Adobe Illustrator VS CorelDraw

In this video we'll help you decide which software is worth investing in between Adobe Illustrator and CorelDraw.
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00:00 intro
00:25 Software overview
01:58 Interface
03:23 Tools and workflow
06:08 Learning curve
07:46 Final verdict
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[@SinkHoIe]

As a professional user for both i can say that Corel Draw is faster when making mock-ups or for product packaging design. Illustrator is good for vector art but with Corel Draw tools is just more convenient. it's better to learn both but it depends with kind of work designs you do.

[@patrickivindyo8711]

I've used both, but I'm a Corel draw diehard. It's worked perfectly for me for years and don't see myself ever switching to illustrator ever.

[@a-trainpdx9994]

Sorry for the long post here but for those trying to defend illustrator and want to know specifically why Corel is a better value, here are some of the reasons I like Corel better than Illustrator. You are free to disagree and at the end of the day, it’s your choice. I have to use both platforms for work as a signage designer, but I try to use Corel as much as I can over using Adobe Illustrator. I’m not an expert with Adobe Illustrator and know that it can do way more than I have used it for, but CorelDraw makes it easier in my opinion. Why CorelDraw is better than Adobe Illustrator? Let’s face it, Adobe Illustrator was not intended to do everything that Corel Draw does. Adobe Illustrator is intended to be used with all of the rest of the Adobe Creative Cloud software. It has its specific role and it does it quite well. Corel is truly a one stop shop for most things a designer needs to do to earn a living. Yes illustrator has the better name recognition and following, but for those of us who couldn’t care less that it’s considered the industry standard, it doesn’t make Adobe Illustrator a better product. Here are a few of the CorelDraw tools and features that I just simply like better than Adobe Illustrator: Master Layer (in comparison, illustrator has “links” which is nice but it takes 3 steps vs Corel’s one step). I work on a lot of multi page projects. In most cases I have titleblocks that have the same information from page to page. Master layer makes it easier to make changes and updates when there are multiple pages. In illustrator, you have to get in and out of the link. Raster images can be treated like vector images. I can make shapes (without using a clipping tool) with photos or crop photos to overlay on top of other photos. Illustrator needs to use a clipping tool. Power clip in CorelDraw lets you get in, manage and get out of a fixed shape much easier than Illustrator. Envelope tool. I’m sure illustrator has this too, but again Corel is much easier to use. The ability Add page numbers where they increase when you add more pages. Illustrator does not have this ability. Some of my clients require page numbers on their drawings. It’s a nightmare if I have to manually update the page number in illustrator vs Corel automatically does it for you no matter if you rearrange the pages or not. I think it was intended to use indesign for these type of features but everyone seems to use illustrator which it was not intended for this type of workflow. In CorelDraw, you have better control with fonts. This is a big deal for me. Corel treats glyphs as if you physically cut out the glyphs and moved them wherever you want for whatever reason. Illustrator has a limited set of parameters on how to move glyphs unless you first convert them to shapes. Again my knowledge is not very well versed but I just go with what I’m used to. Corel has a larger drawing area. I think illustrator maxes out at 255 inches? Corel can go much larger than that. So if I create a full size sign panel that’s 30 feet or even 60 feet, it will fit in Corel’s drawing space, not illustrator. Corel has Multi-page. Illustrator has Multiple Artboards. It’s not the same. You can’t move pages around as easily (meaning the information automatically adjust to what you’re moving). Illustrator doesn’t have the master layer or page number feature as I already mentioned. InDesign is more similar to CorelDraw in this case. Multiple drawing scale tool. If illustrator innately had the ability to change the drawing scale to fit the page used, it would probably be justified in using over Corel (in most peoples mind, still not mine). As of now you have to purchase a pricey plug in to do what Corel does innately. Better integrated with photo paint. This again is my lack of knowledge with creative cloud, but in Corel, I push one button and it puts me into Corel Paint where I can manipulate an image, hit save then click back over to Corel draw. I’m sure this is how it works works with illustrator and photoshop, but it just doesn’t seem as easy. Price. You just get a lot more with Corel for the price than any Adobe product. Auto Trace is in Corel easier, but it’s most likely that Illustrator is better quality here. Align tool is easier. In Corel, I can use shortcut keys to align my objects. It has snap and everything else like illustrator but I turn the snap features off because it’s limiting. Illustrator has a nice set of align tools but again, too many steps to make it efficient. Zooming in and out in CorelDraw is easier Creating usable bitmaps in Corel is easier Can splice bit maps together in CorelDraw Can customize workspace better in CorelDraw Gradients and drop shadows are easier in my opinion in CorelDraw Block shadow tool is easier to understand in CorelDraw Corel doesn’t group everything together for no reason as much as illustrator. Corel unfortunately is doing more of this in the newer versions of the software, but it’s still not as bad as Adobe Illustrator. Adding and Subtracting pages is easier in CorelDraw I could probably go on, but this is already too long as it is.

