Corel Corporation today unveiled a home and student version of its award-winning flagship product, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X5. This software suite includes CorelDRAW X5, Corel Photo-Paint X5, Corel PowerTRACE, Corel Capture, Corel Connect and PhotoZoom Pro 2. Priced at £99, CorelDRAW Home & Student Suite X5 can be installed on up to 3 computers per household. Boxed versions are available at leading retailers throughout Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Corel Press Release

Corel Introduces CorelDRAW® Home & Student Suite X5

Award-Winning Graphic Design Software For Home Use at an Outstanding Price

Maidenhead, UK – 6 September, 2010– Corel Corporation today unveiled a home and student version of its award-winning flagship product, CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite X5. Priced at just £99 including VAT and for installation on up to three PCs per household, CorelDRAW Home & Student Suite X5 is excellent value, providing all the tools user need to create amazing designs or layouts for home or school projects. The new graphics suite is loaded with tools for creating everything from web graphics and T-shirt designs, to logos, cards, posters and flyers.

Thanks to the extensive collection of content included in the Home & Student Suite, users can easily explore their creative ideas and turn them into amazing results. Included are 1,300 clipart images, 14 design templates and over 140 OpenType® fonts. The new built-in content search tool Corel® CONNECT™ allows users to find graphics, templates, fonts and images on their desktops and selected websites. Moreover, the suite incorporates new photo effects, such as Vibrance to boost colour intensity, and Photo Filter to simulate different camera filters. Last but not least, users can get web graphics right the first time with the new Pixel view mode and Export for Web dialogue box. The software includes a printed full-colour Getting Started Guide plus two hours of training videos to get started easily and fast.

CorelDRAW Home & Student Suite X5 includes following main applications:

·      CorelDRAW® X5: an intuitive vector-illustration and page-layout application
·      Corel® PHOTO-PAINT™ X5: a professional image-editing application
·      Corel® PowerTRACE®: a utility to quickly and accurately convert bitmaps into editable vector graphics
·      Corel CAPTURE™: a one-click screen capture utility
·      Corel® CONNECT™: find graphics, templates, fonts and images instantly on your computer and selected websites with a built-in content search tool
·      PhotoZoom Pro 2: a plug-in that preserves photo quality when enlarging digital images in Corel® PHOTO-PAINT™ (registration required)

Pricing and Availability

CorelDRAW Home & Student Suite X5 is now available at a suggested retail price (SRP) of £99 including VAT. Boxed versions are available at leading retailers throughout Europe, Middle East and Africa. CorelDRAW Home & Student Suite X5 is available in English, German, French, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Russian and Czech. The use of the software is for personal, non-commercial purposes only.

For more information about CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X5, please visit www.corel.com/coreldraw.

To learn more about how CorelDRAW Graphics Suite is used worldwide, please visit the product’s community site at http://coreldraw.com.

About Corel Corporation

Corel is one of the world’s top software companies with more than 100 million active users in over 75 countries. We develop software that helps people express their ideas and share their stories in more exciting, creative and persuasive ways. Through the years, we’ve built a reputation for delivering innovative, trusted products that are easy to learn and use, helping people achieve new levels of productivity. The industry has responded with hundreds of awards for software innovation, design and value.

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