CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 Home & Student Edition

by Corel

Product Features

• Install and Use a copy of this Product on up to 3 computers in your household - For non-commercial use only
• Turn your creative ideas into cool logos for t-shirts, presentations, posters, flyers, signs, Web pages and more
• Spice up your reports and essays with stunning graphics; discover the included 1000 clipart images and 50 fonts to inspire and help you with your projects
• Get started quickly with learning videos, tutorials, and interactive hints
• Support for market-leading file formats means you can easily share your ideas

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 3.5 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B001CEXR94
• Item model number: CDGSX4ENPCHS
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 9, 2008
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #566 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)

Product Description

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CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4--Home & Student Edition lets you explore your creative ideas and turn them into outstanding results. Easy-to-use features make it fun to produce all kinds of projects: from T-shirts and posters, to presentations and school reports. Built-in learning tools and tutorials let you learn as you go, and support for market-leading file formats means you can easily share your ideas. Plus, this all-in-one suite comes with a wealth of clipart and fonts to get you started. Whether you're interested in layout, photo editing or illustration you can do it with CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4.

The redesigned CorelDRAW X4 user interface--new icons, menus, and controls give the applications a fresh appearance and provide a more intuitive working environment. Click to enlarge.

Turn low resolution bitmaps into high-quality vector images with Corel PowerTRACE. Click to enlarge.

High-quality thumbnail previews make it easier for users to find their files. Click to enlarge.

Users can easily work with images and raw camera files. Click to enlarge.

Easily find and select the colors you want in your designs and illustrations. Click to enlarge.

What's Included with CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4?

Applications

• CorelDRAW X4: CorelDRAW X4 is an intuitive vector-illustration and page-layout application that meets the demands of today's busy design professionals and occasional graphics users.
  
  
• Corel PHOTO-PAINT X4: Corel PHOTO-PAINT X4 is a professional image-editing application that lets users quickly and easily retouch and enhance photos.
  
  
• Corel PowerTRACE X4: Designers often receive poor-quality bitmap images from clients and face the challenge of turning these bitmaps into high-quality vector images for business cards, brochures, signs, or other promotional items. Corel PowerTRACE X4 solves this problem by letting users quickly and accurately convert bitmaps into editable vector graphics.
  
  
• Corel CAPTURE X4: Corel CAPTURE X4 is a one-click screen-capture utility that lets users capture images from their computer screens.

Get inspired and gain knowledge
With CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4, it's never been easier to get started, find inspiration, or gain knowledge. The Welcome screen, expert tutorials, and other learning tools offer invaluable assistance to both new and experienced users.

Welcome screen
With a new Welcome screen, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 provides users with a centralized location to access recently used documents, templates, and learning tools, which include Tips & Tricks and video tutorials. To inspire users, the Welcome screen also includes a gallery that showcases designs created by CorelDRAW Graphics Suite users around the world.

CorelDRAW Handbook
Insights from the Experts: This new book showcases practical, real-world examples of accomplished designs by CorelDRAW experts. By deconstructing designs and sharing their wisdom and best practices, experts from a variety of industries demonstrate the power of CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4.

The new Table tool makes it easy to create a structured layout with graphic elements embedded in table. Click to enlarge.

Training videos
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 includes 2 hours of training videos on DVD. Topics include illustration, design, and image-editing fundamentals, industry-specific design principles, and output details for various media, such as print or the Web.

CorelTUTOR
With CorelTUTOR, users can access online, project-based tutorials that help them learn and use the applications. In addition to touring the workspaces of both CorelDRAW X4 and Corel PHOTO-PAINT X4, users can learn how to work with page-layout features, get started with bitmap-to-vector tracing, try the enhanced print-merge functionality, create a logo, an much more.

CorelDRAW community site
Accessible from within the application, the CorelDRAW.com community site gives users a place to get together to share information and learn from other users. Combining forums, blogs, galleries, and other resources, CorelDRAW.com is a valuable information resource for professional designers and occasional graphics users alike. Visit the site today to discover the creations and inspirations of this growing community.

Product Description

CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 – Home & Student Edition lets you explore your creative ideas and turn them into outstanding results for whatever design or creative project you need to produce. Easy-to-use features make it fun to produce all kinds of projects: from T-shirts, posters, party announcements, school club flyers and banners, to presentations and school reports. With built-in learning tools and tutorials, easy file sharing and a wealth of clipart and fonts, this all-in-one suite has everything you need to tackle design layouts, photo editing, or illustration. *For non-commercial use only. You may install and Use a copy of this Product on up to three (3) computers in your household.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

27 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beats Photo Shop Elements and Gimp, June 27, 2009

By	Silvio Rodriguez (Sampa, Brasil) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 Home & Student Edition (DVD-ROM)

I'm a PC user and have used PhotoShop CS2 and PhotoShop Elements and find them really hard to use. The controls are very small and hard to find, everything is iconic with no description available. You have to read a book to find out what each icon means.

Also PhotoShop is overpriced (USD $1000 for the Ultra version) so I have been using Gimp for photo editing. But Corel DRAW and Corel Photo Paint beat them both in the Price/Performance ratio. Its way more intuitive to use than both Gimp and PhotoShop (at least for a PC user). Tools are easy to find, without reading any manual I got myself doing masks, color adjustments, etc. The digital filter gallery in PhotoShop is more professional, as if the algorithms yielded a smother quality and surely there are tons of plugin filters out there. But for the price, Corel DRAW gives professional photo editing (unlike Gimp) at a bargain price.

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Performance Plus at a great Price!, December 15, 2009

By	Sapphire (Austin, Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 Home & Student Edition (DVD-ROM)

I am so thankful Corel came out with a Home and Student Edition! I have used Adobe products as well as the Corel line for years. I have to say that Corel outperforms Adobe in many ways. The interface is more intuitive than it has ever been. My favorite feature is the ability to easily create vectors from bitmap drawings within CorelDraw. The program remains user friendly as well; it comes with an array of customizable "cool tools" to draw, sketch spray paint, etc.

The software has just as much if not more to offer in my opinion than Adobe Photoshop and it costs a fraction of what Adobe is offering.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent video tutorials., March 27, 2010

By	G. Freeman (Midwest, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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This review is from: CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 Home & Student Edition (DVD-ROM)

I used CorelDRAW years ago (version 3), so knew the basics and was able to lay out my new minicomic fairly easily. I found the video tutorials on the DVD to be very well done, and I highly recommend them. I am still learning the PhotoPaint application that came bundled with CorelDRAW, but so far I like it and anticipate it replacing the current program (that came with my scanner) I am using.