Individual colours can be moved around the colour wheel, and it's also possible to select multiple or all colours and adjust their hue and saturation en masse. These are shown on the Harmony Editor as a series of dots on a colour wheel, giving an at-a-glance view of the palette of colours used. The Color Styles panel can show all the colours used in an illustration. But apart from the new style-based handling, there really isn’t much here to persuade existing users to upgrade.Corel's late entry into the web-design market struggles to make it out of the gates

Corel was right that style handling was crying out for an overhaul, but X6 is a backwards step for all but the most determined power users.Īfter over two decades there’s no doubt the CorelDraw X6 Graphics Suite provides plenty of vector and bitmap-based creative power, and could serve new users well. It also seems impossible to simply click in a headline to apply heading formatting to the whole paragraph, which is perhaps the one feature most users will be looking for from a style-based system. While there’s real power hidden in here, in each case the implementation is opaque, over-technical and intimidating. The new style-based handling of graphics, text and colour should be the highlight of X6, but there’s a problem. Drag onto the wheel and all colours are updated simultaneously, allowing creative exploration of colour combinations live onscreen. On a Colour Harmonies section of the panel, multiple hues are shown on a colour wheel.

Drag artwork onto the Colour Styles panel and all colours are automatically turned into styles that can be edited throughout the document. CorelDraw X6 also reworks its handling of colour styles.

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