All-in-one graphic design software for home and school
- Create logos, newsletters, photo projects, web content and more
- Expansive array of learning resources
- Windows 10, 4K displays support and more
- New Touch friendly UI workspace
- New quick and direct publish to WordPress
Download Instructions
When you buy a Download version, you can download your software, install it on your computer and unlock it with a serial number that will be provided after purchase.
An affordable, all-in-one suite for beginners, hobbyists and students
Enjoy a seamless design experience at home or at school using CorelDRAW® Home & Student Suite 2018 to create logos, layouts, newsletters, photo projects, social media content and more. Get started quickly with versatile in-product learning resources, a user-friendly Quick Start Guide and extensive design assets including high-quality clipart and photos, fonts, fills and templates.
What's Included
Main Applications
- CorelDRAW® Home & Student 2018 – Vector illustration and page layout
- Corel® PHOTO-PAINT® Home & Student 2018 – Image editing
- Corel® PowerTRACE® – Bitmap-to-vector tracing (included as part of CorelDRAW Home & Student 2018 application)
- Corel® CONNECT™ 2018 – Content finder
- Corel® CAPTURE™ 2018† – Screen capture tool
Supporting applications
- WhatTheFont
- Barcode Wizard
- Duplexing Wizard
Content†
- 1,300 clipart and digital images
- 100 royalty-free, high-resolution photos
- 125 fonts
- 75 photo frames
- 100 fills
- Over 100 professionally designed templates including certificates, ads, business cards, letterhead, flyers, posters and more
- Quick Start Guide
- Training videos and Hints docker
†Note: An authenticated version of CorelDRAW Home & Student Suite 2018 and Internet connection are required to access some of the included software components, online content and features.
Comprehensive suite
Create your best work with a comprehensive toolbox of user-friendly features for graphics, layout, illustration, tracing, photo editing, web images and art. It’s perfect for all levels of design experience! Enjoy easy-to-use applications like CorelDRAW Home & Student 2018 and Corel® PHOTO-PAINT® Home & Student 2018, plus the new capability to directly upload to WordPress from within the product. You’ll have everything you need to design with confidence and achieve stunning results every time.
Versatile design features
Unleash your creative potential and explore intuitive tools to express your unique style and delight your family, friends and teachers. Find all the features you need, including the new capability to add perspective to bitmaps and the new functionality of aligning and distributing nodes for time-saving controls to position objects with precise alignment.
Powerful photo-editing capabilities
Make the most of your photos with the control and precision you need to make them look perfect, even at high resolution. Explore easy-to-use tools to resize, crop, and apply special effects, plus access a collection of amazing photos. Rotate crooked images interactively with the new automatic alignment and straighten feature, plus intelligently adjust photo perspective.
Intuitive workflow
Complete your projects with streamlined tools and settings, making workflow and tasks simpler. With extensive file compatibility and support, you’ll print or share with ease using popular file formats. Our new touch friendly UI workspace allows you to complete projects more proficiently with an extra responsive design experience, and you can accomplish designs faster with full support for Windows 10, stylus improvements, multi-monitor viewing and Ultra HD 4K displays.
*NOT FOR COMMERCIAL USE
CorelDRAW Home & Student Suite 2018 has a restricted end user license agreement (enclosed) and cannot be used for commercial purposes. If you intend to create commercial projects for use in any business, please choose the full version of CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 2018, which permits commercial use and includes much more content and additional professional features geared towards the professional user.
Apply envelopes to bitmaps
Shape a bitmap interactively by placing it in an envelope and dragging its nodes. Quickly and seamlessly blend a bitmap into an illustration by using envelope presets or crafting a custom envelope from scratch.
Adjust photo perspective interactively
Use the interactive Perspective Correction tool to adjust the perspective of buildings, landmarks, or objects in photos. Simply line up the four corner points with a shape that should be rectangular to adjust the entire shot.
Publish to WordPress
Send your work directly to a WordPress media library from within the application. This new functionality lets you convert selected objects or an entire project to a JPEG, GIF, or PNG file and then upload to a WordPress account.
Touch friendly UI workspace
Create quick adjustments using touch or a stylus. The Touch workspace maximizes the size of your drawing window by displaying only the tools and commands used most often, plus you can pan and zoom with a single gesture.
Straighten photos interactively
Rotate crooked images by interactively aligning a straightening bar to an element in the photo or specifying an angle of rotation. All controls are easily accessible on screen or on the property bar for perfect results in minutes.
Align and distribute nodes
Align and distribute nodes using the bounding box of a selection, the page edge or center, the closest grid line, or a specified point. Distributing nodes is just as easy, adding equal spacing between them horizontally or vertically.
Add Perspective effect
Quickly create the illusion of distance and depth by applying perspective to bitmaps, vector objects or both directly in the drawing window. It’s an ingenious tool to showcase artwork in real world scenarios.
Corner control in dashed lines and outlines
Gain more control over the appearance of corners in objects, text, and symbols that use dashed lines in CorelDRAW 2018. In addition to the existing default setting, you can choose from two new options to create perfectly designed and defined corners.
