Does Anyone Else Use Corel Draw for Web Design?

[Cullen]

Hello,

I was curious if anyone else has used Corel Draw for web design & graphics. I use Draw in combination with Photoshop to optimize my graphics.

Post your links if you have any. Here are a few of mine:

http://www.theimagenetwork.com

http://www.gravitygraphics.net

Cullen Cox
cullenc3@aol.com
Graphic Artist/Web Designer.

 

[rycamor]

I use CorelDraw in combination with Corel PhotoPaint. In 5 years of doing web design (including some large projects), I never felt the need to use Photoshop. I think PhotoPaint's "Object/Layer" method is better suited for web graphics than Photoshop's layer method. I can create a whole page in one Photopaint file, and then drag the individual graphics out to be saved as separate files. Also, up until Photopaint 8 and Photoshop 4, Corel was still ahead of Adobe for image optimization choices for web graphics. (I don't know how it is now for Corel 10 vs Photoshop 5)

I think Photoshop is a more powerful image and photo editing tool over all, but Photopaint wins for web graphics.

 

[Cullen]

Thanx for your reply rycamor. Post some links to your work. We'd love to see'm.

I've been using Photoshop since version 2.5 and when I started using Corel Draw, close to 4 years ago, PhotoPaint was quite different from Photoshop. I never really got the hang of Photopaint. Can Photopaint do "slicing" similar to Image Ready?

Many of the web design firms use Adobe & Macromedia products almost exclusively. And when you're trying to get a job with them you need to know Photoshop.

Cullen Cox
cullenc3@aol.com
Graphic Artist/ Web Designer

 

[rycamor]

I understand completely. I had to fight a few preconceptions when people found out I wasn't using Photoshop. Before I did web design I did print graphics WITHOUT a Mac! The only way I could get away with it was to run my own company, and not tell my clients I wasn't using a Mac. Talk about peer pressure--the Mac people I knew couldn't even believe it was possible, but there I was, without a Mac, and without a Graphic Arts degree, putting some of them to shame. After a few nice projects, some of the Mac-only companies actually hired me to consult.

One of my favorite Web Design projects I did is

http://www.ircc.cc.fl.us,

a 3D website for a community college distance learning system. I used Bryce3D for the 3D campus, but everything else was done in Corel, including editing the Bryce3D images. Stay tuned; in a few months it will have some extensive reworking and add-ons.

I am actually not doing so much web design these days, having moved into web application programming. See StickyWeb at

http://www.mystickyweb.com

for my latest project. It's an interactive GUI to build websites online. I don't consider it finished yet, but we are going to do some major updates in a day or two.

The last Corel version I got was 8, I will be getting 10 soon, and I believe it supports image slicing-to-html. It also lets you export design work to Macromedia Flash format.

And... it also has some other very interesting features, such as a mature macro language. I might even be writing some Corel macros to interface with StickyWeb.

 

[guidobik]

Hi people, since u use corel for the web I hope you know a solution for this problem/bug. I also use corel for linking etc (for pdf in the end but the linking is the same idea, and also had this prob. for the web), but when I have a row of links, when I assign a new link the program automaticly changes my previous link into the same link, or randomly sometime. When I change that link back into what it should be, the other link now also changes into the same link. I don't if this is a bug or a stupid mistake but it is too annoying. This way I can never get a page to be linked right.

Now I'm using cd 10 but I allready encoutered this problem in 9. If anyone could help me out this would really be appreciated! Thnx in advance. (nice website the one above btw)

greets,


Guido

 

[attrofy]

Just from my experiences, I haven't found anything that Photoshop can do that PhotoPaint can't do, and give you more control over it at the same time. This may be ignorance on my part, I don't know. I peronaly cannot grasp the concepts of almost any Adobe product. There is something between the way my brain percieves how an image should work,and the way that Adobe does things, that I can't get the two to meet and produce good results.

I too have given up more than one job opportunity because of the MAC/Adobe peer pressure - especially in print. THere is no swaying some people that superior work can be done on a non-MAC/Adobe, and more importantly, with just one set of tools (Corel).

Am I biased - yeah - a little. But I have seen some really sweet work done with Adobe, so I know it can be done, even if i can't do it.

Russell

 

[viol8ion]

I use PC for all graphic and web design work. I have been in some situations where I wish I had access to a Mac, tho.

I have used CorelDraw for design elements for the Web. I am more familiar with Photoshop, I have been using it since vs3, and get confused on any other app such as photopaint. I do like Fireworks ability to easily preview and save for web, as well as the slice and dice feature. Adobe has a way to go before it makes a web friendly graphics app. I use FW for web graphics primarily, since it includes some vector stuff which was my primary reason for using CD in the past.

And forget Illustrator, I can't figure out how to do simple stuff in it and can't be bothered to learn this late in life. When in doubt, deny all terms and defnitions.

http://www.wuli.com

 

[tjd]

I always use corel draw for web stuff, I'm an old fart and I need something that feels like I'm drawing with a pencil, and then makes intuitive sense for moving stuff about.blending and coloring and the like. So I use a Wacom Intuos pad and Corel Draw for line art and Photopaint for bitmap touchups...but the golden one is Painter 7, if you can actually draw and paint, you'll love it. Oops! I've joined a club that'll have me as a member?

 

[tjd]

Oh Attrofy, let me kiss yr feet! I always slink about feeling like I'm brain damaged because I just CANNOT get my head around what Adobe means with the way it handles layers, vectors and the like,... nothing wrong with the programs, I'm sure, and great work does get done on them... but it is so much cleaner and easier in Corel! Oops! I've joined a club that'll have me as a member?