Redesign the transparency effects to be more efficient

When working small the transparency tools and effects work fine but when you are designing graphics in a larger format because the transparencies are pixel based, the efficiency goes down. I have had it become so bad that it would take minutes waiting on the system to redraw or compute the transparencies. It didnt seem to matter or help if I used a faster computer with a better video card, processor or RAM. I prefer Corel Draw to design in, but in this case, I had to take the file into Adobe Illustrator to do the transparency effects.