Some vital functions'for example, layer operations and magic-wand selections'hide in submenus. For example, in making a gradient shade from light to dark, a clever arrow control can adjust the color, direction and abruptness of change.Corel Photo-Paint, the bitmap-image part of the suite, creates and manipulates complex images such as photographs.It duplicates Photoshop's familiar functions and adds some toys that are not too practical, such as the Image Sprayer that spatters out bright butterflies or sunflowers.

Drawing shapes is easy with the usual pens and brushes plus some neat innovations. A Workspace option can reshuffle toolbars and menus to mimic the Adobe programs, which minimizes the relearning chore for Mac users who switch.CorelDraw is a vector drawing program its files have no set resolution but instead consist of lines, curves and shapes that can be reproduced at any size. AppleGuide tutorials are thorough but time-consuming.

The sheer number of tools, menus and options makes it tough to get started.Complete help files ease the difficulty somewhat. Groups of related tools are difficult to identify without the pop-up tags.Each tool has numerous options crowding the top of the screen for quick access. Simple installation requires about 100M of RAM.The interface for both programs, while striving to keep innumerable tools and palettes at the user's fingertips, sacrifices some clarity. The 56M suite consists of CorelDraw 8.0.3 LE, Corel Photo-Paint 8.0.3 LE and a Service Bureau Profiler. On the Apple Macintosh side, which arguably has more artists, the favorites are Adobe Systems' Illustrator and Photoshop.Corel Corp., aiming to win more of the Macintosh market, has released a free, limited-edition download of CorelDraw and Photo-Paint for Mac users. By Joel SparksSpecial to GCNCorelDraw has long been a favorite illustration program among Microsoft Windows users.

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