The download version of CorelDRAW Home and Student Suite X7 is a Windows graphic design suite that includes content, graphic design, illustration, page layout, web graphics, and photo-editing features. With these features you can create creative school reports, drawings, visual presentations, flyers, unique logos, business cards, T-shirt designs, and more. You'll also have access to professionally-designed templates and 2 hours of training videos to help you create in confidence.
This version of CorelDRAW Home and Student offers two new pre-defined workspaces and provides the Quick Customize feature to edit your toolbox and property bars to keep everything organized and easily accessible. It also features robust fill capabilities, high DPI, multi-display and touchscreen compatibility, and precise layout tools to help you position objects quickly to other nearby objects. Corel Photo-Paint Home and Student X7 comes with four pressure-sensitive liquid tools, additional camera effects such as Bokeh blur, Time Machine, and more to create more interesting images. This software allows up to three installations per household and offers an online repository through the built-in Content Exchange community to share your creations.
Redesigned, Fully Customizable Interface
Streamlined tools and settings for a natural workflow, so everything is right where you need it, when you need it. Choose between Lite, or the Default workspace and then use the quick customize feature to tailor the toolbox and bars.
Total Control over Fills and Transparency
Fill engine gives complete control over fountain, bitmap pattern and vector pattern fills. Fountain fill abilities, such as elliptical and rectangular fills, control transparency within the individual colors and repeat fills within an object and more.
Character Tools
Redesigned Insert Character docker automatically shows you all the characters, symbols and glyphs associated with your font, making them easier to find and insert.
Special Effects and Photo Editing
Four new pressure-sensitive Liquid tools: Smear, Attract, Repel, and Twirl. New camera effects: Bokeh blur, Colorize, Sepia toning, and Time Machine. Supports RAW file support for over 300 types of cameras.
Precise Layout and Drawing Tools
The Alignment Guides help you position objects quickly and suggest alignments to other nearby objects. Outline Position options let you pick whether an outline is positioned inside or outside the object, or an equal combination of both.
Enhanced Vector and Bitmap Pattern Fills
In the Object Properties docker you can now search for, preview, apply and transform both vector pattern and bitmap pattern fills using enhanced controls. You also can save customized fills as the new fill format to use later or share with others.
High-Resolution and Multi-Display Support
Supports high DPI displays so the interface will appear crisp and legible. Undock projects, dockers, and toolbars and drag them outside the application window from one display to another.
Enhanced Compatible File Formats
Support for more than 100 file formats including AI, PSD, PDF, JPG, PNG, SVG, DWG, DXF, EPS, TIFF, DOCX and PPT formats, plus RAW file support for over 300 types of cameras.
Built-in Content Exchange
Online repository that can be accessed using any of the suite's applications to showcase your latest creations.
Learning Materials and Expert Tips
Corel Hints can be accessed within the program; offers an updated library of learning materials such as video tutorials, online Quick Start Guide, webinars and insights from experts.
Royalty-free, Content
1,300 high-quality clipart and digital images, 100 royalty-free high-resolution photos, 125 fonts, 100 fills, 75 photo frames, 100 templates, and more.
Mobile Apps
The free Patterns app for iOS devices creates bitmap patterns from digital photos. The Designs app for Windows 8 offers an easy way to find and share images.
OpenType Options in Dockers
Access the OpenType buttons from within both the Text and the Object Properties docker. All typography choices are centrally located within the CorelDRAW Home & Student and Corel PHOTO-PAINT Home & Student dockers.
Draw and Modify Shapes and Lines with Precision
Using the Object Coordinates docker, you can specify the position, dimensions, angle, and attributes of your object. Instantly see the effects of your adjustments with live preview.
Customize Applications
Modify the appearance of CorelDRAW Home & Student and Corel PHOTO-PAINT Home & on your desktop, including the icon size, menu item, tool, command, feature, or application.
Adjust Brushstroke Transparency and Feathering
Adjust the transparency and feathering with any brush tools.
Polyline Tool
Draw circular arcs quickly and easily with the Polyline tool.
Drawing and Design Tools
Corel provides design tools to create visuals and fine tune subtle detail of your designs.
Photo Editing
Corel PHOTO-PAINT Home & Student X7 offers photo-editing tools and support for PSD files, plus RAW file support for over 300 types of cameras to edit your images.
Built-in Content Organizer
Using Corel CONNECT, the built-in search tool that helps you browse and locate assets, organize and group content by type or project. With version X7, you can sync the trays with Microsoft OneDrive to always have access to your projects.
Complex Script Support
This feature ensures proper typesetting with Asian, as well as Middle Eastern, languages as it modifies text when typing to deliver contextual accuracy.
Creative Vector Shaping Tools
The four shaping tools - Smear, Twirl, Attract, Repel - allow you to refine the vectors by pushing, pulling, smudging, making indents, and more.
Page Layout Tools
Create complex layouts and designs with features such as PowerClip frame, which reserves a place for text and graphics, or Placeholder Text which lets you create a mockup page layout to get a sense of how text will look. Automatic page numbering is also included.
Web Graphics Tools
Pixels mode converts the image and shows how the content will display online and Export Dialog box lets you compare file formats before export.
Easy Bitmap-to-Vector Tracing
The Corel PowerTRACE engine converts bitmap images into high-quality vectors objects.