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What are the best programs for illustrating?

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Best programs for illustrating	Price	Platforms	Export image formats
59 Affinity Designer	$49.99	Windows, MacOS, IOS	PNG, JPEG, GIF, TIFF, PSD, PDF, SVG, EPS, EPS, EXR, HDR
-- Krita	Free	Windows, Linux, Mac, Android	-
-- Clip Studio Paint	US$49.99	-	-
-- Inkscape	Free	Windows, macOS, Linux, Unix	-
-- Canva	Free / paid	Windows, macOS, Android, iOS, Web	-

Affinity Designer

Top Pro

One-time purchase

Rather than a monthly subscription based model, Affinity Designer instead has a one-time fee ($49.99). -- Unlike Adobe products See More

Top Con

No Linux version available

Unfortunately, there is no Linux version available in 2021, despite of the numerous community requests worldwide. See More

Rob Frydryck's Experience

Fast! Affinity Designer has a much faster loading and editing than the more bloated Illustrator. While it does not have all the minor features of Illustrator it doe shave all the major ones at a price that can not be beat. See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows, MacOS, IOS

Export image formats:PNG, JPEG, GIF, TIFF, PSD, PDF, SVG, EPS, EPS, EXR, HDR

Top Pro

Excellent Photoshop/Illustrator import & export

Best I have seen in a non Adobe app, you can use most of the Photoshop mock-ups and templates easily. Opens most Adobe files to a level to be able to effectively use the content. Allows cross team collaboration across tool-chains. See More

Top Con

No plug-in architecture, so can't be tailored to specific purposes

Some applications (e.g. Sketch) have an open plug-in framework, by which the software can be extended by independent/third-party developers according to popular trends. See More

Added Value Web Services's Experience

A lot cheaper than Adobe products. Yet it does most things that most people need. Also reads Adobe Illustrator files and many other formats. See More

Top Pro

SVG Support

In the era of "retina" displays, 4k UHD, 5k, and even 8k, Scalar Vector Graphics - independent vector images that can scale to any resolution without any display quality loss - are more important now than ever. And this tool is quite capable of rendering true SVG output suitable for consumption at any display resolution (not a big bunch of rasterized bits in the document, actual paths, points, etc.). See More

Top Con

No Preview for Export Function

When exporting graphics for the web there is no chance to get a preview. The only thing you can do is export multiple formats and compressions and compare the results afterwards. People have been asking for this basic feature for four years now, but the developers have different priorities. -- This would be a nice enhancement. See More

Top Pro

Focused vector graphics tool

Unlike some design tools, Affinity Designer isn't trying to be all things to all people. It's focused on its main area of expertise: vector graphics. See More

Top Con

Treats all objects as filled

You can't select objects on the canvas by clicking on them, if they're surrounded by another object (like a rectangle or a frame). Designer treats all objects as filled, so if you've drawn a frame or outline or an object with a hole in it, you can't select objects within that hole directly. You have to laboriously iterate through all objects in a list until you get to the one you want. This is an extremely common situation, which cripples the entire product. Very surprising and unfortunate defect. See More

Top Pro

Powerful artistic tools

Extensively tweakable brush types, color options... See More

Top Con

missing a warp deform function

Top Pro

Cross platform

Available on both Windows and MacOS See More

Top Pro

Intuitive user interface

The user interface of many graphic editing software programs can often be discouraging for beginners. Affinity Designer, however, has a very well laid out and intuitive user interface with a small learning curve. See More

Top Pro

Integrates well with Affinity Photo

These are companion apps & switching between them is built in - Photo is a very powerful raster tool with a feature set close/better to Photoshop, it will also use some Photoshop plugins. This allows you to add-on powerful raster capabilities if you want them - but doesn't force you to. See More

Top Pro

Extended slicing and export possibilities

An object can easily be transformed into a slice that can then be exported in various sizes end formats in 1 go. E.g. Export slice A as PNG 1x, 2x and 3x AND GIF 1x AND SVG. See More

Top Pro

Sketch Alternative (Great for Mixed OS Teams)

