DrawPlus X4 (PC)

Product Details

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• ASIN: B003EYVHGU
• Release Date: 19 April 2010
  

By : Serif
Price : £9.49

Product Description

Manufacturer's Description
DrawPlus X4 is the powerful, fun, and versatile designer that makes creating beautiful artwork and graphics easier than ever. Design attractive logos and documents for print, create eye-catching Web graphics and banners, paint and sketch with easy tools that let you edit at any time, enhance your photos by quickly transforming them into stunning pieces of art, turn drawings into animations, and output your designs at high quality and at any size--whatever your level of experience.

All the shapes, lines, paintbrush strokes, text, and effects you create are editable--all the time.
Use high-end tools, techniques, colors, color management, and professional graphics formats.
Design Unleashed
DrawPlus X4 makes it easy to achieve creative results fast.
Easy to UseBe creative with DrawPlus X4, whatever your experience, with video tutorials to smooth the way.
Instant ResultsReady-to-use designs and an on-screen gallery of instant art and symbols get you results fast.
Versatile for Any ProjectGo for it! You can tackle fun, serious, print, Web, large, small, static, and animated graphics.
Professional PowerUse high-end tools, techniques, colors, color management, and professional graphics formats.
High QualityGet high-quality artwork out of DrawPlus X4 at any size with dynamic printing and exports.
Go Back and Edit AnytimeAll the shapes, lines, paintbrush strokes, text, and effects you create are editable--all the time.
Create Stunning Artwork
Sketch and paint naturally using realistic brushes and media.
Paint with Realistic BrushesPaint with lifelike watercolor, oil, charcoal, and many other brush tips--without mess--plus a handy Undo button, freedom to edit stroke paths, and change the brush tip; even for existing strokes.

• Natural paint and brush textures
• Pressure-sensitive response for added realism
• Special effects brushes for fog, cloud, and smoke
• Use designer textures to add realism and age
• Paint photo-quality stitching, glitter, and more

Intelligent Drawing ToolsQuickShapes, curve smoothing, and smart tools all help non-artists achieve fantastic results.
Advanced Vector PowerEnhance your drawings with editable perspective, warps, skewing, roughening, and shape blending.
Professional Blend ModesAchieve unique artistic effects by combining the color and brightness of objects in smart new ways.
Amazing EffectsApply and customise impressive effects like bevels, glows, surface textures, and Instant 3D.
Give your artwork even more hand-made realism with a graphics tablet.
Achieve Even More with a Graphics TabletGive your artwork even more hand-made realism with a graphics tablet. Pressure-sensitivity offers your strokes natural faintness and depth for better brushwork, sketching, writing, shading, and more natural flair.
Pressure StudioAutomatically calibrate your tablet(s) to suit light and heavy strokes or manually tweak and test your pressure sensitivity in an impressive, all-new Studio.
Dynamic ToolsCustomize your tablet's buttons, wheels, sliders, and ExpressKeys (found on Wacom Intuos4 tablets) for the highest level of productivity and ease of use.
Logos ; Web Graphics
Craft high-impact and high-quality graphics for print and the Web.
Ready-to-Use GallerySimply drag and drop instant artwork and also reuse your own favorites from your own Gallery.
One-Click Graphics StylesRealistic styles for your headlines and logos include marble, metal, glass, wood, and organic textures.
Logo-Friendly Design ToolsUse perspective and cool warps, add Instant 3D, and work on graphics in isolation in Solo Mode.
Rollover Web ButtonsMake attractive and professional-looking Web buttons that change with mouse-cursor interaction.
Animated Web BannersGive your Web site a slick, polished banner featuring your own title, imagery, message, and hotspots.
Plus... Charts and PlansLive connectors make charts and diagrams easy and 2D plans are a breeze using scaled dimensions.
PhotoLab offers over 70 easy adjustments, corrections, filters, and instant artist effects.
Transform Your Photos
Enhance, cut out, or transform your photos into works of art.
Powerful PhotoLabMake sure photos are at their very best and turn them into stunning pieces of art with the all-new PhotoLab, offering over 70 easy adjustments, corrections, filters, and instant artist effects.

• Remove blemishes and fix photo flaws
• Apply artistic photo filters
• Turn photos into watercolors, oils, and more
• Limit stylish changes to specific areas
• Change or undo image settings at any time

AutoTrace Images into Editable Shape ArtTurn sketches, logos, Web graphics and photos into high-quality vector artwork you can easily recolor, tweak, silhouette, and resize without losing quality.
Remove Backgrounds the Easy WayQuickly and accurately cut away image backgrounds to give subjects total focus, or use parts of a photo as shape art to use as silhouettes and much more.
Create jaw-dropping cartoons and interactive animations in your own unique style.
Easy Animations
Create jaw-dropping Flash Web animations and fun cartoons.
Make Flash AnimationsThe creative power of DrawPlus X4 brings you more than printed artwork, more than Web graphics... you can also create jaw-dropping cartoons and interactive animations in your own unique style!

