What our customer's say!

"I'd like to be able to use CorelDRAW 10", As a happy user of CorelDRAW essentials (CorelDRAW 9) for a few months, I purchased a CorelDRAW 10 upgrade from my local store. It states very clearly on the box "Upgrade from any version of CorelDRAW", but it wouldn't. I called their technical support (an automated trial in itself) and found out to my surprise, that essentials is not eligible for the upgrade. I have asked them for where I missed the public statements on upgrade eligibility, but after five communications on the matter they have stopped talking to me.

"An Excellent Tool Gets better", I started with Corel Draw 5 then lived through the hell that was Corel Draw 6 and then worked with 7 for quite a while. Then I upgraded to 9 and for christmas got the upgrade to 10.

In that time, 5,6,7,9,10, I have to say that the interface improved and the tools got more consistent. Strangely TurboCAD is like an adopted sibling to the Corel series at it shares the same inteface.

I recommend Corel Draw without question. It produces great images and can be used to construct artwork quickly and accurately. Using the short cuts speeds things tremendously of course and Corel keeps them consistent as well.

On the down side the flagging fortunes of Corel corp have meant that less and less clip art and pre-packaged art comes with the package. That's not a problem if you've got a couple of previous versions but can be an issue if you don't want to spring the extra bucks for the Corel clip art disk.

I miss Dream3D, but I like the dynamic transparency and blend tools. Integration with tablets is pretty good too and thats a plus for any draw package.

I don't think anyone will be disappointed with these tools (Paint and Draw) as their art foundation.

"Extremely Disappointing", I tried to like this product but the shortcomings are just too severe. The text handling is a nightmare, the re-draw rate is agonizingly slow and it can't do anything that Adobe Illustrator can't. Furthermore, print service bureaus bristle at the prospect of dealing with DRAW files. CorelDRAW 10 is just not worth the learning curve--or the price. Get Adobe, it's what real designers use.

"Pretty Good Upgrade", As a long time user of CorelDraw software, I have always found CorelDraw and Photo-Paint to be buggy. Fortunately, the depth and breadth of features usually helps to assuage the drawbacks. I recently upgraded from version 8 to version 10 and true to form, had mixed results. Overall, the package seemed to be a little less quirky than previous versions. The Corel interface IS more consistently applied across all applications. Web support and integration IS much better but not nearly as thorough as Macromedia Fireworks and Flash. And there IS more application compatibility and file type support. Nothing in CorelDraw 10 or Photo-Paint 10 are "must haves" (at least not for me) in comparison to version 8.

Corel R.A.V.E. 1.0, the new application in the CorelDraw suite is a very promising animation package but exceptionally buggy and feature poor - even for a new product (see the Corel R.A.V.E. newsgroup at corel.com to get a flavor for the issues). R.A.V.E. generates Flash movies (SWF files) but doesn't stack up to Flash for features, completeness or compactness of rendered files. Of course, to use all of the Flash features, you have to pay a premium price and live through a very steep learning curve. R.A.V.E.'s drastically simpler user interface and added support for SVG file formats (the W3C proposed standard for vector graphics) are good omens for the future - provided SVG can make inroads into Macromedia's dominance of animated vector graphics for the web. Corel is on the right track with R.A.V.E. but it just doesn't measure up to the competition - at least not yet.

The bottom line? CorelDraw 10 and Photo-Paint 10 are topnotch drawing and photo editing software applications that together represent a very good value. If Corel R.A.V.E. was market ready (and it's not), the combination would have been an unbelievable value.

"Corel DRAW 10 doesn't an upgrade...it's a downgrade.", Corel Corp strikes out with it's latest DRAW release (10.0). It's harder-to-use-than-v.9 features, limited global customization, and lack of support for Illustrator 8 docs, make this version a downgrade instead of an upgrade. I am a lifelong CorelDRAW supporter who couldn't wait to see v10, but I was quite disappointed by the bad decisions Corel made. Granted, this product still blows away any Adobe product, but if you have DRAW 9, do not bother with 10.