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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, colors, 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.
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Freely express your ideas and unleash your creativity with SketchBook Pro.
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| New Tool bar for quick access | New Palette to store customized brushes |
| Import and export your own custom brush sets | Selection Enhancement
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Layer Enhancements
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Draw Modes to quickly capture basic shapes
| New brush parameters for customizing brush textures
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Image editing
| Text Layers for annotations and type
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Autodesk SketchBook Pro 2010
[ReviewAZON asin="B001W2Y5Q0"]Autodesk SketchBook Pro software offers best-in-class sketching capabilities for professional designers and artists from all industries. A paint and drawing application designed specifically for use with digitized pen tablets and Tablet PCs, it can be used in any creative process where pen and paper would traditionally be used. With a patented user interface that is fast and intuitive, even new users can be productive within minutes. Autodesk SketchBook Pro represents the next generation of digital design products that focuses on the user, translating technology and functionality into a natural drawing experience.
 Best-in-class sketching capabilities for professional designers and artists from all industries. Click to enlarge. |
 So versatile and easy-to-use, it can be used in any creative process where pen and paper would traditionally be used. Click to enlarge. |
 The look and feel of traditional tools that experts demand. Click to enlarge. |
 With 2010's new features, Autodesk Sketchbook Pro continues its tradition of delivering an affordable, easy-to-use, natural drawing experience with the quality expected by professionals. |
Your Digital Sketchpad
So versatile and easy-to-use, it can be used in any creative process where pen and paper would traditionally be used:
- Concept sketching and ideation
- Illustration
- Character studies
- Set and level designs
- Story boarding
- Annotation and review
High Quality Results
- The look and feel of traditional tools that experts demand
- Custom texture brushes
- Interactive brush symmetry
- Interactive rulers and ellipses
Fits into all Digital Workflows
- Reduce time scanning and touching up paper sketches
- Reduce the use of paper
- Open and save common file formats, including Adobe Photoshop: TIF, BMP, JPG, PNG, PSD
Streamlined User Interface
- SketchBook Pro is designed to maximize flow, offering a natural drawing experience
- Highly discoverable UI
- So easy-to-use, any user can be productive within minutes.
- Patented Marking menus provide access to major tools with just one-flick
- Do-it-yourself custom brush creation
Communicate More Effectively
Share visual ideas quickly with integrated e-mail feature Instantly email sketches and annotations
What's New
With 2010, Autodesk Sketchbook Pro continues its tradition of delivering an affordable, easy-to-use, natural drawing experience with the quality expected by professionals.New: Rotate Canvas
- The navigation puck now has a rotate ring for smooth rotation of the canvas view.
- Automatically snap to 90 degree increments
New: Blur & Sharpen Brush
- Two new brush types in the brush palette.
- Paint blur effects directly in SketchBook Pro
- Use the sharpen brush to tighten imported photos or images.
New: Symmetric Brushing
- Easily draw anything symmetric.
- Horizontal & Vertical interactive mirroring brings drawings to life instantly... and fun too.
- Great for character design, product concepts, graphic design, automotive sketches, and vehicles of all kinds.
New: Custom brush features
- Create your own Custom Textures
- Capture and reuse graphics
- Make specialized brushes
- Export/Import custom brushes
- Save out XML with a TIFF map that you can share with other SBP users.
Customizability
- Set up your preferred tools in the Lagoon, including your custom DIY brushes
- Access marking menus right at the cursor
- Hotkeys for each lagoon item
- Assign these to a pen-button or tablet keys
- Now you can work completely in full screen mode, calling up tools as you need them.
- DIY Palette items can be reordered
New: Numeric color input
- Direct RGB input fields in the Color Editor.
- To support the custom color palette on Windows, you can now accurately define RBG values before saving them.
- The Mac version continues to use the Apple Color editor.
- Preset primary colors & gray scales now available for customizing in the lagoon.
New: Guides
- Create perfect straight lines, circles and ellipses.
- The Ruler and Ellipse guide bring a new level of precision to refine your sketches.
New: Scale enhancement
- The transform puck now allows non-proportional scaling
- Tweak the horizontal or vertical proportions of a selection or entire image directly in SketchBook Pro
