CorelDRAW 2022

I installed and all went well so far, I like what they've done to the light, white balance and tone curve tools.  The LAB curve is kind of screwed up as it indicates A and B channel but not that the A is Red, Green and B is blue, yellow.

  • Hi David, you'll like new features in PP. There are many new adjustments. If you want to send idea or request then you can use new CorelDRAW Ideas Portal here coreldraw.ideas.aha.io/

    • Is there ANY NEW feature for CorelDRAW 2022??? so far i see new features only for PhotoPAINT 

      Is CorelDRAW no longer a priority? (like most Corel users, i'm using Corel DRAW with Adobe PhotoShop)

      • The only thing I have noticed is slight tweaks to the user interface. Supposedly the developers have done some work "under the hood" to clean up the application's code. But I have seen no difference at all with the bugs I have encountered. They're all still there, particularly the issues with fonts. The application's handling of OTF Variable Fonts is still unstable. I've had type objects disappear from view (and even zoom operations fail), only to re-appear when I open the Save As dialog box or go to close the application.

        Yeah, it does look like CorelDRAW is not a top priority at all for the Corel corporation. I don't think the development team has the manpower or resources available to properly maintain the application. If anything I can't help but wonder if they've made new cuts to the amount of development staff working on it. Overall it gives me a pretty grim feeling about the huge collection of CDR files that I have.

        • Corel has done this in the past, taking a graphics suite approach. If I remember correctly there was a big focus on Photo-PAINT and I can't remember if it was V9 or 10. After that Photo-PAINT onesies and twosies here and there. 

          The pages docker seems to have been repaired, there are tons of training materials. I've been doing hoards of images so little time for testing Draw.

          I also bought Affinity Photo, that has eaten up some time, while it's usable it's not really much to talk about. With me having PaintShop Pro to augment Photo-PAINT I'm not sure it's worth what I paid.

          • I also bought Affinity Photo, that has eaten up some time, while it's usable it's not really much to talk about. With me having PaintShop Pro to augment Photo-PAINT I'm not sure it's worth what I paid.

            Of course it's worth it. It might not be worth it to you because you actually don't need it. But it's hard to not be worth $50.00, even if it only has 1 really good feature, like a plugin.  I always think of low cost software as plugins.  Helper apps for my main programs.  If I buy a program for $50.00, for one or two good features, probably never upgrade it, it'll pay for itself after however much time.  In that way, I'm still using Serif's ancient discontinued DrawPlus X8 which cost about $80.00 at the time I bought it 7 or 8 years ago.  DrawPlus X8 actually has a lot of great features that you can't get in any other software.

            • If you don't have anything else Photo is worth it but so far I haven't found anything that benefits me. I'm sure I will sooner or later. However compared to PaintShop Pro and Photo-PAINT Pro Photos programming leaves a great deal to be desired. PaintShop Pro speaks a slang version of Adobe and that's bad enough but Photo speaks a slang version of Adobe, Mac and Klingon!

            • OMG - There is no update in the latest version of CorelDraw whatsoever. - CorelDraw is not worth the money any more.

              I'm a a young graphic artist using CorelDraw the last 4-5 years, i'm so disappointed. CorelDraw feels like a piece of outdated software. i'm switching to Affinity Designer today.

              www.coreldraw.com/.../

              "NEW Customer-inspired features" - What a joke

              • Listen I downloaded and tried Affinity Designer, what a joke, I know it's cheap in price but it's also cheap inside. I bought Affinity Photo, I'm still looking for something in it that's a must have. 

                My first Draw install was V3, I have a perpetual license of 2022 that was free and because of my upgrade protection I'll get a subscription of 2023 that'll pay for.

                • Affinity Designer is not an adequate replacement for CorelDRAW. The application is fine for basic graphic design tasks. It is convenient for amateur users or office productivity users who want an all-in-one application that combines vector and raster functions into one application. But it is missing a lot of stuff on the professional level that makes it quickly very frustrating and limiting to use.

                  I bought copies of Affinity Designer for Windows and iPadOS back when they were having their 50% off pandemic sale. I made the purchases for two reasons: the price was cheap enough I could see what was good and bad about the application for myself with very little consequence and I would have the applications handy just in case I started receiving .afdesign files from customers.

                  Affinity Designer has potential, but it will need to improve a LOT more in order to become a "daily driver" application in professional use. For now, I'm personally shifting more and more of my work in the direction of Adobe Illustrator and away from CorelDRAW.

                  • Photo so far has one feature I liked, the only thing I'll say is that it has made me appreciate PaintShop Pro a great deal more.

                    Everything I saw with Designer and Photo was very amateurish. 

                    • What is PaintShop pro, is it like Photoshop/PhotPaint? where can i get it, and why is it better?

                      • PaintShop Pro is an image editor that Corel bought from Jasic years ago. It's a mid level application used more by individuals,  that supports mask, layers, transparency,  vectors in native PSP format, is application color managed and I use the TIF file format between Photo-PAINT and PaintShop. 

                        I use it to augment Photo-PAINT, it has some filters that are very useful, skin smooth, a few noise reduction filters, chromatic aberration removal.

                        If you don't need CMYK or Device N color you really don't need much more than PaintShop.

                        It's much faster then Affinity Photo the bigger the file the more the difference, it has filters that apply themselves to modern photography much more effectively.  

                        For me it works like a PC, Affinity is really weird and for me not intuitive at all, PaintShop is not so much like Adobe but does use layers, mask and selections.

                        You can get it from Corels web site.