Painter Sketchpad?

#2

hmmmm… looks very interesting. Never seen the product before… must be very new?!?! First hint of what the next full Painter product will be like I wonder?

#3

I wonder if Corel offer a trial version of Painter Sketchpad.

I just went through their trial page and so far it didn’t have Sketchpad in the list. :frowning:

#4

I think at this point that the web page is more of a teaser. You can order it, but who is going to order before they can try it?

I might buy if I found it useful, but I wonder how it compares to ArtRage2 or Sketchbook Pro? That’s where a demo would come in handy! :slight_smile:

#5

There isn’t even a proper screenshot of the program.

#6

> but who is going to order before they can try it?

Lots of people.

Still, I feel like people are buying a lot less vapour than they used to.

#7

It was a rhetorical question.

Go ahead and buy it, most people want to know something more about the software before they buy it. THAT was the point! :wavey:

Hint: That’s why most software has a demo version; and I am sure Sketchpad will as well eventually.

#8

What makes you think I have any plans of buying it?

#9

And what makes YOU think I could ever give a damn whether you buy the software or where you may deposit it-do what you want, it matters not to me.

<One more cretin for my ignore list! > :shrug:

#10

> what makes you think

Well, you brought it up. I thought that was a sign.

#11

The demo of Sketchpad is now available for download:

http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite/ca/en/Product/1231253537915#tabview=tab0

My first impression is that it’s a replacement for Painter Essentials, no matter what they claim it’s for on the web page.

#12

This is what I use Artrage 2 for. Excellent for sketching. Great rules/friskets etc. Clean interface and only something like $25.

-Jim

#13

Adobe Sketchbook Pro??

You mean Autodesk?

Haha, you had me looking for this program on Adobe’s site.

#14

ArtRage is great, I just wish it had a better paintbrush. But for $25 I’m not complaining. I can live with it and anything else that comes along with a better brush. Sketchpad?

#15

I’ve tried Sketch Pad and the first tool I’ve used was the pencil brush, can’t say I’ve liked it plus I wouldn’t trust Corel to make good and useful brush presets and that’s what happened, there’s no costumization options what-so-ever, only size, opacity… also the pencil behaves really weird, ArtRage pencil/chalk is one of the best, the feel and control is unmatched, too bad the cross cursor gets in the way but Sketch Pad cursors aren’t that great either.

  Also didn't like the circle tool selectors, there's no way to arrange them so that they do not cover the canvas, this wouldn't be a problem if they were rectangular but cheap Corel was trying to copy ArtRage and Alias, as always Corel designers mess up big time, they must have taken their degrees by correspondence courses.
  
  It's a good idea for a program but the execution is typical Corel, also way overcharged, Sketch Pad is a $25-40 program.
#16

Another thought on Sketchpad: Both Sketchpad and the full Painter X need a computer to run. So there is no added convenience if you want to go outdoors and sketch. Far more convenient to just grab a paper sketch pad and a couple of pencils and go.

Also, I think you could duplicate much of the functionality of Sketchpad in Painter X. The Workspace feature allows you to hide any brushes,papers,etc that you don’t need for sketching or whatever.

Of course Painter X costs a lot more than Sketchpad, so that may be a factor for new users. But then ArtRage and others cost far less than Sketchpad and give equal or better functionality.

For current Painter X users, I don’t know that it’s that useful.

Right now, I’d say Sketchpad is mildly interesting, but not a ‘must buy’.

Maybe it’s a test for new Painter 11 features? Who knows? <shrug>

#17

Hi workbench,

You can drag the round palettes around you can even turn them off and bring them back with a shortcut command (cmd 1-4 ctrl 1-4) and they will pop up under your cursor and then disappear again. Let me know if you can get it to go. The button to make this work is to the very top of the round palette.
Pencil is to mimic a real pencil. Tilt it and you get the side of the pencil, more vertical and you get the sharp tip.

Rob

#18

Hi All,

I wanted to give you a little background on Sketch Pad. The idea behind Sketch Pad is we wanted to give a clean and friendly workspace that gives you the tools to get your ideas down quick. Pretty much everything in the program can be accessed with your stylus without going into the menus. And the UI will disappear if you have to draw through them and then reappear when you stop.

There is some really cool stuff in here. Try the Pencil and Chalk tools. When you tilt your stylus you can shade with the side of the media. The Marker will build color like a rendering maker, and the Pen changes it’s width when you increase the velocity of your stroke. When you are working in Sketch Pad if you need to make a stroke near or behind a palette they will disappear and reappear when you pick up your stylus. The round palettes can be hidden and by using Command 1-4 (Mac) or Ctrl 1-4 (Win) the selected palette will open underneath your cursor wherever it is in Sketch Pad. By the way we also have support for PNG files.

Cheers,

Rob

#19

i actually thought it is a pretty nice program. its pretty speedy and i do like the way the brush handles. i like the design so far anyway… i’ve only tried it for a few minutes though. big problem i’m having is that i cannot figure how to put the drawing window on my second monitor (i’m on a Mac, 2nd monitor is a cintiq.) I can, of course, make it my main monitor temporarily… but this is not ideal.

#20

This is exactly my scenario, that I could not find a way of moving the Sketch Pad document or rectangular palettes onto my Cintiq, unless the Cintiq was made the primary monitor housing the OS menu bar. Thanks to a Mac application called Zooom/2 , this is now possible. It is still early days, but the only issue I have discovered so far is that the rectangular palettes snap back to the main monitor if I try to resize them on the Cintiq. I have made a demo movie showing the process.

Zooom/2 demo.mov

David

As an additional note, the Zooom/2 can also be used to drag palettes and documents around in the full version of Painter, but I have encountered a palette window growth issue when in Pen mode. It is possible to toggle between Pen and Mouse mode by setting this up in the Wacom tablet preferences, or alternatively, use the mouse which shipped with the Mac.

#21

My first impressions were positive, but I don’t really see it fitting into my workflow.

With my system, the pencil is somewhat slow at decent sizes and is almost unbearable.

It feels like a more cluttered and heavy version of Alias Sketchbook Pro. All in all I will not be purchasing Sketchpad until it offers me something intuitive and unique, something that isn’t evident in the trial version… early days though.

Good luck Corel.