CorelDRAW Suite X5: Home and Student [Old Version]

by Corel

Product Features

• CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X5 Home & Student Edition offers everything you need for professional graphics illustration, layout, tracing..
• Also photo editing, Web graphics and animation in one complete suite.
• Start smoothly and learn quickly with built-in learning tools, valuable video tutorials.
• Enrich your designs with 140 professional fonts and take advantage of high-value digital content such as premium clipart or pro-designed templates
• Output to a broad variety of media, from distinctive logos and signs, to striking marketing materials, Web graphics, billboards and car wraps;
• Dozens of supported file formats, including PDF, JPG, PNG, EPS, AI, TIFF, PSD, DOCX & many more, let you import and export files quickly and easily.
• Optimize your settings to achieve the highest file quality.

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B003VMCBEC
• Item model number: CDHSX5ENMB
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 13, 2010
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (96 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,740 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)

Product Description

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When it comes to illustration, layout, tracing, photo editing and web graphics, CorelDRAW Home & Student Suite X5 brings out the best in any budding designer. This professional-quality graphics suite is loaded with tools for creating everything from web graphics and T-shirt designs, to logos, cards and flyers. A built-in search tool finds content fast, while helpful tutorials speed up the learning process. Best of all, this pro-quality graphics suite comes at a home and student price!

CorelDRAW Home & Student Suite X5 brings out the best in any budding designer.

Create amazing designs with CorelDRAW Home & Student Suite X5

Create With Confidence

Power your designs with more than 1,300 clipart images, 14 design templates and over 140 OpenType fonts.

Get Going Quickly

Learn in leaps and bounds with video tutorials, tool tips, design hints and a full color Getting Started Guide.

Connect to Your Content

Find graphics, templates, fonts and images instantly on your computer and selected websites with a built-in content search tool.

Design Anything

From websites to logos, posters to T-shirt designs, you can design it all using CorelDRAW Home & Student Suite X5.

Easily and efficiently adjust photos with all options with the Image Adjustment Lab.

Design multi-colored filled objects that display more fluid color transitions, etc. with the enhanced Mesh Fill tool.

Convert bitmaps to vector artwork with Corel's PowerTRACE conversion tool.

Design & Illustrate

• Quickly design and illustrate for print and web with intuitive drawing tools
• Make your reports and essays stand out with unique graphics, creative text and fun content
• Create innovative and unique page layouts, perfect for magazines and newsletters
• Use live text formatting to quickly choose the right font types and sizes for each design

Create

• Create web banners, flyers, print ads, cards, illustrated reports, and even T-shirt designs with the help of templates and tutorials
• Work with more than 100 different file types, including Adobe and Microsoft files, PDF, JPG, PNG, EPS, AI, TIFF, PSD, DOCX, and many other formats

Photo Edit

• Retouch and add special effects to photos with powerful image-editing tools
• Cut out and copy individual parts of a photo to use elsewhere in your designs
• Benefit from RAW image file support, and preview image adjustments in real-time
• Quickly straighten images that were scanned or photographed at an angle

Trace

• Create drawings or line art from scanned images in just a few clicks
• Convert bitmap images to smooth vector graphics that look great at any size

What's New

Built-in Search Tool

Find graphics, templates, fonts and images instantly on your computer and selected websites.

Web Graphics Tools

Get web graphics right the first time with a Pixels view mode and web Export Dialog box.

Photo Effects

Experiment with different styles, such as Vibrance to boost color intensity, and Photo Filter to simulate different camera filters.

Main Applications

• CorelDRAW X5
• Corel PHOTO-PAINT X5
• Corel PowerTRACE X5
• Corel CAPTURE X5
• Corel CONNECT
• PhotoZoom Pro 2

Training

• 2 hours of training videos

Documentation

• PDF Guidebook and printed Getting Started Guide

Content

• Over 1,300 high-quality clipart images
• Over 140 OpenType fonts
• 14 professionally designed templates

