Autodesk SketchBook Pro 2010 |  | From: Autodesk PSG
Category: Software
List Price: $100.00
Buy New: $94.95
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Rating:  56 reviews
Sales Rank: 174
Format: DVD-ROM
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Mac OS X
Media: DVD-ROM
Edition: Pro
Operating System: Mac OS X
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 732B1-05A11B-1001
Model: 732B1-05A00B-P101A
UPC: 606122519408
EAN: 0606122519408
ASIN: B001W2Y5Q0
Release Date: April 13, 2009
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Autodesk SketchBook Pro software offers best-in-class sketching capabilities for professional designers and artists from all industries | | • | Fast and intuitive user interface; designed specifically for use with digitized pen tablets and Tablet PCs | | • | Free up the sketching process with ultra-responsive digital pencils, pens, markers, and airbrushes that look and feel just like the real thing | | • | Communicate more efficiently by emailing sketches and annotations instantly to colleagues and clients | | • | Open and save common file formats, including TIF, BMP, JPG, PNG, and PSD files |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
SKETCHBOOK PRO 2010 SLM DVD
Amazon.com Product Description
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
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| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 1-5 of 56
 Best product available to serve the spectrum February 9, 2010
THATCH (OHIO)
This is the best product available to serve the widest gambit of people who may have an interest. You could almost think this application was made by Apple. Highly recommended.
Awesome drawing program @ a great price! February 1, 2010
Joe Chaim
This software is a MUST for all digital artists who use a tablet or tablet-style input device. I purchased a ModBook (Axiotron conversion of a MacBook), and I ran into endless problems with Photoshop Elements. I tried the free download "trial" of Sketchbook Pro, and was quickly hooked! This has got to be the most intuitive and affordable graphics program I have ever seen.
The only thing I see that it lacks is the ability to input letters. (I am a cartoonist who adds captions to my illustrations.)
Joe
www.chaimcartoons.com
 Absolute failure on Mac OS Snow Leopard January 21, 2010
Steve Wehba (Carlsbad, CA USA)
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
Purchased product from Amazon. CD appears not to have a label burned into it. So, it will not mount with Snow Leopard. This is a known issue with Snow Leopard. Went ahead and purchased a second copy from the AutoDesk online store. Installed fine. New issue is that pen tracks intermittently with Wacom Intuos4 tablet. Called Wacom. They acknowledged that this is a SketchBook bug that appears only on Macs. After 45 minutes online with various folks at AutoDesk, I finally talked to a support person who also acknowledged that it was a bug with SketchBook Pro on the Mac. Until it's fixed the software is pretty awkward and frustrating to use on a Mac. Having said that, I give it 1 star because it is a very slick package (if and when it works).
And there's more...During my interaction with the numerous folks at Autodesk, they commented that my software wasn't registered. They directed me to a registration website. I filled out the registration forms and soon received an email from Autodesk instructing me how to complete the registration process within the product itself. Unfortunately, the instructions were apparently written for a Windows product and did not correspond to the layout of a Mac menu bar or dialog boxes. When I pointed that out to them, they claimed I actually installed version 4.1 instead of 2010. I found that odd, because the folder it installed into was labeled "2010." Nonetheless, I uninstalled the software and reinstalled it, screenshotting every step in the process. Every single link, window, dialog, and form displayed "2010." The product again installed into a "2010" folder. But, on launching it, the dialog box still displayed "4.1." Apparently, either the wrong software version was written to the installation CD (and online store website), or "4.1" refers to the internal version of the "2010" software. In either case, the Autodesk team was of no assistance and obviously is completely unfamiliar with at least the Mac version of the software. What a nightmare!
Digital Sketching the Right way - The future of Tablet applications January 12, 2010
Alan C. Bryant (Decatur, Ga USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
It is extremely rare that a company can go out on a limb and experiment with Usability and it be successful. The world of digital art is littered with examples of failed attempts with zBrush being the latest example of a bad attempt for a noble goal. As a word of warning Sketchbook Pro has been designed for use with a tablet so it does not make sense to use it any other way. Where it really shines is with the Cintiq.
The UI is at first startlingly bare. There is an icon based menu bar at the bottom left corner with a couple of palettes being initially visible but other than that the majority of the space is dedicated to the drawing surface. Palettes and tool menus are accessible through a "right click" of the pen or through the menu bar at the bottom. There is no interruption of the flow by the need to use the keyboard or selecting options through text based drop down menus. The most commonly used functionality is just a swipe away.
The UI might take a little while to get the hang of, maybe 5 or 10 minutes, and then you will find yourself loving the folks who thought this one up.
The price on Amazon is about 20% cheaper than the price offered through the AutoDesk site. As a side note I also love the iPhone Sketchbook app. While it is much harder to draw with your thumb it is great to have handy when an idea comes along and you are out and away from your computer and don't want to sketch out your idea on a napkin. As far as iPhone apps go it is my favorite.
This program absolutely ROCKS January 7, 2010
M. Jarrell (Temecula ,CA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Just received this program and I have to say for pure digital drawing it can not be beat. It takes no time to learn and works seamlessly with Photoshop CS4. I use with a Wacom Intuos3 it also work great with my sons Wacom Bamboo pen. I like it better than my more expensive Corel Painter 11 program. Don't even think twice on purchasing this product you will not be disappointed.
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