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It may not always be known by all users that Corel is the owner of the Winzip program. Every user has to deal with compressed files like ZIP files on a very regular basis. Simple tools are built into Windows for working with ZIP files, but it doesn't cover the wide variety of compressed formats that...
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When I've taken pictures of friends, they've often asked if I could fix this or that. Sure, I can fix it, but those fixes are typically time consuming and I'm not willing to spend the time for simple snapshots. Now there is an inexpensive tool that makes such changes as easy as one-click...
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I've been a big fan of Bibble Pro for a number of years. More recently, I wrote about it last January . For users who need to process RAW files, it is very powerful and insanely fast. Earlier today, Jeff Stephens of Bibble Labs made the shocking announcement that Corel purchased Bibble Labs some...
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As I talk to designers, it seems like the Holy Grail is a tool that will just do what you want in one click. I'm not sure that it will ever be that easy, but Design Base Automation Plug-in for CorelDRAW X3-X5 certainly makes things a lot easier. When you launch it, you get a dialog box similar to...
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All of your software has a Windows Control Menu associated with it. It typically includes options like Close, Maximize, Move, Size, Minimize, etc. All useful choices, but it is somewhat limited. PowerMenu adds even more choices including Priority, Transparency, Always On Top and Minimize To Tray. Note...
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Not too long ago I got a question from a loyal reader asking for an easy way to downsample a batch of images to a specified size. This can certainly be done in Corel PHOTO-PAINT and is a task I describe in Corel PHOTO-PAINT X5 Unleashed . In fact, I provide the scripts necessary to do it. It can also...
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One of the best features of CorelDRAW is all the customization you can do. Yet there is one customization that isn't possible in any program and that is the ability to change the size of all dialog boxes. The programmer makes the decision about which dialog boxes can be resized and which ones are...
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One of the tasks that users inevitably do on a regular basis is copying files. Windows has built-in features for the task, but they are far from optimal. Have you ever set up a copy of thousands of files across many folders only to find that one bad file stopped the copy at some unknown position in the...
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Macro authors must be working on some really cool projects as there haven't been as many new releases recently. Since there aren't any new macros to write about, I'm going to deviate a bit today and talk about scanning software. When you buy a scanner, it typically comes with software for...
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Most users have Adobe Reader installed on their computers as a way to read PDF file. You may have noticed that it is updated quite often to patch various security holes. The worst thing is that users rarely use the features that allow the holes to appear in the first place. If you simply want software...
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Just in case you are reading this well after the original posting, the deal I'm going to describe expires on November 24, 2011. Whew, that should save me a lot of questions some time in the future. I've written about Xara Photo & Graphic Designer in the past. Most recently I wrote about Xara...
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I loved it when CorelDRAW X5 gave us eyedroppers in almost every place you need to choose colors. Yet there are times I'm working in other programs and need to select a color. Color Cop allows you to select colors from anything you can see on screen. It will give you both the RGB and Hex values for...
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How often do you backup your computer? Are you one of the users who blindly depend on auto-save and make backup on save functions in CorelDRAW? If you answered yes to the latter, you are skating on thin ice. And if your answer to the former was "I'm not sure" then you need to come up with...
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Ever since I first saw Corel Painter , I thought it was really cool how a photo could be turned into a painting. When I first saw Painter (it was made by Fractal Design back then), it was many years before digital photography came on the scene. That was also long before it was commonplace to work with...
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If anyone sees my desk, they would think I'm not very organized. I agree that it typically has a pile of stuff on it. Part of that is a series of sticky notes to remind me of some tidbit of information. Now I need to think a little bit differently and I need to shift those sticky notes to my computer...