Corel introduces CorelDraw Home & Student Suite X5

It’s that time of year again – certainly in the western hemisphere* the nights are drawing in, the leaves are turning, and children and students are going back to school and college. For schoolchildren and older students alike, a basic digital art suite is becoming as necessary as a new maths set and and bubblegum scented erasers (Yes, you can guess what my family were buying this weekend!). The cost of a new digital art package for your sprogs can often be prohibitive when you add it to new sports kits, uniforms and more, but there is a solution. Home-user and student versions of programs are a great way to get the functionality you need at a lower price, and now Corel has introduced a Home and Student Suite for CorelDraw X5, which retails for just £99.

Thanks to the extensive collection of content included in the Home & Student Suite, users can easily explore their creative ideas and turn them into amazing results. Included are 1,300 clipart images, 14 design templates and over 140 OpenType fonts. The new built-in content search tool Corel CONNECT allows users to find graphics, templates, fonts and images on their desktops and selected websites. Moreover, the suite incorporates new photo effects, such as Vibrance to boost colour intensity, and Photo Filter to simulate different camera filters. Last but not least, users can get web graphics right the first time with the new Pixel view mode and Export for Web dialogue box. The software includes a printed full-colour Getting Started Guide plus two hours of training videos to get started easily and fast.

CorelDRAW Home & Student Suite X5 includes following main applications:

·         CorelDRAW® X5: an intuitive vector-illustration and page-layout application
·         Corel® PHOTO-PAINT™ X5: a professional image-editing application
·         Corel® PowerTRACE®: a utility to quickly and accurately convert bitmaps into editable vector graphics
·         Corel CAPTURE™: a one-click screen capture utility
·         Corel® CONNECT™: find graphics, templates, fonts and images instantly on your computer and selected websites with a built-in content search tool
·         PhotoZoom Pro 2: a plug-in that preserves photo quality when enlarging digital images in Corel® PHOTO-PAINT™ (registration required)

This is a great value home user and student solution for creating posters, infographics and much more. It’s available boxed from all good software retailers or online from www.corel.com.

*If you’re not in the western hemisphere and are enjoying glorious summer right now, send us some pics to cheer us up!