Question, is there such a moniker as "CorelDraw Certified Master" I see some Forum members who have this designation. I've been using CDR exclusively since 2002 and have participated in the past with CorelDraw Beta Groups.
There are CorelDRAW masters, Stefan Lindblad is one and is his not to my knowledge a Corel employee. I am not sure how one becomes a master and not to demean the process I never liked such things for myself. I've written several books and countless articles on CorelDRAW as well as color management and exportation processes over the last 25 years however I can't come to terms with me getting such a label. I consider more of a continued learning process, I guess like a practice more than anything else.
I however understand the marketing benefit for such a process and support it the best I can do is pass the word along.
One word of warning would be that such a title can in the modern internet flaming age have it's downside.
I absolutely agree it can lead to flaming, but on the flip side I do inform any new clients I work exclusively in Corel and my existing client base already knows. When required to I will export to ai then double check if all is good in CS6 before sending the files. I must say Corel is not considered industry standard but I think Corel put that on themselves they seem more geared to promoting as consumer grade package rather than professional.
Do I consider myself a master heck no as you said it's learning process. Thank you for the reply
Hello britepencil; There are several that Corel has designated as masters. But like anything else you have to make up your own mind if there answers are right for you. Every one here that answers your question Gives there Opinion. Some maybe the right answer others not. There are some people that come here are really UP on Corel's program. If you Have participated in the Beta program you should understand how that works........ I started out with ver. 1 back in 1990, and still learn something often here. And YouTube has some very good video's on doing things in Corel.... Most of the people that come here Try to help you if they CAN.......... The Beta Team at Corel has a job to do, And NOT always is pointed at what a few want done. But the program gets better and does more than the ver. before it. There is a place you can go at "corel.com that anyone can apply for Beta testing....... I HOPE that answers your question for you........ George
I've been around for quote awhile and hopefully can make some objective observations. The current management inherited an absolute mess from the Cowpland days, an application and corporation that was, for lack of a better term multi-misdirected. This has left many legacy problems on both the technical side because of installed client base as well as corporate issues with realignments, coupled with the economic challenges of the last 15 years.
Adobe was always on the professional market but has been forced to trend toward the hobby market to increase sales. CorelDRAW not the corporation started more with engraving, embroidery and novice market and has migrated to the professional market. If memory serves the corporation started as a provider of print engines but I may be wrong.
I have been doing professional postscript output and color from CorelDRAW since version 4 not X4 and as of now except for a few tweaks I would advise Corel to hold on new pro developments for one cycle because their pro output is currently better than Adobe's.
I would advise Corel to concentrate on fixing all the half baked old Copland day features or removing those that are no longer relevant, truly straddling the hobby/pro market in a way Adobe will never be able to.
Providing a certification process would be a part of the Pro feature set.