[Nickillus]

Hi Guys,
I'm a lover of the fluidity and work-flow in Sketchbook Pro, and particularly in its latest incarnation ('2010'), with the ability to make custom texture brushes.

Do any of you use or have tried it out? Share your findings, feelings and fundamentals here - please. Go on. You know you want to.
Here is a link to the Autodesk 'Area' forum specific to Sketchbook Pro - FORUM
Here is a link to the software trial - Download Trial

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts,
Nick

[Nickillus]

1) There is already an ArtRage group here, so I just created a corresponding one for Sketchbook Pro as well. Seemed like the thing to do to keep a balance. Do go sign up, if you are an SKB user or are just interested. Only 7 days here without any sign ups and it disappears.


2) Meanwhile - here's a fix for if you find yourself in the situation I did recently.

The Situation - I'd been working away in the software, loving the drawing experience as I usually do. I popped away to a different software for a while to do something else. On my return the colour picker palette had completely disappeared and refused to be found, or retrieved by any form of preference resetting. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling using its own facility for that. Still no colour palette.
I tried using a third party uninstaller - still no joy.

The Fix - I left an enquiry in the Autodesk forum (known as the 'Area')dedicated to SKB. A better man than I (username Junjie - to whom many thanks) instructed me to check that my preferences had indeed been erased. Here are his instructiions copied andpasted for any suffering the same fate.

If your color palette is gone for whatever reason, could you please try to close SBP and go to:

XP: ..\Documents and Settings\[USER NAME]\Application Data\Autodesk\SketchBook Pro\4.0\
Vista: ..\Users\[USER NAME]\AppData\Roaming\Autodesk\SketchBook Pro\4.0\

and then delete the file named ”userPreferences.xml” and restart SBP again?

By deleting this file you should be able to reset your preference settings to factory defaults WITHOUT losing your customer textures. Hope this helps.

It works and it does let you keep any custom brushes etc. Hopefully this little bug will be addressed later on.

[Creativetone]

I use both ArtRage 3 Studio Pro and SketchBook Pro.. and recently I bought Paint Tool SAI. Sometimes I use excellent free painting program MyPaint. These are my main drawing and painting applications.

I use MyPaint 0.7.2 also on my Nokia N900 (OC 900MHz) Internet Tablet. It is amazing how well it works.. It is my mini Cintiq+Painter. Great digital sketchbook.

N900 resistive screen is perfect match for painting applications. Screen is accurate and works just as well as my Wacom Cintiq 12wx.

These softwares gives me all that I need for painting and drawing digitally.. they have a own weakness and strengths. All these costs almost nothing, less than Painter.

I am Long time Painter user but I think that ArtRage offer much more realistic traditional tool emulations... and new Sticker Spray Brushes offer a whole new world of brushes. Stencils and rulers are very useful. Canvas textures are great and with them you can make endless amount of different type of textures. There is also Layer Blending Modes. ArtRages only weakness is it how slow it handles large canvases and I hope that this is corrected in future.

SketchBook Pro is so easy and fast to use. Pencil Tool has a great feeling.. Other great features are symmetry and ruler tools which are fast to use, transforming layers is so easy. Zooming and canvas rotations is fast and whole program is snappy. I like very much the new texture brushes which you can make and customize very fast. SketchBook is so good for speed concepts, but I think it is very useful for final stages or entire paintings or drawings. There is no Layers Blending Modes or canvas texturing.

I must mention Paint Tool SAI because it offer great Linequality (customized Stabilizer) and very very fast Color Blending engine. Also it is so light program it can handle very large canvases without any slow downs. It can rotate and zoom canvas fast. Brush engine is quite capable if you customize it. There is also Vector line tools and offer unique way to modify them. Paint Tool SAI is my only tool when I need absolute precision for my lines.

I still think that Photoshop is only tool for image-editing and best of them if you need quality.

Tone

[droidcub]

while i feel that the new featured in Sketchbook Pro 2009 are fantastic; i feel bitter about these features requiring higher configuration systems to work. Seriously, i can understand graphic card acceleration requirement for high end 3D softwares and other simulation work but i don't understand why we need GPU for symmetry drawing in SKBK 2009 and also to merely for the rotate canvas function in Adobe Photoshop CS4 and CS5.

Suprisingly, i find other packages that do allow to do such functions with relative ease.

Why is there this bias...i wonder.

[Kanvin]

HI I am really hoping to get this answer from you. i got my bamboo pen & sketch book pro version last week & installed all well.. but when i draw something it takes time to reflect on the screen.. my os is windows 7 Plz plz plz let me know how to solve this? is there any settings i can do and avoid this...

Thanks in advance,

Kanvin.