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hershy314

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Stopped by a local Graphic Design place today and talked with them. I was telling them that I'm a Graphic Design student and was looking to get some experience. Turns out they was looking for help, just waiting on a call from the owner. If I get I will have to learn a new program, Corel Draw X6. They don't use photoshop too often. I did find a trial version of X6, so going to play with it and get used to it. Anyone here used Corel Draw X6?
 
If you have experience with Illustrator, Dreamweaver and Photoshop, you should have no problems learning the Corel Draw suite of tools.

Good luck!
 
In the early 1990s , I simultaneously used both PS and something called "Picture Publisher" from a company called MicroGraphics. PP was quite good, and in some ways, surpassed PS in that time frame.

However, when Corel assimilated Micrographics, specifically, their "Picture Publisher" and "Designer" products, I wasn't too happy with the "new improved product" from Corel and moved exclusively to Photoshop. I haven't looked at Corel products recently. Perhaps they have improved. However, if you don't like Corel's current answer to PS, perhaps you can argue the case that PS, not Corel, is the industry standard and they should really think about either completely switching over, or at least having PS capabilities in house.

Then, as I have deviously planned, you can become their resident expert in PS and bring in the big $$$. LOL.

T
 
I'm going to give Corel Draw a chance. If I can use PS more than CD than all the better. They showed me photo of the latest project they did, which was a cop car they put graphics on. Asked me if I could duplicate the image, I was like with out a doubt.
 
Dreamweaver is a web design app. You can build and manage html, CSS and javascript files, among others. I prefer it over any of the Microsoft tools.
 
I use Corel Draw. A very versatile , vector application.

One thing I like about it is that I find the pen and shape tools are easier to handle than PS's. No offense, guys.... that's just me... :cheesygrin:.

Judging from what you say the company does, you need to acquaint yourself with at least 3 of its core components - Draw , Paint and Trace. To give a nutshell run-through ....

Draw - This is the Main application for vector drawings and creating layouts for just about anything printed. Almost all my logo, brochure and magazine layout designs are done in Corel Draw. It features the use of layers much like what we have in PS. You can import jpg and even layered psds into your page layout and can convert them to bitmap. You can export CDR works into Photoshop. Bit-mapped images can be exported to...

Trace - As the name implies, the application traces your images creating a vector version. Depending on the settings you apply, you can get a rough or 95% accurate vector trace of any image. Imported back to Draw, you can edit this vector copy even further. I must warn you tho - that's a whole lot of nodes anchor points and shapes to work with most especially if you select full accuracy trace.

Paint - This would be the Corel version of Photoshop. Not as versatile as the forum's favorite weapon but it does almost what PS can do. Draw and Paint has filters that are familiar to you in Photoshop. More like water-downed versions.

In the event you are called upon to do Web designs, there's Corel Website Creator which is part of the 8 program Suite. I've launched it once before but I haven't really delved into it so there's nothing much I can say at this point.... lol .

This workhorse can be a bit RAM intensive most especially if creating complex images or multi paged magazines layouts with amounts of images. But for practicing, I'm sure your cpu can take it.

I do hope you get the job. Good Luck.

If you need help on CDR, give a holler.
 
Tom Mann said:
In the early 1990s , I simultaneously used both PS and something called "Picture Publisher" from a company called MicroGraphics. PP was quite good, and in some ways, surpassed PS in that time frame.

However, when Corel assimilated Micrographics, specifically, their "Picture Publisher" and "Designer" products, I wasn't too happy with the "new improved product" from Corel and moved exclusively to Photoshop. I haven't looked at Corel products recently. Perhaps they have improved. However, if you don't like Corel's current answer to PS, perhaps you can argue the case that PS, not Corel, is the industry standard and they should really think about either completely switching over, or at least having PS capabilities in house.

Then, as I have deviously planned, you can become their resident expert in PS and bring in the big $$$. LOL.

T
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Being in the business for 20 years, there's no harm in learning other design applications. Comes in handy when the need arises.

Except for Picture Publisher and the Designer range (the pits range, I call it) , the Corel Draw range has improved immensely. Actually, the entire generatons of Corel Draw is excellent, grew in strength to strength. . Tho there's a quirk - what we call the "odd and even release quirks of an application" .

The Corel releases in the odd numbers (1, 3, 5, ... ) turned out to be the best in its time. Whereas the even numbered ones (2,4,6 .... ) were the lousy ones.

Same as with Photoshop but the other way around.... the even numbered versions were the best while the odds had a lot of quirks... lol.

You speak of early '90s that would mean PS3? That version needed a lot of fixes and updates if I remember correctly. Which is why Picture Publisher took the lead momentarily.


uhhhhhh..... I hope I got that right for both apps ... odds and evens.... having a dementia moment right now it looks...... :confused:
 
I don't know what kind of computers they have, I know they are windows based. Kind of odd that they don't have apple, just cause that seems to be the preferred computer for this type of stuff. I downloaded a trial version of Corel Draw X6. I got Capture, Connect, Photo Paint, Draw and Duplexing Wizzard. Hopefully I can tinker with these programs soon, but right now got school work to concentrate on. Probably wont hear anything til Monday, closed on the weekends.
 
Good question there HPN.

Good luck Hershy. No matter what happens, it's good to learn other graphics programs. You never know when you might need one versus the other.
 
Learning something new is always a good thing. So far Corel Draw is a bit foreign at this moment, then again I've spent about 5 minutes with it. Photoshop was the same way when I first started with it, but now it's a bit easier to use. Who knows, Corel Draw maybe the same way.
 
It shouldn't be that hard. The tool menu bares a bit of resemblace to PS's.

The shortcuts slightly differ from PS. This may cause you to use PS one's in place of Corel's or vice versa. Happens to me sometimes most especially when I have both of them loaded and I have to shift from one to the other.
 
I just talked to the owner of this place, and he wants to talk to me. I gave him a link to my dievantart page and he liked what he saw. Hopefully this leads to a job, we will see :)
 
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