DrawPlus X3 is great for drawing and painting:
- Easily draw or paint anything using the on-screen help & tips
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Unlimited creative freedom with realistic brushes and special effects
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Flexible designing including PDF editing, image autotrace, and key frame & stop animation
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Excellent compatibility with Adobe Illustrator files, EPS files, and CAD graphics files
- Share your designs, hints & tips with other designers on DrawPlus.com
- Simplify complicated drawings by working in Solo Mode
Realistic Natural Painting IMPROVED
Create your own masterpieces with natural brush strokes and lifelike brush textures – without the mess of real paint, and with so much more flexibility!
- Brushes include chalk, charcoal, pastels and watercolor
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Use pen and pencil-style brushes for lifelike sketches
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Fully editable brush strokes help you achieve perfection
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Support for pressure-sensitive pens gives a realistic feel
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Strokes have a different look to the start and end, just like real life
Smart Photo Brushes NEW
Bring a splash of realism, designer textures, and photo-quality paint effects to your drawings and painting with impressive Spray Brushes.
- Use photo-quality bristle and roller paint brushes
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Add stunning fog, clouds, flames and smoke to your artwork
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Add pizzazz with high-energy neon glowing brush strokes
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Paint deep layered and interesting textures with ‘grunge’ brushes
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Editable nozzles mean you can customize brushes or create your own
Turn Images into Stunning Artwork NEW & IMPROVED
Instantly transform photos into works of art with powerful new studios, enhance with built-in image adjustments, and instantly add artistic realism with paper textures.
- Fix flaws and enhance images with easy photo adjustments
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Remove unwanted backgrounds with the Image Cutout studio
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Turn photos and scans into drawings with the AutoTrace studio
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Trace and retouch images to produce high quality, scalable logos
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Instantly add realistic paper textures to photos, drawings and paintings
Intelligent Drawing Tools IMPROVED
DrawPlus X3 takes drawing at all levels to great heights with a range of intuitive drawing and editing tools, quickly giving you the power of a graphics studio.
- Editable QuickShapes make it easy to draw all sorts of shapes
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Use a simple brush to paint and erase shapes
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Let DrawPlus steady your hand with curve smoothing controls
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Apply artistic curves, contours and special effects to text art
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Cut and crop artwork with freehand swipes cutout shapes
Get Crafty! NEW & IMPROVED
Create fun and lifelike craft and hobbyist artwork, school and home projects, plus decorative embellishments – no expertise required, and no accidents with pins, glue, or staples!
- Sew shapes to your page with lifelike stitching and laces
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Draw high quality photo-realistic strips of ribbon, lace and zips
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Combine artwork and textures then cut to shapes of your choice
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Decorative knife blades allow you to cut art with special edges
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Create rather than buy craft items and experiment with design freedom
Amazing Effects IMPROVED
Make your artwork stand out – from the screen, from the page and from the crowd! Create high quality professional special effects with amazing ease.
- Realistic metal and glass effects with built-in reflections
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Create bevels and embossed effects with editable 3D lighting
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Add warp envelopes and perspective with dedicated design tools
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Roughen and blend shapes for totally unique results
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Professional soft shadows with skew, soften, and intensity controls
Stunning Interactive Animations IMPROVED
All the creative power of DrawPlus X3 gives you more than printed artwork, more than web graphics… you can also create jaw-dropping interactive animations!
- Two animation modes for flexibility – stop frame and key frame
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Key frame animations automatically create slick movement for you
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Create Flash® animations, movies, GIFs, or screensavers
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Use animations as professional demos and presentations
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Cool interactivity for demos, games and puzzles, plus ActionScript™ support
Diagrams and Charts IMPROVED
In addition to amazing drawings and paintings, you can also create exceptional dimensioned plans and room layouts, business charts, and flow diagrams.
- Quickly and easily create quality flow charts and org charts
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Use intelligent dynamic connecting lines for charts and schematics
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Add life size dimensions to scaled garden, room and office plans
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Use ready-made chart and 2D plan artwork from an on-screen gallery
Special Layouts IMPROVED
Go beyond the normal – DrawPlus X3 offers a wide range of design possibilities for large banners, posters, small labels, folded greeting cards, booklets, brochures and much more.
- Popular standard design and animation sizes offered as presets
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Create wide banners and large posters made from tiled pages
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Produce documents like labels and print multiple times per sheet
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Customize page size and document types to suit your own needs
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Intuitively design folded documents like greeting cards and booklets
Templates IMPROVED
If you’re seeking inspiration or need a helping hand, don’t worry, there’s a professionally-designed range of templates and on-screen gallery artwork for instant results!
