CorelDRAW vs Affinity Designer V2 - 2023 Comparison
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 เม.ย. 2023
- Which vector editing software is right for you? In this 12 points comparison, I do a brief review of Corel Draw vs. Affinity Designer 2.0 Both of these programs are great for making vector art, but each one has its own strengths and weaknesses.
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You can get CorelDRAW here -> corel.sjv.io/3eM52M
I swapped from Corel when it became (effectively) subscription based. Overall I am very happy with Affinity and whilst there are some Corel features I miss these don't stop me producing the work I want to as Affinity has plenty of features overall.
In terms of your review Corel on PC very closely integrates Photo Paint into Draw and is probably better than Persona in Affinity. However this isn't available on the Mac version of Corel.
Affinity is much better at importing and exporting PDF's than Corel which often corrupts PDF's particularly on import. The same with EPS which Corel never does very well
User interface and cost are the slam-dunk victories for Affinity.
For vectorizing is so simple as using the free inkscape which does it very well. About EPS I never found any problem since many years as I had to produce a PS file to take it to production in litography or larget format printing. With TTF fonts instead or PS fonts besides converting all document to curves is a breeze.
I'm a former Corel user, so I'm also very aware of the lack of trace, blend and extrude tools in Affinity. Good video.
Gradient Mesh, commonly referred to as Mesh Fill in CoreDRAW, is an additional crucial feature that is currently absent from Affinity Designer. Users have been requesting the feature for years, so it is safe to assume that AD has no plans to implement it.
For me, both are good, but CorelDRAW is still light years ahead in the printing system, in addition to accepting programming in VBA, C# and Visual Studio, letting us work with infinite automation. On our Channel we have examples of Macros that no other program is able to do. Apart from the PS that has some Scripts or Plugins,
the rest lag far behind in this regard. And since time is money, automation is profit and more free time with family and friends! In terms of price, yes, Affinity wins easily. Just my opinion ok, I don't mean to minimize the tools of any of CorelDRAW's competitors.
I've been using it for at least 25 years without needing any other programs for daily tasks! Success there always and congratulations on the video! 👋👋👋
I still have the Coreldraw 3.0 diskettes. I love Affinity as it is completely new , another advantage of Coreldraw is the imposition module no one else have. The history in Affinity is a winner. Pixels against vectors subdivision is also amazing in Affinity and not to mention Publisher completely separated from designer. Long ago or on a few memory computers handling several pages was or still too heavy for Corel. Let´s say we could compare Affinity Publisher with Adobe Indesign, still, I prefer Affinity Publisher. And not to talk about prices, Coreldraw has a new version every year and I high payment to pay for continuing having the last version, Affinity is more affordable and open. Oh, and the plugins of Affinity are absolutely amazing. Thanks .
Which one do you think has a less steep learning curve?
Affinity Designer.
I was a user of the original CorelDraw 1.0, but gave up on the program in a fury years ago, after upgrading (eventually) to version X5.
The version upgrades were (and still seem to be) prohibitively expensive. They rarely issued bug fixes, even for for a problem that occasionally resulted in the complete loss of the file I'd be working on. But the final straw was when they stopped supporting the ability to open my original CorelDraw 1.0 (or 2.0) files. Totally inexcusable! And judging from a few web searches, I see they still have this problem.
So I reached the fairly obvious conclusion that they didn't care about their most loyal customers. They've burned their bridges as far as I'm concerned -- they're never getting another dime from me. Affinity Designer may be missing a few important features, but I am much happier using their software suite -- the company seems far more engaged with the customer base.
I started using CorelDRAW in v4. CorelDRAW 1 came out in the the late 1980s and v2 in the very early 1990's. I can forgive them on this one. I gave up after x7. AD does almost everything I need and I like how the personas simplify the UI and and make it more intuitive to use. I bust out x7 when I need to and have no plans to buy back into the CorelDRAW environment.
@@johnmcgrath5938 Yeah, I was a booster back when CorelDraw v1 came out and a great deal of the work I did back then was in versions 1 and 2, so I lost access to all of it. It's a cardinal sin IMO, revealing a great deal about the company's ethics. Bad ethics. Lucky for me that Serif is doing good stuff with Designer and Photo.
