


If you take the time to mark up an image carefully, these can produce impressive effects for changing the proportions of a photo without cropping it, or getting rid of the infuriating person who wandered into an otherwise perfect photo.ĬorelDRAW X6 makes it easy to see what stylistic alternatives in an OpenType font will look likeĪ feature rarely seen in graphics packages is full support for Advanced OpenType features: InDesign and Word 2010 have it, but Photoshop doesn't - even though the text in a graphic is often heavily styled. It's not perfect, but the Photoshop-like Smart Carver in PHOTO-PAINT lets you slice sections out of photos to make them fit the space requiredĬorel PHOTO-PAINT gains similar features to the content-aware fill and resizing in recent versions of Photoshop, for slicing whole areas from bitmaps.

Although the swirls and spirals of the Twirl effect give a fun (but very specific) effect, the Smear, Attract and Repel tools let you tweak, pull and push the edges of a vector object precisely but creatively - making it much more like drawing.

Four new tools give you a more intuitive way of getting more fluid effects than endless clicking to set Bezier control points. Smear is useful tool for taking a too-regular vector shape and getting something more organicĬorelDRAW already has a comprehensive set of vector drawing tools. Even belatedly this is very welcome: large images open and save quicker, and pasting from one image to another is definitely speedier than in previous versions. It seems strange, for example, that this is the first version of the suite to take advantage of 64-bit and multi-core processors - especially when commercial artists often work with such large images. Some of the improvements in CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X6 are arguably overdue.
