Autodesk SketchBook Pro 2010

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

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