NEW YORK, Sept. 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Better Business Advice has published a launch-day review of the CorelDRAW Graphics Suite September 2026 Update, highlighting new Text-to-vector AI, enhanced PowerTRACE bitmap-to-vector tracing, expanded CorelDRAW Web capabilities, and performance and stability improvements.

The September Update centers on a practical challenge for AI-powered graphic design software: generated assets still need to work inside professional design and production workflows. Editable vectors, scalable artwork, accurate color, and the ability to continue refining a design remain important when work is intended for branding, apparel, signage, print, and other commercial uses.

AI-Powered Graphic Design Software:

CorelDRAW Graphics Suite – professional graphic design software for vector illustration, multi-page layout, photo editing, typography, color management, and production workflows, with the September 2026 Update adding Text-to-vector AI, enhanced PowerTRACE, and new CorelDRAW Web capabilities for subscribers.

What Makes Text-to-Vector AI Relevant for Professional Design Work

Text-to-vector is the flagship feature of the September Update. Available through the AI Generate docker or inspector, the tool can turn written prompts or existing artwork into editable, scalable vector graphics in seconds.

Designers can begin with a written prompt, choose from styles such as Line art, Comic book, and Icon, or use existing artwork as the basis for new variations. Generated results automatically respect the document’s color mode and remain editable after generation.

Logos may need to scale across formats, apparel artwork may require clean color separations, signage can depend on crisp large-format output, and marketing assets often go through repeated revisions.

Text-to-vector is designed to shorten the distance between an initial idea and workable vector artwork while keeping traditional editing available. Designers can continue adjusting nodes, shapes, colors, proportions, and layout before a project reaches final production.

That approach reflects CorelDRAW’s Artist Intelligence™ philosophy, which positions AI as a way to accelerate creative and production tasks rather than replace the designer’s role.

How PowerTRACE Addresses Low-Resolution Client Artwork

The September Update also strengthens PowerTRACE, CorelDRAW’s bitmap-to-vector tracing workflow. Client-supplied files can arrive as low-resolution JPEGs, scans, or older bitmap graphics that are difficult to enlarge or modify cleanly.

CorelDRAW reports several changes to PowerTRACE:

Up to four times faster bitmap-to-vector tracingAn updated tracing interfaceImproved object structure and color handlingAI-powered background removalFully editable vector shapes after conversion

Text-to-vector and PowerTRACE address two different production needs. Text-to-vector can create new concepts and variations, while PowerTRACE can help recover usable artwork from imperfect source files.

Both workflows end with editable vectors rather than flattened results, allowing artwork to continue into branding, apparel, signage, technical graphics, marketing materials, and print production.

What Else Arrives in the September CorelDRAW Update

The launch extends beyond generative AI. These non-AI improvements were prioritized from user requests, with Corel listening directly to feedback.

CorelDRAW Web, available to subscribers, now supports system, brand, and custom font uploads. The addition can help maintain intended typography when CDR files move between desktop and browser workflows.

CorelDRAW Web also adds DWG and DXF export for workflows involving plotters, fabrication, technical graphics, and related production output. Additional browser improvements include automatic cloud saving and improved file renaming.

The broader September Update also includes stability and performance enhancements aimed at smoother handling of complex files and everyday design tasks.

Together, the changes broaden the release beyond AI generation. Text-to-vector remains the headline feature, while PowerTRACE, Web improvements, and performance updates address other parts of the professional design workflow.

How the September Update Supports Real Design Workflows

Better Business Advice highlights several practical applications for the new capabilities:

Apparel and merchandise: Editable motifs can move from AI generation into manual vector editing and color separation.Signage and large-format work: Scalable vector artwork supports output where clean edges and enlargement matter.Branding and marketing: Generated concepts can become starting points for further shape, color, typography, and layout development.Client-file preparation: PowerTRACE can turn low-resolution bitmap artwork into editable shapes for resizing, recoloring, and production.Technical and fabrication work: DWG and DXF export expands browser-based output options through CorelDRAW Web for subscribers.

These use cases are central to the update’s positioning. AI assists with ideation or file preparation, while the remaining design and production process stays editable.

Why the September Update Is a Must-Try During AI Unlock Week

Better Business Advice positions the September Update as a must-try for designers evaluating AI-assisted vector creation in real production settings. The benefit is not generation alone, but the ability to create or recover scalable artwork quickly and continue refining it using standard vector controls.

The launch also includes a limited-time opportunity. From September 15 through September 22, all CorelDRAW customers and trial users receive unlimited free AI vector generation using the Vector Craft and Vector Master models.