[@BootsandUtes]

I made the switch. Never looked back. I bought a perpetual license to Corel Draw Graphics Suite for $350 (sale, original price is $550). For other software, I already use Da Vinci Resolve over Adobe Premiere. Da Vinci is light years better than Premiere / After Effects. And for a DAW / Sound Editor, I already use Reaper (only $60 for a perpetual license) over Adobe Audition. I saved a ton of money making this switch without losing anything.

[@KuttyJoe]

I also like Da Vinci Resolve although I don't use it much. I was a user of Coreldraw many years ago but the quality of the software always atrocious so I switched to Illustrator and never looked back. But nowadays, I'm thinking of looking back. Illustrator keeps getting more expensive while removing critical features such as access to pantone spot colors. That will force Adobe users who need pantone support to get another subscription from pantone. For me, I'm just not going to do that. Corel is promising to continue supplying pantone support directly in the program, but I'm still not really a fan of Coreldraw. Illustrator is just a whole lot better. I wish I could get along without either.

[@alexmillette]

Yeah I always was an Adobe user since thats what we learned i really hate the monthly service way. You are stuck paying forever since its never yours ao i'm looking for pay once alternatives. Also on top of that, i heard Adobe just changer their user police and now claim a royalty free use of anything we do with their product for machine learning, publicité etc. Its à kind of spyware inside their product. Thats was the limit for me.

[@efrend.2361]

CorelDraw for general usage. Illustrator if I need to use brushes. CorelDraw is very practical.

[@carolinetomazelli8356]

This is such an amazing video. Thank you, it helped a lot!

[@InspirationTuts2D]

Glad it helped!

[@evaalmqvist8000]

In my profession I use both. In my employment in a big business Adobe is the industry standard. But If I need to do something fast an really good, I choose my private laptop and there use CorelDraw. It dosent matter if I send this material to my bigger employment. No problems to export to ai-files and soo on. Support problems from other users in Illustrator is quickly fixed in CorelDraw. I sell designs in my private business and I would not ever dream to make vectors for selling in Adobe products when it comes to design vector. It takes tooooo long time, even to load the programme, not to talk about creating. Corel is the best in vector designs and have been for soo many years

[@KuttyJoe]

I've been using Coreldraw and Illustrator since the early 90's and I don't see any of those speed gains by using Coreldraw. In fact, I keep trying to match Illustrator's speed in Coreldraw but I can't do it. If I could, I would drop Adobe Illustrator quickly and save myself some money.

[@solomontraore4366]

thanks a lot

[@SavetheRepublic]

As someone who uses both imo Coreldraw is faster and easier to use. Adobe always seems like it has too many extra steps. The only positive In Adobe is it has more industry add one.

[@mostafafarweez3161]

Very nice and informative video. I like it :)

[@InspirationTuts2D]

Glad you liked it!

[@optimumideas7850]

I'd go for Corel draw

[@sebastianjaksan3939]

At last some new tool for painting/drawing!

[@omegagfx9319]

Dude it's good❤

[@InspirationTuts2D]

Thanks 😅

[@marcelopine7042]

Muito interessante o seu vídeo. Eu não tenho experiência nenhuma com o Illustrator, atualmente eu uso o corel. Pode ser que eu esteja enganado, mas analisando vídeo aqui no youtube de ilustradores, ao meu ver parece que para ilustração o illustrator parece melhor, não sei dizer ao certo, pode ser que meus olhos estejam me enganando, mas os traços feitos com o illustrator parecem mais bonitos e limpos. Sem contar que a organização das camadas superam o corel de longe, tanto que uso o corel desde 2018, e poucas vezes utilizei as camadas. Irei começar um curso de illustrator para também ver as diferenças na prática. O vídeo, simples e objetivo. Muiito bom!

[@TheKevphil]

CorelDRAW! used to be available for Mac several years ago, but its performance was abysmal, and nobody bought it. Maybe it now works better on M1 chips.

