The most recent Illustration articles from Personal Computer World

Review: Ambient Designs Artrage 2 paint software

Cliff Joseph — 2007-03-01T00:00:00.000Z

Cliff Joseph, Personal Computer World, Thursday 1 March 2007 at 00:00:00

Low-cost natural-media paint application

Artrage 2 from Ambient Designs does pretty much the same thing as Corel’s Painter – it allows you to create paintings and sketches that look as though they were created...

ACD Systems Canvas X

Paul Rowlingson — 2005-09-06T00:00:00.000Z

Paul Rowlingson, Personal Computer World, Tuesday 6 September 2005 at 00:00:00

A versatile, all-purpose technical drawing tool and graphics studio

Canvas has had something of a chequered past. It started life more than a decade ago as a graphics program for the Mac, providing an unusual combination of bitmap and...

Mammoth 800,000 Clip Art

Kelvyn Taylor — 2005-08-09T00:00:00.000Z

Kelvyn Taylor, Personal Computer World, Tuesday 9 August 2005 at 00:00:00

All the clip art you'll need

Clip art junkies need look no further. If 17GB of royalty-free photos, vector graphics, web graphics and illustrations isn't enough to satisfy you, we're at a loss to suggest something...

Corel Designer Technical 12

Ken McMahon — 2005-07-26T00:00:00.000Z

Ken McMahon, Personal Computer World, Tuesday 26 July 2005 at 00:00:00

A feature-filled upgrade that will appeal to technical illustrators

When Corel acquired Micrografx and its Designer technical drawing software many thought that the package would be quietly subsumed into the burgeoning Corel Draw....

Corel Painter IX

Ken McMahon — 2005-01-27T12:06:01.000Z

Ken McMahon, Personal Computer World, Thursday 27 January 2005 at 12:06:01

The natural painting package gets an upgrade

For 13 years, Painter has ploughed its own furrow in the world of creative digital software, providing tools that closely mimic their real-world counterparts....

Xara X1

Nigel Whitfield — 2004-09-29T10:23:53.000Z

Nigel Whitfield, Personal Computer World, Wednesday 29 September 2004 at 10:23:53

A fast, straightforward graphics package.

Xara has a long history of producing versatile graphics packages and X1 is the company's latest flagship product. Designed for vector graphics editing, it lets you create artworks from scratch...

Conceptdraw V

Tim Anderson — 2004-04-02T10:44:23.000Z

Tim Anderson, Personal Computer World, Friday 2 April 2004 at 10:44:23

Drawing and diagram creation made easy with this cross-platform program.

Conceptdraw V is a drawing package from CSO, a company whose first product was Macpublisher in 1994. Conceptdraw is part of a family of office solutions, with other applications covering...

Corel Painter 8

Michael Burns — 2003-07-17T11:36:46.000Z

Michael Burns, Personal Computer World, Thursday 17 July 2003 at 11:36:46

A major upgrade of Corel's media design and illustration tool.

If you're not familiar with Painter from Corel, think of it as a media creation tool rather than an image editor....

Autocad LT 2004 and Turbocad 9

Michael Burns — 2003-07-09T15:01:36.000Z

Michael Burns, Personal Computer World, Wednesday 9 July 2003 at 15:01:36

New releases from Autodesk and IMSI make computer-aided design more affordable.

Autocad LT 2004, the 'lite' version of Autodesk's premier Cad package, is around a quarter of the price of the full-blown 3D-enabled application, but it's still too pricey for most...

Corel Designer 10

Alistair Dabbs — 2003-06-04T12:13:46.000Z

Alistair Dabbs, Personal Computer World, Wednesday 4 June 2003 at 12:13:46

A clean, approachable update for this technical drawing package.

Originally sold under the Micrografx brand before being bought out by Corel, Designer earned itself a small but determined base of users over the years.But while Designer 9 was arguably...

Procreate Painter 7

Simon Williams — 2002-09-19T15:13:04.000Z

Simon Williams, Personal Computer World, Thursday 19 September 2002 at 15:13:04

Corel's recently acquired media painting application is a must-have.

Painter is the leading natural-media painting application on the PC and since its acquisition from MetaCreations last year, it has become one of the three cornerstones of Corel's new Procreate...

Macromedia Fireworks MX

Nik Rawlinson — 2002-07-26T14:12:03.000Z

Nik Rawlinson, Personal Computer World, Friday 26 July 2002 at 14:12:03

Manipulating photos for the web is even easier with this upgrade.

We have a soft spot for Photoshop. Not only is it the best photo editing software on the market, but it's also an essential weapon in the armoury of any...

Illuminatus Opus Pro

Simon Williams — 2002-02-07T17:27:20.000Z

Simon Williams, Personal Computer World, Thursday 7 February 2002 at 17:27:20

All the resources you'll need for producing competent multimedia.

Exactly what is Illuminatus Opus Pro, the latest incarnation of Digital Workshop's multi-purpose multimedia design tool, for? The product literature suggests business presentations, websites, multimedia and educational applications - it's...

Serif Draw and Design

Simon Williams — 2002-01-28T12:13:08.000Z

Simon Williams, Personal Computer World, Monday 28 January 2002 at 12:13:08

DrawPlus 6 gets some welcome extra features.

Serif's DrawPlus has developed from a rather basic vector drawing program to become the leading product of its type for under £100....

Adobe Illustrator 10

Ken McMahon — 2001-11-23T16:36:59.000Z

Ken McMahon, Personal Computer World, Friday 23 November 2001 at 16:36:59

Hot on the heels of version 9, Adobe adapts its graphics app for networking.

It's barely been 18 months since Adobe released Illustrator 9, and after such a major upgrade you'd be forgiven for expecting something a little less ambitious this time around.Think again....