For those working in mixed environments that aren't 100% MacOS, you'll find devoting yourself to Sketch.app brings with it...pain. If this fits the bill for what you need feature-wise and you're in a mixed OS environment, it's a very capable replacement for Sketch.app. Note that it doesn't have all the same features, but then again it doesn't need all the same features. Short of organization differences inside the document you're working on, there shouldn't be anything you can't do with Affinity Designer that you could have with Sketch. See More

Top Pro

Good use of layers

You can isolate different layers to control your changes and your composition. See More

Top Pro

Powerful symbol managemment

Symbols can get individual property changes (color, shape, layer effects, fonts text...) while the other properties stay linked with the base symbol. See More

Krita

Top Pro

Free and open source

Krita is completely free and open source. They have raised a couple of successful Kickstarters in the past to get the initial financing and now they are accepting donations. See More

Top Con

Working with text is not that pleasant

Specs

Platforms:Windows, Linux, Mac, Android

License:Open source

Technology:C++, Qt

Top Pro

Very customizable

Although the UI is rather busy, Krita is very customizable. The editing window can be themed and the sidebar can be customized extensively throw many dockers or panes. See More

Top Con

New features are not tested thoroughly

Since releases are so often and with little time between them, usually new features are not tested a lot and this can bring a lot of bugs with them. Which fortunately are quickly patched in the next release. See More

Top Pro

Constantly updated

Krita is getting constant releases with updates and bug fixes. New features are added at a pace that far surpasses the other alternatives. See More

Top Con

Documentation is lacking

Krita's official documentation is incomplete in some areas, especially for new features that are constantly added. But this is compensated with it's great design and usability which makes it easier to understand how things work. See More

Top Pro

Amazing support for displaying brushes

Krita's preset brushes are one of the default dockers. Each brush has a preview on mouseover that shows a detailed view of the type of brush involved. All the brushes also have useful and descriptive names such as "HP Pencil" or "Textured Fuzzy". See More

Top Con

Poor Touch Controls

They are still pretty much a WIP. But they are getting there. See More

Top Pro

Easy editing in a tiled view

Tiled view that shows your image tiled in the editor, and permits you to edit it as you are seeing it tiled. If the brush passes out of your texture, it will just automatically wrap back the painting to the other side of the original texture, while permitting you to paint and see the results on any of the tiled "clones" (the shortcut key to activate this is w by default). See More

Top Pro

Easy to use layout

All the most used and useful tools are easy to find in Krita's UI and are often just one click away. They are not hidden behind menus or dropdowns. See More

Top Pro

Developed in part by KDE, which has a great community and therefore great support

KDE has a long history of making solid applications. See More

Clip Studio Paint

Top Pro

Brushes

The brushes on Clip Studio feel natural and smooth. Especially love the Real Pencil and G-Pen. There are also an enormous selection of brushes: you can use those posted daily on the asset store, and you can also use ANY photoshop brush. You can also extensively customize any brush. Clip Studio has a very powerful brush engine. See More

Top Con

EX is more expensive than Pro

The EX version is more expensive, for those who want to do a few key features such as multiple page layouts for publishing manga, importing OBJ files, and animation. It's about a $150 difference. See More

MotivatedOrmenos's Experience

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Specs

Supported platforms:Windows, Mac, iPadOS, iOS

Top Pro

Dark theme

A setting to turn down the bright exterior of the program, this is useful for preventing eye strain after long amounts of usage. See More

Top Con

Unintuitive keybinding

Though not a big deal, the default keybindings are strange at times. It is recommended to change these, especially if you have used apps like Photoshop. See More

Erin Cox's Experience

Amazing product. Have compared with Photoshop and used several other art programs, like GIMP, Sai, Medibang paint pro, etc. See More

Top Pro

Familiar and Modular UI

Clip Studio Paint is easy to work with because of its familiar feel and customizable interface. You can also download the most popular interface layouts designed by others in the community and use them yourself with just a few clicks, eliminating the need to customize it yourself from scratch. See More

PersonableEuphrosyne's Experience

I have used both Photoshop and Clip Studio Paint, And I can whole heartedly say that I prefer Clip Studio in most cases. With my drawing tablet CSP always works flawlessly. No issues with pressure sensitivity, which I have had in PS more than once. The brushes feel much more natural in CSP, and there are great tools for blending and any other drawing and painting tool I have needed has been there. In addition the marketplace is great for any time you could need a new tool, and about 90% of the stuff is free. See More

