Set up and start smoothly

Get a jump-start on your projects with an array of built-in learning tools and tutorials, plus start your designs off right with professionally designed templates, quality clipart, royalty-free photos and premium fonts. Whether you’re an accomplished designer or a budding artist, there’s always something new to learn.

New Features! Corel® CONNECT™ X6
Speed up your workflow with Corel CONNECT, a built-in content search tool that helps you find graphics, templates, fonts and images instantly on your computer.

• New! Multiple trays allow you to work with several trays concurrently; giving you increased flexibility for organizing assets for multiple projects. These time-saving trays will help you efficiently gather content – photos, graphics or bitmap icons – from various folders or online sources, and share them between CorelDRAW, Corel PHOTO-PAINT, and Corel CONNECT.
• New! Search capability allows you to extract images instantly from a client’s web site by simply typing a web address in the Search box. Corel CONNECT immediately gathers all the defined images with an HTML tag from the website. Based on search terms or a folder path, Corel CONNECT can also scour your PC, network, or other online resources for content.

Design with style and creativity

With its rebuilt styles engine new Object Styles docker, new Color Styles implementation, new Color Harmony functionality, and content-ready picture frames, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X6 helps you focus on bringing your unique sense of style and creativity to your designs.

• New! Interactive websites
  With a collection of Asynchronous JavaScript® and XML (AJAX) widgets, Corel Website Creator X6 makes it easy to design websites that feature dynamic user interactivity. You can instantly add customizable page elements, such as accordions, tabbed panels, and toggle panes, which provide a more interactive experience for website visitors.
• New! Integrated web development
  The website workspace supports a wide range of the latest web development technologies, such as RSS feeds, CSS, XHTML, PHP, ASP.NET, ColdFusion®, and JSP. Take advantage of a WYSIWYG design environment that offers the simplicity of wizards along with advanced HTML object and CSS inspectors.
• New! Drag-and-drop web design
  Corel Website Creator X6 provides drag-and-drop design capability. Place images, text, or other page elements exactly where you want them.
• Enhanced! Timeline Editor
  Within the website creator, there is a Timeline Editor that helps you give life to static website content, such as text, photos, graphics, and video. You can easily create sophisticated animations using the familiar drag-and-drop editing environment.

Create layouts with ease

With new and improved Master Layer functionality, new temporary Alignment Guides, new advanced OpenType support, and enhanced complex script support for working with foreign language text, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X6 makes it easier than ever before to lay out your project.

New and Enhanced! Master Layers
Create page-specific designs for your multi-page documents with the new and improved Master Layers. It’s now a breeze to incorporate page-specific headers, footers, and page numbers for brochures or flyers.

New! Alignment Guides
Position objects more quickly with suggested alignments to the existing artwork on your page. The temporary guidelines appear when you create, resize, or move objects in relation to the center or edges of other nearby objects. Plus, the guides interactively connect the centers and the edges of objects.

New! Placeholder Text
Quickly populate any text frame with the new Insert Placeholder Text command, making it easier to view the appearance of your document before finalizing its content. For convenience and flexibility, you can also use custom placeholder text in any language supported by CorelDRAW.

• New! Page numbering
  Instantly add page numbers on all pages of a document, starting on a specific page, or starting with a particular number. Choose from alphabetic, numeric, or roman formats. Display page numbers in lower or uppercase lettering and the numbers are automatically updated when you add or delete pages in your document.
• New! Interactive frames
  Efficiently generate mock-ups of design ideas with interactive frames. The new empty PowerClip and text frame functionality let you populate your designs with placeholder PowerClip and text frames, making it easier to preview a layout before finalizing its individual content components.
• New! Advanced OpenType® support
  A reengineered text engine lets you take advantage of advanced OpenType typography features, letting you choose alternative appearances for individual characters, or glyphs, to suit your stylistic preference, provided that the font supports advanced OpenType.
• Enhanced! Complex script support
  Now it’s easier to work with foreign language text, so you can create layouts that resonate and engage your audience – no matter where they reside.

