Corel Gallery Magic 200,000

It was bound to happen. Corel has a huge collection of clip art, which it releases in varying combinations with its software. If you were wondering if you could have it all, you need not wonder any longer.

Corel Gallery Magic (Gallery) is available in two sizes: 65,000 and 200,000. The latter consists of 105,000 fully editable vector graphics, with the rest of the equation consisting of over 500 typefaces, thousands of royalty-free photographs, and other images for Web pages.

You can use a convenient wizard to narrow your search; it opens the Gallery tool next; when you select the desired image, the appropriate Corel program is opened with the selection. In my case, it found CorelDRAW 8 and opened it for me.

If you have CorelDRAW of a recent vintage you may wonder if you should get this collection. I think so. In my case, there were several images I needed that were not in my Draw collection. You get a 2.5-cm-thick clip art catalogue, although you will find the wizard much easier on your eyes. Some of the images have been shrunk too much for my liking.

There isn't a lot to say about a collection of clip art, except that this offering from Corel is well worth the price.

Figure 1. The wizard narrows down your position

Figure 2. In the next step, you use Gallery Magic to choose the image

Figure 3. The selection opens up (in my situation) in Draw 8

Reprinted from the April 1998 issue of PC Update, the magazine of Melbourne PC User Group, Australia