Yesterday I talked about the 1,000 True Fans essay. Then I shared the story of how I've put that theory into self-publishing my CorelDRAW Unleashed books. Today I want to share the story of a band who can count me as one of their 1,000 True Fans...
Many of you create some sort of artwork as a way to make a living. If you are not already doing this, you have a desire to make a living from it. I read a really good blog post entitled 1,000 True Fans that anyone creating "artwork" for sale...
One of the things I find somewhat unique about CorelDRAW is the global community of users that I've had the chance to meet online through Compuserve, the Corel newsgroups and the various Web discussion forums. I've even been lucky enough to meet...
I got an e-mail last night from someone asking why they were unable to get the Jigsaw Puzzle Creator add-on to CorelDRAW to work. I noticed that the e-mail came from someone with a .edu e-mail address and asked if he was using the Academic...
This has already been an interesting trip for me. There was the long wait for the Border Patrol while driving to San Diego from Phoenix. Then there was the mixup with my hotel room when I arrived. Luckily, all has gone smoothly with the...
...Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play." OK, I've made one little change to one of the most famous opening line of an album for historical reasons. You see, today is the fortieth anniversary of the release of the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely...
Recently there have been a few users in the CorelDRAW newsgroups asking when Corel will release a native version of CorelDRAW X3 for the Mac. In order to fully explore this question, we need to understand the past success or failure of CorelDRAW...
I often hear people talking about how something is an industry standard. Unfortunately they don't always do a good job of backing up that statement. I'll provide a few examples and then I hope you'll post your thoughts. For this discussion,...
The vast majority of visitors to the Graphics Unleashed Web site use the CorelDRAW Graphics Suite in some way. This had led me to do some research on how people are using CorelDRAW. I know it is used in a wide variety of industries and I want to...
I get asked that question a lot. Peter McCormick was my business partner for several years and also co-authored six CorelDRAW books with me. So it doesn't surprise me that a lot of people ask about him.For the last four years, Pete has worked...
It is funny sometimes how quickly life can turn. Saturday evening I had just finished teaching a Boot Camp and was pretty exhausted. I got an e-mail from my mom telling me that an aunt was having a 75th birthday party the next day and I should...
Today was the first day of another Boot Camp. There were a few interesting things that happened during the day of learning that I wanted to share with you. One of the attendees is a sign maker and uses Signlab in addition to CorelDRAW. His main...
