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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.

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

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FreeHand has had a long, distinguished career since its launch 15 years ago, but time has caught up with it. While Macromedia concentrated development on its Web-oriented MX applications, FreeHand was put on the back burner and fell seriously behind its main rivals CorelDRAW (see issue 60, p54) and Adobe Illustrator (see issue 51, p88). So, is this latest release evidence of further decline, or has FreeHand finally risen to the challenge?

Selecting the right photo editing software can be a difficult task, given the number of capabilities offered in today's graphics packages.

It's always a bonus to uncover a shortcut or program enhancement, and here we bring you 100 tips and tricks that we hope will make your computing experience quicker, simpler or more rewarding. All about Image.

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With its improved interface, colour handling, image adjustments and brush-based artistic creativity, DrawPlus moves onto a new level.

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Quad-core makes it powerful and good value at the price. Noise and stability suffer though.

We test three of the latest ultra-portable laptops

Ian Burley walks you through the process of making professional-looking digital pictures with the help of Corels Photo-Paint. Having a super high-resolution digital camera or a fea

New multiple page support and improved text handling, but the program’s main strength remains its underlying speed.

One of the longest running battles in the computer industry has been between open systems and closed proprietary ones. The term closed refers to systems where the standards are set by the manufacturer