During AI Unlock Week, designers can try CorelDRAW for free and test Text-to-vector without using the standard free trial AI credit allocation. This free trial lasts for 15 days, with no credit card required, and includes 200 AI credits.

Outside the promotion, subscription and maintenance customers receive 2,000 AI credits each month, while one-time-purchase customers receive a one-time allocation of 2,000 credits. Trial users get 200 free credits to experiment with generative AI features.

A limited-time coupon code, COREL10, is available until October 15, 2026 and applies a 10% discount to all editions of CorelDRAW Graphics Suite.

For print shops, sign makers, apparel professionals, in-house creative teams, and designers working with editable production assets, the September Update centers on a practical proposition: faster AI-assisted ideation and file preparation without giving up control over final artwork.

The full review can be read at the Better Business Advice website.

About Corel

Corel is a global software company headquartered in Ottawa, Canada, with more than 100 million users in over 75 countries. Founded in 1985, Corel has built a strong reputation for innovation and usability in graphics, digital‑media, and productivity software. Its product portfolio includes vector illustration (CorelDRAW Graphics Suite), natural‑media painting (Corel Painter), photo editing (Corel PaintShop Pro), video production (Corel VideoStudio), and productivity tools (WordPerfect Office and WinZip). Corel’s software is designed for both professionals and creative consumers and provides powerful features in an accessible, easy‑to-learn format. With a global footprint that includes major offices in the US, UK, Germany, China, Taiwan and Japan, Corel continues to expand its reach while maintaining a close connection with its user community.

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Tiger Pistol now has a Marketing Technology badge in the TikTok Marketing Partners Program which builds on Tiger Pistol’s Creative Automation Studio, extending its brand-compliant, design-once, deploy-everywhere model to short-form video.

CLEVELAND, Sept. 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Tiger Pistol, a local advertising automation platform for franchises, multi-location brands, and marketing resellers, today announced it is now a badged TikTok Channel Sales Partner, earning the Channel Sales specialty within the Marketing Technology category of the TikTok Marketing Partners Program.

Paul Elliott, CEO of Tiger Pistol, said:

“Every local and franchise marketer already knows short-form video works.

The hard part has always been producing it on-brand for thousands of locations, and then executing it locally so it’s clear the ad is coming from the business  down the street.

That’s the problem we’ve spent a decade solving on Facebook, Instagram, and Amazon.

We’re thrilled TikTok is recognizing we’ve brought these capabilities to their platform, and we’re backing it with real product investment, not just a badge.”

Brands and resellers interested in activating TikTok advertising at scale through Tiger Pistol can request a demo at tigerpistol.com.

Alongside the badge, Tiger Pistol is expanding its video advertising capabilities on the foundation of its AI-driven Creative Automation Studio (CA-Studio).

CA-Studio already lets franchise and multi-location brands design a single ad once and automatically generate location-specific image and video variations.

The local advertising platform’s automation dynamically inserts store names, local promotions, and regional visuals within brand-approved guardrails, helping reduce production timelines and creative costs for its clients using the product.

With the TikTok Channel Sales Partner badge, Tiger Pistol is extending that same design-once, deploy-everywhere engine specifically to TikTok’s short-form vertical video format, alongside Instagram and Facebook Reels.

“At TikTok, we’re dedicated to helping brands and merchants find a clear, confident path to success on our platform,” said Brendan Jacobson, Global Head of Channel Partnerships at TikTok. “Our TikTok Channel Sales Partners deliver the technology and hands-on expertise to streamline workflows, enhance performance, and provide support at scale, so your brand can stay focused on growth while achieving stronger results on TikTok.”

The TikTok Marketing Partners Program’s Marketing Technology category recognizes best-in-class companies with proven expertise in building solutions for TikTok campaigns, execution, and optimization.

As a badged Marketing Technology Partner, Tiger Pistol helps brands maximize performance through advanced campaign management tools, strategic expertise, and seamless integration with TikTok tools. Tiger Pistol is trusted by advertisers to scale campaigns efficiently, drive measurable business outcomes, and unlock the full value of TikTok media investments.

TikTok has teamed up with leading digital marketing platforms that already serve thousands of small and mid-sized businesses. These partners make TikTok accessible at scale, through the tools and services SMBs already know and use.

Tiger Pistol’s badge reflects both the scale of its existing advertiser base and its track record executing brand-approved, locally relevant campaigns for national franchise networks, multi-location brands, and resellers serving the SMB community.

Tiger Pistol’s TikTok capabilities, including the new video advertising enhancements, are available now to existing customers and are being rolled out to new franchise, multi-location, and reseller partners as part of the company’s broader go-to-market plan.

