Quality and Effectiveness: Serif’s DrawPlus X4 provides a student-friendly alternative to Adobe Illustrator. Its graphics tool kit is available for about half Illustrator’s price.

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While DrawPlus has been around for some time, the latest release adds features to, and upgrades others in, its collection of standard Bezier tools; customizable brushes; specialeffect filters; and start-up templates. It even opens Adobe Illustrator (.ai) files (V9 and later) and saves key-frame animations in Adobe Flash (SWF) format. Ease of Use: Start-up templates, video tutorials, and onscreen How-To Guides provide step-by-step directions for a variety of design tasks. Movie tutorials streamed from the Serif Web site teach users how to create rollover Web buttons, animated Web banners, and 2-D charts and plans. Creative Use of Technology: This program supports text-to-path drawing as well as freehand curve designs.

A touch-sensitive Paintbrush lets users draw with pressuresensitive graphics tablets instead of a mouse. They can use the program’s Connector objects to link boxes and symbols in technical drawings and organizational charts. Suitability for Use in a School Environment: This vector-graphics application has a rich tool kit for logos, Web-page banners, technical drawing, and animation design. Unlike Adobe Illustrator, which requires at least 1 GB of RAM and 2 GB hard-drive space, DrawPlus X4 will run on Windows computers with as little as 512 MB of RAM (though going to 1 GB will improve performance) and less than 1 GB hard-drive space.

Overall Rating DrawPlus X4 is a suitable inexpensive, feature-rich vectorgraphics application for Windows-based schools running 32-bit versions of Microsoft Windows XP, Vista, or 7. Deer Hunter 2005 Torrent Crack Mac. It may not be as practical in environments where time and budget constraints require the integration of software that offers versions for both Macintosh and Windows.

Overview of DrawPlus X4 Although Serif has been a respected name in the desktop publishing world for quite some time, many of its products have been consistently underrated, especially when compared to some of the popular titles released by other big names in the field, such as Adobe and Corel. However, as recent products have shown, Serif is definitely a name to be reckoned with – particularly in the areas of support, performance, and price. Is Serif's latest release of the popular illustration and design software, which is robust enough for professional use, but priced in a range that even casual users can afford. In this review, we'll take a closer look at DrawPlus X4 with a focus on the application's features and capabilities. Ease of Use Rating If you've used other Serif products, like or, the user interface of DrawPlus should look very familiar and feel quite comfortable – making it easy to jump right into designing your first project.

However, if you're completely new to the software, it may take awhile to get used to the application's layout and tools. This isn't a flaw in design, since the interface actually has a very intuitive structure. Rather, the software has so many features and capabilities that it will take some time to explore and learn them all. ( Click any image for a larger view.). In an effort to make learning the software easier for new users, Serif has provided a number of tutorials for DrawPlus X4 in both video and text form. This collection of learning materials is an excellent resource for beginners and advanced users alike. It covers everything from how to get started with the software to using its most advanced tools.

DrawPlus X4 also has a fully searchable Help system with screenshots and step by step instructions that can be accessed from the Help menu on the main toolbar of the application. In addition, a collapsible 'How to' panel is available to walk you through many of the software's functions. Performance and Features Rating In terms of features, DrawPlus X4 is one of the most versatile products on the market. On top of the full range of illustration and drawing tools for both vector and raster graphics, the software also provides the ability to create animations, which can be saved as Flash movies, animated GIFs, or other formats. One of the new advances in version X4 of DrawPlus is the PhotoLab. After opening or inserting an image into a DrawPlus project, you can click on the PhotoLab button that appears on the Context Toolbar. This will open a completely new window in which you can edit or enhance the selected photo.

This is a major advancement in version X4 and a great time saver, since photos can now be modified extensively within DrawPlus without the need of an additional photo editing application. Although you don't need a graphics tablet to use DrawPlus, the software does provide additional capabilities for those who work with a pen and tablet. With the DrawPlus Pressure Studio, you can easily calibrate any tablet device so that the application recognizes soft and firm strokes for that profile. Multiple profiles can be saved or loaded, so the settings can easily be changed when switching to a new device – or even a new user on the same device.