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 must be the only none pro here. I just use it to fiddle fart around in. It is great entertainment for me.
Graewerld said:Not sure if this post has come up before, but here goes:
I use for everything except long documents, (36 or more pages.
Graewerld said: 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?
Hi all, I am a non-pro also and have used since Corel was produced on floppy disks. and I use corel first for most projects.
I am a volunteer teacher at the University of the Third Age and I teach basic photo repair with Paint shop Pro and Corel Draw Suite my students are normally in the 60 to 85 year bracket. a lot of fun.
I also have used draw to design articles in my hobby of woodturning and carving and now bone carving.
I also play the game of sudoku so I have designed my playing board template in draw and the object manager is just fantastic for this
I can bring up any number or pencil mark that I wish I am still working on this one and improving as I go up to template 38
and I also fiddle with Esher drawings
and as I have been in martial arts all my life I use for notes and illustrations of advanced moves etc.
and the list goes on and on
enjoy
Joe
I guess you can say I use it for nearly all design phases of my business. Starting with vectorizes scanned illustrations, corporate logo designs, send to plotter for cutting vinyl, large scale out put for digital graphics for everything from full color banners, custom 3D menuboards, you name it. I am a an artist that specializes in large scale wall murals and custom 3D menu signs. Corel Draw is truly a great, efficient and user friendly program. I love how I was able to get a plugin and cut vinyl graphics(small & very large) directly from Corel Draw. I also find it incredibly efficient at sending out large full color files (that are to scale) to a wideformat printer and you do not need a Rip program to do it. .....Illustrator can't do it!
I do have other uses for Draw but I believe you get the idea.
Thank you!
I'm using CD some 15 years (approx).
I'm professional graphic designer and Corel is for - everything.
From simple logo designs, brochures, prepress, visual presentations, stationary, to posters (even in large series - last one: 80 posters in B1 format in one document - full colour), books, monographies (last one over 400 pages - cmyk+3 colours), bottle labels (series) designs (cmyk+4 colours), pdfs...
who can think of all things... probably missed to mention some...