Binding: DVD-ROM
Brand: Corel
EAN: 0735163119206
Format: DVD-ROM
Is Autographed: 0
Is Memorabilia: 0
Weight: 600 hundredths-pounds
Label: Corel
Manufacturer: Corel
Model: CDGSX4ENPC
Packaged Height: 310 hundredths-inches
Packaged Length: 960 hundredths-inches
Packaged Weight: 385 hundredths-pounds
Packaged Width: 810 hundredths-inches
Platform: Windows Vista
Platform: Windows XP
Publisher: Corel
Release Date: 2008-02-22
Studio: Corel
Feature:
- 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
Product Description:
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
Customer Reviews:
 An unprecedented combination of graphics design power and usability, 2008-11-26
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.
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