The first thing you’ll notice about X3 is the new Hints Panel docked to the right side of the display. The sheer breadth of the suite is remarkable, and its power combined with a helpful, beautifully designed interface makes this program appealing to both professional designers and business users who need to touch up a photo or create a quick brochure. The CDs also contain tutorials and training videos. And, as always, three content CDs sweetens the suite with more than 10,000 images and clip art 1,000 OpenType fonts 35 Windows Glyph List 4 fonts and 100 templates. This Windows-only version ($399 list, $179 upgrade) includes CorelDraw, the flagship drawing application, plus Corel Photo-Paint X3 for image editing Corel PowerTrace X3, a vastly improved bitmap-to-raster converter Corel Capture X3, a screen-capture utility BitStream Font Navigator and Pixmantec RawShooter essentials, a RAW format converter for digital photographers. CorelDraw Graphics Suite X3 breaks from the traditional software version numbering system but continues the tradition of offering unique, innovative solutions to graphics professionals. It was a revolutionary product then, and it’s only gotten better with each iteration. I installed my first copy of CorelDraw 20 years ago.

Corel x3 for windows 10