I used Corel Draw back when I worked at a T-shirt and jersey shop in college, and frequently used it to drive a vinyl cutter for jersey numbers and other decoration. From anecdotes I’ve read since then, it appears the software is still the preferred choice in custom apparel, signage, and vehicle livery shops because it interfaces well with the cutting machines those industries use.

yes, Corel Draw was the #1 choice among the sign shops I worked at. Almost every vinyl cutter or large-format digital printer supported Corel export formats really well. I spent years working with it daily - it was pretty solid, and had an amazing amount of features & flexibility.

It was also expensive and so pirated a LOT.

Corel Painter has its niche among digital artists - it's still one of the higher end digital painting programs that simulates real life mediums (acrylic, oil, watercolor) remarkably well.

There's really no iPad equivalent to Corel Painter, but Corel registered the procreate.com domain to redirect to their Painter product page (Procreate (procreate.art) by the Australian company Savage is one of the strongest digital art applications on the iPad).

Corel has also recently purchased Gravit Designer, which presumably will stand as their main digital design app that competes with Sketch and Adobe XD.

They really named it Procreate?! (Yes)

Other than Photoshop, what are the favorites these days?

Serif products (Affinity) have been on a roll, last I checked.

I switched to Affinity and never looked back at Photoshop/Illustrator. That being said, I used them at a hobbyist level, nothing very complex, so while it was an easy transition for me, it may not be for everyone. But I've seen quite a few people state they have moved off of Adobe products over to Serif. I've been very happy with Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer.

Affinity products are fine and fast and stable, but there are many things they don't do. Tracing for example: Corel Draw does tracing beautifully.

They now just released Affinity Publisher in Beta as a replacement for Adobe InDesign. Already using it and very pleased!

Pixelmator still great, as is OmniGraffle (a better Visio) for vector diagrams and my vector-image pirposes.

https://www.pixelmator.com/pro/

https://www.omnigroup.com/

Corel Draw is similar to Adobe Illustrator, not Photoshop

Sketch for UI/UX design.