• Keyframe mode automatically smoothes motion
• Make your own Flash animations
• Use interactivity to create games and puzzles
• Go pro with ActionScript commands
• Save as Flash, movie files, animated GIFs

Interactive DemosUse interactive animation features to showcase products and more.
Stopframe MoviesStopframe animation mode gives you total, frame-by-frame control.
Make a ScreensaverEnjoy your animated creations any time as movie screensavers.



Highly Compatible
Share your artwork in standard formats and fully edit PDFs.
Get Artwork and Images from AnywhereOpen or import artwork and documents from almost anywhere, with support for 18 popular drawings, graphics, and image formats.
Incredible PDF EditingOpen and fully edit PDFs from other computers and programs, changing text, layout, pages, colors, images--anything--and simply save as PDF again.
High-End Graphics SupportCollaborate with other artists using EPS, SVG, AutoCAD, and Adobe Illustrator files.
Export OptimizerCreate the right image every time; preview the quality and size of up to four image types at once.
Share on DrawPlus.comShowcase your work and chat with other DrawPlus users in the free DrawPlus.com community. END

• DrawPlus X4 is the powerful fun and versatile designer that makes creating beautiful artwork and graphics easier than ever
• Design attractive logos and documents for print create eye-catching web graphics and banners paint and sketch with easy tools that let you edit at any time enhance your photos by quickly transforming them into stunning pieces of art turn drawings into animations and output your designs at high quality and at any size - whatever your level of experience.

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DrawPlus X4 (PC)

 

Product Features

• Pure vector illustration and artistic drawing
• Full and flexible PDF import, editing and export
• Versatile document types for art, marketing materials, web graphics and home projects
• Templates to achieve fast results
• Editable vector painting with photo-realistic paint styles
• Good support for pressure sensitive tablets
• Flash animation for fun, the web, and for interactive puzzles/demos
• Connected-shape flowcharts, org charts, trees and diagrams
• Conversion of photos into drawn shapes
• Special effects for graphics and images

Customer Reviews

Although Draw Plus is an excellent programme the latest version X4 contained in my opinion only minor changes over X3 with two exceptions. It will now load complete PDF files rather than just one page and the reason I bought this upgrade is that it now supports pressure sensitive lines when using a pen tablets (it is particularly effective with the Wacom Intuos4).
Minor improvements include:
Adding Text automatically to any line or shape.
Upgraded keyboard shorcuts.
Additional Brushes.
Better Connector Tools.
For anyone who has read my review on the X3 version it still does not support the .ico format. The other thing to check is if the package you buy comes with the excellent User Guide, I much prefer this to the on line help or the PDF version included in the CD. Also if you want to find out about all of its extensive features the manual is available on the Serif web site so you can look before you buy.

Length:: 2:43 Mins
Released in 2010, Serif's graphic design ; drawing software `DrawPlus x4' was set with Serif's usual software brief - to deliver powerful software in a user-friendly and easy to learn package. The result is this impressive piece of software that really allows your every-day user to get involved with the many features it offers, and really get creative from the outset.
The installation itself is a doddle (as per usual). The software comes on one CD-ROM which automatically sets itself to the installation process. A few clicks, the odd confirmation, a wait of 5-10 mins, and you're set to go. Early on in using the software, it checks for any updates (so you'll need to be online for this to happen) and it'll download any updates/patches etc for you. It also asks you to register the software with Serif (and as such join their mailing list) but this can always be declined or postponed if you prefer.
From the start it's easy to get to grips with the usability and various basic features of the software. Just having a play around shows how straight forward and well designed the product is. All of the tools are laid out in easy to find places, with a handy `Help' section that can be quickly referred to at any given point simply by clicking to the far left of the screen (see video).
Incorporating photos and playing around with them is a piece of cake too. With no experience, background, or particular skills in `photoshoping' stuff, I easily managed to get creative with a few photos without even having to consult the help section.
The sheer variety of brushes available for `painting' with is incredible. Just scrolling down the list alone pretty much sums up the capability of this package. The various effects that can be superimposed on to your picture/photo/design are just as simple to use and offer another incredible range.
The animation application does require a little guidance from the help section, but once you've got the hang of this relatively straight forward process, you can then easily put together basic animations (say for a website or just a bit of fun).
The real strength of this package is the simplicity of it. It's not aimed at professional designers. Its market is your everyday user who wants to be a little creative. Whether it's for a website you're building, for leaflets ; flyers, or just for a bit of fun, this software offers everything from a quick and easy to use drawing package, to a quite impressive piece of designing software.
The attached video pretty much sums it up really. If you're looking for a drawing ; design package that you can get stuck into without hardly any guidance or experience, then this is for you.

 

DrawPlus X4 (PC)