SERIF DrawPlus X5
DrawPlus X5 is the powerful and versatile graphics studio that's perfect for digital art, illustration, and painting. With easy-to-use tools, it provides everything you need to express your creativity. Draw vector art, sketch ideas, design logos & graphics, paint naturally, turn photos into artwork, create Flash® animations, plus much more! It will output your designs at high quality and at any size - whatever your level of experience!
New! Accelerated Graphics Technology
Supercharged designing! Serif's new Accelerated Graphics Technology powers every aspect of DrawPlus for superior performance, accuracy, and colour handling.
Your images will render faster and more accurately with perfect colours so changes to your drawings are instant and your projects will always look great on-screen and in print.
New! Shape Builder
Add or subtract objects to create complex shapes. The Shape Builder tool makes it easy to combine two or more objects at once.
New! Targeted Insert
Specify whether new objects, pen lines, brush strokes, and text will be created inside, behind, or in front of a selected object.
New! Depth Slider
Control how objects are stacked. The new Depth Slider provides a fast and easy way to arrange elements.
Create complex patterns quickly. The Blend Tool can now follow a path so blended objects can track any shape, line, or stroke.
New! Pen Tool
Customise drawn lines. Three drawing modes – Smooth, Smart, and Line – give greater control over the shape of curves.
Apply Graphic Styles to objects and text to quickly change edges, shadows, lines, transparency and more.
New! QuickShape Creator
Specify the size, style, and corner values of a QuickShape before adding it to your page.
New! Full CMYK Support
Optimise your drawings and designs for professional printing – DrawPlus now supports end-to-end CMYK documents.
New! Composite Effects
Create stunning visual effects with full control of group transparency and blending.
New! Text Handling
Create professional-looking documents easily using OpenType fonts and superscript/subscript text attributes.
New! Solo Mode
Perform multi-level editing by focussing on any part of your project in isolation, even if it's partially hidden.
New! Pixel Grid
Performing precise edits is even easier. The pixel grid automatically displays at 700% zoom.
New! Ruler Guides
Insert, move, and delete your layout guides more easily with the improved ruler guide management.
New! Improved User Interface
Finding the tools you need is easier than ever with the option to display larger tool icons.
New! Print Preview Options
Change the document size and layout or add pre-press settings without the need to redesign your project.
Create Stunning Artwork
Sketch and paint naturally using realistic brushes and media.
Paint with Realistic Brushes
Paint with lifelike watercolour, oil, charcoal and many other brush tips – without mess – plus a handy Undo button, freedom to edit stroke paths, and change the brush tip; even for existing strokes.
- Natural paint and brush textures
- Pressure-sensitive response for added realism
- Special effects brushes for fog, cloud, and smoke
- Use designer textures to add realism and age
- Paint photo-quality stitching, glitter and more
Intelligent Drawing Tools
QuickShapes, curve smoothing, and smart tools all help non-artists achieve fantastic results.
Advanced Vector Power
Enhance your drawings with editable perspective, warps, skewing, roughening, and shape blending.
Professional Blend Modes
Achieve unique artistic effects by combining the colour and brightness of objects in smart new ways.
Amazing Effects
Apply and customise impressive effects like bevels, glows, surface textures, and Instant 3D.
Achieve Even More with a Graphics Tablet
Give your artwork even more hand-made realism with a graphics tablet. Pressure-sensitivity offers your strokes natural faintness and depth for better brushwork, sketching, writing, shading and more natural flair.
Pressure Studio
Automatically calibrate your tablet(s) to suit light and heavy strokes or manually tweak and test your pressure sensitivity in an impressive, all-new Studio.
Dynamic Tools
Customise your tablet’s buttons, wheels, sliders and ExpressKeys (found on Wacom Intuos4 tablets) for the highest level of productivity and ease of use.
Logos & Web Graphics
Craft high impact and high quality graphics for print and the web.
Ready-to-Use Gallery
Simply drag and drop instant artwork and also reuse your own favourites from your own Gallery.
One-Click Graphics Styles
Realistic styles for your headlines and logos include marble, metal, glass, wood, and organic textures.
Logo-Friendly Design Tools
Use perspective and cool warps, add Instant 3D, and work on graphics in isolation in Solo Mode.
Rollover Web Buttons
Make attractive and professional-looking web buttons that change with mouse cursor interaction.
Animated Web Banners
Give your website a slick, polished banner featuring your own title, imagery, message, and hotspots.
Plus… Charts and Plans
Live connectors make charts and diagrams easy and 2D plans are a breeze using scaled dimensions.
Transform Your Photos
Enhance, cut out, or transform your photos into works of art.
Powerful PhotoLab
Make sure photos are at their very best and turn them into stunning pieces of art with the all new PhotoLab, offering over 70 easy adjustments, corrections, filters and instant artist effects.
- Remove blemishes and fix photo flaws
- Apply artistic photo filters
- Turn photos into watercolours, oils and more
- Limit stylish changes to specific areas
- Change or undo image settings at any time
Correct Flaws
Enhance
Use Instant Artist Styles
AutoTrace Images into Editable Shape Art
Turn sketches, logos, web graphics and photos into high quality vector artwork you can easily recolour, tweak, silhouette, and resize without losing quality.
Remove Backgrounds the Easy Way
Quickly and accurately cut away image backgrounds to give subjects total focus, or use parts of a photo as shape art to use as silhouettes and much more.
Easy Animations
Create jaw-dropping Flash® Web animations and fun cartoons.
Make Flash® Animations
The creative power of DrawPlus X4 brings you more than printed artwork, more than web graphics… you can also create jaw-dropping cartoons and interactive animations in your own unique style!
- Keyframe mode automatically smoothes motion
- Make your own Flash® animations
- Use interactivity to create games, and puzzles
- Go pro with ActionScript™ commands
- Save as Flash®, movie files, animated GIFs
Interactive Demos
Use interactive animation features to showcase products and more.
Stopframe Movies
Stopframe animation mode gives you total, frame-by-frame control.
Make a Screensaver
Enjoy your animated creations any time as movie screensavers.
Highly Compatible
Share your artwork in standard formats and fully edit PDFs.
Get Artwork and Images from Anywhere
Open or import artwork and documents from almost anywhere, with support for 18 popular drawings, graphics, and image formats.
Incredible PDF Editing
Open and fully edit PDFs from other computers and programs, changing text, layout, pages, colours, images – anything – and simply save as PDF again.
High End Graphics Support
Collaborate with other artists using EPS, SVG, AutoCAD® and Adobe® Illustrator® files.
Export Optimizer
Create the right image every time; preview the quality and size of up to four image types at once.
Share on DrawPlus.com
Showcase your work and chat with other DrawPlus users in the free DrawPlus.com community.
MINIMAL SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:
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Pentium® PC with DVD/CD drive and mouse
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Microsoft Windows® XP (32-bit), Windows® Vista or Windows® 7 operating system
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512MB RAM
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820MB (recommended full install) free hard disk space
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1024 x 768 monitor resolution
RECOMMENDED:
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Dual-processor PC technology
OPTIONAL:
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Windows-compatible printer
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TWAIN-compatible scanner and/or digital camera
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Pressure-sensitive pen tablet (Serif GraphicsPad or equivalent)
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3D-accelerated graphics card with DirectX® 9 (or above) or OpenGL® support
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Internet account and connection required for accessing online resources
Note: Additional disk resources and memory are required when editing large or complex documents. To enjoy the full benefit of brushes and their textures, you must be using a processor that supports SSE (most modern computers do). On brush selection, an on-screen message will indicate if your computer is not SSE compatible.
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