As far as Corel suite goes, while doing freelance CD cover work and advertising for small businesses I used Corel extensively right through Corel 6. It makes an excellent illustrative package and can compete comfortably with Adobes Illustrator and Photoshop. During that time, the Mac was the undisputed king of graphics tool, it had very little to no competition in the PC world and was widely used, and still is used, extensively throughout the printing industry. Adobe replaced Photostyler with Photoshop by buying them out and squashing them and poof, Photostyler disappeared from the face of the Earth making Photoshop king of the hill. Once learning Photoshop, I familiarized myself with Adobe Illustrator and retired Corel. I simply feel that Photoshop is more versatile than Corel as an image editor. Ive had very little experience with Quark but have seen it in operation in the color printing labs when some of my lettering work needed to be retouched. For font printing projects where lettering needs to be top shelf, then Quark, Corel, Illustrator in that order, is best for the job, IMO. P.S. I also, on occasion use PSP.