- Create professional material with new image effects, drawing and photo-editing tools.
- Deliver quality designs through enhanced colour management controls without requiring colour management knowledge.
- Ensure printed results as expected with overprint previewing, and spot colour support.
- New PowerTRACE for powerful bit-to-vector image tracing.
- Easily work with PDF documents (security & import text support).
- Confidently collaborate and exchange files through compatibility with Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, PDF, MS Office, etc.
- New interactive hints docker, tips & tricks, and tutorials.
- One touch image editing and enhanced text formatting.
- CorelDRAW Handbook offers ins from expert users.
- Easy discovery of 'What's new' through menu highlights.
- Create Professional Results.
Manufacturer's Description
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Whether you're creating company logos or working toward
demanding production schedules, you can transform ideas into
professional results with the help of CorelDRAW Graphics Suite
X3. This significant update includes more than 40 new and
enhanced features designed to directly benefit design
professionals and occasional business users.
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3 has been designed for both design
professionals and occasional business users, with special new
tools that are sure to ease the burden of both types of users. If
you work in advertising, printing, sign-making, engraving, or
manufacturing, this release has amazing new tools that help you
get the job done faster, and with more accuracy. Likewise, if you
need to create marketing collateral, flyers, newsletters,
brochures, Web graphics, and other projects for your business,
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3 makes it easy to make it happen,
fast.
Quality Layout Results
CorelDRAW X3 provides significant improvements to text handling
that make it easier for users to select, edit, and format text.
New controls have been added for alignment, drop caps, tabs,
bullets, and columns. For more flexibility and accuracy in
design, users can now specify text size in inches and create
hyperlinks for specific characters. In addition, the application
works better with text from other sources.
The new Character Formatting docker makes formatting artistic
and paragraph text easier than ever before. This convenient new
docker includes easy-to-use controls for adjusting kerning,
changing the angle of selected characters, and applying character
effects, such as Underline, Strike-Through, Uppercase. Meanwhile,
an enhanced Interactive Fit Text to Path tool now makes it easier
than ever to attach text to a path with precision. A common
effect for creating logos and signs, this new tool lets you
interactively control text placement in order to get your desired
results.
New Tools for Illustration
With CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3, designers can take advantage
of tons of new tools and features that increase their
productivity without compromising on their creativity and
flexibility. For instance, the new Star tool lets users quickly
and easily draw perfect stars, while the new Complex Star tool
makes it easy to create complex stars that have intersecting
sides and produce unique results with an applied fill. You can
also specify the number of points and can sharpen the points of a
complex star.
A significant time-saver, the new Crop tool quickly lets you
remove unwanted areas in objects and imported graphics -- both
bit and vector. This handy addition to the CorelDRAW X3
toolbox eliminates the need to ungroup objects, break linked
groups apart, or convert objects to curves. Meanwhile, the
unique, new Smart Fill tool lets you apply a fill to any enclosed
area by creating a new object from an enclosed area. Unlike
conventional fill tools that fill only objects, the Smart Fill
tool detects the edges of an area and creates a closed path so
that the area can be filled. For example, the Smart Fill tool can
fill the loops of a freehand line that crosses over itself. The
Smart Fill tool creates a path around the area, so the filled
object can be moved, copied, or edited.
Powerful, Accurate Tracing
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3 provides a more streamlined,
integrated tracing solution that delivers accurate and optimized
bit-to-vector tracing results.
Integrated with CorelDRAW X3, the new Corel PowerTRACE allows
users to quickly and easily convert bits into editable vector
graphics. Design professionals typically face the challenge of
turning bit images into high-quality vector images to create
logos for business cards, brochures, signs, and promotional
items. For control and flexibility, Corel PowerTRACE generates a
colour palette that lets you easily pick which colours appear in
the traced result and quickly convert them to the appropriate
colour mode, including spot colours. You can also choose from
several preset tracing styles, colour modes, and background
options. With three different preview modes -- Before and After,
Large Preview, and Wireframe Overlay -- Corel PowerTRACE makes it
easy to analyze the result and adjust the settings used to trace
your image.
Efficient Photo Editing
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3 puts the focus on providing design
professionals with more efficient, intuitive, and accurate photo
editing.
Corel Photo-Paint X3 is now significantly faster when working
with large images and applying photo effects, resulting in better
real-time feedback and improving overall workflow efficiency.
Improved object handling gives designers more precise control in
rotating, skewing, or distorting objects. For large images,
improved use of image cache provides significantly increased
response time for previewing most effects and for manipulating
objects.
The new, integrated Image Adjustment Lab saves designers
valuable time and is accessible from both Corel Photo-Paint and
CorelDRAW. Design professionals often work with files that have
poor colour balance and contrast, and they need to use multiple
tools to make adjustments. The Image Adjustment Lab addresses
this problem by uniting a number of manual and automatic controls
for common colour and tone corrections, providing an intuitive
and fast way to achieve professional image adjustments. The Image
Adjustment Lab also lets users create snaps of their
adjustments with just one click. The snaps appear below the
working preview, which lets users easily compare each snap
against the original and choose the best result.
Built on the power of Corel KnockOut, the enhanced Cutout Lab
includes new controls to simplify the process of cutting out
image areas and to improve accuracy. The new Add Detail and
Remove Detail tools make it easy to refine the cutout area. For
easy reference when defining the cutout area, users can preview
their cutout against the original image, or transparent, white,
gray, or black backgrounds. For maximum flexibility, users can
choose to save the cutout object and did the original image,
save the cutout object and keep the original image, or save the
cutout object as a clip added to the original image. In
addition, the Cutout Lab includes Undo and Redo buttons to
quickly correct any mistakes.
Enhanced Compatibility
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3 provides enhanced compatibility for
more than 100 commonly used file formats, including Adobe
Illustrator, Photocells, Corel Paint Shop Pro, Microsoft Office,
JPEG, and PDF. Users can now seamlessly edit and exchange files
in those formats. Outstanding support for spot colours has been
added for Adobe Illustrator, PhotoShop, and PDF.