Eager for 2021 - with good stuff

i want these things 

1) refined Brushes 

2) distort tools work even on mesh fills 

3) gradient palette

4) Random apply to all uniform, graident, .............etc as well as transparency all types 

5) hide all bitmaps at once so that work can be done at ease without heavy use of ram

  • Dream on.

    I'd settle for a bug free version with nothing new.

    • I have to agree. I don't have/use the latest greatest version but the general consensus when reading posts here is that Corel has been ignoring the real problems at hand. Just add some more gizmo's and people will keep buying it mentality. I think they should skip adding anything new and concentrate on fixing bugs & bottlenecks.

    • Former Member
      0 Former Member over 4 years ago

      Hi

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      3) gradient palette

      • Former Member
        0 Former Member over 4 years ago

        2) distort tools work even on mesh fills

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        Excellent idea, please be taken into consideration

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        • Former Member
          0 Former Member over 4 years ago

          1) refined Brushes 

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          https://www.coreldraw.com/en/pages/items/17600759.html

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          https://learn.corel.com/tutorials/paintshop-pro-refine-brush/

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          https://www.coreldraw.com/en/learn/tutorials/background-removal/

        • As a couple of others have already said, Corel really needs to eradicate bugs and improve overall performance. Given the sheer lack of updates the past two versions of CorelDRAW have received I can't help but wonder if the owners of Corel have stripped the development team of personnel and resources just to keep the application properly maintained, much less add new improvements.

          I got billed yesterday for my "upgrade protection" subscription. Thankfully the price stayed at $99, rather than jump to the $150 those who buy full perpetual license versions have to pay now to add the upgrade protection option. So there's that.

          Regarding new "wish list" features, what I want most is improvements to the vector object and editing tool set. For example, the Bezier tool in CorelDRAW kind of stinks compared to what is available in rival applications, due to an incomplete set of keyboard shortcuts for modifying paths while they're being drawn. Combine that with the very antiquated methods available for zooming in/out and hand-panning the view. It makes tasks such as manually digitizing clean paths over the top of scanned sketch artwork a more cumbersome process. I can do such tasks faster in Adobe Illustrator because I am not having to jump back and forth to tool bars so much. The very best Pen/Bezier tool on the market: Astute Graphics' InkScribe tool, which is part of the InkScribe plug-in for Adobe Illustrator. Nothing comes close to how great that tool works.

          I wonder how much "opposition research" Corel's developers are able to do. They really do need to keep an eye on what their rivals are offering. Not just Adobe and the companies making plugins for their applications either. Heck, there are vector object drawing ideas they can mimic from niche applications like FontLab Studio.

          Regarding brushes, I would like to see CorelDRAW have vector-based line stroke brushes that work like they do in Adobe Illustrator and even be compatible with Illustrator artwork on the import/export side. It would be an even bigger bonus if both art brush and pattern brushes were fully covered.

          • Former Member
            0 Former Member over 4 years ago in reply to Bobby Henderson

            I don't know why Corel practice this policy. Corel Draw users reports bugs at the beginning when the last version of CorelDraw is released and Corel all year not fix the reported bugs.

            Really, really, "interesting".

            • The lack of bug fix updates is what makes me suspect the CorelDRAW development team is short on manpower and resources. It's also very possible various software developers have come and gone, perhaps with more talented ones leaving for better paying jobs and/or work environments elsewhere.

              Take the lone significant point-release update for CorelDRAW 2020 and a "hot fix" update for CDR 2020 (two product updates total for the life cycle of CDR 2020) and compare that to what Adobe has done with Illustrator over the same year-long time span. The difference in the number of updates and the quality of updates is pretty staggering in Adobe's favor. AI 24 had 3 big point-release updates featuring major improvements as well as perhaps a dozen minor stability updates. AI 25 just had its first point-release update since its late October debut, but also had a couple stability updates prior to that. Adobe Illustrator isn't 100% perfect. The 25.1 update broke a number of plugins, particularly on the Mac side. But at least Adobe and plugin developers have been moving quick to address them rather than just let the bugs sit as is for months on end.

              • Former Member
                0 Former Member over 4 years ago in reply to Bobby Henderson
                The lack of bug fix updates is what makes me suspect the CorelDRAW development team is short on manpower and resources.

                It is possible.This phenomenon also can be seen in the lack of professional video tutorials on CDR youtube channel.

                • That could be true. It takes time and resources to produce such content, not to mention do other things like publish printed user manuals and clip art libraries. I can still remember the days of a CorelDRAW retail upgrade featuring a huge box full of stuff. Not anymore.

                  Adobe does produce a good amount of its own "how to" content on video. Overall it seems like a much greater percentage of tutorial videos for graphics applications are created by third parties not employed by the software developer. Some are pretty good and others are kind of junky. I don't know how many tutorial videos exist on YouTube for CorelDRAW vs the number for Illustrator, but I'm pretty sure Illustrator has a much greater number of how to videos overall.

                  • Corel were naive when they went to yearly releases. They didn't understand that it took them 2 years to iron out the bugs that they added with a new version. Very few people back in the day would upgrade until SP1 came out because we knew that there was a lot needed fixing. Now you don't get a proper service pack, just a minor bug fix, if you're lucky. Old bugs remain and new ones get added.

                    And of course marketing had to have something new to sell the product, so the new functionality became much more lightweight and easy to implement and the constant pressure meant that new functionality never really got bedded in and 'fixed' because they had to start work on the next version. Best in class was a stranger to Corel thinking, 'It'll do' was closer to the mark.

                    Beta testing starts around October time for a March release, so if you dismiss April because the devs' will be flat out sorting login, upgrade, serial number, etc etc issues, so in effect there is about 3-4 months for bug fixing because by end of August they will start work on Alpha versions of the next release.

                    Corel thought they could extract more money from the yearly release model, but I'd bet they are getting less, a lot less because of the decision to cut off the upgrade option. I personally won't upgrade from 2018 (even though I have 2019) until I can see £599 worth of new value. I doubt I ever will. I am reconciled to having to run Hyper-V anyway to keep X5 running as security for opening old files so I will stick with 2018.

                    Corel are on the downward slope and I think a number of the more experienced devs left a few years back. Tony Severnuk, Hendrik Wagenaar, Alex Vakulenko et al, I think think they saw the writing on the wall.

                    CDGS might be Corels flagship but its holed below the waterline, and it can't keep up. They need to spend x10 the annual dev budget just to bring PP up to snuff and about the same to get Draw reliable and restore its reputation. Then it needs some seriously good new functionality. And all the ideas are there, in Corels database, over the years they milked the beta testers. We gave them a heck of a lot of good ideas and were mostly ignored.

                    I tried to have a conversation, before I left the beta programme (was kicked out actually) with the head honcho about an idea that would have been pretty easy to implement, they already had the tools doing similar things within Draw, and it would have been a killer feature (actually a vector trace tool, to convert line drawings to fillable areas, anyone CCCFER from 20 years or so ago, coined by K N Pepper, RIP). They didn't really want to know, they are very fixed in their ideas about what customers want, even though I doubt anyone at Corel actually uses or has used Draw to earn a living.

                    • Former Member
                      0 Former Member over 4 years ago in reply to Bobby Henderson
                      I don't know how many tutorial videos exist on YouTube for CorelDRAW vs the number for Illustrator, but I'm pretty sure Illustrator has a much greater number of how to videos overall.

                      Adobe is the top winner in this case.