NEW! Multipage View - Flexible design spaceĮnhanced Color management, Color proofing option, spot color support on output Object styles, Color styles, Color harmonies Symmetry drawing mode, Block Shadow tool, Impact tool, Pointillizer™, PhotoCocktail™ (Advanced with halo and interactive hotspot tools)īitmap adjustments: Color balance, Channel Mixer, Selective color, Desaturate, Gamma, Tone curve, + moreīevel docker, Shadow tool, Spiral, Smooth, Smear, Smudge, and Roughen tool
I cannot even upgrade it to a version that would do what I had planned to do, so I just threw my money away. None of this was mentioned in the glowing description of this software in the blurb on its amazon page, and so I wind up with a program that can do very little except presenting its useless "Welcome Screen". It would only work on the CorelDRAW X8 and CorelDRAW 2019 full version." The reason why you cannot use the feature is that the program does not support the JPEG file as it was only the Home and Student version of the program. Option to purchase Upgrade program not available for CorelDRAW® Home & Student Suite 2018 Some external file format support removed: DXF/DWG, DCS, CGM, JPEG 2000, etc. Enhanced Color management, Default color management settings and large print preview disabled - Some additional functions and support removed: Color styles, Object styles, Color harmonies, QR codes, Planar Mask tool in Corel PHOTO-PAINT, Color proofing option, Undo dockers, Universal Laser & Roland color palettes, Pantone color palettes, the ability to create left & right master pages and custom placeholder text.
However, it turns out this software is unable to do this, and Corel tech support explained to me: "Please be informed that The program CorelDRAW 2018 Home and Student has Excluded Pro Features for CorelDRAW Home & Student Suite X8: - Macro Manager disabled - Some Professional Print options disabled (CMYK features, Composite, color separations, Postscript and prepress tabs in the print dialog) The layout tab has been simplified. I bought this software for what I thought would be a simple job of copying some elements from a JPEG image and pasting them into another JPEG. In other words, my SSD is now filled with all their garbage. Your ONLY option for the Custom install? the file path. What I do use, though, is good.īut a final thing in the Home version. Me? I'm no longer a heavy user and so just need to be able to knock out some vector images or do a few quick edits, make a logo or something, so about 95% of the product I'll never use. a needless bunch of icon changes to conform to the new look, moving some of the old tools to new locations for no real reason that one could call rational and so on.įunctionally, there are many improvements and if you like to be up to date, this is a pretty good product. The new version is just like they all are. The app worked for the most part, but the menu didn't display except on mouseover, and no amount of tweaking, research or digging produced an answer.
But Corel did put out a patch and it was available for a while, and then they pulled. Not that that's terrible anyone who regularly upgrades expects it. It was a mostly painless transition except my Corel V6, which won't run properly on Win 10. When I bought a new PC, I decided to go Win10 just for the heck of it ( I also run Linux Mint Cinnamon on another pc, and have some Apple stuff laying about and a Win7 box. I've been using Corel since the early days of Windows.