Tested with a Wacom Intuos5 pen tablet, the vector tools became more fun and more intuitive to use.

I was able to easily create fluid, organic shapes that looked more like freeform raster creations than vector objects, but still maintained all of the properties and flexibility of the vector format. When tested with a trackball, and they were fun and easy to use. They’re built for pen tablets and respond to pen pressure. Each of these lets you morph vector shapes in interesting ways. It’s my favorite new feature.ĬorelDRAW X6 also introduces four creative vector tools: Smear, Twirl, Attract, and Repel. This means you can change the color palette for an entire composition in seconds. Better yet, you can group colors into harmonies, and change an entire group of colors together, while maintaining their relative contrast levels. Not a huge change, but it does help usability.Ĭolor styles and harmonies make it possible to quickly change fill and outline colors across an entire composition at once.A more major upgrade is CorelDRAW X6’s introduction of color styles: These make it possible to change fill and outline colors for several objects at once, even if they are not grouped or linked in any other way. CorelDRAW X6 maintains the tabs on top (great for muscle memory), but when you click a tab, it just scrolls down to where the properties group sits in the new, all-in-one bar. Previous CorelDRAW versions arranged object properties (Fill, Outline, corner radius, etc.) as separate tabs, which sometimes made navigation cumbersome. The Object Properties docker now shows all properties in one long list, subdivided into sections. New and improved CorelDRAW features in X6 include a better Object Properties bar, a new styles engine and docker, color styles and harmonies, and improved OpenType and layout features. But for most people, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite basically means just one program: CorelDRAW. But CorelDRAW is not the only component improved for this release: The suite’s raster editor, Photo-Paint, also received several interesting new features.ĬorelDRAW’s new morphing tools make it easy to stretch and distort vector shapes in organic ways.The entire CorelDRAW X6 suite includes Bitstream Font Navigator for managing fonts, Corel CAPTURE for taking screenshots, Corel CONNECT for managing digital assets (like Adobe Bridge), Corel Photo-Paint for creating and editing raster graphics, and now Corel Website Creator (as an optional download). CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X6 is the latest iteration of Corel’s powerful graphics suite, and adds several compelling features to its keystone component, the CorelDRAW vector graphics editor (a.k.a.

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