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CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 12 | 
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| From: Corel
Category: Software
List Price: £421.83
Buy New: £38.25
You Save: £383.58 (91%)
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Rating:  10 reviews
Platforms: Windows 2000, Windows Xp, Windows Xp Tablet Pc Edition
Media: CD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 9.7 x 8 x 3.1
MPN: cgs12engpc
UPC: 735163100372
EAN: 0735163100372
ASIN: B00014TCTA
Release Date: February 6, 2004
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: Four Genuine/Original Corel Retail discs, sealed in CD sleeve with unique activation code. No Box hence low price... Next day post!
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Amazon.co.uk Review
CorelDraw 12 consists of three programs: CorelDraw itself for vector graphics, Photo-Paint for bitmap painting and photo editing and RAVE for creating animations. As in previous versions, there are also utilities such as CorelTrace, for tracing bitmaps, and CorelCapture, for screen grabs. You might think that by the 12th iteration of a graphics application, there wouldn't be much new left to add. Corel is ingenious enough to have though up some very useful improvements, though, such as the SmartDrawing tool. Draw a freehand triangle with this tool and it becomes a real triangle, draw a rough ellipse and it becomes a perfect ellipse, draw a freeform squiggle and it becomes a beautifully curved squiggle. If you need temporary guide lines to help align objects, CorelDraw 12 provides dynamic guides, which you can snap to and later delete when you've finished with them. Talking of snapping, you can snap an object to snap points in other objects, with the target point highlighting as you drag near to it. Symbols, introduced in CorelDraw 11, save space in Web design by taking as much file space as an object, no matter how many copies of them you create. Now you can build libraries of symbols to re-use in different drawings and distinguish them from objects by their blue handles. CorelDraw 12 can delete arbitrary segments from drawings with the Virtual Segment Delete tool and use the Eyedropper and Paintbucket together to transfer not just colour, but properties like transparency from one object to another. The only real improvement to PhotoPaint is the addition of a Touch-Up brush, which helps remove blemishes like dust and scratches from scanned photographs. Like the other modules of the program though, PhotoPaint can optimise finished images for export to Microsoft Office or WordPerfect Office applications and now provides a separate Export command to save images in a wide range of different graphics formats. The improvements to RAVE, the animation module of the Suite, are pretty much the same as in CorelDraw. They include the SmartDrawing tool, dynamic guides, which can be used from frame to frame in an animation, symbols (and their animated equivalent, sprites) and virtual segment delete. --Simon Williams
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 Classical Corel, powered by new great features June 25, 2004
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
If you are fan of adobe photoshop, maybe you won't like it as much as I am. But Corel really did a great job with this version. It gives you full power of working with vector graphics. Features supplied on other 2 CDs are trully amazing.
It's good value for money, you get not only most powerful publishing software, but collection of registrered fonts - only this worth several hundred pounds. And plus the collection of images and clipat. And this is not just boring little images - this is full quality, full of life, high resolution stuff.
I would recommend it to anybody who is serious about computer graphics. Corel Masterpiece.
 Review by Beth Morgan February 27, 2004
11 out of 24 found this review helpful
I bought this item around two weeks ago for my small business. I am very up to date with the latest computers but i did not feel that this package offered me anything special, exciting or new for the asking price. I experienced no complications and it was very smoothe when operating however i felt it was not the right package for me. Im sure it will benefit someone but it did not help me when trying to create logos for my business.
not a very impressive upgrade June 20, 2004
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
As upgrades go this is not very good. Very few new features have been added and most of them have limited use. To start with the smart drawing tools only recognises the most basic of shapes (circles, squares, rectangles, etc) which can be easily created by using the other tools coreldraw already offered. I'm not sure who will find this tool usefull as most coreldraw users will use coreldraw for far more complex tasks than this.
What is a much better conceived idea is the new dynamic guides, very usefull for technical illustrations which demand a high degree of accuracy.
As for Photopaint which was once a real contender against Photoshop, now it barely competes against paintshop pro. There is hardly any difference between version 12 and version 11, except for a third rate attempt at creating a tool similar too photoshop's healing brush.
Coreldraw is still a good product, but this upgrade is not worth forking out for if you already have version 10 or 11.
 Not really an upgrade February 10, 2004
10 out of 17 found this review helpful
We upgraded from Corel Draw 10 to 12 recently with disastrous results! Although the actual program has some nice improvements it's unbelievably buggy. This is a joke. The first hour of use the program crashed four times. 10 was unstable but this is awful. Don't buy....pay extra and get a copy of illustrator or freehand instead.
 Maybe I am biased ... February 25, 2004
Henry Gilbert
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
I've tried this product for almost 30 days. The price for the upgrade is very good. What did frustrate me deeply for some time was how often it crashed on my XP. I actually wasn't going to buy it. But now has it became stable again after a recent Windows Update (XP was therefore to blame), I got seduced back. Funny though Photoshop never ever crashes on me (update or not) but then again that cost around 700!
I just can't learn anything else: Illustrator, Freehand or GIMP. When stable I really do like Corel Draw and R.A.V.E - I can't live without VBA - which is vital and easy for creating amazing mathematical effects.
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