I would really recommend you to get Xara, it has quite a good potential! (it's like a nice combination of Illustrator and Photoshop) What is really better in Xara comparing to Adobe is that it's more intuitive and you don't have to remember all these key combinations to work. It works nice with .eps - even there are some slightly different colors in print-simulation. But if you're using .psd more often the only con is that it's impossible to export the work like smart objects, but still it handles photoshop files good. But since most of the graphics is made in .eps 8.0 that shouldn't be much of a problem. Talking about Corel, I've downloaded a trial recently and it was unreally buggy, slow and crashing without saving the file - so Xara looks a nice choice.
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