I use Corel PHOTO-PAINT and CorelDRAW® every day for all my digital work, including illustrations, graphic design and layout for book covers, brochures, vector logos, T-shirt prints and, of course, image editing. Sometimes I use just one program at a time and other times I use both programs together.
Bitmap editing
Even as an illustrator and graphic designer, image editing is important to me, whether I work with RAW, TIFF or JPEG images. Combining Corel PHOTO-PAINT with Corel® AfterShot™ Pro is simply a great workflow. With those two programs, you are prepared for any work that is thrown at you.
Illustration
I create all kinds of illustrations, from designing book covers to storyboarding for movies. Whether it is small- or large-scale imagery, my work requires bitmap drawing, painting and vector illustration. So having a great combination like Corel PHOTO-PAINT and CorelDRAW, makes it a pure joy.
Coloring drawings is a major part of illustration, of course, and Corel PHOTO-PAINT makes this process user friendly and efficient. For me, Merge Mode and Lens Objects in the Object Docker are a gift. And this is regardless of whether the illustration is a scanned drawing or drawn directly with a Wacom® tablet pen. For everyone who works with illustrations, I can not stress enough how great this combination of tools is—it is as if you are drawing underneath the outlines instead of on top of them, and it does not damage the outlines.
Batch Process in Corel PHOTO-PAINT is pure love. Picture a storyboard for a short movie with more than 80 illustrations/frames that have to be adjusted with resampled size and file formats and saved in the same folder before sending to the client, the movie director. To do that manually with each image would easily take half a day, while doing it with Batch Process in Corel PHOTO-PAINT takes a total of one minute. That is love for you.
Stefan Lindblad works full time as a self-employeed illustrator, graphic designer and artist for a wide variety of clients both in Sweden and internationally. Visit www.stefanlindblad.com to learn more about Stefan and see his work.
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Im very new to corel. Im actually an adobe user looking into corel. Im a graphic design student. Thank you for the good tips and the knowledge that the CorelDraw Stuite will cover most of my needs is good.
You said you use after shot. Is after shot good? Equal to light room?
For me if photo paint is not a powerful enough photo editor i plan on trying paint shop. How good is paint shot ultimate compared to adobe photo shop or photoshop elments?
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OK thank you. Adobe has few customizable things. I noticed that several other companies do high customizing of tool bars. Sounds nice. Especially to drop tools I rarely use and add ones I use a lot. Interesting you compare even photo paint to photoshop cs 5. That is a large rating you gave it. I had assumed photo paint to be like photo shop elements in power but many are saying it is quite good for normal use. Im assuming this means photo paint is probably equal to cs 3 where it has the major functions but lack some of the new tools.
As you said paint shop is even better and I can only assume its probably like cs 4-5 with ultimate. I was looking at the clear view feature and that alone is worth the upgrade from pro to ultimate. It sounds like an auto correct like in photoshop. If so great for quick fixes. I have high hopes for paint shop. If they can push the next edition it could be comparable to cs 6 or what ever the current version of photoshop will be. Adobe has slowed its progress a lot since cs 3.