Built-in tracing and improved drawing, formatting and colour correction make X3 the best CorelDRAW upgrade in years.

COREL DESIGNER 10

A simplified interface, strong photo-to-art Focus and the low price make painter essentials a great buy.

New realism for bristled brushes and automatic painting that approaches manual quality give Painter X an edge.

For a new release, Snapfire already looks old-fashioned and unexciting, but at least the basic version is free.

Improved handling of templates, tracing, text and layers along with new table support, but ultimately X4 disappoints

A powerful high-end suite with a lot of potential. Make sure you have a high-end system to run it as the listed system requirements are very optimistic.

Painter 7 is a digital painting application that simulates the realistic subtleties of an artist's style using natural media, such as water colours, inks, oil paints, coloured pencils, felt pens, chalks, pastels, and more.

Moving in the right direction, but it isn’t easy teaching an old dog new tricks.

Update to the natural paint program

Throughout its long and chequered career – first under MetaCreations, then Procreate and now Corel – Painter has always stood out as the artistic and creative computer application bar none. The reason is simple: Painter's unique range of natural media brushes.

Corel application positioned as independent third road.

Alternative commercial office suite

The first OS to make a serious effort at an easy, integrated Linux to rival Windows was the now defunct Corel LinuxOS.

Commercial image editing suite

Organise and edit digital photos and images

Word processor & note taking software

Manage and share your photos

Word processor & note taking software

Organise and edit digital photos