Not sure if this post has come up before, but here goes:
What does everyone use their CorelDRAW for -- be it version 3 to the new and improved X5 -- from professional applications to just fiddle-farting around with it?
I guess I could start. I do laser engraving in a trophy shop in the Pacific Northwest. My materials are coated metals, acrylics, glass, plastic, and rubber for stamps. I do both raster burning and vector cutting. I have been using CorelDRAW for the last 11 years and although I also have Adobe Illustrator CS and PaintShop Pro on my system, I always use my Corel for 98% of my work.
I have Adobe Suites, Xara, CorelDraw, Sketchup however the mass 90+% is done in CorelDraw for vector work. I still find myself using Photoshop more than PhotoPaint. Only reason, I have used it for so many years.
I design graphic illustrations, signs, banners, logos, business forms etc. My wife owns and runs expressivecutouts.com. I do all the project photo corrections, layout etc. for expressivecutouts.
Since our area copy stores do not hire in-house graphic designers I freelance the work for several stores enabling them to offer more. I work via telephone, email and FTP in the background giving them the recognition and credit to help them grow.
I love really love and enjoy CorelDraw.
After several years I still perform daily p.p.p (pratice, pratice, pratice. always pushing the envelope.
It is my main tool. I use CorelDRAW for everything what it is able to do.
Everything I can that it makes sense to use it for...
1. the usual Graphics creation... Signs, Posters, decals, donation receipt, cd/dvd jewel case inserts, Sewage tank location plotting, etc.2. Forms... design and data field entry; adding scanned and vectorized signatures3. pdf creation and altering, adding Text in response fields, printing to WinFAX4. adding text to images (scans and digital pix); music chart alterations5. cropping, resizing and resampling images where required; importing AI files for "fixing" occasionally.6. working with design drawings imported from AutoCAD when required to save on job time... eg: Physical Plant layout, Operations Manuals7. Website work (image processing)
the 'dd'
I use CorelDRAW for almost all of my works since several years. I use for professional output of graphics arts, prepress, printing, big size printing, magazines, cards, illustrations and all kind of jobs