Top Pro

Vector drawing

Clip Studio Paint lets you paint like you normally do, even using vectors. Rather than having vector brushes, Clip Studio lets you use ANY available brush on a vector layer. This allows for a normal workflow, while still providing scalable images and complex line-editing after drawing in a way that apps like Adobe Illustrator and the like are unable to match. See More

Top Pro

AI technology

Clip Studio Paint offers some very cool AI technology that does everything from coloring your paintings, to auto coloring animations, to intuitively closing gaps for you. You can also record your OWN sets of frequently-repeated actions into an auto-action so you can perform sets of actions you have to perform over and over again in seconds at the click of a button. See More

Top Pro

Tutorials and community support

Since Clip Studio has become very popular, there is a large amount of support available, from community forums to online courses, YouTube videos, and creator-based tutorial and how-to content. It's very easy to learn from the wide variety of content available. See More

Top Pro

Large selection of community assets

Clip Studio Paint comes with an asset store which contains an enormous collection of both free and paid materials of all kinds (brushes, 3D objects, backgrounds, effects, UI layouts, image material, etc.) that are updated every single day by a huge user base all over the world. It makes it easy to favorite and download material, which you can browse by popularity, newness, or search for and download straight into Clip Studio with very little effort. See More

Top Pro

Optimized for illustration

Since Clip Studio is optimized for illustration, it provides many tools to make this more efficient. For example, lineart layers (or entire folders) can be set as a reference layer for the bucket tool to reference, allowing you to fill in flat colors in literal seconds, without needing to manually color within the lines OR draw a selection with a selection tool. See More

Top Pro

Affordable

Clip Studio Paint is a one-time purchase, making it very affordable compared to subscription-based alternatives. The cheaper Pro version does almost everything an illustrator could want. The more expensive Ex version is generally only needed for those interested in page management for publishing books (e.g. comics, manga, artbooks) or animation. See More

Top Pro

Brush-based erasing

Unlike many other programs, which offer only dedicated eraser tools, Clip Stuio ALSO offers the ability to paint using a transparent color, essentially transforming ANY brush tool into an eraser tool which maintains the texture, edge, weight and pressure sensitivity, and other useful and customized features of your brush when erasing. This is useful both for not needing to switch tools as well as not needing to re-paint erased areas. See More

Top Pro

Mobile companion apps available

There are mobile companion apps available for iPhone, iPad, and Android. Unlimited use of the apps requires a subscription. See More

Inkscape

Top Pro

Free and open source

Inkscape is GPL-licensed and maintains public repositories. See More

Top Con

Mac version is in worse shape than Windows/Linux version

Specs

Platforms:Windows, macOS, Linux, Unix

License:GPL-2.0-or-later

Initial Release:2003

Top Pro

Export to different file types

You can export and save your files for example as a "normal" svg, png, jpg, bmp etc. file. See More

Top Con

Limited work with ICC CMYK color scheme

Support for ICC color profiles only in SVG files. See More

Top Pro

It's really easy and fun

Edit and create vector graphics with Inkscape. See More

Top Con

Based on the GTK widget toolkit

Software is based on GTK, so it might not integrate well in non-GTK environments. It also requires many dependencies on those non-GTK desktops. It also adds dependencies to GTK-environments since it is written in C++ which requires the gtkmm wrapper/interface See More

Top Pro

Cross-platform

Pre-built binaries are available for Windows, Mac and Linux. Inkscape can be built from source on additional platforms. See More

Top Con

Uses its own SVG-format by default

Inkscape might use SVG as its default format, however this SVG's contains some additional SodiPodi/Inkscape additions that can be troublesome if you want to import the SVG into some other application. See More

Top Pro

Guides, Grids, and Canvas Rotation

Extremely handy features when building complex graphics using Inkscape. See More

Top Con

Incompatible with previous versions

Sometimes backward compatibility breaks. For example, pre 0.92 SVGs are incompatible with later releases (due different default resolutions). See More

Top Pro

Interface is available in 29 languages

Basque, British English, Brazilian, Portuguese, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, Latvian, Norwegian (Bokmål), Polish, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Swedish. See More

Top Con

Very slow startup on some systems

Depending on factors like how many fonts you have installed, Inkscape can take upwards of 30 seconds to launch. See More