About Tiger Pistol

Tiger Pistol is a local advertising platform designed to streamline and simplify localized advertising through the power of AI and advanced automation. 

With a focus on three core pillars – scale, simplicity, and performance – Tiger Pistol helps franchises, multi-location brands, and marketing resellers efficiently manage and optimize digital advertising campaigns while ensuring brand control. 

The platform automates complex tasks, allowing users to effortlessly execute large-scale, locally relevant campaigns across top digital channels like Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Google, and Amazon.

This automation not only enhances the ease of use, but also drives superior advertising performance, making effective local marketing accessible to all levels of expertise.

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Director, Marketing and Communications, Tiger Pistol
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RM11 identifies the rise of owned audiences, diversified monetization, paid traffic, AI automation and creator wellness as forces reshaping the creator business model.

DALLAS, Sept. 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The creator economy is growing up. Building a large following is no longer enough to build a sustainable creator business as creators increasingly seek greater control over their audiences, revenue, workload and long-term careers.

RM11, a creator-first platform built around direct audience relationships and multiple monetization tools, has identified five trends it believes will reshape how creators build businesses and generate revenue in 2027.

Recent industry research supports that shift. CreatorIQ’s 2026 State of Creators study, based on 5,095 creators, found that 67% earned less than $10,000 from content creation over the prior year and that content creation was not the primary source of income for 62% of respondents. Meanwhile, Epidemic Sound’s Future of the Creator Economy Report 2026 found that 72% of creators are actively developing owned audiences, while 41% want to build a sustainable independent business or grow into a media brand or creator studio.

“The next evolution of the creator economy isn’t about producing more content or accumulating more followers,” said Olivier David, Chief Growth Officer of RM11. “It’s about giving creators the infrastructure to operate like businesses — own their audience relationships, diversify revenue, acquire customers and protect their most valuable resource: their time.”

RM11 identifies five shifts that will define the next era of creator monetization:

1. Owned audiences will become more valuable than follower counts.

Creators are increasingly looking beyond algorithm-dependent reach toward direct relationships with their audiences. Memberships, private communities, messaging and direct-to-fan experiences can give creators greater control over how they engage and monetize their most loyal followers. Epidemic Sound’s 2026 research found 72% of creators are already developing audiences away from core platforms through channels such as newsletters and Discord.

2. Creator platforms will evolve beyond the paywall.

The next generation of creator platforms will function more like business operating systems. Rather than relying on subscriptions alone, creators will increasingly combine memberships, pay-per-view content, livestreams, messaging, video calls and other revenue streams while using integrated tools to manage customer relationships, content and day-to-day operations.

3. Creators will start thinking about customer acquisition — not just followers.

As the industry matures, creators will increasingly apply traditional business metrics such as customer acquisition cost, conversion and return on advertising spend to audience growth. RM11 is developing promotion tools designed to make paid traffic and measurable customer acquisition more accessible to eligible creators, moving growth beyond the traditional “post and hope” model.

4. AI will shift from content generation to workload reduction.

AI adoption is becoming mainstream, but creator control remains critical. Adobe’s 2026 Creators’ Toolkit Report found that 93% of surveyed creators say creative AI helps them produce content faster, while 85% say the final creative decision should always remain with the creator. RM11 believes the next opportunity lies in using AI to reduce repetitive work and expand creator capacity without sacrificing authenticity, ownership or human oversight.

5. Creator wellness will become business infrastructure.

Creator-first economics cannot stop at revenue share. As creators operate increasingly complex businesses, platforms will be expected to help address the workload, stress and burnout that can accompany always-on digital careers. RM11 is investing in this area through integrated human account-management support and relationships with creator wellness and mental health organizations, including Creators for Mental Health, Revive Health Therapy and Pineapple Support.

“At RM11, ‘creator-first’ has to mean more than a revenue split,” David added. “It means asking what creators actually need to build sustainable businesses — and then building the technology, services and partnerships around them.”

RM11’s growing ecosystem combines direct monetization, creator CRM capabilities, human account-management support, audience-growth initiatives and creator wellness resources as the company works toward a broader vision: giving creators the infrastructure to build businesses, not simply profiles.

For more information, visit RM11.com.

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About RM11

RM11 is a creator-first platform designed to give creators greater control over their audience, earnings and digital businesses. Through memberships, exclusive content, messaging, livestreaming, native video calls, integrated creator tools, account-management support, and a free CRM for agencies, RM11 provides multiple ways for creators to monetize direct relationships with their audiences. Female-founded and led, RM11 is building a more sustainable, creator-first model for the next generation of the creator economy.

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