This week, Monster Cutie takes a test drive of Autodesk’s latest release, Sketchbook Pro 2010. Is this update worth grabbing? Is Sketchbook Autodesk’s Photoshop killer? Only one way to find out. It’s review time!
Duration: 35min. Recorded in tasty HD so it looks great at fullscreen.
You can grab a free, 15-day trial Personal Learning edition or purchase Sketchbook Pro 2010 at Autodesk’s website.
NOTE: At some point, the audio starts to get wonky. I’m testing a new microphone so that might explain things. It’s really annoying so I apologize if that section is impossible to sit through. Foward a little bit and it should be better.
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April 3rd, 2009 - 4:04 pm
a Cintiq is out of my price range for a while, but it’s on my radar for purchases in the far future. Until then, I’ve been contemplating getting a tablet notebook for a travel computer and quick digi art on the fly. This program looks like it’d be well worth it when in conjunction with a tablet PC.
April 3rd, 2009 - 4:07 pm
I definitely think it’s worth the investment. If you’re going to get a tablet PC anyway, this is a great alternative to Photoshop.
April 3rd, 2009 - 5:54 pm
I totally loved this version of SBP… just one thing I didn’t like that much was the rotation tool… i mean.. it’s very handy working on a non screened tablet. But after using Photoshop so long… using the move tool very quickly ended in rotating the canvas most of the time and caused a bit of frustration.- _ -
Nevertheless it’s still a very good app. and thanx for the tip of using the “Lock transparency” thing. didn’t know that one. gonna be very useful.
April 4th, 2009 - 9:00 pm
I didn’t realize the new version is out. It’s an awesome program for drawing on a TabletPC with a Wacom digitizer, such as the X60 and probably the X61. I’m not sure about the HP tablets that aren’t using Wacom as far as sensitivity is concerned. My X60 reads 256 degrees of pressure which isn’t a Cintiq, but it’s way better than none that some of the TabletPCs I’ve test driven like an HP.
I’m pretty impressed with the new features they’ve added between releases. It looks like they’re gearing it as a low end option to Studio and potentially an alternative to PS for digital painting/drawing.
One thing I’ve noticed between the PS and SBP is that SBP is better at registering changes in pressure, so you end up with cleaner and more varied strokes which is a plus in my book, but then again PS isn’t a dedicated drawing tool.
For drawing SBP supplants PS for me, but I still use PS for a bunch of other stuff that SBP doesn’t cover.
January 31st, 2010 - 8:09 pm
This was a great review. I can draw like a Banshie with this program than later place in Illustrator for vector Blob tool fun.
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