Top Pro

It can do anything

A very powerful software that can do pretty much anything. See More

Top Con

No Gradient Mesh tool

Gradient Mesh or a comparable tool is not available in Inkscape. See More

Top Pro

Dark Theme Support

The new 1.0 beta 2 version finally got support for dark theme which normally is only available for commercial software like Affinity Serif, Adobe Illustrator. See More

Top Con

Y-axis inverted

0,0 coordinates begin in lower left corner, not upper left corner as SVG standards define. See More

Top Pro

Measurement tool

This tool is extremely handy and not found in any other vector graphics programs out there. See More

Top Con

No support for large printing machine system

No support for large printing machine environment, except exporting the resulting artwork to PDF. See More

Top Pro

Live Path Effects

Extremely powerful menu that offers more than 30 powerful Live Path Effects to apply to your paths vastly enhancing the application functionality. See More

Top Pro

Opens lots of file types

Inkscape supports many common formats for import (including SVG, Photoshop and Illustrator) and its plugin architecture allows more to be added. See More

Sketch

Top Pro

Active community with a lot of resources

Sketch is hugely popular among designers so there are a lot of well maintained community resources for everything from iPhone frames to iOS/Android UI elements & icons. See More

Top Con

License based payment model

Sketch has recently decided to cease development of major version (2.0, 3.0, 4.0) with free updates in between, and has switched to a license based subscription model. A yearly license costs $99 and includes the latest version of the Sketch software, plus a year of free updates. After this license expires, you can renew for another year of updates - or continue to use the current software without updates. See More

Specs

Top Pro

Symbols and shared styles

Sketch lets you re-use the same design in multiple places, with changes synced throughout the various places it is used. You can also create text styles to sync typography changes. See More

Top Con

Limited compatibility with Photoshop and Illustrator

Although it is possible to export certain Adobe file types in Sketch, compatibility is mostly hit and miss. For example, some elements seem a little offset in Adobe products. See More

Top Pro

Clean UI

Reactive panels keep the UI for Sketch clean from the sort of clutter the panel system in Photoshop suffers from. The panels in Sketch change based on the object in question, saving you from having to have a multiple separate panels. See More

Top Con

No Windows/Linux versions

Sketch is currently Mac only, which can make it hard to collaborate if you have teammates using another OS. See More

Top Pro

Makes it easy to export assets

Sketch has a built in exporter that supports PDF, JPG and PNG. See More

Top Pro

Designed specifically for web and mobile UI design & workflows

Sketch is essentially a version of Photoshop built from the ground up to suit the workflow of web designers. See More

Top Pro

Straightforward UI

The Sketch interface resembles Photoshop, but is streamlined for working with vectors only. See More

Top Pro

Lightweight and fast

… in particular in comparison to similar applications. See More

Top Pro

Vector based yet pixel aware

You can rescale assets without quality loss, easily export x2 assets for retina designs and design high quality icons & artwork. Being pixel aware lets you set a grid and snap objects to it as well as round to the nearest pixel edge to clean up your layers. See More

Top Pro

Built-in grid system

You can set the square grid to whatever dimensions you like as well as set thicker lines every x blocks. You can also configure the color of the lines to make them as obvious or subtle as you wish and toggle the grid with a keyboard shortcut (crtl+g). See More

Top Pro

Educational discounts

Sketch offers a 50% discount to students and educators. See More

Top Pro

"Mirror" makes it really easy to test designs on multiple devices

Mirror lets you connect your iPhone to sketch and see how your current artboard looks on mobile. It's really useful as you can live check changes which lets you rapidly iterate mobile design. See More

Top Pro

Easily align layers with smart guides

Holding down alt will show the smart guides that show the distances between any layer you hover over to nearby layers or the edges of the artboard. Very useful for checking your spacing or aligning layers. See More

Top Pro

"Artboards" are great for working on multiple views simultaneously

Artboards let you easily work on multiple views side by side. Great for having a separate artboard on each page for the various responsive sizes. See More

Google Drawings

Top Pro

Cloud storage

Google Draw saves to Google Drive so you can access it from anywhere at any time. See More

Top Con

Married to Google

Using Google Draw necessarily means committing information to their servers. See More

