Re: CD12 for brochures?

On 23 Jul 2005 10:50:06 -0700, "peter" <plaz987@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>I need to start designing some color brochures, newsletters, etc. I
>have some experience with CorelDraw, much more than Photoshop. Does
>CorelDraw have all the tools I need to design these brochures
>efficiently, or am I better off learning Photoshop? I will have to do
>some phote editing, but I can do this in Photoshop and then import it
>to into Corel.
>

As you cannot answer the question yourself, your experience must be
quite limited. For starters CorelDraw and Photoshop are not
comparable packages. Draw is vector graphics, Photoshop is bitmaps.

The Corel/Adobe equivalents would be:
Draw....Illustrator
Photopaint....Photoshop

The basic answer is that CorelDraw plus Photopaint can do just about
anything you can imagine. From the projects you describe, you are
probably going to be working mostly with Draw and just using
Photopaint for pictures and such.

If you are going to get the end products professionally printed you
may need to check to see what formats your printer expects. Some of
the professionals posting here may be able to comment on that.

When it comes to efficiency and customizing, Corel has been ahead, but
I can't vouch for the current versions. That may not be applicable to
you anyway. Photopaint/Draw are highly customizable for efficient
editing but you clearly do not have a well-oiled custom setup in
place.

Starman*
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