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Autodesk Sketchbook Pro 2011

 
Autodesk Sketchbook Pro 2011
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Autodesk Sketchbook Pro 2011

4.5(106 customer reviews)
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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.

Features:
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Autodesk SketchBook Pro offers professional-grade capabilities for artists, designers, and doodlers


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Fast and intuitive user interface; so easy to learn, you will be productive in minutes


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Ultra-responsive and customizable digital pencils, pens, brushes, markers, and airbrushes


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Capture your ideas in writing, typed comments, and sketches... then email them instantly


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Work on standard images formats, including TIF, BMP, JPG, PNG, and PSD


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Product Weight: 0.2 pounds
Package Length: 7.5 inches
Package Width: 5.4 inches
Package Height: 0.6 inches
Package Weight: 0.2 pounds
Average Customer Rating: based on 106 reviews
System Requirements:
Platform: Windows Vista / Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard / Windows 7 / Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard / Mac OS X 10.7 Lion / Windows XP
Media: DVD-ROM
Item Quantity: 1
Customer Reviews:
Average Customer Review: 4.5 ( 106 customer reviews )
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209 of 220 found the following review helpful:

5The BEST Digital Sketchbook For Artists, Designers & Crafters!Oct 27, 2010
By Tante Maren "Maren"
The Autodesk Sketchbook Pro 2011 is the best digital sketchpad I've ever used! I majored in art in high school and have always used art, crafts or designs in many of my jobs. I've designed t-shirts, done miniatures, sewn clothes for antique dolls, silkscreens for cloth patterns and general art work and photography. Once I owned a computer, I found many great photo programs over the years, but up until now, I really never found a great sketch or art program. I own Corel's Painter, which is not only time consuming to learn the media applications, but it's slow, misses strokes and has several bugs in it's applications. Corel keeps giving me patches, but it has become tiresome to keep downloading patches all the time! I actually would rather do my art by hand than deal with all of Painter's issues.

I've been using this Autodesk Sketchbook Pro 2011 every day, to see how smoothly it runs, and it not only runs smoothly, it's unbelievably fast! I have a Windows XP, and it took only a few minutes to download this great program. Once downloaded, I skipped the directions, as I wanted to see how quickly and easily I could learn to use this program on my own. Talk about easy to learn- anyone from 5 to 95 could use this without reading a direction! I am truly amazed that I could draw a sketch, a complicated geometric design for a piece of dress fabric and a dress pattern all in one sitting! The sketchpad itself is uncluttered with a small corner interface control, that allows you to bring up the nicely small tools window, brushes window or colors window. There is a brush property circle that allows you to choose both the brush size and flow for coverage. You can place these windows anywhere out of your drawing area or keep them off the screen completely.

The Brushes window includes a nice array of media types: pencil, airbrush, marker, chisel tip pen, ballpoint pen, paintbrush, felt tip pen, smear, blur, sharpen (does a great outline), hard eraser, soft eraser, flood fill and flood fill for all visible layers. The Tools Bar window has undo, redo, select, lasso, crop, zoom, rotate, ruler, elipse, symmetry X (top and bottom), symmetry Y (side to side), free hand, line, rectangle, polyline, oval and layers. Those symmetry features made my geometrical fabric design take only minutes to complete! What a great feature! The colors window features a color wheel, where you can create any color imaginable, then save it in the blocks below it. For your image, it has image size or canvas size, crop, adjust, rotate, mirror canvas, flip canvas vertically, mirror layer, flip layer vertically and both symmetry X and Y. Your finished art will work on the standard image formats- TIF, BMP, JPG, PNG and PSD.

I wish I had this program years ago, before I wasted so much time, money and constant patching on Corel's Painter! I'm just happy to have this Autodesk's super fast and easy Sketchbook now! For anyone who just sketches or draws, the inexpensive price of this program will pay for itself on the money you'll save on paper, pen, paints and inks! It's a wonderful, fast and easy money saving way to do story boarding, concept sketches, illustrations, fabric designs, pattern designs and anything that you would normally use a sketchpad and your choice of media for! Artists, designers and crafters will love the professional results they'll get with this BEST digital Sketchbook that I've ever used!

(With my review, I've included 3 images. If you don't see them on the top of this page in Images, you can find them by clicking on my name, then going to My Profile-Customer Images. The first image is of my computer screen, so you can see the corner interface control called the lagoon, which can be moved side to side or removed completely when sketching. You will also see the great moveable tool bar, brush window and color window- which you can move these three anywhere on the screen or remove, when sketching. It's simplistic screen design needs no directions! I made a City Skyline In Fall sketch in 5 minutes using the paintbrush and air brush along with the freehand, line and rectangle tools and spent another 5 minutes coloring it.

