- Creative powerhouse for drawing, sketching, painting, designing, illustration and anaimating
- New image cutout studio allows you to neatly remove backgrounds
- New spray brushes allows canned paint effects, realistic droplets, painting of lifelike fur, high quality clouds and fog
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Product Description
Welcome to DrawPlus X3, the affordable, all-in-one, creative powerhouse for drawing, sketching, painting, designing, illustrating and animating! DrawPlus X3 is your one-stop-shop for creative fun, realistic painting, professional logos, stunning interactive Flash animations, layouts and plans, business diagrams and much more. With an abundance of impressive artistic power and a stack of exciting new features, DrawPlus X3 has something for everyone–from students … More >>
#1 by Jeff in Philly on April 17, 2010 - 2:51 am
I agree with the previous reviewer about everything.
I bought the program because of some of the cool shape options it had, which I needed to create some new images for a website. Fine.
Since it’s a graphics program, you might expect that you could, for example, open a GIF or JPG file with it for editing, right? — grab part of the image so you could move it a few pixels, that kind of thing? Nope. I even went to the Serif DrawPlus users forum when I couldn’t figure out what I was “doing wrong”, and was told “No, you can’t. It opens everything as a bitmap.”
Truly, I could not believe what I was hearing. A graphics program that doesn’t let you edit graphics.
Rating: 2 / 5
#2 by Evelyn O. Simon on April 17, 2010 - 3:56 am
I bought this product about a week ago, and at first I was a bit disappointed.
I thought it was a program that would enhance my artwork, boy was I wrong. I’m not an idiot, but learning how to operate this program’s features, made me feel like one.
I went into the “Start new drawing” feature. This frustrated me the most, because the program was just as difficult as the others.
Each time I’d click the pencil, paint brush, or choose color feature to draw, a zillion tiny box-shaped graphic covered my drawing. When I finally figured out how to create a work of art without those tiny kill picture graphics covering it, the save feature wouldn’t save it to my local file.
“The design template” feature was difficult in the beginning, yet great to play around with once figured out. I don’t think your finished creation can be uploaded to your webpage. On the other hand, maybe it can, I’m still learning.
The online introduction is nothing more than a short commercial. The quick video doesn’t show you the features to click, in order to create the effects they’re allowing you to see.
I do like the animation feature though. However, it is a stop frame animation, and can be difficult if you’re not familiar with it. Once you get the hang of it, it can be fun. I only recommend this software for those who are familiar with programs like it, for comparison.
Rating: 3 / 5