Customer Reviews for CorelDRAW Essentials for Windows, 1 User [Download]
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CorelDRAW Essentials for Windows, 1 User [Download] is In-store only
Item # : 24610443
Model # : CORK1Z800F151
- This feature-packed vector illustration and photo editing software is your go-to solution for quickly and confidently creating posters, cards, calendars, social media images, and more
- Operating system: Windows
Price is $129.99
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9 reviews
Most helpful positive review
Posted Jul 11, 2024
CorelDraw Essentials - Pay once, own forever. A good value if you have realistic expectations.
I purchased this software a few weeks ago and have had the opportunity to create a few designs since that purchase. I had read mixed reviews about how pared down Essentials is as compared to the full suite. I used to be a graphic designer and compared to CorelDraw 12 (current version when I retired) I find tweaks to tools I used to use that are improved in Essentials. I...
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Posted Oct 3, 2024
Les Miserables
If, sadly, you find yourself in the market for this particular program, don’t buy this version. Don’t do it. It’s junk. Any previous version is better. (And seriously think about giving some non-Corel product a try... Libre has a draw program and GIMP’s image editing program is free, too.)
Start with the Internet Archive (or something like it) and look for the 1995 ver...
Start with the Internet Archive (or something like it) and look for the 1995 ver...
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Posted Oct 3, 2024
Les Miserables
If, sadly, you find yourself in the market for this particular program, don’t buy this version. Don’t do it. It’s junk. Any previous version is better. (And seriously think about giving some non-Corel product a try... Libre has a draw program and GIMP’s image editing program is free, too.)
Start with the Internet Archive (or something like it) and look for the 1995 ver...
Start with the Internet Archive (or something like it) and look for the 1995 ver...
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Posted Jul 17, 2024
OK Boomer
I've invested more than a thousand dollars in Corel products since the beginning of the century, and it just keeps getting worse and worse. Stripped down products, like this, aren't upgrades. They're expensive marketing tools designed to scam you into spending another few hundred on a 30-year old product that ran outta steam ages ago. Corel is the best symbol of the wo...
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Posted Jul 12, 2024
Not this time
I read Screens62's review (and the others) and decided not to buy this product since I already own another comparable, older Corel product, that I understand to be superior to this “upgrade,” that I intend to use “into perpetuity.” I am not a professional designer and my other laymen friends tell me there are much better products out there than this overpriced and recyc...
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Posted Jul 11, 2024
CorelDraw Essentials - Pay once, own forever. A good value if you have realistic expectations.
I purchased this software a few weeks ago and have had the opportunity to create a few designs since that purchase. I had read mixed reviews about how pared down Essentials is as compared to the full suite. I used to be a graphic designer and compared to CorelDraw 12 (current version when I retired) I find tweaks to tools I used to use that are improved in Essentials. I...
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CliveC98
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Posted Jul 1, 2024
The makers should be ashamed
This product doesn’t work if you don’t register it and create an account before installing it. It has changed substantially from previous versions; it’s gotten worse. The standalone PhotoPaint 8 version (from the 1990s), for example, was fully functional and could do more than this version does. Every new “basic” version strips away functions from previous “basic” versi...
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Ed B
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Posted Jun 30, 2024
Hasn't changed much but it has changed
Over the years I have used CorelDraw. Really this hasn't changed much over the years. Very similar interface. If you just need this for a basic thing such as a sign or something more complicated.
Note that the installation requires good Internet access. You should probably create a Corel account before installing.
Note that the installation requires good Internet access. You should probably create a Corel account before installing.
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Posted Jun 24, 2024
Worse than 1995 version
It’s my fault: I should have known better than to put any more faith in a company and product that’s been going downhill for years. Half a dozen versions of this thing since the mid-1990s and every one of them worse than the one before. Especially considering the availability of monumentally superior products like “GIMP” available for free online anyone, like me, paying...
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Posted Jun 24, 2024
Buy a pencil instead
Don’t bother with anything Corel. Each update of its products is worse than the last version. This one, for example, offers zero effects, zero opportunity to modify the interface, and worse than zero improvements from previous versions (and zero is its score). It is a downgrade from a downgrade from a downgrade. MS Paint, an etch-a-sketch, and pen and paper are better p...
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