The second image I made in 20 minutes for a fabric print design using the symmetry tools. I used both symmetry tools X and Y along with flood fill, airbrush and paintbrush. The third image took me the longest time to create- 35 minutes, due to more detailed floral designs I wanted to create for a scarf print. I again used both symmetry tools X and Y along with flood fill, airbrush, paintbrush and the felt tip pen.

The fabric designs that used to take me endless hours by hand to create, now takes me a mere 20 to 40 minutes with these great symmetry tools! For fast painting, the airbrush and flood fill take seconds to use! The flood fill, which is a paint bucket, can be used to cover an entire area, or you will quickly learn like I did that you can also use this little paint bucket to splash a little color on for a beautiful effect! I did all three of these using only my mouse.

For more professional art, you will want to use a pen and tablet connected to your computer port. Wacom makes the best pen and tablets in all sizes and prices. For a beginner, try the inexpensive Wacom Bamboo or Bamboo Fun tablets and pens. For professional use, the more expensive Wacom Intuos4 Larger sized Pen and Tablets give you the ability to draw, design and paint anything with total pen control for hairline detail! I couldn't believe how easy and fast this program is to use- now everyone can be an artist!)

54 of 60 found the following review helpful:

5Excellent drawing/illustration tool for all skill levelsOct 31, 2010
By Matthew K. Morgan
AutoDesk SketchBook Pro 2011 is a drawing and sketching application designed for creatively-minded people. For those with artistic ability, SketchBook Pro is a powerful and productive tool, but for those with less talent it is a tool that allows even the most unskilled user to produce results with a small learning curve.

Installation is a painless and effortless undertaking. I was able to install the application with no issues at all and had a working installation in 5-10 minutes.

When Sketchbook Pro opens, rather than fill the screen with bunches of toolbars, widgets and other clutter, the user is greeted with a wide-open canvas, the "lagoon" toolbar in the lower left of the screen and a tool palette. The tool palette is easy enough to close and retrieve, but one thing that disappoints me is that is it not dockable. It is well-designed for docking and that it is either floating or off with no other options is a design decision with which I disagree. Hopefully AutoDesk will reconsider this and will change this in future releases.

For the uninitiated the lagoon is an arched toolbar that is parked in one corner of the screen and provides access to various tools and functions such as a color wheel, brush palette and more. It can be moved to either the lower left or lower right, and it can also be used to completely remove the menu bar from the top of the screen if desired. To pick a tool from the lagoon, the user clicks and holds on a lagoon icon, which opens a radial menu of icons to which the user drags the mouse to select the desired choice. This is a very different way of working and requires a little getting used to it, but it becomes second nature after using it for a while.

I observed that when the menu is removed from the canvas via the lagoon, SketchBook Pro inserts a wide band of unusable area across the bottom of the screen, and as a result there was no real space gain. The one advantage I found in this is that I can park the floating toolbar window in this unusable area which got it more out of the way, but otherwise I do not understand why the application works in this manner. If the idea was to give a maximum of workable space, it doesn't (at least, not directly).

SketchBook Pro is not the most advanced or powerful drawing program out there but it is packed with a surprising amount of features and tools to make even people with limited artistic talent productive. It has a variety of pens and brushes and each of these can be tweaked for size and intensity (as well as color, of course), but there's a lot more than just drawing implements. The ruler is an especially useful tool that I have not encountered in other applications, at least in the same way SketchBook Pro's works. It is more of a straight-edge tool rather than a ruler and allows the artist to make straight, precise lines with no worry of slipping or overshooting the distance. My favorite set of tools in the tool box is the reflectivity (symmetry) options, that create mirror images of what you draw as you're drawing. This can be a time saver.

The help system is top-notch and is arguably the best help system I have seen with an application of any type. It is a browser-based help system, very easy to follow and very well-designed with lots of eye appeal. Searching and finding information is straightforward and easy, and the overall system is very responsive.

AutoDesk has done a nice job with SketchBook Pro 2011. It is powerful and very easy to use and is well suited for the casual doodler as well as professional artists. There are a couple of design decisions in the interface that are puzzling but these are matters of personal taste, and overall the clean, uncluttered canvas gives the artist more room in which to work than most other applications of this type. At the price point, SketchBook Pro 2011 is an excellent application for drawing and sketching and is worth serious consideration if you're looking for such an application.

75 of 86 found the following review helpful:

5Reasons to Buy This Even if You Already Have Photoshop or PainterNov 05, 2010
By V. Hutson
I put off trying this product for a long time since I already had Photoshop and Painter. I didn't see the need to purchase another product when I already had the two most expensive drawing/painting programs available. About six months ago I downloaded the trial version of Sketchbook Pro 2010 and fell in love with it! This new version adds some nice features (like layer blending modes) that enhance the software even more.

