SketchBook Pro for iPad – Autodesk’s popular, award winning painting and drawing application for iPad – has had a huge update this week, to Version 2.0.
This already feature-rich app has added a slew of powerful new features including UI customization capabilities, additional brushes, additional brush properties, special new features for the iPad 2, Dropbox support, and lots more.
Alongside this major update, the app has also had a substantial price drop – from $7.77 to just $4.99. There’s nothing stated on this, but I have to imagine this is a short-term sale to mark the new update.
Here’s the full list of changes in Version 2.0
✓Customizable User Interface
• Assign a selection of commands to 3 finger swipe gestures
• Radial menu for expert users to assign brush + color combinations
• Brush Palette for fast access to your favorite brushes
• Color Swatch Palette for fast access to your favorite colors
✓Brush Properties Puck
• Opacity and Size now adjust independently
✓Additional Brush Properties
• Brush rotation
• Brush aspect ratio
• Randomization for brush spacing and rotation
✓Slider precision
• Tap beside sliders to nudge values
• Variable speed scrubbing on sliders (moving finger down below slider increases precision with distance)
✓Additional Brushes
• SketchBook Store
• Install new brush sets
✓Pinch Zoom
• snaps to 100% zoom when pinched to within 5%
✓Dropbox Support
• Import and Export files to Dropbox
✓Layered File Import
• Import layered files (details on SketchBooknews.com)
✓iPad 2
• Normal resolution (1024×768 with 12 layers)
• Option for High Resolution canvas (2048×1536 with 4 layers)
• 20 undo/redo levels
• Support for mirroring on external displays
✓Bug fixes & Performance
• Better document recovery when things go bad
• Fixed import from Camera on iPad 2
• Fixed low memory issues when importing large images from Photo Library
And here’s an App Store link for SketchBook Pro for iPad: currently priced at $4.99.
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