[@BizBosAt]

i have corel draw M1 pro very good stuff

[@edafelinx]

Being a professional in both softwares and seeing the amount of upgrades Corel has gotten lately compared to Illustrator, this competition is becoming really fierce and I can no longer define Coreldraw as a design or print software anymore, it is so much more mow although i still use illustrator for my illustrations and vector... That might change

[@YanBulam]

I chose Corel Draw because it is suitable for technical use and is similar to AutoCAD. Hey, I really don't like hard to selection... So I want to select one object but the others are also selected.

[@Nudd_I4]

Sencond person to comment Please can you do micromedia flash I probably to cartoon 5

[@zznug2837]

corel = best for print workflow ; Illustrator = best for illustrations

[@mujtabahassan1328]

Corel have both printing and digital designing ability, I do not use illustrator and i use corel as digital media designing you have to just select RGB for digital designing And CMNK Color mode for printing

[@zznug2837]

@@mujtabahassan1328 both of them can be used for print and digital illustrations. Its just that corel draw is set up to be easier to use for print purposes and Illustrator is set up for digital illustrations

[@KuttyJoe]

Maybe that depends on what you're printing.

[@winngh]

I've always said this. I moved from Corel to Illustrator and never looked back. Feel more at home on Corel when printing but douse AI for my main works, design much faster in AI, love the colour etc.

[@beatzofx]

Nice video ☺️ . Can you make video on blender vs animate cc which one is better

[@ELDodjiC17]

Non Blender va lui tuer 🤣😂🤣

[@dopeting1]

Blender obv

[@sohanblues]

Adobe as a suite is very good..But CorelDraw has many such tools which are better than Illustrator.

[@rifkyjihad]

I see a more people using Illustrator for digital art, than Corel Draw. But, if the art work related to printing as an output product, Corel Draw is the choice. Thats what I see

[@stephen3937]

5:30 How can i do this one

[@robinbird53]

Illustrator gives error and freezes up too much when using eye dropper to get color from imported image. It is so annoying. I don’t recall this happening in the past. Wondering if Corel Draw is a good alternative. I’ve been in graphic design for a long time.

[@lucianochacon6163]

I assure you that this nonsense doesn't happen to Coreldraw. I've been using the program for more than 10 years now, and I find it easy and stable to use. The advantage that Adobe Illustrator has is that it is more useful, as its name indicates, to illustrate with vectors because it has brushes that emulate the real ones converted into vectors. Another advantage is the link it has with the Adobe suite, as many use what is created in Illustrator to animate it in After Effects, a programme that is used for animation in the motion graphics section. Another alternative is Inkscape, which could be said to be a combination of CorelDraw and Adobe Illustrator. And it's free.

[@md_sathik]

There is no matter its illustrator or corel draw... You should have skill & creativity level on high 🤷🏻‍♂💯

[@md_sathik]

@@diabolusvincit Acceptable 💯

[@BorSam]

@@diabolusvincit If you design graphic art work for a company, yes, you are correct, but if you run a printing business, no. In my country, every printing service uses Corel Draw for both art work and printing; they mostly use both, but Corel Draw makes it easy to design and print directly from it.

[@KuttyJoe]

@@BorSam In my entire career, I've never worked for a company that used Coreldraw for a print workflow. All of the output devices I've ever seen used Adobe formats. Never coreldraw formats. And Corel always has issues with pdf. So, it seems to me that everything favors Adobe.

[@BorSam]

@@KuttyJoe Where do you live? if you come to Asian countries like India, Vietnam, and Cambodia, every printing shop has Corel Draw as their main graphic software. I can do designs faster and better in Corel Draw than in Illustrator.

[@KuttyJoe]

@@BorSam I know that Coreldraw is very widely used in different parts of the world. But, tell me what you do in Coreldraw that is a lot better than Illustrator. I know that there are things that Coreldraw does better but I'm curious about what makes it great for you. I've just dropped my biggest client and I'm wondering if I can stop my Adobe subscription and maybe switch back to Coreldraw. But for my work, Illustrator seems to be a lot better. But, that's just for my own work. I believe that Coreldraw is better for things like sign making, and also were accuracy is critical. Adobe is not serious about accuracy.

[@pieterverhoeven1642]

After 20 years I just can't take it anymore, Illustrator just gets slower and more unresponsive with each release and the workflow has always been crappy and some bugs just never get fixed. I'll probably give Corel a shot. Going to be frustrating at first, I'm sure.

