CorelDRAW Subscription

New Features! Corel® CONNECT™ X6

Speed up your workflow with Corel CONNECT, a built-in content search tool that helps you find graphics, templates, fonts and images instantly on your computer.

• New! Multiple trays allow you to work with several trays concurrently; giving you increased flexibility for organizing assets for multiple projects. These time-saving trays will help you efficiently gather content – photos, graphics or bitmap icons – from various folders or online sources, and share them between CorelDRAW, Corel PHOTO-PAINT, and Corel CONNECT.

• New! Search capability allows you to extract images instantly from a client’s web site by simply typing a web address in the Search box. Corel CONNECT immediately gathers all the defined images with an HTML <img> tag from the website. Based on search terms or a folder path, Corel CONNECT can also scour your PC, network, or other online resources for content.

• New! Relevant learning resources

  Discover all the enriching learning tools you need to start smoothly and design with confidence, including valuable video tutorials, a hints docker with videos and tips, insights from experts and an inspiring guidebook.

• New & Enhanced! High-value digital content

  Design with valuable content, including 10,000 clipart images, 1,000 high-quality, royalty-free photos, 1,000 professional fonts, 1,000 OpenType® fonts, including premium fonts such as Helvetica®, 350 professional design templates, 2,000 vehicle templates, and 800 frames and patterns.

• Enhanced! Hints docker

  View interactive hints, including video tips, that will help you get you started quickly and provide step-by-step instruction on the suite's powerful tools.

• Professionally designed templates

  Choose from 350 professionally designed templates, plus 2,000 vehicle templates that give you a head start on all types of creative deliverables, from business cards and flyers to web graphics and sales collateral.

• New! Styles engine and docker

  The revised styles engine offers a new Object Styles docker that simplifies the creation, application, and management of styles. Take advantage of Style Sets that make it easier to apply consistent formatting across multiple objects, produce iterative versions, and implement formatting with speed and consistency.

  
  You can use Style Sets to quickly modify objects that share formatting attributes.

• New! Color Styles

  Add the colors used in a document as color styles, making it easier than ever to implement a color change throughout a project. Create a color style and have the color instantly applied to all objects linked to it.
   
   

  
  The new Color Styles docker makes it easy to manage the colors used in a document.

• New! Color Harmonies

  Group a document’s color styles together so that you can quickly and easily produce recurring designs with varying color schemes. Combine two or more color styles into a harmony to link the colors into a hue-based relationship, which you can then modify collectively or individually.
   

  
  Color harmonies make it easy to change combinations of colors.

 

Interactive Fill helps you apply bitmap (top), fountain, pattern (bottom), and two-color fills.

New! Pre-designed frames are now content-ready

Enhanced collection of frames, included with the content library, can now support the new empty PowerClip functionality. Instantly populate the frames with photos or graphics, saving you time and effort.

Drawing Tools

Draw and design intuitively with artistic media and drawing tools that respond to the pressure, tilt and bearing of your pen on drawing tablet. The artistic media tools let you create graceful, consistent and accurate curves.

Other drawing tools include:

• Mesh Fill - design multi-colored filled objects with fluid color transitions
• Lock Toolbars - lock toolbars to prevent them from moving or closing while you draw
• Join Curves – specify the amount of space between joined curves
• Snapping - make objects snap to a pixel grid for more accuracy
• Dimension Tools - find all the dimension tools you need in one convenient drop-down menu
• Diagramming – update diagrams and charts so lines remain connected when you reposition boxes

Interactive Fill Tool

Add uniform, linear, radial, conical, square, two-color pattern, full-color pattern, bitmap, texture, and PostScript fills.

Contour Tool

Create interesting 3D effects and cuttable outlines for output to devices, such as plotters, engraving machines, and vinyl cutters.

Read less

• New and Enhanced! Master Layers

  Create page-specific designs for your multi-page documents with the new and improved Master Layers. It’s now a breeze to incorporate page-specific headers, footers, and page numbers for brochures or flyers.
   
   

  
  CorelDRAW X6 page layouts with differing odd- and even-page master layers.

• New! Alignment Guides

  Position objects more quickly with suggested alignments to the existing artwork on your page. The temporary guidelines appear when you create, resize, or move objects in relation to the center or edges of other nearby objects. Plus, the guides interactively connect the centers and the edges of objects.

  
  The new Alignment Guides appear as you move an object, helping you position objects more quickly.

• New! Placeholder Text

  Quickly populate any text frame with the new Insert Placeholder Text command, making it easier to view the appearance of your document before finalizing its content. For convenience and flexibility, you can also use custom placeholder text in any language supported by CorelDRAW.
   

  
  You can instantly add placeholder text to preview layouts before finalizing content.

Support for complex scripts ensures that multilingualglyphs display correctly in your documents

The redesigned Object Properties docker groups all object settings in one location.

The new Smart Carver makes it easy to remove unwanted areas and adjust the photo’s aspect ratio.

New! Object Properties docker

The redesigned Object Properties docker offers object-dependent formatting options and properties. By grouping all object settings in one location, this time-saving docker helps you fine-tune your designs faster than ever before.

New! Native 64-bit support

Provides full support for 64-bit processors, which lets you work faster than ever before with large files in CorelDRAW and large images in Corel PHOTO-PAINT.

Enhanced! Corel® PHOTO-PAINT™ X6

Enrich your photos with a powerful photo editing tool that provides exciting photos effects – such as Vibrance, Grayscale and Photo Filter, plus this editing tool supports RAW format for over 300 types of cameras, giving you improved flexibility and greater artistic control over your final photos.

Corel® PHOTO-PAINT™ X6 also includes:

• New! Smart Carver tool – slice away unwanted areas from a photo
• Image Adjustment Lab – adjust and control all photos options in one lab
• Photo Touch-up - remove flaws in images and see the improved photo in real time
• Histogram Feedback - preview changes and instantly compare the results as you adjust image tones, apply effects or process RAW camera files
• Spot Color Channels – create and modify images that contain spot colors
• Cut Out Lab - eliminate pieces of a picture from its background and maintain fine details
• Learn more

A custom color palette is created on the fly for each project.

Color Management engine

Control color consistency across different media and generate a distinct color palette for each document. The Color Management engine introduces greater color accuracy, plus support for new color profiles from PANTONE®. Minimize your ecological footprint and reduce costly reprints by knowing that your colors are accurate before you print.

• Custom Color Palettes - access previously used colors in order to create and save for a new design
• Primary Color Mode - control the default color mode of a document on export, including the default palette colors (RGB or CMYK)
• Document Color Settings - adjust color settings that apply only to the current document
• PANTONE Color Profiles - view accurate, step-by-step color representation with the latest color profiles from PANTONE, including Fashion+Home and the PANTONE® Goe™ system
• Hex Color Support - choose colors by using their hexadecimal (hex) value and view hex color values from multiple locations