I've been a Corel Draw user since version 2 back on Windows 3.0.  Corel Draw was the first "expensive" program I bought which was in college when money was very tight.

Every thing I've ever made whether it be Galactic Civilizations for OS/2 to WindowBlinds skins has been done using one of Corel's programs.  I use Corel Draw for virtually any sort of vector based drawing and I have used Corel Photopaint for all my bitmap needs.