Product Description

Create amazing designs with confidence!Product Information[Install on up to 3 PCs per Household]When it comes to illustration layout tracing photo editing and web graphics CorelDRAW Home & Student Suite X5 brings out the best in any budding designer. This professional quality graphics suite is loaded with tools for creating everything from web graphics and T-shirt designs to logos cards and flyers. A built-in search tool finds content fast while helpful tutorials speed up the learning process. Best of all this pro-quality graphics suite (for non-commercial use) comes at a home and student price!Includes1300+ High Quality Clipart Images140+ OpenType fonts14 Professionally Designed Templates2 Hours of Training Videos PDF Guidebook and Printed Getting Started GuideNew FeaturesBuilt-in Search ToolFind graphics templates fonts and images instantly on your computer and selected Websites.Web Graphic ToolsGet Web graphics right the first time with a Pixel preview mode and Web Export Dialog box.Photo EffectsExperiment with different styles such as Vibrance to boost color intensity and Photo Filter to simulate different camera filters.ProjectsSchool ProjectsLogosFlyersWeb BannersT-Shirt Designsand more!Product HighlightsCreate with confidencePower your designs with over 1300 clipart images 14 design templates and over 140 OpenType fonts.Connect to your contentFind graphics templates fonts and images instantly on your computer and selected Websites.Get going quicklyLearn in leaps and bounds with video tutorials tool tips design hints and a full color Getting Started Guide.Design anythingFrom Websites to logos posters to T-shirt designs you can design it all using CorelDRAW Home & Student Suite X5.Product FeaturesDesign and IllustrateQuickly design and illustrate school projects reports and more with intuitive drawing tools.Use live text formatting to quickly choose the right font types and sizes for each design.Tra

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

109 of 118 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars CorelDraw X5 Home & Student Version Missing Features January 30, 2011

By Gary L. Spadin

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Beware! The CorelDraw X5 Home & Student version is missing features found in the regular version. A feature I used in CorelDraw X3 is the Print function for guttering, fold marks, and crop marks for card making. These are missing from the H & S version. The Help feature does not account for this and asks you to use features that do not exist in H & S. I did not explore what else is missing. Corel should fess up and provide a feature comparison sheet to show what features are not available in the H & S and Educational versions.

70 of 79 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent toolset for non-commercial users November 25, 2010

By Matthew K. Morgan TOP 500 REVIEWERVINE™ VOICE

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CorelDraw has for years been the Gold Standard when it comes to computer drawing and drafting and X5 is Corel's latest offering in the line. The last version of CorelDraw I used was version 4.0 (a LONG time ago) so I was eager to see how it had changed. My experience with it has been a positive one and I learned a few things along the way.

There are two main applications in the suite as well as other supporting apps; I will talk mainly about these two applications - CorelDraw itself and Corel PhotoPaint.

This particular version is the Home and Student version, which has few restrictions on the application but has clear wording in the licensing that preclude it from commercial use. It is not meant to be used for corporate gain; it is meant as a learning tool for students, a productivity tool for home users and an affordable solution for volunteer work. In my case this is an excellent option. If you need CorelDraw for commercial use, you must purchase a commercial license. Unfortunately, there is no option to upgrade the license that I could find, so there is no upgrade path. Keep this in mind.

Installation was straightforward and painless though it took a good deal of time. I selected the Custom installation and told the program to load everything, and the installation took roughly 15-20 minutes from start to finish. Considering the sheer size of what was written to the drive - over 5 GB of stuff - this seems like a reasonable length of time. Curiously, after the installation completed the desktop icons did not show up until after I rebooted the system.

The first launch of the flagship application in the suite, CorelDraw, took quite a bit of time to load, maybe 30 seconds before anything appeared on screen.... (This is on a reasonably equipped system so this seemed a little unusual.) After the initial launch subsequent starts have been much more responsive.

Upon launch CorelDraw presents a quickstart screen which provides some information, access to different tools and recent documents and a gallery viewer too. Opening a new, plain document presents an empty canvas; opening a new document from a template presents a gallery of premade, professional-looking templates for project quick-start which are very handy.

When a new document is opened (either by template or just blank) the user is presented a canvas with access to several drawing tools and effects. It is a simple click of the mouse to change the active tool to free-hand drawing with a pen, adding shapes and shading, select and moving elements and much more. There is a bar of tool buttons along the left side of the canvas, as well as along the top of the client area. A thin band of tools runs across the bottom of the client area and a flyout hint tab adorns the right. All that said, the screen is not nearly as busy as you'd suspect, and everything is available without undue clutter on the desktop. Corel did a very nice job of designing their interface to maximize productivity without getting in the way.

I have a tablet wired to my computer so I was interested in using it to do some drawing and sketching. I found a place in the tools menu that allowed me to configure my tablet with CorelDraw and even was able to see that it recognizes pressure differences in the way I hold my pen, but once configured I have been unable to find any distinguishable difference (on-screen) between using my pen/tablet and using my mouse. The help files provide precious little to explain where a tablet adds anything to the drawing experience within the application. I hope this is just a case of me not looking hard enough...

CorelDraw has a very large set of filters and effects that can be applied to a document, such as blurs, lens effects and more. Many of these are context-sensitive and will not work unless the document is first converted to a bitmap, though this is a mouse-click away.

