I’ve told you about this package of clip art before and I want to share it with you again because I feel it has the artwork included that many users want in their design arsenal. Let’s start with sheer numbers, Ultimate Ornaments Mega Pack contains 12,800...
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Those of you who have been using CorelDRAW and Corel PHOTO-PAINT for many users will no doubt recognize the name David Huss. He wrote several books on PHOTO-PAINT and was very active in the Corel community for a number of years. More recently he had turned his...
Why is it that clients think Microsoft Word is a graphics program? I’m not sure we’ll ever get an answer to that question, we just have a find a way to deal with it. A few days ago, Jeff Harrison gave you a solution for getting the graphics out using the...
One thing I’ve really enjoyed about meeting so many CorelDRAW users over the past eighteen years is the opportunity to hear their stories. I learn all about how they use CorelDRAW, but I also learn something about their lives away from the computer. Today I want...
Some users have reported a recent problem when launching CorelDRAW X5 and Corel PHOTO-PAINT X5. It will bring up the error code of 0xC0000005. It seems the problem is caused by the Avast Anti-Virus software installed on those machines. From what I’ve read,...
You’ve taken pictures with your digital camera and they are saved as a JPG on the memory card. You want to edit those photos to enhance them in some way. It is very important that you do NOT save the working files as JPG format. JPG is a lossy format and the...
I know it isn’t always popular when I tell users that there are some things they shouldn’t do in CorelDRAW. High up on my list is trying to create long documents. Back in May, I told you to break up long documents. A side effect of some long documents is...
I’ve seen one question posted over and over since CorelDRAW X5 was released. Users who have always gotten solid black on their output are now getting gray instead and they are frustrated. I won’t try to explain why it is happening as it gets into color...
I ran across a very interesting article on CNET entitled How to self-publish an e-book and wanted to share it with you along with some comments. As an author who has published books with traditional publishers and via self-publishing, I’ve definitely seen both...
I’ve told you about the Car ‘N Truck Vehicle Outline Collection in the past. In short, it contains over 60,000 vehicle templates on four DVDs. It also includes a full year of downloadable updates. For those who need to design vehicle wraps, this is the...
When designers are asked to create a logo, sometimes they go for something incredibly flashy. The client is impressed until it comes time to incorporate their logo into various promotional items. Jeff Harrison did a post recently covering the future requirements you...
Tribal graphics are certainly one of the hottest categories on the market right now. The Vehicle Tribals Mega Pack is loaded with 1650 designs from seven different collections. While the package is designed for those cutting vinyl for vehicle graphics, the designs...