Features Include:

Workflow

• IMPROVED User Interface
  Create professional artwork, logos and web graphics efficiently within DrawPlus’s intuitive, stylish and powerful user interface. Save your preferred workspace layout and settings, then easily select your workspace profile from the start-up screen next time you launch DrawPlus, and immediately start designing.
• NEW Windows Vista Certified
  Enjoy designing with powerful drawing software that is fully certified for Microsoft Windows Vista and works perfectly with Windows 2000 and XP too. You can preview your DrawPlus documents as thumbnails in Windows Vista and easily locate your DrawPlus files with Vista search
• IMPROVED Tutorials & Projects
  Get more from DrawPlus with graphical Tutorials that give you step-by-step instructions on how to use a variety of DrawPlus's tools and features. Once you've mastered the basics you can progress on to the Projects, learn how to create a range of stunning drawings and animations from start to finish, including photo realistic drawings, family trees, garden layouts and web banners.
• IMPROVED Templates
  Create professional-looking documents quickly, using the collection of stylish, pre-designed Templates as a starting point. Customise the templates by adding your own copy, images and colour schemes to easily create everything from logos and web banners to posters, greetings cards and more.
• IMPROVED Gallery
  Choose from a stunning selection of signs and symbols, cartoon illustrations, scrapbooking objects, garden and interior design symbols, as well as connecting symbols for family trees, electronics, computers and much much more.
• NEW How To Tab
  Display the ‘How To’ tab and quickly learn how to use all the powerful tools DrawPlus has to offer. The context sensitive How To tab automatically displays easy-to-follow, illustrated instructions on using the selected tool, including hyperlinks to related subjects and the full topic in the Help file.

Drawing & Animation

• IMPROVED Drawing Tools
  Use pre-designed and customizable QuickShapes, including arrows, hearts, spirals and more, in your designs. Or why not draw freehand shapes with easy Smart Curves or use the amazing Freeform Paint Tool? Even if you can’t or won’t draw, you’ll be amazed by the impressive results you can achieve.
• IMPROVED Animation
  Make your drawings leap to life using animation, both stop frame and keyframe, and share them as videos, flash animations or animated GIFs. DrawPlus provides all the tools for novices and experts alike, even offering advanced features like action scripts, onion skinning, background layers, layer masks and frame management.
• IMPROVED Fills & Effects
  Add professional look to objects and text instantly using blending colour gradient fills or over 200 supplied photo fills, or even create photo fills using your own images. Add amazing effects, such as bevel and emboss, shadows, glows, feathering and 3D effects so that your designs really stand out.
• Natural Brushes & Paper Textures
  Achieve realistic painting effects with vector and bitmap-based brushes, from categories including watery paint and more, or even create your own. Also select from various paper textures, including Parchment and Watercolour for even more authenticity. And, with full support for pressure sensitive graphics tablets, it’s just like drawing on canvas!
• Scale Drawings
  Drag rulers across your page to measure objects and set their dimensions using your choice of ruler units, at your specified scale, from millimetres to miles! Dimensions automatically update when objects are moved or resized! Design room or garden layouts, make maps, draw scale models... the choice is yours.
• Connected Objects
  Create dynamic link lines between objects, which retain connection even when objects are moved. Default connection points will automatically appear when you have the Connector tool selected and draw a line towards the destination object, making it quick and easy to create stylish flow charts, family trees and other diagrams.
• Autotrace
  Insert photographs and bitmap images and let Autotrace transform them into vector images that can be ungrouped into component parts for editing. Achieve striking, artistic effects by re-colouring, adding, deleting and changing sections to get the look you want. Adjustable smoothness and tolerance settings help you to get the desired effect too!
• Image Adjustments
  Apply a range of corrective adjustments, including Red Eye Remover, Contrast and Colour Balance, or effect-inducing adjustments, such as Diffuse Glow and Blur, to correct common photographic problems and enhance your images. Effects can be applied cumulatively in the Image Adjustments dialog and previewed as you add them to get exactly the right results.

Publishing

• NEW Export to Flash and Video
  Save your animations to Shockwave Flash or a choice of video formats, including AVI, Windows Media File and QuickTime. With a wide choice of formats you can create small files for displaying on the web or high quality movies. Even export animations for playing on mobile phones with DrawPlus’s Flash Lite format.
• IMPROVED Export Optimizer
  Export your designs to a wide range of common image file formats and adjust the settings to ensure you achieve exactly the right image size, file size and quality, whether it’s for print or the web. For web graphics, click the Estimated Download Time button and alter the settings accordingly.
• IMPROVED Tutorials & Projects
  A fantastic learning resource, this superb collection of 16 interactive Design Projects and 18 professionally-authored Tutorials will help anyone get the best from DrawPlus X2’s functionality! The step-by-step instructions take you through a range of DrawPlus X2’s sensational features – there really is no limit to your creative possibilities!
• Printing
  Output designs to your desktop printer, where print options include multiple or tile designs across several pages. Professional print output to PDF/X1a is easy too with colour separations, spot colours and prepress marks. However you wish to print your designs, DrawPlus has the flexibility to help you achieve exactly the results you need.
• Import & Edit PDFs
  Open and edit Portable Document Files (PDFs) within DrawPlus, just as you would edit a standard DrawPlus document. DrawPlus allows you to add, delete and edit elements of the design and export it back to PDF, ideal for sharing with anyone, anywhere in the world.
• AutoCAD Import & Export
  Open AutoCAD® .DWG and .DXF files directly in DrawPlus and edit them just as you would a standard DrawPlus document. View and edit engineering layouts and designs and save them as a DrawPlus Drawing, or easily export them back into AutoCAD files.
• Photoshop® Document and Image Import
  Open all common image file formats including images saved as Adobe® Photoshop® Documents (.PSD), position them anywhere within your drawing, and edit them with easy-to-use image adjustment tools.
  

System Requirements:

Minimum:

• Pentium PC with CD-ROM drive and mouse (or other Windows-compatible pointing device)
• Microsoft Windows® 2000, XP, or Vista operating system
• 256MB RAM
• 576MB (recommended full install) free hard disk space
• SVGA display (800x600 resolution, 16-bit colour or higher)
• Additional disk resources and memory are required when editing large or complex documents.

Recommended:

• Dual-processor PC technology
• Pentium PC with CD-ROM drive and mouse (or other Windows-compatible pointing device)
• Microsoft Windows® 2000, XP, or Vista operating system
• 256MB RAM
• 576MB (recommended full install) free hard disk space
• SVGA display (1024x768 resolution, 16-bit colour or higher)
• Additional disk resources and memory are required when editing large or complex documents.

Optional:

• Windows-compatible printer
• TWAIN-compatible scanner and/or digital camera
• Pressure-sensitive pen tablet (Serif GraphicsPad or equivalent)
• 3D accelerated graphics card with DirectX 9 (or above) or OpenGL support
• Internet account and connection required for accessing online resources
  

Educational Pricing:

- Can be purchased using eLC's

* Packs contain CD-ROM, manual and relevant license. Please call for 5 & 100 pack pricing.