Comments on: Why Ad Agencies Use Illustrator Instead of Corel Draw

By: Roberto Blake

Roberto Blake — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 20:25:23 +0000

Being able to produce a good image in Corel Draw doesn’t make it a superior program. The point was that when a higher level of work is required by designers and agencies Corel doesn’t cut it. Its not just about being able to make one good image, Corel doesn’t have the features the cross compatibility or the range of formats that illustrator does, or the ability to generate bar or pie graphs from excel data. It doesn’t fit into the work flow with InDesign or Photoshop nearly as well, and it also lack many of the features regarding typography, color meshes and 3D text and shapes.

This is even more true in Illustrator CS6 with new features like Gradient on Stroke and Image Trace (replacing Live Trace).

By: neeraj

neeraj — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 11:24:11 +0000

i think coreldraw is much better than illustrator i can prove it by my illustration which i have made in coreldraw you can see them on neeraj2.blogspot.com

By: GRKP

GRKP — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 21:29:14 +0000

I am an Adobe Illustrator but also a Corel user. At my university we learned to do things with corel, but ever since i bought a mac i just had to learn illustrator. My belief is that Ai is a much more powerful program and more professional. Sure you can create professionaly with corel too, but ai in my opinion is way more superior.

At my job we use both illustrator and corel. Everytime we have to work on corel file we just curse! Files take like ages to load, even small ones some times. A lot of times it takes like a year to copy and paste something, and very often the program crushes if your dealing with a big file.

On the other hand Ai almost never crashes, it can handle big files perfectly and just makes your job much easier. Some people say that its a complicated program but this is something i really don’t understand. How can Ai be complicating when you know how to use photoshop, it almost the same in terms of the program UI.

Some of you wrote that ai is the industry standard because of good marketing etc. That might be right but allow me to give you a bit of food for thought, if Ai wasn’t a great program would it still be alive today?

Corel is like Quark, slowly dying because it made no innovations…

By: Rosemary Muntus

Rosemary Muntus — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 16:41:40 +0000

I use both CorelDraw and Illustrator. There are several places where CorelDraw is the better program especially when working with 2D-grids, with pattern making and some special effects but there are other areas where Illustrator is far superior eg live paint, the width tool and the perspective tool

By: Brooklyn Evans

Brooklyn Evans — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 05:51:53 +0000

Adobe Illustrator has more features than its competitors *

By: Jeprie

Jeprie — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:54:48 +0000

I’m don’t use any of those softwares, Illustrator or Corel. However, I use Photoshop a lot and this push me to learn Illustrator and not Corel. I think many people has same reasons with me.

In my place most people use Corel. Illustrator is not so popular here.

By: Jose Perez

Jose Perez — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 06:41:36 +0000

i don’t know with other users but the new version of Adobe illustrator is a bit slower when it loads. *~*

By: Roberto Blake

Roberto Blake — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 21:17:28 +0000

Jasper I love your passion about this topic and was hoping that someone would put forward a good debate, (yes we know one has been going on for years). It’s good to see someone defend Corel Draw from time to time! I used to use it myself very enthusiastically once upon a time. I think the real truth is that users will have a preference and will in the main rationalize most alternatives as “lesser”, I know that I tend to do that and I will admit that it “may” even be “unfair”. That being said though I will say this, the advantage of using any Adobe product is simply a matter of compatibility and better workflows. There are things that other applications that designers and developers use such as Flash, Flash Catalyst, and InDesign that can do things with an Illustator file that it can’t do with another file type in many cases. So on its own Corel may indeed stand up to Illustrator in every way (though I still have my doubts) but as a tool in an arsenal its less practical. There is also the fact that the cost of having Design Standard, which gives you Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign, the cornerstones of any designer toolbox, its more expensive to have say Photoshop, Quark, and Corel Draw. So while we have our preferences, you can’t argue pricing and integration. Though every thing else I will agree was well said.

By: Jasper Greek Lao Golangco

Jasper Greek Lao Golangco — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 16:55:57 +0000

I personaly find a lot of amusement from this whole Coreldraw vs. Illustrator debate.
But i am a Coreldraw user and am a graphic design and advertising professional for the past 16 years (www.mavericktheagency.com), and there is NOTHING Illustrator users do that i cannot. and as a very seasoned Coreldraw user, i often accomplish tasks faster than others in my office who i have allowed to use Illustrator.
While I respect your preference for Illustrator, i think it is quite ignorant of you to label Coreldraw as “consumer grade application,” since the quality of the output of both graphic softwares is entirely dependent on the skills of the user.
I am a professional with over a decade and a half worth of experience, and I use CorelDraw.
“Consumer Grade,” my ass…
c’mon, man…

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 21:39:46 +0000

Let’s be clear here – the ONLY reason Adobe almost has the cornerstone as the industry standard is because they give their software free to all the art schools, so they are in effect brainwashing people to only use their products. While this is genius marketing, it DOES NOT mean their product is better. I have used both and prefer CorelDraw hands down! It’s a much more user-friendly program and everything Illustrator can do, I can do with Corel easier and faster. Corel is not simply a “consumer” software product – it’s a highly comprehensive product that can produce as good as, if not better quality than anything Adobe spews out. And business wise, Adobe will rape you cost-wise when it comes to purchasing licsensing. Everyone that I’ve gotten to use Corel for awhile agrees how much easier and efficient the program is over Illustrator.

By: Harley Marshall

Harley Marshall — Wed, 12 May 2010 17:14:24 +0000

I always use Adobe illustrator at work because i work in an animation studio. this is really a serious tool for the graphic artist.~:;

By: Kuttyjoe

Kuttyjoe — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:49:35 +0000

A very good explanation is simply that Adobe has done better with how they conducted their business. It needs no further explaining than that. Not saying that this is necessarily the case, but I actually believe that is the case. I would also say that I’m getting the idea that Corel has a powerful following in different parts of the world where companies and people are more budget conscious. It makes sense.