Apply and manage fills and transparencies
Enjoy the totally redesigned Fill and Transparency pickers that will help increase your productivity and deliver improved performance when working with and managing fills and transparencies in CorelDRAW and Corel PHOTO-PAINT.
Multi-monitor, 4K and Real-Time Stylus support
Take advantage of multi-monitor viewing and 4K displays support. Work quickly and efficiently with the added control from the Windows Real-Time Stylus pen-compatible tablets in addition to the Wacom tablet and devices.
Compatibility
Get the power and stability you need with full support for 10, 8.1 or Windows 7. Import, export and share your designs with ease thanks to a variety of compatible market-leading file formats, including AI, PSD, PDF, JPG, PNG, SVG, EPS, TIFF, PPT and more.
Note: The Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack will be retired in the near future. Please install at the time of purchase to ensure you have access to this pack and its full feature set.
Learning materials
Start smoothly or learn a new trick, no matter your level of experience, with our growing library of dynamic learning materials, including a Quick Start Guide, video tutorials, webinars, a Hints docker and Insights from the Experts.
Top rated user features
Workspace customization
Match your workspace to the way you work. With simple customization, you can adjust the appearance of your toolbox, docker space and property bars which all contain handy Quick Customize option.
Fully customizable interface
Find everything where you need it, when you need it. Choose between Lite or the Default workspace to get started, then use the quick customize feature to tailor your toolbox and property bars to suit your needs.
Built-in content organizer
Find content quickly using Corel® CONNECT®, our built-in search tool that helps you browse and locate your assets, then organize and group content by type or project, plus you can sync your trays with Microsoft OneDrive.
Royalty-free, quality content
Keep your designs fresh with 1,300 clipart and digital images, 100 royalty-free, high-resolution photos, 125 fonts, 75 photo frames, 100 fills and 100 professionally designed templates including certificates, ads, business cards, letterhead, flyers, posters and more.
Easy bitmap-to-vector tracing
Save precious time while converting bitmap images into vectors. The built-in Corel® PowerTRACE™ engine provides the best tracing results yet and turns the most demanding bitmap images into high-quality vector objects.
Precise layout and drawing tools
Make sure every element on the page is in the right place. The Alignment Guides help you position objects quickly, and the Outline Position options let you pick whether an outline is positioned inside the object, outside the object, or both.
Creative vector shaping tools
Add creative effects to your vector artwork. Four shaping tools—Smear, Twirl, Attract and Repel—let you refine your vector objects by pushing, pulling, smudging, making indents and more.
Special effects and advanced photo editing
Explore special effects, including four pressure-sensitive Liquid tools—Smear, Attract, Repel and Twirl—and camera effects—Bokeh blur, Colorize, Sepia toning and Time Machine—to create unique images in Corel® PHOTO-PAINT™ Home & Student 2018. RAW file support for over 300 types of cameras gives you even more ways to enrich your images.
Healing Clone tool
Improve your favorite photos with powerful tools to correct and edit in a variety of ways. Try the Healing Clone tool to remove imperfections by blending them with surrounding colors and textures.
Web graphics tools
Develop captivating web content and graphics with CorelDRAW’s collection of web graphics tools. The Pixels mode shows you exactly how your content will display online, and the Export Dialog box lets you compare file formats before export.
Copy Curve Segments
Copy, paste, or duplicate pieces of existing curves with the Copy Curve Segments feature that allows you to reuse curve segments in your projects.
Advanced OpenType support
Create beautiful text with advanced OpenType typography features, such as ligatures, ornaments, small caps, swash variants and more. Ideal for cross-platform design work, Get language support to customize characters to suit the language you need.
Complex script support
Working with Asian and Middle Eastern languages is easy, thanks to key features in CorelDRAW that ensure proper typesetting. Complex script support acts the same way as OpenType fonts, modifying characters as you type to deliver contextual accuracy.
Graphic Design Gallery
Find inspiration in our online gallery, featuring a diverse collection of images from CorelDRAW artists and designers from around the world.
Illustration
Drawings and illustrations for a wide range of creative projects.
Fine Art
Artistic, creative and unique designs from artists and designers from around the world.
Advertising/Specialty Graphics
Flyers, brochures, logos, signs, banners, awards, engraving, and other designs related to advertising and marketing.
Vehicle Wraps
Designs made for cars, trucks, boats and other vehicles.
Textile/Fashion Design
Designs for fashion, embroidery and direct-to-garment printing.
Speed Drawing
Time lapse videos that show how a work was created in CorelDRAW or Corel PHOTO-PAINT.
System Requirements
- Windows 10, 8.1 or Windows 7, in 32-bit or 64-bit, all with latest updates and service packs
- Intel Core i3/5/7 or AMD Athlon 64
- 2 GB RAM
- 1 GB hard disk space
- Multi-touch screen, mouse or tablet
- 1280 x 720 screen resolution at 100% (96 dpi)
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 or higher
- Microsoft .NET Framework 4.6
- DVD drive optional (for box installation)
- An authenticated version of CorelDRAW Home & Student Suite 2018 and Internet connection are required to access some of the included software components, online content and features.