Is Corel the right tool? And can anyone give me a push?

[mouldingguy]

I have never used a graphics package before. I am trying to create a moulding catalogue which would involve scanning images traced by hand and alos some bitmaps and cleaning them up to represent what the wood mouldings would look like. Occasionally, I would have to modify the drawing to increase its size. Is the Corel Suite the way to go? Any good guides or suggestions?

Thanks for any help.

 

[Pixelchik]

Yes you could do all that with the Corel Suite. Corel Photo Paint for scanning and adjusting photographic images and CorelDraw for layout of your catalogue.

 

[Brushman]

Corel Draw/Paint are ideal tools for sorting photos and illustrations and if your catalogue is not too big then also for putting the final publication together, be aware that Draw does not have some tools that some would consider important for large publications ie tables and better text handling. You may want to consider a different package for putting together, Quark - Ventura - Indesign are well known but very expensive so have a look at Serif's PagePlus at

http://www.serif.com

- all of these would need something like Draw/Paint to work on photos etc. so a combination would be ideal, as I say it does depend on the size of publication and also the version of Draw you use.
Alan