Indeed nice post Paul.
Just a word to say I'm a freelance illustrator and often have to work with clients that requires illustrator files.
In those situations I still find it much easier to work with Xara and translate to illustrator at the end.
I output much better results in less time, it all has to do with ergonomics.
This being said I use photoshop a lot. I'm using CS6 and will never "upgrade" to CC, especially since there is no new features that interest me. Xara can link any bitmap editor and that's a major asset for me.
Illustrator is a royal pain to work with, but has very useful features.
Corel also has a lot of feature but is less intuitive than xara in my opinion.
Marc
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