The company rebrands and now calls itself Alludo as it looks to the future. What’s in a name? Plenty. Consider Corel, for instance. Its name is actually an acronym for Cowpland Research Laboratory, named by founder Michael Cowpland in 1985. At the time, he was CEO of Mitel, and as the story goes, Corel was born out of the Canadian telecommunications company’s need for an … [Read more...] about Corel is no longer Corel
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A fresh coat of paint
Digital artists get new tools with Painter 2023 that speed up their workflow and allow for more creativity. Corel has released Painter 2023, an update to its venerable paint and digital art software that will give digital artists access to a variety of new tools to improve productivity and workflow. These new features include Fluid Paint, hundreds of different brushes, … [Read more...] about A fresh coat of paint
Corel charts a path to yet another rebirth
The company’s new executive team takes charge and restarts Corel; there’s more than hot air in that balloon. In 2019, the venture firm KKR acquired Corel Corporation. According to a story by Ingrid Lunden in TechCrunch, KKR could have paid billion dollars or so to Corel’s previous owner, Vector Capital, also a venture capital company. Vector Capital had an interest in Corel … [Read more...] about Corel charts a path to yet another rebirth
Painter Essentials 8 gets updated features from parent product Painter 2021
New brushes, AI features, performance improvement, and Sidecar support. Painter Essentials 8, the latest addition to Corel’s Painter family, has arrived. Painter Essentials is essentially a slimmed-down version of Corel’s high-end painting tool Painter for digital artists which sells for $429 on the Corel site. The Painter Essentials tool is $49.99. Slimming down … [Read more...] about Painter Essentials 8 gets updated features from parent product Painter 2021
Corel gets new CEO with rich online experience
Can Christa Quarles take Corel up a notch with a more innovative cloud and digital services strategy? Christa Quarles has been named CEO of Corel Corporation. Quarles comes to Corel from stints as CEO of OpenTable and executive positions at NextDoor, and The Walt Disney Company. In the prepared statements welcoming Quarles, John Park, Chairman of the Board and KKR Partner, … [Read more...] about Corel gets new CEO with rich online experience
Corel picks up the AI brush for Painter products
Latest version of Painter includes benchmark tool giving users insight into how brushes work. The Painter family of products has its origins in MetaCreations, a digital arts development powerhouse in Santa Barbara. They were early pioneers in computer graphics software for artists and the work they did lives on at Daz3D, Poser, and most vibrantly at Corel in Painter. The … [Read more...] about Corel picks up the AI brush for Painter products
Corel releases CorelCAD 2019
Clone CADs are finding their space in a post-AutoCAD world. As a CAD program based on the ODA DWG format and the Graebert Ares CAD engine, CorelCAD come late on to the scene. The Ares engine was introduced in 2005 and today Graebert is a leading provider of a CAD engine for development. The company got a major endorsement when Dassault chose Ares as the base for its Draftsight … [Read more...] about Corel releases CorelCAD 2019
CorelDraw Graphics X8 Suite as full of goodies as ever
A pioneer in PC graphics keeps its user base happy. By Kathleen Maher CorelDraw first shipped in 1989. It is one of the seminal software programs of the Windows era, which officially kicked off with the shipment of Windows 1.0 in 1985. At around the same time, Adobe introduced Illustrator (1987) and Photoshop (1988). During this peaceful pre-3D era, these three products … [Read more...] about CorelDraw Graphics X8 Suite as full of goodies as ever
Corel upgrades VideoStudio, Pinnacle, and Painter
Corel has found its niche with serious consumers and professionals who are not paid to be visual creatives. New ParticleShop works with Adobe image files as well as Corel. By Kathleen Maher Corel rolls out new products in a disciplined cadence, though like most companies, all updates are not equal. Usually, it seems the company alternates between major upgrades and … [Read more...] about Corel upgrades VideoStudio, Pinnacle, and Painter
Onshape adds on Graebert’s new cloud-based CAD technology for drafting
Graebert GmbH and Onshape have signed a long-term licensing agreement to integrate Graebert's Xenon cloud-based CAD technology into Onshape via the OnShape's API. Berlin-based CAD tool developers Graebert has teamed with Onshape of Cambridge, MA to add drafting capabilities to Onshape’s cloud-based modeling technology. Onshape has licensed Graebert’s Xenon technology. As a … [Read more...] about Onshape adds on Graebert’s new cloud-based CAD technology for drafting