CorelDRAW Conceptshare, sharing & comment projects

The new CorelDRAW Conceptshare that comes with the new CorelDRAW Graphic Suite X4, is a great addition to the suite. And will be a very helpful addition to ones work with clients and co-workers. As a freelancing illustrator & artist I have already been using it, and its been working just fine. What one do is to upload once project, for example an image. And then "Invite" a client or co-worker, to log in on the online site, to comment and suggest, by writing on a notpad, draw with a pen, chatt and so on. Making it very easy to quickly comment on a on-going project. See the image. You can comment and make mark-ups while you all are online at the same time.

To read more about it, please go to this Corel blog at Coreldraw.com
For those of us using CorelDRAW Graphic Suite X4 (CorelDRAW X4 and Corel Photo-Paint X4), we can easy connect to our conceptshare workspace/account, either via the Conceptshare docker, or via File>Publish to Conceptshare.

Try it out. There is a free account one could try out. For company´s or others with more than 2 projects at the same time, with heavy weight files, there are payed accounts with even more encrypted accounts, for those who need it. Here is a another very simple idea of how its working.













Stefan Lindblad
Illustrator

Book cover with illustration & 7 illustrations inside the book

This fall 2008, especially if you read Swedish, have a look for the new book "Spelet"(The Game) from the Swedish publishing House Hegas. A book for young teenagers.

I made the book cover front with a illustration as well as the graphic design, together with 7 illustrations inside the book. It was a fun work to do and I wished I could show you more, but the book comes out later this year, so therefore I can only show you a preview detail of the front cover.

The book front cover design as well as the illustration on the cover and the 7 illustrations inside the bokk, was entirely made with Corel Photo-Paint X4 and CorelDRAW X4. (CorelDRAW Graphic Suite X4). I used a Wacom Intuos3 A6 Wide as my pen tool.

Stefan Lindblad
Illustrator & artist

The new Corel WordPerfect Office X4

This release I kind of waited for but didnt really believe would come.
The brand new Corel® WordPerfect® Office X4 – Standard Edition.

Because of Microsoft Office domination and the free OpenOffice I thought the market was closed for the office market. But there you go and get joyfully surprised. Wow! What will this give us in the future, a new version of Corel Ventura? The great Corel Desktop Publishing software. Whatever happens, way to go Corel. Here is a pressrelease about this latest version on Yahoo>>

Wordperfect X4 keeps its traditional look, icon set but gives a lot new to be happy about . Read a review about Wordperfect X4 here >>















Stefan Lindblad
Illustrator & artist

Adobe steal your image copyright´s?

Adobe steal your copyright to all your images you use, upload, with their new "Free" online Photoshop Express. The same way Facebook does. Here are the terms, read it here.

According to this artical (in Swedish) http://capdesign.idg.se/2.990/1.153549
Adobe will take, for all eternity, the right to use all your images however they please to do, making money on them without your permission.

Well I will never use the dam thing anyway, but I really do hate when company´s does these things. It doesnt matter what is written in the fine print, who reads the dam thing, when it comes to using a software to MAKE images that is. Its like you as a company first let people get comfortable with the company name, and then give out a "free" software they can use, and then starts to steal the rights to all the images. Thats really awful. This could in turn mean that Adobe then sell all your images to a Stock Photo company like Getty images, who owns Istockphoto if I am well informed, and they in turn sells the images on their websites to all kind of company´s and media all around the world.

According to the article Adobe programmers of Photoshop Express says they were never aware of the Terms, and would never do anything bad, and let their laywers have a look at the terms. But if they dont change it, what happens then? And if they change it, what will happen to images that have already been uploaded by people around the world. And Why the heck dont they look at the terms before they go "live" with the program.

So thats another reason to NOT use online software.

Stefan Lindblad
Illustrator & artist