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DrawPlus X4 (PC)

by Serif
Windows Vista / 7 / XP
4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (40 customer reviews)
Price: £18.49 & this item Delivered FREE in the UK with Super Saver Delivery. See details and conditions
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System Requirements

  • Platform:   Windows Vista / 7 / XP
  • Media: DVD-ROM
  • Item Quantity: 1
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Customers buy this item with Trust Flex Ultra Thin Design 6 x 4.6 inch Tablet with Ergonomic Wireless Pen&quo £22.15

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Product Features

  • Pure vector illustration and artistic drawing
  • Full and flexible PDF import, editing and export
  • Versatile document types for art, marketing materials, web graphics and home projects
  • Templates to achieve fast results
  • Editable vector painting with photo-realistic paint styles
  • Good support for pressure sensitive tablets
  • Flash animation for fun, the web, and for interactive puzzles/demos
  • Connected-shape flowcharts, org charts, trees and diagrams
  • Conversion of photos into drawn shapes
  • Special effects for graphics and images

Product details

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  • ASIN: B003EYVHGU
  • Release Date: 19 April 2010
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (40 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 400 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)

Product Description

Manufacturer's Description

DrawPlus X4 is the powerful, fun, and versatile designer that makes creating beautiful artwork and graphics easier than ever. Design attractive logos and documents for print, create eye-catching Web graphics and banners, paint and sketch with easy tools that let you edit at any time, enhance your photos by quickly transforming them into stunning pieces of art, turn drawings into animations, and output your designs at high quality and at any size--whatever your level of experience.

Edit at any time
All the shapes, lines, paintbrush strokes, text, and effects you create are editable--all the time.
High-end tools, techniques, and more
Use high-end tools, techniques, colors, color management, and professional graphics formats.

Design Unleashed

DrawPlus X4 makes it easy to achieve creative results fast.

Easy to Use
Be creative with DrawPlus X4, whatever your experience, with video tutorials to smooth the way.

Instant Results
Ready-to-use designs and an on-screen gallery of instant art and symbols get you results fast.

Versatile for Any Project
Go for it! You can tackle fun, serious, print, Web, large, small, static, and animated graphics.

Professional Power
Use high-end tools, techniques, colors, color management, and professional graphics formats.

High Quality
Get high-quality artwork out of DrawPlus X4 at any size with dynamic printing and exports.

Go Back and Edit Anytime
All the shapes, lines, paintbrush strokes, text, and effects you create are editable--all the time.

Create Stunning Artwork

Sketch and paint naturally using realistic brushes and media.

Paint with Realistic Brushes
Paint with lifelike watercolor, 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 color and brightness of objects in smart new ways.

Amazing Effects
Apply and customise impressive effects like bevels, glows, surface textures, and Instant 3D.
Graphics tablet
Give your artwork even more hand-made realism with a graphics tablet.

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
Customize 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 favorites 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 Web site 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.
PhotoLab
PhotoLab offers over 70 easy adjustments, corrections, filters, and instant artist effects.

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 watercolors, oils, and more
  • Limit stylish changes to specific areas
  • Change or undo image settings at any time

AutoTrace Images into Editable Shape Art
Turn sketches, logos, Web graphics and photos into high-quality vector artwork you can easily recolor, 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.
Create cartoons and interactive animations
Create jaw-dropping cartoons and interactive animations in your own unique style.

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.

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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, colors, 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. END

Product Description

  • DrawPlus X4 is the powerful fun and versatile designer that makes creating beautiful artwork and graphics easier than ever
  • Design attractive logos and documents for print create eye-catching web graphics and banners paint and sketch with easy tools that let you edit at any time enhance your photos by quickly transforming them into stunning pieces of art turn drawings into animations and output your designs at high quality and at any size - whatever your level of experience.

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
By Bob TOP 50 REVIEWER VINE™ VOICE
Although Draw Plus is an excellent programme the latest version X4 contained in my opinion only minor changes over X3 with two exceptions. It will now load complete PDF files rather than just one page and the reason I bought this upgrade is that it now supports pressure sensitive lines when using a pen tablets (it is particularly effective with the Wacom Intuos4).
Minor improvements include:
Adding Text automatically to any line or shape.
Upgraded keyboard shorcuts.
Additional Brushes.
Better Connector Tools.

For anyone who has read my review on the X3 version it still does not support the .ico format. The other thing to check is if the package you buy comes with the excellent User Guide, I much prefer this to the on line help or the PDF version included in the CD. Also if you want to find out about all of its extensive features the manual is available on the Serif web site so you can look before you buy.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
By MyKeyReviews TOP 50 REVIEWER VINE™ VOICE
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To begin with, I used this product on my computer with specs of: Windows 7 Home Premium 32-bit, with 2GB RAM & a AMD Athlon 64 X2 Duel Core Processor 5000+ 2.61GHz.

