For the next few days, I’m going to do a series on where Corel Corporation stands today and then I’ll offer a few suggestions on things I feel would benefit the company and their sales.In the last week, Corel mailed their annual report to stockholders....
Foster D. Coburn III
Foster D. Coburn III built his first Web site in 1995 and he has been working exclusively in WordPress since 2013. He has used the Divi theme exclusively since 2015. Earlier in his career he was the author of 13 best-selling books on CorelDRAW and has been a contributor to numerous technology and graphics-related magazines. Foster has taken many projects, including this Web site, from the early design stage through to a finished piece. He has been a featured speaker at many graphics conferences.
I was reading National Geographic recently and came across the story of how the logo for the peace symbol originated. It was a bit of a surprise since I don’t read it to get stories about graphic design. After doing a bit more research, I realized the logo...
Frequently I’ll hear users talk about how they’ve increased the Memory Usage setting (at right) in CorelDRAW’s Tools | Options | Memory dialog box. Supposedly it has improved the performance of CorelDRAW. I hate to break the news to everyone, but it...
A very common vision when you see a software box on the Internet is for that box to be shown in a three dimensional view. Sometimes those images are actual photographs, but it is just as common that the graphic was built from flat pieces. There are a number of ways to...
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 and how they...
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 should read....
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 quite a...
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 version. Sure enough, that...
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 conference. Sunday was the day...
…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...
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 releases on the...
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,...
