Adobe Illustrator and Corell Draw - what is better?

I can't make a choice between this two monsters :-((

[red_gorilla]

Hi, I’m newbie at this forum. So I’ve worked at local advertising agency with Corel Draw for last 4 years. Now I’m going to work as a freelancer at the web so i have a following question:
What is better for web-design purposes (certainly Adobe PhotoShop is my choice among raster graphics editors)?

Based on my experience i found that main advantage of Corel Draws is intuitive interface, it's more user friendly.

Main disadvantages: it can't handle large files, problem with work in different colour model(converting RGB to CMYK is awful ), it's doesn't 100% suits for serious print work......

Also i have a little experience with Adobe Illustrator and found that it has not such friendly interface as Corel Draw has.... But as i understand it's industrial standard for now.... so most files from cutomers will go in .ai format.

So what is your choice?

[outrun]

Welcome to webmasterworld.

Ive spoken to a few graphic designers and they had to use Adobe illustrator, but they did there work in CorelDraw and imported there work into Adobe Illustrator, I prefer CorelDraw.

problem with work in different colour model(converting RGB to CMYK is awful ), it's doesn't 100% suits for serious print work......

I had the same problem I just turned Color management off ( or Have color profiles set to none for later versions) for CorelDraw and Corel Photopaint worked for me.

regards,
Mark

[PatrickKerby]

A large factor in the benefits of Illustrator (especially when it comes to web design), Is the fact that much of your work will be done in Photoshop. For obvious reasons, Illustrator and Photoshop work with eachother better than Corel Draw and Photoshop.

Another feature is Illustrator's "Save for web" option, which will ultimately make a big difference in your image optimisation.

I haven't worked with Corel Draw in a few years, so I'm not completley up to date with their capabilities, but Illustrator and Photoshop have many nice features that work in both programs such as clipping paths, masks, etc.

[Hanu]

[hannesschmidt.de...]

[red_gorilla]

I've spoken to a few graphic designers and they had to use Adobe illustrator, but they did there work in CorelDraw and imported there work into Adobe Illustrator, I prefer CorelDraw.

So do I now.... But when we transferring data from Corel Draw to Adobe Illustrator usually we have some problems, we can loose some data.

I just wondering: Does Illustrator has all capabilities that Corel has?

For example i tried to rasterise image clipped in a path to reduce it resolution from 600 dpi to 300 dpi and also to get rid of hidden areas and I met with difficulties.
The rasterised image has size of clipped image, not size of clipping path as i expected.... Also I couldn't change the clipping of image just editing its border as i can do in Corel Draw.
I understand that i newbie in Adobe Illustrator and don't know a lot of different things but when i first used Corel i was able to do this things with out manual....

But i prefer Illustrator for its brilliant quality of exported image and .pdf…..

[red_gorilla]

For obvious reasons, Illustrator and Photoshop work with eachother better than Corel Draw and Photoshop.

That is why I’m thinking of changing vector editor. When you are exporting images and vectors from Corel Draw to Photoshop you should make a lot of tricks to get nice picture:-(.

One more question:
I’m using Illustrator 10 now. What new capabilities has CS?

[red_gorilla]

http://www.hannesschmidt.de/drupal/node/3

This is just opinion of experience Illustrator user about Corel Draw. I just want to here an opinion of designer who deals with Draw and Illustrator on the same level.

[katana_one]

Just my 2 cents -

I use Illustrator 10 on a daily basis to create vector EPS files to send out to the dozens of different vendors my company works with.

We have an old copy of CorelDraw 9 because we have ONE vendor who insists on it. Just one. Most of my headaches are caused by having to convert Illustrator EPS files to CorelDraw files for this single vendor.

I would be a very happy man if I could ditch CorelDraw completely - I hate it.

[Bentler]

Illustrator mo betta. Designed by a publishing software company for publishers-- it's powerful in capability yet sensitive in application.

[red_gorilla]

I've tried to use Illustrator for last 3 days and found that the strongest side of this editor is ideal output. I compared my work prepared for web in Corel and Illustrator - IMHO Illustrator is much better.... It's really - you get what you see.
Anyway the strongest side of Corel is more user frinedly interface.
So after considering all pros and cons i made up my mind to start using Illustrator. I found it more professional.

[Harry]

Here's a related article on Photoshop and Photopaint that I wrote.

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[edited by: Harry at 7:48 pm (utc) on Feb. 11, 2005]

[Harry]

To be fair, I've used both Illustrator and CorelDraw. Illustrator has problem resizing bitmaps and rendering them. Corel Draw has lots of features, such as master pages and multiple page documents which makes it almost a page layout program.

In terms of interface, Illustrator's the best. It's less crowded. Illustrator, feature for feature, comes with less tools. Corel has more and Photopaint is included. It's also cheaper.

However, due to time constraints and requirements when working with lots of graphic professionals and sending stuff to be printed regularly, I'm perfectly willing to drop CD and work exclusively with Illustrator to save some time.

As for CS, there's nothing useful in there. Both programs have matured years ago and new versions at this point only add minimal features. No need to upgrade to CS or CD 12