RickZeeland's Experience

If you have a browser, you can draw ! See More

Specs

Top Pro

Support for collaboration

Because it's integrated with Google Drive, Draw docs can easily be shared and worked on by multiple people. See More

Top Pro

Cloud Storage

Google Draw saves to Google Drive so you can access it from anywhere at any time. See More

Top Pro

Easy to use

It lacks all of the complex features of the larger editors, but makes all of the tools it does have easy to access and understand. See More

Top Pro

Free to use

Like the rest of the Google Drive suite, Draw is available to anyone with a Google account. See More

Gravit Designer

Top Con

No longer free

In 2014 Quasado released Gravit.io having dual licensing: GNU GPLv3+ or a commercial license. This effectively made Gravit.io opensource, when they transitioned to "Gravit designer" they essentially dropped GPLv3+ license. You can still get the GPLv3+ licensed version of Gravit.io here: https://github.com/OliBridgman/gravit You can read the GPLv3+ licensing here: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html See More

Top Pro

Essential Tools and Effects

Gravit has many tools like Pen tool, Bezigon tool, Lasso tools. We can add Multiple Fills to an element also. It has many effects such as Drop Shadows, Blur, Recolor, Glows, etc. and much more. See More

Specs

Platforms:Linux, MacOS, Windows, ChromeOS, WebApp

License:Commercial

Company:Corel Corporation

Top Pro

Modern UI

Top Pro

Cross-platform

It offers total portability to almost any platform. See More

Top Pro

Simple to understand and use

Very friendly interface. See More

Photoshop

Top Pro

Lots of tutorials

There's a huge number of both free and paid tutorials available online. Websites like Lynda.com offer premium high-quality, in-depth tutorials, but there are plenty of free alternatives to be found on YouTube, blogs and specialized sites on the Internet. See More

Top Con

Steep learning curve

Specs

Platforms:Windows, macOS

Tethered capture:via Bridge

Top Pro

Industry standard

Photoshop is used by professionals everywhere in a wide variety of fields including photography, graphic design and digital art. It is the de facto standard for image manipulation. If you've seen a magazine ad featuring a model, you've probably seen the effects of Photoshop. You won't be alone when using Photoshop. See More

Top Con

Expensive

The standalone version of Photoshop costs $19.99/month, though it can be leased as part of the Creative Cloud Photography bundle that includes Lightroom for $9.99/month. See More

Top Pro

Mobile companion apps available

There's a free mobile app available for iOS, Android & Windows Phone. See More

Top Con

Asset management capabilities are lacking

In Photoshop asset management is done through a separate program called Bridge. As Bridge is supposed to be a file management tool for not just Photoshop's files, but for files generated by all of Adobe's applications it covers a breadth of capabilities, but not depth. See More

Top Pro

A cheaper, standalone version called Photoshop Elements is available

A stripped down version of Photoshop, called Photoshop Elements can be bought as a standalone application for $100. See More

Top Con

Learning it can take some time

While you can relatively quickly learn how to perform a few basic image editing tasks, understanding Photoshop's ins and outs can be difficult. It's partially due to the sheer amount of functionality that Photoshop packs (and understanding that some of the advanced functionality can take a while to understand on its own), and partially due to it being aimed at professionals with little hand-holding for novice users. See More

Top Pro

Includes powerful content-aware tools

Photoshop includes content-aware tools such as content-aware fill that can fill in a select area based on what surrounds it. See More

Top Con

Latest versions of Photoshop are subscription-only

While you can still buy CS6 from 2012 without needing a subscription by contacting Adobe support or the cut-down Photoshop Elements, any full-version version of Photoshop past CS6 requires a subscription. See More

Top Pro

Creative Cloud Photography subscription includes Lightroom

Lightroom is another image editing software from Adobe that's specifically designed for photo editing and managing of large quantities of digital images. See More

Top Pro

Integrates with Creative Cloud

You can save all projects directly to the Creative Cloud allowing you to access them from any device and with any relevant Adobe software. See More

Top Pro

Trove of plugins that extend functionality are available

A wide variety of plugins that add new effects, improve existing functionality and simplify workflow are available. See More