@@OurBax Serif did exactly the same thing when they suddenly dropped DrawPlus, PhotoPlus, and PagePlus without fixing all the bugs and came out with the Affinity line of products that were not backwards compatible with the previous file formats. Serif and Corel have exactly the same ethics.
@@KuttyJoe You cited one example of similar ethics, but I think any semblance of equivalence disappears if you look deeper.
I cannot speak to what Serif did with DrawPlus etc., and if they abandoned those products then that is indeed a black mark. But from what I've seen of the Affinity suite, I am far happier with the way Serif has handled things than I ever felt in my nearly 30 years of using Corel. Serif has their problems to be sure, but Corel was abysmal. Major releases with zero subsequent bug fix releases. Dropping the ability to open v1 and v2 files of the same product. Corel support was inferior, and when I reported bugs I was simply advised to upgrade to the next (inevitably buggy) version. Corel upgrade prices were exorbitant.
And the current pricing for the Corel suite is $549, vs. $115 for Affinity (on sale today; it's regularly about $165 but sales happen multiple times a year). Serif has product versions that include free updates. My Version 1 copy of the Affinity suite received many free updates (including new features) in the three years I owned it. Does Corel offer free feature upgrades for three years if you purchase it?
Serif has a vibrant forum community with lots of involvement of Serif staff, whereas the Corel forums seem to have very little action. As I write this, I see that only 8 threads have had any activity in the Corel forum in the last 24 hours, whereas the Affinity forums have had about 70 active threads in that time. And that's without Affinity having an active Beta release, so their Beta forums are normally much more active. And speaking of Betas, the Affinity Betas are open to anyone with a license, whereas you have to apply to become a Beta tester with Corel.
My evaluation of Serif is from 2019-2024, but my evaluation of Corel was from 1990-2019. So it's possible that Serif used to have poor ethics earlier and that Corel has improved drastically since 2019. But somehow I doubt it.
In the next update of this comparison, include a chapter about document size.
Affinity files are humongous compared with files from other design's programs. 😮
¿Te refieres a tamaño en unidades de medida como centímetros, metros, o como megabytes, kilobytes...?
@@Affinity_User369 Megabytes, kilobytes, etc...
@@capellan2000 Jjajaja perdón por responder tanto tiempo después XD
Hace un par de meses estuve comparando entre: Affinity Designer, CorelDRAW, Adobe Illustrator, Gravit Designer e Inkscape, y los tamaños de Affinity Designer son prácticamente iguales a los de CorelDRAW y a los de Inkscape; luego está Gravit Designer, con un peso ridículamente bajo (ahorra bastante :D) y el monstruoso come RAM de Adobe, como no, a tope en tamaño de archivos...
@@Affinity_User369 Prueba también con los archivos creados por la aplicación de Diseño llamada Xara Designer. Estos son los archivos más pequeños (en Kilobytes) de todos los programas profesionales de diseño que uso en mi computador.
Well, I will say it. CorelDRAW IS better and considerably so for serious designers. I say this as a former user of many years It falls short on bang for the buck though. I moved to AD a few years back when Corel went heavy on the subscription model. Affinity Designer crushes it for value. I think it is easier to learn than CorelDRAW, and I like ADs UI better.
It's like saying that a bicycle crushes a car for value. There's no way to really make this comparison. The products are too dissimilar.
AD is easy to learn cause of the UI? 🤔😂🤣 it follows like Inkscape the stupid „logic“ of Illustrator.
IMO dividing all tools into 3 personas was a clever move
It's easy to learn because it doesn't do much. If it ventured to be as deep as Illustrator, then there would be some more complexity to it. Still, I don't find it to be all that logical. The same with Illustrator. Illustrator does many things that are not obvious and not intuitive. If you forget how to do it, you'll have to read a tutorial to learn it again. Coreldraw was best when it came to being intuitive, but it remains the most unstable software I've ever seen after decades of using it. Nothing has changed. It's horrible software, and now it's buggy and unstable while actually costing more than Illustrator, and being very, very sluggish at this point. I don't even bother to consider it anymore. I bought a copy of Coreldraw Home & Student edition just to access a couple things that Coreldraw does well but other than that, I'm putting Coreldraw behind me forever. Affinity Designer has a couple things that it does well also but it's pointless trying to compare it to Illustrator or Coreldraw.