here - but you would have a hard time finding a piece of software with more impressive built-in support. The first of several excellent video tutorials is available on the Welcome screen, and you can choose to have a built-in docket of usage tips available for every function you choose. Users of previous versions of the software will have no problem recognizing the changes this upgrade brings with it, as you can choose to have every single change and addition from your previous version highlighted on the screen. That doesn't sound like much, but it is a big help. You also have What's New and Learning Tools readily available to you from the Welcome screen as well as from inside each of the featured programs. Of course, you also have a complete help file available but you won't need to resort to using that very often.
As I'm sure you can tell by the price, you don't buy this program if you just want to take the redeye out of your vacation photos or create a cute little Christmas card to send to friends. You can certainly do those things with this, but Corel Photo-Paint X4, impressive as it is, is overshadowed by the primary CorelDRAW application. (If all you want is a powerful photo editor, I would still recommend Fireworks - my favorite - or Photoshop.) I would like to have seen a few more built-in templates included, but CorelDRAW actually succeeds in making graphics design possible for even artistically inept folks like me. This is one powerful program which actual graphics professionals should take to like fish to water. Professionals may be the primary target audience for this software package, but Corel does a great job of making these powerful tools available and actually useable by anyone.
I also have to mention several additional software applications and features included in this suite deal. Corel PowerTRACE X4 is of enormous help in turning traced bitmaps into images you can convert into editable vector images. Corel CAPTURE X4, as you might guess, is a powerful screen capture utility. The Bitstream Font Navigator is a comprehensive font manager that even helps you identity scanned fonts from an outside source. You even get a Duplexing Wizard to aid you in optimizing the appearance of your document when printing two-sided copies. Vista users will also welcome the integration of this software package with the Vista operating system, as the search and preview options by themselves should be of great convenience to them.
What about file formats and the age-old question of compatibility? After all, the odds are that some if not many of your associates are working with different file formats in non-Corel software. Well, Corel has worked to make CorelDRAW Graphic Suite X4 software as compatible as possible with other users and systems. In this release, the list of additional new formats includes Word and Publisher 2007, AutoCAD DXF and AutoCAD DWG, and Adobe CS3.
I could go on writing paragraph after paragraph about this product, but I could never begin to describe all of its many impressive features. Is it the best graphics design software on the market? I don't know, as I have no experience using any comparable graphics design programs. Even if I had, I don't think anyone short of a professional graphics designer would be able to judge the comparative pros and cons. What I do know is that anyone who is serious about graphics design in any of its various facets would do well to give CorelDRAW Graphic Suite X4 a long and serious look.
Customer Rating: 
Summary: An excellent product with one drawback
Comment: Writing this review has been on my to-do list for a long time. That's because this is a wonderful product, with one big drawback. I've been hoping either to find other drawbacks that could justify a less enthusiatic review, or a solution to that one flaw.
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite will do everything you want it to do, whether you're creating brochures or websites or scrapbook pages. The learning curve is no steeper that it has to be for a product with this robust a range of options. The images and fonts included will come in handy over and over.
The only problem is: everyone else you work with will probably be using Adobe. You will have issues when you collaborate with others, you won't find tutorials that work for you, you won't be able to swap tips at the water cooler.
If that doesn't matter to you, then this is pretty much the perfect graphics package.
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Summary: An amateur's perspective
Comment: I'm no artist. I want to be. But, I'm not. I do, however, have a need to create and customize graphics, especially for websites now.
So, I picked up a copy of CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4.
I've used Adobe Photoshop in the past, and although I know it is the industry leader among graphics software, I find it difficult for a novice like myself to learn.
When I call myself a novice, it is strictly in the realm of computer artistry. I'm very adept technically, and work in the IT industry as a senior systems engineer. I know software.
I figured that with the tutorials and help system in the CorelDRAW software, I should be able to easily learn what I needed to know. Corel didn't disappoint me.
Not only are the commands a bit more intuitive than those in Adobe Photoshop, but the help system has quickly answered all of my questions so far regarding how to do anything I've needed. Watching the video tutorials has helped teach me graphics concepts that may never have occurred to me to explore on my own.
The tools in this suite have aided me in creating custom banners, graphics, and editing pictures. I've found the process to be easy and fun.
The program is a bit slow to open, even on a PC with a 3 GHz processor and 2 GB of RAM. Once open, however, it responds very well. The slowness to launch seems to be standard with such programs, however, so I am not sure it is really a fault with the software or if it is simply the nature of the beast.
There you have it - an amateur's perspective. I'm not knowledgeable enough with graphics to review every little nuance, but for those of you who hope to be able to muddle your way through graphics creation, as I hoped, you will find this a useful and informative tool.
Customer Rating:
Summary: CorelDRAW GS X4
Comment: I've been a CorelDRAW owner since version 1. V100 camee on one floppy. This product is a serious 2 DVD set. I love it.
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Summary: Very good product but it's not Adobe.
Comment: The product offers similar features to Adobe's Illustrator but lacks in special effects such as easy type warping and 3-D objects. It did not allow me to save as a pdf file. This software was easy to use even for a beginner. It has some of the same tools you would find in a vector program i.e. pen, line, shapes, selections, etc. Building new color swatches was a snap too. When you needed to look for a feature or option, they were also easy to find, and you did not have to waste a lot of time digging. Overall a very good product.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Bring together the worlds of layout, photo editing, illustration and bitmap-to-vector tracing with CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4. It's easy to collaborate with its market-leading file compatibility. New content and tutorials get you started fast. This Suite gives you the tools and resources to create a wide variety of projects. Speed up the design process with easy online access to font identification and client feedback. Upload scanned images of fonts, and you will get the closest match. All this is done through CorelDRAW ConceptShare docker. Share designs with colleagues and clients in real time from within CorelDRAW. Plenty of included clip-art and fonts help you speedily create just what you need, without the hassle of searching. CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 helps transform your graphic ideas into reality and makes it seem quick and easy.
CorelDRAW Handbook CorelTUTOR - Online, project-based instruction Support for RAW camera files Straighten images Histogram feedback Enhanced Tone Curve dialog box Accelerate layout and text editing Training videos - Delve into hours of new training videos Modernized user interface
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