Serif DrawPlus X4

Easy to use graphics and drawing tools with high quality results.


Serif DrawPlus X4 is 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, and 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.




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 - 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, charcoal, and many other brush tips - without mess.
• Easy Changes - Use the Undo button, edit stroke paths, or change the brush tip, even for existing strokes.
• Creative Textures - Brushes for fog, clouds, smoke, and more along with 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.
• Amazing Effects - Apply and customize 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. (Graphics Tablet not included)

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 website a slick, polished banner featuring your own title, imagery, message, and hotspots.
• 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.

• Enhance Photos - Remove blemishes and fix photo flaws - and change or undo image settings at any time.
• Apply Artistic Filters - Turn photos into watercolors, oils, and more, and limit stylish changes to specific areas.
• 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 Easily - 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 - Create clever cartoons and interactive animations in your own unique style.
• Smooth Movement - Use Keyframe mode to automatically smooth motion in your animations.
• Use Interactivity - Create games, puzzles, and more, and save as Flash, movie files, or animated GIFs.
• Go Pro - Use ActionScript commands to be even more professional in your animations.
• 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 drawing, graphics, and image formats.
• Incredible PDF Editing - Open and full edit PDFs from other computers and programs, changing text, layout, pages, colors, and 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.

Powerful Vector Graphics

• Vector graphics with node editing
• Full PDF editing
• Intelligent QuickShapes
• Shape painting, erasing, and cutting
• Ready made artwork Gallery
• Dynamic fills and transparencies
• Built-in photo editing
• Professional blend modes
• Replicate and Transform wizards
• Mesh fills and envelopes
• Artistic text-on-a-path
• Roughen and smooth vector outlines
• Add perspective
• Turn shapes into Instant 3D objects
• Create multipage documents
• Manage multiple layers
• Pressure-sensitive lines
• Smart color picker tool
• RGB, CMYK, Pantone, and HSL color
• Pseudo 3D plane drawing
• Stop frame movies and key frame Flash animations
• Blend shapes

Stylish Painting and Sketching

• Realistic paint brush textures
• Editable brush strokes
• Pressure sensitive tablet support
• Photo-quality special effects brushes
• Stitching and edge brushes
• Background texture brushes
• Pressure Studio for calibration
• Customize tablet and pen buttons
• Make your own brush textures

Stunning Web Graphics

• Create image slices and maps
• Rollover web buttons
• Animated navbar graphics
• Professional web banners
• Efficient optimized exports

High Productivity

• Tutorials and videos
• On-screen How To pane
• Customizable workspace
• Customizable keyboard shortcuts

Photo Editing

• Image correction and adjustment
• Remove blemishes and red-eye
• AutoTrace Studio
• Image Cutout Studio
• One-click Instant Artist styles

Amazing Animation

• Stop frame mode with onion skinning
• Key frame mode with tweening
• Export as Flash
• Insert Flash SWF files into DrawPlus animations
• Save as movies and screensavers

Great Compatibility

• 18 standard file types supported
• PDF import, editing, and export
• Save PDF/X-1a for pro printing
• Import Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator files
• Import EPS and CAD graphics
• Microsoft HD Photo supported
• Edit SVG graphics
• Optimize exports for print and the web

Charts, Plans, Diagrams

• Tree diagrams with live connectors
• Org chart and flowchart symbols
• Scaled dimension lines for plans
• Ready-made artwork for room, office, and garden layouts

• Blend Modes - Professional effects that alter how layers and objects "blend" with each other to produce stunning results - great for any design work.

• PhotoLab - Edit and enhance images without leaving DrawPlus.  There are over 70 effects and adjustments in the new PhotoLab.

• Pressure Studio - Calibrate your graphics tablet and pen to produce drawings, paintings, and sketches with a more natural finish. (Graphics tablet not included)

• Improved Brushes - All the brushes are higher quality and categorized to make it easy for you to find the right brush for fantastic paintings.

• Easier Editing - Use dynamic guides and vertex snapping to accurately align objects and quickly connect lines and shapes.

• Color Palette Designer - Use a preset color palette or make your own unique color ranges to give designs a professional look and feel.

• New Color Picker - Sample color gradients or find the average color of an area - perfect for stunning backgrounds.

• SVG Graphic Support - Scalable Vector Graphics look great at any size or resolution and have a very small file size - perfect for web graphics.

• Object Info Pane - View and change the fill, transparency, size, filter effects, and many other aspects of any selected object in one place.

• Improved Connectors - The redesigned connector tools are more intuitive to use and make light work of complicated charts and diagrams.

• Improved Dimensions - Create scale diagrams and plans more easily than ever with more intuitive Dimension tools, ideal for your home, garden, and office.

• Better Productivity - Many tweaks have been made to make functions faster, objects easier to select, and more to increase your productivity.

• Customize Shortcuts - Customize keys, tablet buttons, and use dynamic tool icons for ExpressKeys on Wacom Intuos4s. (Tablet is not included)

• Super Sampling - Export superior quality bitmap and other rasterised images retaining more detail without increasing the file size.

• SVG Graphic Support - Scalable Vector Graphics look great at any size or resolution and have a very small file size - perfect for web graphics.

Serif PanoramaPlus X4 - Create and share beautiful panoramic images in just three easy steps.  Included free with Serif DrawPlus X4!

PanoramaPlus X4 is the powerful yet easy-to-use photo stitching software that lets you create and share stunning panoramic pictures and virtual reality movies.  With PanoramaPlus X4's automated stitching process, it's possible to capture breathtaking landscapes in just three easy steps.

• Windows XP (32-bit), Vista or Windows 7 (32/64-bit)
• Pentium PC or equivalent
• 512 MB of RAM
• 689 MB of free hard disk space
• SVGA display (1024 x 600 pixels, 16-bit color or higher)
• DVD/CD drive
• Mouse
• Internet Explorer 5.5 or above

Recommended Requirements:

• Multi-core processor technology
• 1 GB of RAM or more

Optional:

• Windows-compatible printer
• TWAIN-compatible scanner and/or digital camera
• Pressure-sensitive pen tablet (Serif GraphicsPad or equivalent)
• 3D-accelerated graphics card with DirectX 9 (or above) or OpenGL support
• 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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