Interactive table tool
Create and import organized tables to provide a structured framework for text and graphics.

Work faster and more efficiently

From organizing project assets and accessing the suite’s vast collection of content anywhere that you have an internet connection, to more quickly identifying available formatting options and removing unwanted areas in photos, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X6 offers several workflow innovations that help you be more efficient and productive.

• New! Object Properties docker
  The redesigned Object Properties docker offers object-dependent formatting options and properties. By grouping all object settings in one location, this time-saving docker helps you fine-tune your designs faster than ever before.
• New! Native 64-bit support
  Provides full support for 64-bit processors, which lets you work faster than ever before with large files in CorelDRAW and large images in Corel PHOTO-PAINT.
• Enhanced! Corel® PHOTO-PAINT™ X6
  Enrich your photos with a powerful photo editing tool that provides exciting photos effects – such as Vibrance, Grayscale and Photo Filter, plus this editing tool supports RAW format for over 300 types of cameras, giving you improved flexibility and greater artistic control over your final photos.

 

Corel® PHOTO-PAINT™ X6 also includes:

• New! Smart Carver tool – slice away unwanted areas from a photo
• Image Adjustment Lab – adjust and control all photos options in one lab
• Photo Touch-up - remove flaws in images and see the improved photo in real time
• Histogram Feedback - preview changes and instantly compare the results as you adjust image tones, apply effects or process RAW camera files
• Spot Color Channels – create and modify images that contain spot colors
• Cut Out Lab - eliminate pieces of a picture from its background and maintain fine details
• New! Shape tools
  Introducing four additional shaping tools that provide new creative options for refining your vector objects. The new Smear tool lets you shape an object by dragging its outline, the Twirl tool lets you apply twirl effects to objects, and the Attract and Repel tools shape curves by attracting or pushing nodes away.
• New! Freehand Pick tool
  This new tool helps you save time by giving you greater control over object selection and transformation. Especially useful for selecting curved objects and non-linear shapes, the Freehand Pick tool lets you drag a freehand marquee around the objects or shapes you want to select.
• New! Create clip mask
  Apply a clip mask on a group of objects without modifying the individual objects within the group.
• New! Pass through merge mode
  Gain more control when applying a lens or effect to groups in Corel PHOTO-PAINT X6.

Prepare for output with confidence

After putting the finishing touches on your designs, the next step is to output your projects, upload your files to a printer or share your files. CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X6 provides extensive media and file support options so you can literally send your work anywhere.

• Expanded! Application compatibility
  Spread the reach of your projects, knowing your designs will be compatible with the latest versions of Adobe® Illustrator®, Adobe® Photoshop® and Adobe® Acrobat® files.
• Collect for Output option
  Simply gather your project assets—fonts, color profiles, and other file information with the Collect for Output option that makes it a snap to share your work with a print service provider
• File sharing and support Re-purpose and share your creations anywhere with support for more than 100 file formats, including AI, PSD, PDF, JPG, PNG, EPS, TIFF and DOCX
• Export Dialog box
  Use the Export Dialog box to customize color profiles, file types and file sizes for print or web export
• Media options
  Output to a wide variety of media, including signs, flyers, business cards, web banners, websites, print ads, brochures, billboards, digital signs and web graphics and so much more!

Color Management engine

Control color consistency across different media and generate a distinct color palette for each document. The Color Management engine introduces greater color accuracy, plus support for new color profiles from PANTONE®. Minimize your ecological footprint and reduce costly reprints by knowing that your colors are accurate before you print.

• Custom Color Palettes - access previously used colors in order to create and save for a new design
• Primary Color Mode - control the default color mode of a document on export, including the default palette colors (RGB or CMYK)
• Document Color Settings - adjust color settings that apply only to the current document
• PANTONE Color Profiles - view accurate, step-by-step color representation with the latest color profiles from PANTONE, including Fashion+Home and the PANTONE® Goe™ system
• Hex Color Support - choose colors by using their hexadecimal (hex) value and view hex color values from multiple locations

CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X6 is your trusted graphic design software.