It will ask for the licence-key as soon as you start it up, so make sure you have the key ready for imput.
I was really surprised that it only took 5 minutes to installed and to top it off their is no need to restart the computer so you can get stuck in straight away.

If you've used programs like these before then you aren't going to have any problem at all, but for beginners like me you might think to yourself "What do I do!?", no need to panic though as their are video tutorials explaining clearly how to start off with the main basics, and some advanced techniques which were great to watch and easy to copy.

For more advanced tutorials just press the "F1" key and a help bar will pop up explaining pretty much everything you need to know in a well organised page, and they even have pictures as well as text to help you with your needs.

Once you get used to the program and read the tutorials, you are going to love this program and the fact that this software runs so smoothly, it will be an enjoyable experience.

Overall it's a great piece of software that is available for a great price compared to other software's out their, I would definitely have to recommend this.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
By Chris Hall TOP 100 REVIEWER VINE™ VOICE
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Released in 2010, Serif's graphic design & drawing software `DrawPlus x4' was set with Serif's usual software brief - to deliver powerful software in a user-friendly and easy to learn package. The result is this impressive piece of software that really allows your every-day user to get involved with the many features it offers, and really get creative from the outset.

The installation itself is a doddle (as per usual). The software comes on one CD-ROM which automatically sets itself to the installation process. A few clicks, the odd confirmation, a wait of 5-10 mins, and you're set to go. Early on in using the software, it checks for any updates (so you'll need to be online for this to happen) and it'll download any updates/patches etc for you. It also asks you to register the software with Serif (and as such join their mailing list) but this can always be declined or postponed if you prefer.

From the start it's easy to get to grips with the usability and various basic features of the software. Just having a play around shows how straight forward and well designed the product is. All of the tools are laid out in easy to find places, with a handy `Help' section that can be quickly referred to at any given point simply by clicking to the far left of the screen (see video).

Incorporating photos and playing around with them is a piece of cake too. With no experience, background, or particular skills in `photoshoping' stuff, I easily managed to get creative with a few photos without even having to consult the help section.

The sheer variety of brushes available for `painting' with is incredible. Just scrolling down the list alone pretty much sums up the capability of this package. The various effects that can be superimposed on to your picture/photo/design are just as simple to use and offer another incredible range.

The animation application does require a little guidance from the help section, but once you've got the hang of this relatively straight forward process, you can then easily put together basic animations (say for a website or just a bit of fun).

The real strength of this package is the simplicity of it. It's not aimed at professional designers. Its market is your everyday user who wants to be a little creative. Whether it's for a website you're building, for leaflets & flyers, or just for a bit of fun, this software offers everything from a quick and easy to use drawing package, to a quite impressive piece of designing software.

The attached video pretty much sums it up really. If you're looking for a drawing & design package that you can get stuck into without hardly any guidance or experience, then this is for you.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
Good value
A fairly basic graphics package. It's definitely good for bits and pieces, especially if you aren't looking for the depth of a program like Photoshop. Read more
Published 15 days ago by Timo King
Excellent alternative to Adobe Illustrator
I rarely use Illustrator. However, in my day job, I sometimes do have to use it in designing book covers and marketing materials. I've always found it a bit scary, to be honest. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Mr. A. D. H. Lowe
Impressive
This a great little product, extraordinary value for money. I needed this for some small artwork for presentations and some minor website graphics. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Trip
Cheap and cheerful
I've been using DrawPlus for while and this version is simple and straight forward. You can use a pressure tablet with this and it is pretty simple. Read more
Published 2 months ago by R. Patel
Excellent product
I have been using Serif products for many years on and off. I found Draw Plus X4 is very useful for the small amount of drawing I do now. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Bernie
you need to be an expert to use this
If, like me, you thought you might save some money on designers etc., and create your own designs then you are mistaken. Read more
Published 14 months ago by The Scaper
Top Draw-er!
I'd heartily recommend DrawPlus X4, especially for amateurs like me. It pays to invest as much time as you can in practicing and exploring, and the tutorials and help files are... Read more
Published 15 months ago by George Rodger
Great for clueless amateurs (such as myself)
I'm never going to be that good at CAD, despite having training in various applications. But as a teacher, I wanted a piece of simple software to produce posters, T shirt designs... Read more
Published 17 months ago by A. Miles
Very good
While it doesn't have the depth of some of the extremely expensive pro. software out there, I have to say I found DrawPlus X4 doesn't lag too far behind them either. Read more
Published 17 months ago by S. Lindgren
Great potential
With a bit of practice, this would be a wonderful tool for anyone wishing to expand their design skills. Read more
Published 18 months ago by Mrs. Alison Taylor
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