The interactive fill tool now has vector fills with transparency.Alignment guides and tools for aligning objects and text.Multiple Master layers for multiple pages has been added.Select objects that would be difficult or laborious to otherwise select with the Freehand Pick Tool.At the same time, the new Powerclip Toolbar appears for editing the frame's content. Drag another object or bitmap over the frame and it will be clipped automatically. One powerful new feature is the ability to create empty Powerclip frames from selected objects. The new Object Properties Docker (right) is a wonderful little context-sensitive dialogue that keeps handy all of the formatting options for the currently selected object. Additionally, you can mine images from a client's website, reducing the need for images to be sent by email or other means.
The latter not only keyword searches X6's resident resources and PC folders, it is also linked to iStockphoto, Fotolia and Flickr in case you need to search further afield for imagery. New to X6 is the ability to store these in multiple trays and a search facility. Here's a brief summary of the main changes and additions:Ĭorel Connect (above) is where you search for your design elements and store them for your project. However, there are a number of new features worth exploring. Thankfully, Corel hasn't yielded to "software developer interface itch" and has left the interface pretty much alone. Launching X6 takes you to the welcome screen where you can leap straight into X6, explore a summary of the new features, watch the video tutorials, browse a gallery of artwork or check the status of updates.