#What a Waste of $400
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Dave: Wow! Your experiences with Corel certainly do not match mine. I
have found Corel Draw (version 2.01) to be fantastic at cleaning up scanned
artwork plus much more. Not sure what's going on for you. It did take
awhile for me to figure everything out, but overall I'd say Corel Draw is
much easier to use than other products I've tried.
Also curious…do you have a bike shop, and where? My brother and I own
Chain Reaction Bicycles in Redwood City, CA. –Mike–
I dont own a bike shop. Part of our logo is an artists rendition of an old
stle big wheeled bike but with a high tech video look to it.
Do you real do serious work in Corel? The kind of work whos quality can go
into an add in a National Magazine? Please be honest, i own lots of
software thats fun and like you and others ive taken my computer interest
way past the office.
—-Dave—-
Dave–
Hi, from another Dave.
Yes, Corel can generate professional-quality work. Folks do it all the
time. I'm sure you can see from the answers you've gotten that lots of
folks feel the same way.
But experience and patience are the best teachers. I myself can't generate
some of the greatest work I've seen done with Corel, because I don't have
complete mastery of all the tools yet.
The program is *not* magic, as others have also suggested. Trace simply
provides you with a way to *convert* your bitmap to vectors, as well as
possible; then it's up to you to make the rest happen. You've already
gotten good advice on how to proceed.
Once it's done, the results *are* without the "jaggies" that you get from
bitmaps, regardless of any scaling or distortion you may apply to the new
vector image.
So: YES, the program does what it says; you just have to learn how to do
it. And NO, the program is not a paperweight–in my opinion, the money I
spent on Corel was one of the best software investments I ever made. The
upgrade to 3.0 will be well worth the price to registered users (although
I'll get a better break than some, for having bought the BlockBuster
version at the right time <g>).
But most importantly: a *new* Corel purchaser will now get a simply
astonishing variety of new capabilities in a single package, plus
improvements on all the old ones, even though Corel actually *reduced* the
price of the software.
If that's not good value for your dollar, I don't know what is.
Hope your patience returns, and your logo becomes a beautiful bouquet of
vectors. It's worth it–and it's serious stuff.
–Dave Makulec
Dave…
Thought I'd jump in here.
>>> Do you real do serious work in Corel? The kind of work whos quality
>>> can go into an add in a National Magazine? Please be honest,
YOU BET!!! I'm being real honest – Seriously!! OK? I produce
professional quality ads, brochures, etc. (both color and B & W) on a daily
/ weekly basis… The quality is BETTER than those I was producing a few
years back with traditional methods… (not just my opinion – my clients
pay more money for them too) and I do it in much less time… and I do some
things for about $50 – 75 in hard dollar final film / production costs,
that would otherwise typically cost many HUNDREDS of dollars in camera
work, etc. And even with that, I'll still put my final production work up
against traditional production methods any day of the week. And I'll be
done in half the time too. <smile>
Now, not all of my stuff does end up in national publications <g> – I'm
workin' at it… <grin> (More importantly – they could have.)
Maybe you can tell… I kinda like the program. The fact of the matter
is, CorelDRAW! alone is responsible for over 50% of my gross business
income.
Take a long hard look at its capabilities. You won't be disappointed. Hope
this helps.
The Best to you…
Louie