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

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 to home users and business professionals, novices to enthusiasts and experienced artists!

DrawPlus X3 is great for drawing and painting:

Easily draw or paint anything using the on-screen help & tips
Unlimited creative freedom with realistic brushes and special effects
Flexible designing including PDF editing, image autotrace, and key frame & stop animation
Excellent compatibility with Adobe Illustrator files, EPS files, and CAD graphics files
Share your designs, hints & tips with other designers on DrawPlus.com
Simplify complicated drawings by working in Solo Mode

Realistic Natural Painting IMPROVED
Create your own masterpieces with natural brush strokes and lifelike brush textures – without the mess of real paint, and with so much more flexibility!

Brushes include chalk, charcoal, pastels and watercolor
Use pen and pencil-style brushes for lifelike sketches
Fully editable brush strokes help you achieve perfection
Support for pressure-sensitive pens gives a realistic feel
Strokes have a different look to the start and end, just like real life
 
Smart Photo Brushes NEW
Bring a splash of realism, designer textures, and photo-quality paint effects to your drawings and painting with impressive Spray Brushes.

Use photo-quality bristle and roller paint brushes
Add stunning fog, clouds, flames and smoke to your artwork
Add pizzazz with high-energy neon glowing brush strokes
Paint deep layered and interesting textures with ‘grunge’ brushes
Editable nozzles mean you can customize brushes or create your own

Turn Images into Stunning Artwork NEW & IMPROVED
Instantly transform photos into works of art with powerful new studios, enhance with built-in image adjustments, and instantly add artistic realism with paper textures.

Fix flaws and enhance images with easy photo adjustments
Remove unwanted backgrounds with the Image Cutout studio
Turn photos and scans into drawings with the AutoTrace studio
Trace and retouch images to produce high quality, scalable logos
Instantly add realistic paper textures to photos, drawings and paintings
 
Intelligent Drawing Tools IMPROVED
DrawPlus X3 takes drawing at all levels to great heights with a range of intuitive drawing and editing tools, quickly giving you the power of a graphics studio.

Editable QuickShapes make it easy to draw all sorts of shapes
Use a simple brush to paint and erase shapes
Let DrawPlus steady your hand with curve smoothing controls
Apply artistic curves, contours and special effects to text art
Cut and crop artwork with freehand swipes cutout shapes

Get Crafty! NEW & IMPROVED
Create fun and lifelike craft and hobbyist artwork, school and home projects, plus decorative embellishments – no expertise required, and no accidents with pins, glue, or staples!

Sew shapes to your page with lifelike stitching and laces
Draw high quality photo-realistic strips of ribbon, lace and zips
Combine artwork and textures then cut to shapes of your choice
Decorative knife blades allow you to cut art with special edges
Create rather than buy craft items and experiment with design freedom
 
Amazing Effects IMPROVED
Make your artwork stand out – from the screen, from the page and from the crowd! Create high quality professional special effects with amazing ease.

Realistic metal and glass effects with built-in reflections
Create bevels and embossed effects with editable 3D lighting
Add warp envelopes and perspective with dedicated design tools
Roughen and blend shapes for totally unique results
Professional soft shadows with skew, soften, and intensity controls

Stunning Interactive Animations IMPROVED
All the creative power of DrawPlus X3 gives you more than printed artwork, more than web graphics… you can also create jaw-dropping interactive animations!

Two animation modes for flexibility – stop frame and key frame
Key frame animations automatically create slick movement for you
Create Flash® animations, movies, GIFs, or screensavers
Use animations as professional demos and presentations
Cool interactivity for demos, games and puzzles, plus ActionScript™ support
 
Diagrams and Charts IMPROVED
In addition to amazing drawings and paintings, you can also create exceptional dimensioned plans and room layouts, business charts, and flow diagrams.

Quickly and easily create quality flow charts and org charts
Use intelligent dynamic connecting lines for charts and schematics
Add life size dimensions to scaled garden, room and office plans
Use ready-made chart and 2D plan artwork from an on-screen gallery

Special Layouts IMPROVED
Go beyond the normal – DrawPlus X3 offers a wide range of design possibilities for large banners, posters, small labels, folded greeting cards, booklets, brochures and much more.

Popular standard design and animation sizes offered as presets
Create wide banners and large posters made from tiled pages
Produce documents like labels and print multiple times per sheet
Customize page size and document types to suit your own needs
Intuitively design folded documents like greeting cards and booklets

Templates IMPROVED
If you’re seeking inspiration or need a helping hand, don’t worry, there’s a professionally-designed range of templates and on-screen gallery artwork for instant results!

Professional results fast – make smart business logos in seconds
Quick art & craft projects for rainy days and kids’ parties
Galleries of themed artwork give you instant building blocks
Greeting cards, posters, banners, web animations, and more
Creative samples show off impressive possibilities and DrawPlus power
 
Creative User Interface NEW & IMPROVED
The latest in an award-winning lineage, DrawPlus X3 is the freshest, most productive and attractive version ever!

