Autodesk Sketchbook Pro 2011

Product Details

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• ASIN: B0045Y1IN0
• Release Date: 1 Mar 2011
  

By : Autodesk
Price : £52.90

Product Description

Relied on by professionals, adored by everyone who loves to draw... SketchBook Pro translates sophisticated technology and professional functionality into a natural drawing experience; use it anywhere you would traditionally use paper and pen.
A Natural Sketching Experience


SketchBook Pro is, essentially, your virtual sketchbook. Designed specifically for pen-based interaction, transform your desktop computer, laptop, or Tablet PC into a digital sketch pad. The intuitive interface makes it easy to access a host of tools and state-of-the-art features, including pencils, markers, brushes, colours, guides, layers, and blending effects.
"It's the fantastic responsiveness and clean interface that keep me coming back to Sketchbook Pro--but the way new enhancements extend the shape and textural capabilities, make it easier than ever to tailor it to your individual drawing and painting needs. I love this software." -- Nick Harris, Illustrator (UK)
Your Creative Process
SketchBook Pro fits in virtually any creative workflow; load and view images and photographs for reference or mark-up and annotations. SketchBook Pro lets you open and save images from a variety of image formats, including moving files directly in and out of Photoshop.

Your Tools
Whether you are designing your next masterpiece, story boarding a feature film, expressing your wildest ideas, or just plain doodling, SketchBook Pro is your ultimate digital sketchbook.


Highlights

• Familiar brush types; realistic and completely customisable pencils, pens, markers, and airbrushes
• Draw straight lines, rectangles, circles, and ellipses with draw modes or snapping to guides
• Use Text to easily add annotations and/or descriptions
• Full featured Layers including preserve transparency and blend modes to help you colour and create
• Edit your images by adjusting colour, contract, canvas size, or crop.

Freely express your ideas and unleash your creativity with SketchBook Pro.

What's new
New Tool bar for quick access
New Palette to store customised brushes
Import and export your own custom brush sets
Selection Enhancement

• Maintain selections when switching layers

Layer Enhancements

• Blend modes (multiply, add, screen)
• New quick access transparency slider

Preferences

• Symmetry stop at centerline
• Default file format (TIFF or PSD)

Draw Modes to quickly capture basic shapes

• Circles
• Lines
• Rectangles

New brush parameters for customizing brush textures

• Spacing Noise
• Rotational Jitter

Image editing

• Brightness/Contrast
• Hue/Saturation
• Colour Balance
• Greyscale
• Invert
• Crop tool

Text Layers for annotations and type

• System Fonts
• Basic settings
• Editable

Autodesk Sketchbook Pro 2011 Commercial New SLM 732C1A5A11B1002 Software Design Media Software
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Autodesk Sketchbook Pro 2011

 

Technical Details

• Autodesk SketchBook Pro offers professional-grade capabilities for artists, designers, and doodlers
• Fast and intuitive user interface
• So easy to learn, you’ll be productive in minutes
• Ultra-responsive and customizable digital pencils, pens, brushes, markers, and airbrushes
• Capture your ideas in writing, typed comments, and sketches… then email them instantly
• Work on standard images formats, including TIF, BMP, JPG, PNG and PSD

Customer Reviews

I have just obtained a graphics tablet with the intention of sketching digitally. I do this purely as a hobby and was a little intimidated about which software to use. After a couple of pro recommendations I downloaded the trial and instantly felt comofrtable with the interface. It's as clean or cluttered as you want it to be - all menus can be kept on screen for speed and convenience or closed and re-opened from the lagoon menu. I was amazed at the wealth of features within this program and after a few attempts I am very impressed with the finished pieces I produced. I have since spent countless hours producing work that I just didn't have the confidence to put on paper before.
I was so impressed that I purchased a copy 7 days into my 14 day trial.
I understand Photoshop is a better product for finishing/polishing but the drawing aspects of Sketchbook Pro are superior in my opinion. Ultimately it's a personal preference but I loved this and I'm pretty sure you will too.

After just becoming fairly competent with Photoshop I was reluctant to try another painting program, fearing another uphill struggle. As an illustrator who uses very few of the thousands of tools available on Photoshop, the process of creating a digital painting can be fairly intimidating faced with the Adobe interface. After installing Sketchbook Pro, however, I was painting competently and intuitively within minutes - I can't recommend this product enough. The pen flicks and shortcuts are easy to memorize, and there isn't any confusing jargon or unnecessary tools. It is designed specifically for tablet users so it obviously works with your tablet's pressure sensitivity, and most shortcuts work simply through pen movements, minimizing use of the keyboard. I kept discovering new features and thinking, this is what I wanted all along - why hasn't anyone made features like this before
One downside is that I use a lot of overlaid textures in my work, and I still find that photoshop has more precision in this field. However, it bridges the gap between other programs well, even allowing you to open up PSDs while keeping layers intact. It could also do with a few more brushes, but I still haven't discovered if you can create your own or download ones elsewhere. The ones provided are still good, but I would like a few more that imitate real brushes and media. If anyone could help in this area it would be greatly appreciated.
Despite this, it is still a wonderful piece of kit that every tablet owner should buy.

 

Autodesk Sketchbook Pro 2011