It costs $20.99 per month, and the Creative Cloud All Apps subscription is $52.99 per month. (Opens in a new window) Read Our Inkscape Reviewįor comparison, Adobe Illustrator is only available via subscription. With its biggest competitor, Adobe Illustrator, having a significant foothold among the professional graphic design crowd, Corel is working to share the market space more evenly by making sure it sports modern requirements like facilitated centralized collaboration, expanded compatibility, and subscription-based extras.
Formerly the app was only for Windows, but now that it's available to macOS users, its audience is expanding. It’s a global favorite, with predominant appeal to the apparel, garment, and textile industries. Still, Adobe Illustrator remains our Editors' Choice winner for the category, partly because of its powerful integration with other Creative Cloud apps.ĬorelDraw is for vector drawing and editing, as well as layout. For a graphics program primarily geared toward the non-designer production industry and Windows-based graphic artists, it packs some pro-level features along with its touted accessibility and ease of use.
In fact, the software has some features Illustrator can't match-at least, not without the addition of purchased plug-ins or extra steps. That's why we were surprised at how easily CorelDraw turned our Illustrator-biased heads. When it comes to graphics software, Adobe is typically the name to beat.
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She openly admits she never touched Corel in the past as she was told by all her 'Adobe' using pals that your not a pro unless you use Abode products. So much faster that she (my freelancer) is now learning X6 as she is so impressed with it. When we have free downtime, we pick an image or object and race to draw the same thing in Illustrator vs X6.
however, the speed with which I can create a layout or illustration in X6 compared to her working in CS6 is so much faster. I also have CS6 as I thought I might need it when collaborating on other projects with another freelancer I work with regularly. the original 3!) and have also used Adobe products from time to time.