Fresh new look to the user interface for a more creative feel
New tools and toolbar buttons make common tasks easier
Customize and save the interface as you like
Context sensitivity shows you the right tools and advice
Revamped Studio offers smooth working and reorganised brushes

On-Screen ‘How To’ Guides IMPROVED
DrawPlus X3 never leaves you out in the cold. Whether you want to get to grips with drawing and painting, or learn about new tools, on-screen How To guides show you the way.

Friendly, helpful advice for new and growing DrawPlus artists
On-screen when you need it, without interrupting your workflow
Additional advice offered in linked related topics
Lock your favorite topic on-screen for quick reference
Context-sensitive guides offer advice suited to your chosen tool or object
 
Get Started with AutoTrace NEW & IMPROVED
Don’t be daunted if you’re new to drawing, get started by AutoTracing photos, sketches and other artwork into drawings you can easily edit and embellish.

Instantly convert photo images into editable drawn artwork
Get photos from your drive, the web, scanner or camera
Use presets for logos, black and white and full color photos
Controls and adjustments suit all sorts of image types and sizes
Output your AutoTraced artwork at any size for any creative project

Design Flexibility IMPROVED
There’s so many ways DrawPlus X3 makes designing easy, from having full freedom of layout to helpful wizards that create artwork for you and plenty in between!.

Total layout freedom with easy movement, rotation and sizing
Use layers to stay in charge of complex drawings and diagrams
Wizards transform your artwork to save you time and effort
Create artistic text or flowing text frames to suit your design
Rotate the page in DrawPlus just like you would with hand-drawn artwork
 
Artistic Assistance NEW & IMPROVED
An amazing range of helpers extend your design capabilities and painlessly arrange and align your layout, saving you time and sharpening your designs.

Flexibility to fully edit in fine detail with easy tools and controls
Wireframe and live export modes give you other useful views
Handy ‘golden spiral’ and ‘rule-of-thirds’ design overlays
3D planes offer isometric, oblique, dimetric and trimetric design
Format painter, snapping, guidelines, and align tools for consistent design

Get Artwork from Anywhere IMPROVED
DrawPlus X3 is more than a perfect blank canvas for your creative juices – you can also import images, artwork and designs from almost anywhere!

Open and edit Adobe® Illustrator® files and EPS graphics
Import professional Adobe® Photoshop® pictures
Open, edit and export DXF and DWG CAD graphics
Full support for PDF files for universal editing, sharing and printing
Import many popular image formats including Microsoft® HD Photo
 
Professional PDF Handling IMPROVED
Open and edit PDF files with DrawPlus X3 for a powerful universal design tool. PDFs can be edited in full, making DrawPlus an asset for everyone including design professionals.

Import PDFs – open designs from any program, anywhere!
Edit PDFs with the full, flexible power of DrawPlus X3
Export PDFs for sharing or professional printing
Optimize designs for fast display online or high quality output
Include fonts, full color information, print press marks, and security

Export Optimizer IMPROVED
Get fantastic results at the right size every time. DrawPlus X3’s scalable artwork is perfectly complemented by an impressive Export Optimizer.

Balance size and quality of compressed images for best results
Export pages, areas, or selected objects as graphics at any size
Create popular image types including JPG, PNG and HD Photo
Compare up to 4 formats simultaneously to make the right choice
Preview your export and adjust transparency, color and other settings
 
Share on DrawPlus.com NEW
Be part of a creative community and give your artwork a wider audience, sharing your designs, experiences, tips and tricks on DrawPlus.com

Upload artwork directly from DrawPlus X3 to DrawPlus.com
See designs in high-resolution with deep zoom technology
Use DrawPlus.com to showcase your designs to a global audience
Vote for your favorite designs and leave messages for other artists

AutoTrace Studio NEW
AutoTrace is revolutionised 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 NEW
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 NEW
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.
 
Natural Media Brushes IMPROVED
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 reorganised brush tab.

Edge Effects NEW
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
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 NEW
Fashion amazing, stylised 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
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 NEW
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.
 
Even More Creative Improvements Include… NEW & IMPROVED
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.

Fresh User Interface NEW
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 NEW
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 NEW
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 NEW
A new Arrange tab makes it easy to find the controls you need to organise 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.

Lasso Selection IMPROVED
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… IMPROVED
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.

Share on DrawPlus.com NEW
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 NEW
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 NEW
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.
 
And Some Forward-Looking Compatibility Enhancements… NEW & IMPROVED
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.

System Requirements:
•Microsoft Windows® Vista™ (32 and 64 bit) , XP (32 bit only)
•Pentium® Processor
•512 MB hard RAM
•438 MB hard disk space
•1024x768, 16-bit colour display
•CD-ROM Drive
•Mouse or other pointing device

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

Available Options:

1 Year Download (+$9.99) 1 Year Product Support (+$9.99) 90 Day Download (+$4.99) Backup FlashDrive Shipped (+$9.99)