Press Release
Serif, a leading independent design, publishing and creative software developer, today released the latest version of its award-winning drawing and graphics software. DrawPlus X4 is Serif’s most creative, versatile and user-friendly package to date, offering more intuitive design tools, professional effects, new intelligent layout features, powerful new photo editing and enhancement capabilities, and more. This software offers an extremely easy-to-use interface for anyone producing exciting, designer-style results – whatever their level of experience.
“With DrawPlus X4 we wanted to offer people an even more powerful and creative graphics package that makes attractive artwork easy for all and I’m delighted with the final product that we are releasing today,” said Gary Bates, Managing Director at Serif. “There are many outstanding new creative features along with improvements to the program’s layout, usability and compatibility that make DrawPlus X4 our most accomplished drawing and graphics software to date.”
Whether painting and sketching; designing attractive logos and documents for print; creating eye-catching animations, web graphics and banners; or enhancing photos by quickly transforming them into stunning pieces of art, DrawPlus X4 provides the high-quality tools designers need.
DrawPlus X4’s new and improved features include:
* Blend Modes – Combine objects, colors and textures in exciting new ways and create unique artwork and effects. For example, photos can take on the texture of a material while brush work and filled shapes can subtly affect underlying artwork and images.
* Color Creators – The new Color Palette Designer automatically generates harmonious, similar or contrasting color ranges to use in designs – great for everything from a fresh logo to painting with subtle skin tones. The enhanced Color Picker, with its pixel-perfect and new average color modes and stunning new Gradient Picker, makes it simple to copy colors from any photo or drawing to use in a design, which enables users to create stunning backgrounds and effects.
* Easier-to-Use Drawing Tools – Revamped drawing tools make everyday artwork easier. Auto alignment makes neat layouts simple and natural to create, and it’s easier than ever to select and edit overlapping objects.
* More Natural Brush Work – Brushes now contain a wider range of natural textures in easier-to-find categories. Higher quality detail with the pressure-sensitive brushes make line art, illustrations and cartoon-style drawing even easier.
* Graphics Tablet Improvements – Using a graphics tablet, instead of a mouse, is a more natural way to sketch, draw and paint, and the new pressure-sensitive pen and pencil tools give better hand-drawn illustrations. The impressive new Pressure Studio offers a place to test, calibrate, and customize tablets for more accurate results and higher productivity.
* Super Sampling – Artwork is super-sized behind the scenes before being exported at a chosen size to provide best-in-class quality exports. Lines, text, brushwork, photos and more appear sharper and more distinct.
* Upgraded Photo Tools – Fix common photo flaws, adjust the color, levels and curves, change the contrast or apply any of the 70+ artistic effects to achieve flawless results every time with the brand new PhotoLab. The editing is all non-destructive, safe-guarding the original image, and can be applied selectively using masks. The AutoTrace Studio can quickly convert photos, logos, web graphics and more into editable vector artwork, while the Image Cutout Studio makes it easy to remove the background from any picture to give subjects total focus or take parts of a photo and use as shape art for silhouettes and much more.
* High-End Compatibility – With support for file types such as Adobe® Illustrator® and enhanced PDF editing, DrawPlus X4 has pro-level capabilities that aren’t common in its price bracket.
* High-Impact Web Graphics – DrawPlus X4 now imports, edits and exports SVG image files. These images are scalable and the text is searchable, increasing the chances of the website being found by a search engine.
* Better Productivity and Efficiency – Achieve more in less time and with less effort in DrawPlus X4’s revamped interface with improved on-screen quality and speed. Customizable keyboard shortcuts make workflow faster and the new Properties Pane puts all useful object information in one place.
DrawPlus X4 is compatible with Windows 7 and retails at $99.99. Existing Serif Software users should contact (800) 557-3743 for further information on upgrade pricing.
DrawPlus X4 is available today directly from Serif and will be coming soon to major retailers such as Buy.com, Frys and Amazon.
This article was last modified on January 18, 2023
This article was first published on April 20, 2010
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