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Yes, as a coreldraw user (i use it more often than illustrator), I am proud to announce that the CorelDraw Graphics Suite X6 download version is available at coreldraw.com!

CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X6 is the newest version of Corel`s flagship graphics suite consisting of vector-based illustration application CorelDRAW, photo editor PHOTO-PAINT, WYSIWYG web design tool Website Creator (new addition), and a host of valuable utilities and content.

Featuring a completely revamped typography engine, inspiring new color styles and harmonies, and powerful shaping tools, the new suite offers graphics professionals its most creative and powerful tools to date. With a focus on opening up new creative possibilities for the design community, this major upgrade delivers improved workflow and performance making it even easier for both aspiring and experienced designers to connect with assets, work with leading edge tools and technology, and output their design projects with confidence (the-digital-picture.com).

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If you want to connect with friends or meet new people on Facebook, you should look best on your profile picture because it is the first thing people will look at.

Professional photographers use special lenses to create soft focus effect on portraits. Soft Focus is an important effect in photography. It is commonly used in glamour shots and to some extent in wedding photography as well.

The good news is that you don’t have to go to a professional photographer (or a cosmetic surgeon  ) and spend a lot of money for your profile picture. Now you can pick any photo of yours and easily turn it into a marvelous (oh yeah!) profile picture.

In this tutorial, I will show you how to improve your Facebook profile picture using diffuse glow effect in Photoshop. This is pretty simple to do. Just follow the 7 simple steps.

Before and After processing

Step 1. Open your image.

I used a photo of Angel Locsin for this tutorial. Angel is a Filipina television and film actress and commercial model (courtesy of pinoyexchange.com).

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Here is a collection of 10 Amazing Vector Illustrations from CorelDraw Community Galleries. This collection will be a great source for your inspiration.

1. Mirror  by Alexxx1

2. After the act by balung

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This is in response to CorelDraw’s ‘great designs shared’  campaign.

This campaign encourages CorelDraw users to share and tag their works such as flyers, signs, billboards, embroideries or graphics designs, on Flickr or Facebook that will fuel the inspiration of other CorelDraw users.

For more information about CorelDraw’s ‘great designs shared’  campaign, you can visit this link.

Note: This image was drawn using CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X5

Useful  CorelDraw Tips and Tricks series:

1- How to quickly mirror an object? -> Hold down Ctrl and drag a selection handle to the opposite side of the object.

2- How to select a hidden object difficult to select? -> Press Tab  until a selection box appears around the object…
3- What is the fastest way to select all objects in your work space? -> Just double click the Pick tool!

Tips and Tricks source: CorelDRAW team.

With Photoshop, amazing photo manipulation is possible. Hence, there is no doubt that photo manipulation is very useful and requires a lot of imagination, creativity, precision, and skill.

Photo manipulation is one of the best ways for you to begin using Photoshop, as it exposes you to a wide variety of techniques.

In this post I’ll feature 12 useful tutorials for creating your own photo manipulation. The tutorials shown here will help you gain knowledge/techniques in creating interesting artworks in Photoshop.

1. The Art of Photo Manipulation. Techniques and Examples

2. Color Correcting Photographs Using the Curves Adjustment

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