I still use Photoshop and Painter to complete my digital works--but I often start them in Sketchbook because I find it provides the closest sensation to drawing with traditional pencil and paper of any digital art program currently available.

The pencil feature creates lines that are almost identical to the lines you would get with a regular pencil. If you have a pressure sensitive laptop or monitor (Wacom Cintiq) then the experience is almost identical to using a pencil on paper! Download the free trial version and try it out first to see what I mean.

The interface is very basic and easy to use. One great advantage of this program over Photoshop or Painter is that the majority of the screen is available for drawing--it is not cluttered up with menu bars and palettes! I find this a huge plus when I am drawing on my pressure sensitive laptop that only has a 12 inch screen. Space is less of an issue with my 22" Cintiq.

I've seen some very impressive works that have been totally created in SketchBook but I still use Photoshop and Painter to finish my drawings/paintings because these programs have advanced features that SketchBook Pro doesn't have (masks, adjustment layers, etc.).

Bottom line: When it comes to pure sketching--this software is my first choice! Combined with a pressure sensitive laptop or monitor--it doesn't get any more natural feeling than this!

36 of 41 found the following review helpful:

5One Of 2010's Best Softwares. AutoDesk's Sketchbook Pro 2011: A Critical Review.Dec 14, 2010
By Andre Lawrence
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R39794RGHXLMV8 It is rare that I come across something, which fundamentally changes the way I do my work. But, for the past two (2) months, I must say that I have, not only found a software that simplifies my workload, but it is an actual tool that can produce work for a fine art project, graphic art project, engineering and architectural projects. This is a complete art workshops wrapped up in an inexpensive software.

As a fine artist for well over 30 years and a graphic artist for the past 10, working with and owning the Adobe Creative Suite I can comfortably say that AutoDesk--the owner of AutoCAD and other high-end engineering softwares- has created in the essential fine and graphic artists' software: Sketchbook Pro.

This software is monumentally important. And, that's not an exaggeration by any means. When one can pick up a pen-tablet and sketch almost as comfortably as a pencil on paper or tracing paper on a drafting table without any difficulty and choose between 14 different virtual mediums: that is incredible. What took me literally months and months of arduous trial and error and forbearing that high learning curve that Photoshop demands, Sketchbook Pro is nothing short of a godsend.

It took me no less than a few hours of playing around with it to get completely comfortable with this engineering marvel.

Sketchbook Pro has a clean, minimalist interface. There's a tool bar that has such editing capacities as Back/ Forward buttons, crop, lasso, zoom, ruler (slide ruler), ellipse, symmetry, line, rectangle, layers, brush palette and color editor. The color editor, by the way, is very similar in look and features as Photoshop's.

The brush palette has 14-different brush selection. This includes a pencil, airbrush, marker, chisel-tip pen, ballpoint pen, paintbrush, felt tip, smear, blur, sharpen, hard & soft eraser, flood fill.

SBP also allows you to save in Photoshop and Illustrator-friendly formats such as tif, jpeg, png, bmp and Adobe Photoshop native PSD.

If there were one unique distinction between Photoshop and Sketchbook Pro, besides the $600 price difference, I'd have to say it is the addition of a "slide ruler." This is one of the singular tools that make this software worth the purchase alone. Two handles shorten/ elongate the line. The middle bar moves the line up/down, left/right or diagonally. As you make adjustments, to draw a line or even to erase, a running scale determines the angle based on the XY-axis.

For around $75, this is one of the biggest secrets and best deals in computing today.

This software comes with my highest recommendation of any I own and/or have reviewed.

14 of 15 found the following review helpful:

5The best I've tried so far !Jan 10, 2011
By Rob "Do-it-yourselfer"
I had purchased a Wacom Bamboo Fun tablet ( check my review on that product ) but was not impressed by it at first. The bundled software was hideous and so is Artrage2 which I also bought. Then I started checking out the Sketchbook reviews and decided to give its 15 day free trial a go and Voila! My tablet now has life! Sketchbook is so easy to use I made my first full digital painting WITHOUT ever looking at the tutorials. I went in head first and came out very pleased. I have included my first painting to show you all the ease of this wonderfull product. Everybody says Photoshop is the way to go but with Adobes $600-&800 price tag I just cannot justify paying that much for a freaking CD, I dont care if it prints money! Autodesk is affordable, powerfull and easy to use from beginner to pro. What more can you ask from a product? I highly recommend this and will purchase it myself soon as my trial will be ending in a few days. I cannot wait until I get a Wacom Cintiq 21 and use it with Sketchbook, my mouth drools thinking about what I'll be able to produce.

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