CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 2021

Paint, photo and vector graphics suite

- Howard Oakley

£599 (or £24.92 per month/£299 per year) FROM Corel Corporation, corel.com NEEDS macOS 10.15 or later

Whether you’re painting pixels, developing digital images or fairing Béziers, you’re spoilt for choice of apps. CorelDRAW is justly popular on Windows, but hasn’t yet become as widely adopted on macOS. This year’s version adds a host of new features from perspective projection to cross-platform remote working, but most of all is aiming to make a name for itself on M1 Macs.

It’s centred on two major apps: CorelDRAW is intended for vector illustration and page layout, while Corel Photo-Paint handles image editing and pixel-based painting. There’s also AfterShot 3 HDR which is a Raw image editor and HDR generator, the only component which doesn’t yet run native on M1 models, and Corel Font Manager for font exploration and management. Remote working is accomplished by the CorelDRAW. app accessed through a browser, and CorelDRAW.app for iPadOS.