Comparing CorelDraw and Corel Painter, CorelDraw is geared more toward the jack-of-all-trades type of work and is more technical in nature while Painter is very definitely an artist's tool. The same end results are possible with either program but the route to get there is different. If looking for a true artist's canvas on the computer, Painter may be a better fit.

The other primary tool in the suite, PhotoPaint, is an industrial strength photo editing tool.

When launching PhotoPaint, just like CorelDraw the application presents the user with a quickstart screen with the same available options. If you select opening a new document you get a blank image that you can manipulate which at first seems a little silly but it is helpful for capturing images via cut and paste. Of course, you can open an existing photo as well, which is likely what most users will want with this application.

PhotoPaint has a good number of effect and filters for manipulating an image, some of which are artistic effect and others are geared more toward touch-up and editing. The very best feature of PhotoPaint relates to the filters in that any effect applies in a preview window so that you can see the result before committing the change to the main image. Of course there is undo should something undesired gets applied... There are enough filters and effects that it is likely you'll find anything you'll need in PhotoPaint for manipulating images to the desired end result.

Pairing CorelDraw and PhotoPaint together gives the creative individual tremendous power and flexibility in creating astounding artwork with professional results.

Corel has put together a very nice package with two professional-grade applications for creating and manipulating digital images and documents. So far I haven't found any obvious flaws that make using the applications less pleasant or easy, and I can recommend this package for the budget-minded individual who needs the power for non-commercial work. Read more ›

19 of 20 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars Bait and switch December 19, 2011

By Cynthia Zibelin

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I was so excited to see a home version of this software. It doesn't state anywhere that its a stripped down version of the software. There are features missing. I have only had it a few days and haven't even done one project in it yet. I bought to use with a third party plugin/app. Corel disabled macros and vba, so you can't make your own macroa, nor can you use anyone elses. NOWHERE DOES IT STATE THIS. I am wondering what else they left out. Even the help section of their software doesn't mention this. I had to search the web to find out. I have since read elsewhere other features are missing. This should be called coreldraw lite, not home and student. It should clearly state this in any advertisements/listing etc. The help file should be revised to note this as this version doesn't even have functions mentioned in its own help file. VERY MISLEADING description. This IS NOT A HOME version of CorelDraw, but a stripped down "LITE" version. BEWARE of what you are purchasing. VERY DISSATISFIED!!

19 of 21 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars CorelDRAW Suite X5: Home and Student December 14, 2010

By P. Bergbauer VINE™ VOICE

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Length: 3:28 Mins

This program took some time to get used to as it was very frustrating for me starting out. However, as I became more familiar with the program and while using the tutorials as guides, I became more comfortable with each tool and application. There are also helpful hints on the right hand side for whichever tool you have selected. Also, if you use a bamboo tablet, it is compatible with these programs. This disk also comes with Corel CAPTURE X5, Corel CONNECT, Corel PHOTO-PAINT X5, and Corel DRAW X5.

Corel DRAW X5: The pattern-fill is helpful for backgrounds and such. However you may have some trouble with it. For example, if you try to color an area in, it might color more then you want. Check your outlines to make sure they are connected to prevent that from happening. I included pattern-fill in the video. The templates they give you are pretty nice but honestly aren't useful to me. They're good if you own some sort of business because they are flyers, menus, newsletters, postcards, business cards, etc.

PHOTO-PAINT X5: Is pretty good for editing photos, You can use it for cropping, removing red eye, adding text, and (my personal favorites) the image sprayer and the swirl tool. I display this in the accompanying video. This program was probably the most fun to play around with. You can also cut out backgrounds with the erase tool and replace it with the background you want, or you can edit the background with effects and put it back with the image.

Corel CONNECT: This program will let you search for clip art and view what others have created using the programs. You can bring them into Corel PHOTO-PAINT X5, and Corel DRAW X5.

Corel CAPTURE: This program has no tutorials to help you.... It takes a picture of what you did and then you can move it to Corel Photo-PAINT.

Video tutorials: Although helpful, they can be quite buggy. They sometimes turn fuzzy and weird, blocky lines will appear everywhere. Also, the Corel programs will blur depending on the program that was open when you started to watch the tutorials. If you restart your computer everything will go back to normal, though.
As a novice artist, I feel that the program is well done and has many tools that I will utilize. The more I use it, the more I find that I can do with it. For other people looking for software to start an art hobby, if you are a beginner, (i.e. with no other graphics software) then you should be prepared to spend a lot of time with this software. It takes a while to get familiar with the tools. If you're an intermediate user, and/or have used other graphics software programs then this should be easier to master. Read more ›