- Professional results fast – make smart business logos in seconds
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Quick art & craft projects for rainy days and kids’ parties
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Galleries of themed artwork give you instant building blocks
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Greeting cards, posters, banners, web animations, and more
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Creative samples show off impressive possibilities and DrawPlus power
Creative User Interface NEW & IMPROVED
The latest in an award-winning lineage, DrawPlus X3 is the freshest, most productive and attractive version ever!
- Fresh new look to the user interface for a more creative feel
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New tools and toolbar buttons make common tasks easier
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Customize and save the interface as you like
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Context sensitivity shows you the right tools and advice
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Revamped Studio offers smooth working and reorganised brushes
On-Screen ‘How To’ Guides IMPROVED
DrawPlus X3 never leaves you out in the cold. Whether you want to get to grips with drawing and painting, or learn about new tools, on-screen How To guides show you the way.
- Friendly, helpful advice for new and growing DrawPlus artists
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On-screen when you need it, without interrupting your workflow
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Additional advice offered in linked related topics
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Lock your favorite topic on-screen for quick reference
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Context-sensitive guides offer advice suited to your chosen tool or object
Get Started with AutoTrace NEW & IMPROVED
Don’t be daunted if you’re new to drawing, get started by AutoTracing photos, sketches and other artwork into drawings you can easily edit and embellish.
- Instantly convert photo images into editable drawn artwork
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Get photos from your drive, the web, scanner or camera
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Use presets for logos, black and white and full color photos
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Controls and adjustments suit all sorts of image types and sizes
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Output your AutoTraced artwork at any size for any creative project
Design Flexibility IMPROVED
There’s so many ways DrawPlus X3 makes designing easy, from having full freedom of layout to helpful wizards that create artwork for you and plenty in between!.
- Total layout freedom with easy movement, rotation and sizing
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Use layers to stay in charge of complex drawings and diagrams
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Wizards transform your artwork to save you time and effort
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Create artistic text or flowing text frames to suit your design
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Rotate the page in DrawPlus just like you would with hand-drawn artwork
Artistic Assistance NEW & IMPROVED
An amazing range of helpers extend your design capabilities and painlessly arrange and align your layout, saving you time and sharpening your designs.
- Flexibility to fully edit in fine detail with easy tools and controls
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Wireframe and live export modes give you other useful views
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Handy ‘golden spiral’ and ‘rule-of-thirds’ design overlays
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3D planes offer isometric, oblique, dimetric and trimetric design
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Format painter, snapping, guidelines, and align tools for consistent design
Get Artwork from Anywhere IMPROVED
DrawPlus X3 is more than a perfect blank canvas for your creative juices – you can also import images, artwork and designs from almost anywhere!
- Open and edit Adobe® Illustrator® files and EPS graphics
- Import professional Adobe® Photoshop® pictures
- Open, edit and export DXF and DWG CAD graphics
- Full support for PDF files for universal editing, sharing and printing
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Import many popular image formats including Microsoft® HD Photo
Professional PDF Handling IMPROVED
Open and edit PDF files with DrawPlus X3 for a powerful universal design tool. PDFs can be edited in full, making DrawPlus an asset for everyone including design professionals.
- Import PDFs – open designs from any program, anywhere!
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Edit PDFs with the full, flexible power of DrawPlus X3
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Export PDFs for sharing or professional printing
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Optimize designs for fast display online or high quality output
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Include fonts, full color information, print press marks, and security
Export Optimizer IMPROVED
Get fantastic results at the right size every time. DrawPlus X3’s scalable artwork is perfectly complemented by an impressive Export Optimizer.
- Balance size and quality of compressed images for best results
- Export pages, areas, or selected objects as graphics at any size
- Create popular image types including JPG, PNG and HD Photo
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Compare up to 4 formats simultaneously to make the right choice
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Preview your export and adjust transparency, color and other settings
Share on DrawPlus.com NEW
Be part of a creative community and give your artwork a wider audience, sharing your designs, experiences, tips and tricks on DrawPlus.com
- Upload artwork directly from DrawPlus X3 to DrawPlus.com
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See designs in high-resolution with deep zoom technology
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Use DrawPlus.com to showcase your designs to a global audience
- Vote for your favorite designs and leave messages for other artists
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