Game Design Foundations (Wordware Game and Graphics Library)

CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 11 (www3.corel.com)

CorelDRAW Graphics Suite has been a powerful software package for over ten years in vector illustration, layout, bitmap creation, image editing, painting, and animating. This new version has an enhanced interface and improved customization features, is capable of professional output, and supports multiple language text.

Animation can be created and edited using Corel R.A.V.E. (Real Animated Vector Effects), which is one of the three CorelDRAW suite components (along with CorelDRAW and Corel PHOTO-PAINT). The CorelDRAW suite is Windows XP compatible. CorelDRAW has an updated interface with easier to access and use functions, dockers (detachable palettes), more high zoom level dragging of a drawing, and PerfectShapes (a la WordPerfect Suite), which enables easy creation of various standard shapes. PHOTO-PAINT allows for controlling text for resizing and skewing, photo correction (like red-eye removal), creating drop shadows, and previewing various file formatted pictures. Corel R.A.V.E. is Macromedia Flash-compatible as well as other formats that allow for live-effects creation over time, editing your work through a timeline function, and creating roll-over graphics.

The CorelDRAW V11.0 Graphics Suite retails for $529 and Corel DRAW V11.0 Upgrade for $249.