[@CARambolagen]

COREL wins hands down. Tools should make life ESIER not harder like Illustrator 🤣

[@KuttyJoe]

What Illustrator tool is harder?

[@CARambolagen]

@@KuttyJoe Not just one tool, the whole ergonomics is rubbish, starting with 3 keys+ keycommands.

[@a-trainpdx9994]

The text tool for one. If you use Corel’s text tool vs Illustrator, you can do a lot more in less time. I guess all of you Illustrator users have all the time in the world. But those of us who are in demand in the creative space need to get these projects out pronto.

[@mymagicsigns]

Corel allows you to design at superhuman speeds, Illustrator renders a bit better. It used to be leagues better than Corel, but nowdays I can barely tell.

[@KuttyJoe]

How does it allow you to design at superhuman speeds? LOL

[@mymagicsigns]

@@KuttyJoe It has the right tools in the right place, the best node editor, clear and intuitive interface, it takes no time at all to design. Important steps like contour and the ctrl plus R step and repeat and the C and E and the primitives behaviour before converting to path and everything... I could go on for a few hours.

[@KuttyJoe]

@@mymagicsigns Don't go on for hours, give a single actual example of what is superhuman faster in Coreldraw. What you've said so far is not really compelling, and I would say that Illustrator is better with primitives than Coreldraw. Afterall, in Illustrator it is possible to copy/paste a path out of a shape without copy/pasting the entire shape. In Coreldraw you need to break that shape apart first. So, in terms of primitives, that's a quick win for Illustrator.

[@mymagicsigns]

@@KuttyJoe I've worked in Illustrator for a long time, I know what it can do, and there are two or three things corel could have from illustrator to make it even faster, but Illustrator needs pretty much everything from corel ..

[@KuttyJoe]

@@mymagicsigns There are some things that Corel does better. To say that Illustrator needs everything from Coreldraw is kind of extreme exaggeration. I like dealing with text better in Illustrator than Coreldraw across the board. Some things in Coreldraw are absolutely antique. The whole brush tools system is antique and rather terrible. Illustrator is best of any vector software by miles. Another thing that is antique in Coreldraw is editing text that has been enveloped. It's pretty much dysfunctional, unimproved since the 1990s. Put some text in an envelope, then try to edit that text. You actually get an old fashioned pop up box with the text in it. And even with that, you still can't make the basic edits. So you need to make sure you get all of the spacing and text widths, and such right before you put it into an envelope. So if you're editing text in an envelope, you are far from superhuman. You would struggle to do the edits at all. Illustrator is kind of super extremely better. In Illustrator, you can create a style, like a shape or text with multiple effects, multiple outlines, envelope, etc, then apply that to a layer, all nondestructive. Then, anything you place on that layer will acquire that stack of effects. And that's been in Illustrator for probably 15 years. I would still be careful to not say that Illustrator is better overall because it's not. It's certainly far superior in patches. Coreldraw is also superior to Illustrator in patches. Neither is best at everything. But you would have a very hard time making the case for Coreldraw being superhuman speeds faster than Illustrator.

[@bartez8018]

Wich is better for iPad?

[@vishva_patel]

Non-of them works on iPad

[@bartez8018]

@@vishva_patel No way

[@vishva_patel]

@@bartez8018 yep it’s works only on pc / laptop

[@dopeting1]

Corel is the best here

[@DieTabbi]

It still the absolut better tools, easier and more logic. Illustrator and derivates use of path function is hmm forget it and get Corel 😎

[@KuttyJoe]

@@DieTabbi I would strongly disagree with that.

[@AlwaysSunnyInBooTube]

​@@DieTabbi At the very least 214,178 licensed Adobe users (compared to CorelDRAW's 14,352) want to know your location

[@grafxdesigner93]

CorelDraw is not new to the Mac. It was popular during the 90s. Corel stopped making the Mac version in the late 90s to early 2000s. I know because I had the CorelDraw 7 which was the last Mac version that I know of to the best of my knowledge. Corel brought the Mac version of CorelDraw recently like nearly decade ago. I’m glad Corel brought back the Mac version.

[@SeventhSon333]

I just wanted to clarify that it was version 2019 that Corel released its new version onto the Mac. They just released their 2024 version in March like they do every year with their latest version. Of course you're correct that they used to have a Mac version many years ago.