Serif DrawPlus X4

Serif DrawPlus X4
by Serif

Serif DrawPlus X4
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Software Summary

Manufacturer: Serif
Brand: Serif
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: CD-ROM
Release Date: 2010-04-23
Platform: Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP
Model: DPX4USDVDRT
Product features:
  • Versatile design software that makes creating beautiful artwork and graphics easier than ever
  • Ready-to-use designs and an on-screen gallery of instant art and symbols get you results fast
  • High-end tools, techniques, colors, color management, and professional graphics formats
  • All the shapes, lines, paintbrush strokes, text, and effects you create are editable--all the time
  • Sketch and paint naturally using realistic brushes and media, produce Flash animations, and more

Software Reviews of Serif DrawPlus X4

Customer Review: Product is Good, Serif, the company, is not...
Summary: 2 Stars

I've played with this product a bit and it seems very good for the price point. Go to the [...] website forums and you'll get a good look at the problems. One is that there is a continuing stream of updates.

What is HORRIBLE is the product registration. If you want the freebies you must call Serif registration where the rep at the end of the line will try to sell you lots of things, at a very reasonable price actually. You'll see them under 'extras' at the Serif web site.

The whole discussion takes forever before you get the activation code, and by the way, the product does not function at all until you get it, not even in a trial mode!

I bought the Drawplus X4 reference manual and the templates. Total price $20 + $19 + 7 s/h... OK, my mind did not kick in. Templates? For a drawing package? Any way what I received were the WebPlus X4 reference manual and WebPlus templates. It took an incredible amount of time to get them to agree to exchange the Reference Manual and credit back the templates since they are only good with WebPlus X4. There was supposed to be a bonus pack of paint brushes, but I have yet to get the download link.

Now about the package. I bought it through Amazon market place and received it from [...].

Guess what?

Received from [...]: no box, just a DVD case, in it, a glossy stating I had the Panorama s/w and a users manual and the CD... so Buy.com just sent that and not the boxed software. It did not include the bonus software, it did not include users manual. Another foray through Serif "customer service". I had to send images of the case, the glossy, front and back, the CD and serial number in the case... yada, yada. It took 3 phone calls to England, oh yeah, all business is conducted from their headquarters in England, and FINALLY they ponied up the user manual and the Panorama software.

I still never got the link for the brushes...

They seemed to imply the [...] busted open the box or got gray market goods. I've never had problems with [...], so, guess who I think is fudging a bit.

For the price, it's decent. You just have to decide how much of a masochist you are to deal with Serif.

Btw, if you have looked at Xara Xtreme, most of the good software people left there and went to Serif so there is big similarity between the two products and Xara is moving the product toward web development, not design, too bad they didn't take Xara's customer service people with them.

Description of Serif DrawPlus X4

DrawPlus X4 is a powerful, yet easy-to-use program for drawing, artwork, sketching, logos, realistic painting, Flash animation and more. Drawing, illustrating and sketching is so easy with DrawPlus X4. Editable vector lines, dynamic guides, and a 5000% zoom level help to produce accurate results and QuickShapes can be combined and edited quickly to make any number of shapes or designs. Pressure-sensitive lines give a natural look to any sketch and are particularly suitable for logos, cartoons, and anime work or paint with watercolor, oil, charcoal and many other brush tips to create, or recreate, works of art. DrawPlus X4 can open and edit PDFs, Adobe Illustrator, and AutoCAD files plus other popular file types like JPG, PNG, and TIF. With high-end export features including super sampling for best-in-class export quality, it?s perfect for any print or web design work. Import any photo then use the built-in PhotoLab for editing. It offers over 70 adjustments, corrections, filters and effects, with some incredible instant artistic styles to turn your images into artwork. The AutoTrace Studio is ideal for turning bitmaps into editable vectors ? great for taking logos and low resolution web graphics, cleaning the outlines and outputting massive sizes at full quality, while professional blend modes and filter effects can create incredible results or add the perfect finishing touches to any design work. The creative power of DrawPlus X4 brings you more than printed artwork, more than web graphics. Make Flash animations to use on websites as banners or adverts as well as website buttons with rollover states. Anyone can add flash elements into websites without using expensive software. You can draw, design, paint, sketch and animate just about anything in DrawPlus X4. This powerful and flexible program is indispensable to any digital designer, artist, home user and student looking to enhance their print and web design output. Buy your copy now!
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

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