The all-in-one studio for professional quality creative design

DrawPlus X3 is an affordable, all-in-one, creative powerhouse for drawing, sketching, painting, designing, illustrating and animating - a 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 to home users and business professionals, novices to enthusiasts and experienced artists .

It’s never been easier to wow your friends, family, colleagues or any audience with eye-catching designs. Quickly transform photos into sensational artwork with powerful new AutoTrace and Image Cutout Studios, paint with a new range of lifelike photo-quality brushes, enjoy the intuitive usability of the fresh user interface, and import artwork from anywhere with extended support for PDFs, digital images, EPS graphics, Adobe Illustrator drawings and CAD files.

The sky’s the limit with DrawPlus X3 – unleash your creativity with its amazing range of drawing, painting and animation features! Design with confidence using smart and fun creative tools, with samples and hundreds of templates at hand for inspiration or fast results when you need them.

DrawPlus X3 brings you more creativity, more productivity, and more interactivity – get more from DrawPlus, more from your design, from other DrawPlus users, other drawing programs, and even more from your audience with the DrawPlus online community.

More Creative AutoTrace Studio - AutoTrace is revolutionized in an innovative studio with built-in How To guides and plenty of smart power so you can turn photos into stunning vector art and retouch your sketches and logos. Simple adjustments make for high quality and striking artwork at any size – from any source image.

Image Cutout Studio  - Give photo subjects total focus by quickly and neatly removing backgrounds with this advanced yet easy-to-use imaging tool. Simple brush strokes work like magic erasers to painlessly paint away unwanted areas. You can also use the cut-out area as line, shape and silhouette art in your drawings and designs.

Spray Brushes - Create awesome paintings and enhance your artwork with fantastic new Spray Brushes. Add rich designer textured backdrops, use canned paint effects with realistic droplets, paint lifelike fur or even high quality clouds and fog. Also add a touch of sparkle with glitter, confetti, flower petals and more.

Edge Effects - Add flair and realism to your designs with authentic and creative edge effects. Give shapes a rough finish as if they’ve been torn from paper, made from natural fabric, have a glow, or uneven liquid stain effect. Choose from inside or outside edge effects, using a new range of dedicated brushes.

Artistic Overlays - New special guidelines are available as overlays to help you create better designs! The golden spiral overlay helps with lifelike artwork including natural forms and human figures using the “divine proportion.” A new rule of thirds overlay improves drawing and painting composition, positioning horizons and subjects to please the eye.

Special Knife Blades - Fashion amazing, stylized hand-cut edges with a swish of your mouse or pen. 23 new decorative knife blades make it easy to cut saw-tooth, square-cut, wavy and many more effects on your designs – and combine with new crop shapes and edge effects for unique artwork.

New Special Effects - New filter and special effects offer realistic glass-like transparency and reflective metal. Any object can have a professional blur, and another new filter effect applies an outline to objects (including a gradient-colored outline using a contour fill). 3D effects are further enhanced with multiple separately-colored lights for dramatic lighting effects!

Cutout Stamps - Speedily crop any artwork with this set of special QuickShapes for a cutout stamp effect. Spray brushes, vector shapes, imported pictures, or grouped objects – anything can be cropped to an editable QuickShape and adjusted using new zoom, pan and rotate controls.

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More Productive
Fresh User Interface - DrawPlus X3 has had a real overhaul with a totally fresh look, a more creative feel, and more productive layout to enhance your artwork. Not only does the new interface look attractive with new colors and new, larger buttons on the Standard toolbar, there are new controls and tabs to help make designing easy and fun.

Solo Mode - When you need focus, there’s nothing like an uncluttered space with no distractions – just like Solo Mode in DrawPlus X3! Solo Mode displays your selected objects in isolation, allowing you to continue working on them without the distraction of the rest of your design – and still with all the power of DrawPlus X3 at your fingertips.

Crop Tool - A popular request to make it easier to crop objects is answered with the introduction of – the Crop tool! It’s now intuitive and easy to carry out simple crops on individual elements or groups, plus there’s a built-in rule-of-thirds grid, and pan, zoom, and rotate controls as crop adjustments. The previous crop-to-shape feature is still very useful and is still there in DrawPlus X3!

Arrange Tab - A new Arrange tab makes it easy to find the controls you need to organize your design, sending objects backwards and forwards, flipping and rotating them. Buttons for working with shapes are also consolidated in this tab, so combining, adding, intersecting, subtracting, grouping, and cropping are still easy to achieve while the main toolbar is less cluttered.

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More Interactivity
Share on DrawPlus.com - An exciting new development for the DrawPlus community – DrawPlus.com makes it easy to share your creativity with an audience and other artists online, swap tips and tricks, chat with like-minded people, and vote for your favorite artwork. See artwork in galleries featuring deep zoom and more.

Import Adobe Illustrator and EPS Graphics - Open Adobe Illustrator files as if they were regular DrawPlus drawings or PDFs, and import high-end EPS (Encapsulated PostScript) graphics. DrawPlus X3 really raises the bar for compatibility with these professional cross-platform file formats!

Support for Microsoft HD Photo - Boasting more than twice the quality of JPEG, Microsoft HD Photo is a high performance digital photo format, giving excellent quality images and small file sizes – and it’s fully supported in DrawPlus X3 so you can import from and export to this new file type with ease.



More Creative Natural Media Brushes - Get crafty with photo-quality stitches, making it appear as if your designs are sewn or laced right into the page. Now also paint even greater masterpieces with new bristle, chalk, paint roller and watercolor brushes – all available in a revamped and reorganized brush tab.

Even More Creative Improvements Include - Improved pen tool operations, improved handling of photos with transparency, and the ability to open bitmaps and EPS graphics as if they were DrawPlus documents for quick enhancement make designing even easier. Plus a new export overlay allows you to specify and highlight an area of the page for export while you’re in the design process.

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More Productive
Lasso Selection - Creative artwork isn’t an exact science and doesn’t usually deal in regular shapes – now with DrawPlus X3 you can drag an irregular area (rather than rectangular) to select your design elements and curve nodes. Simply hold Alt while using the Pointer tool and draw freehand around the shapes or curve nodes you’d like to select. Easy!

Other Productivity Improvements Include - For simplicity, flat transparency is now part of the Color tab, with fancy transparencies still available on the Transparency tab and with the Transparency tool. You can now also create and scale objects about their centre.

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More Interactive
And Some Forward-Looking Compatibility Enhancements - Some valuable behind-the-scenes changes make DrawPlus X3 even more compatible and interactive with other programs – a new forward-looking DrawPlus file format means improved compatibility in the future, support for a new graphics format (Serif Metafile) for better compatibility between Serif programs, and an enhanced Export Optimizer offers even more image export control.
Ideal for:

• Sketches and drawings
• Natural paintings
• Photo-quality special effects
• Logos, signs and notices
• Impressive animations
• Hobby and craft artwork
• Labels and stationery
• Scaled room and garden plans
• Flow charts and org charts
• Posters and banners

Features:

• Draw and Design with no limits
• Paint great artwork with amazing brushes
• Animated stylish and efficient Web graphics
• Share your designs online or print at any size

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• Windows XP, Vista or 7.0
• Pentium Processor
• 512 MB of RAM
• 438 MB Hard Disk space
• 1024x768, 16-bit color display
• CD-ROM Drive
• Mouse or other pointing device

Note: SSE-compatible processor required for natural media brushes.

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