Top Pro

Packs a staggering amount of functionality

Photoshop is the most fully featured image editing software available today allowing you to perform highly advanced image manipulation. It has tools for RAW image adjustments, lens correction, retouching, image stitching, HDR, fixing framing. It supports most professional color modes and file formats. It includes extensive lists of filters, styles, effects, fonts as well as tools for painting, sketching and typography work. It understands both raster and vector graphics. It even includes tools for video editing, working with 3D objects and support for 3D printing. See More

Adobe Illustrator CC

Top Con

Steep learning curve

Top Pro

Flexible, non-intrusive interface

Small palette menus and the ability to save multiple menu layouts keep the UI out of the way. See More

Rob Frydryck's Experience

Better choices like Affinity Designer that has all the major features without the Rent Ware price. See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows; Mac

License:Proprietary

Initial Release:1987

Exports:.ai; .eps; .ait; .pdf; .fxg; .svgz; .svg; .png; .bmp; .dwg; .dxf; .emf; .swf; .jpg; .pct; .psd; .tif; .tga; .txt; .wmf; .html; .gif

Top Con

Heavy use of CPU/RAM

Top Pro

Frequent updates

The CC subscription model means that major releases are no longer necessary, so existing users gain immediate access to new features. See More

Top Con

Subscription model

Illustrator CC requires a $19.99/mo (minimum) subscription to use. Adobe no longer sells previous versions of Illustrator. See More

Top Pro

It's the industry standard

Top Con

Installs useless and intrusive software

When you install any Adobe product it also installs lots of useless and intrusive software and services. It adds two services and up to three auto-starting softwares that run when you start your operating system and keep running constantly. One is for auto-updating, others for "checking" if you are not a pirate and some others that seem to be just to collect information. See More

Top Pro

Easy to learn

It's easy to learn how to work with this software. See More

Top Con

Very slow

Even in very good computers Illustrator is very slow. See More

Top Pro

There are many tutorials on the internet

Top Con

Complicated UX

Anything but intuitive software. See More

Top Pro

Has all the vector tools you could dream of

Top Con

You never truly own this software

As soon as you stop paying you lose access to the software. This should be illegal. See More

Top Pro

Amazing integration with all other Adobe Software (PS, Ae, Id...)

Top Con

Buggy

Software can be very buggy at times. See More

Top Pro

Advanced tools

Top Con

No proper selection mode

In a vector-art program, the critical selection mode is the one in which objects must be fully enclosed by the selection marquee to be selected. In the simple example shown here, selecting all the circles should merely require you to draw a selection rectangle around them. But in Illustrator, there's no way to avoid selecting other objects as well, even though they're not totally enclosed by the selection box. Year after year, Adobe fails to fix this bizarre oversight, making Illustrator a tedious pain to use. See More

Vectr

Top Pro

Cross-platform

You may download Vectr for Mac, Windows, Linux, and Chromebook. See More

RickZeeland's Experience

Free and user friendly graphics design tool. See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows, Linux, Mac, Web

Top Pro

Free

The app is going to remain free forever. See More

Top Pro

Low learning curve

Vectr has a very low learning curve and would be perfect for beginners. However, it’s absolutely easy to use no matter what your background is. Professional designers will also find a great number of useful tools which may change their designs completely. See More

Top Pro

Supports collaboration

You can send the unique URL to your Vectr project to your friends and colleagues for collaboration. See More

Top Pro

Supports importing various image formats

You may import your previous designs or downloaded graphics and edit them in Vectr as you like. See More

Top Pro

Intuitive

Vectr is simpler than other web design or vector graphics design tools, and has all the features needed to make your designs beautiful. See More

Top Pro

AI, EPS, SVG, PNG, JPEG files import

Adobe Illustrator

Top Con

Overpriced proprietary software

Too many ways of doing the same thing; fat, bloated and slow, and lacks in simplicity for doing mundane tasks like removing individual nodes, etc... Plus, DAMN, it's waaaaayyy overpriced as well as being bundled in Creative Cloud which makes it a subscription service instead of a dedicated download for a single price. See More

SketchBook - draw and paint

Top Pro

Well designed toolset

The ruler and curve tools are a great pairing to the default brushes and seemingly intended for industrial/ architectural design. Also comes with a mirror tool, a color picker that can pull colors from other windows, etc. See More

Top Con

Limited functionality

The app has a limited scope. It is designed as a 'sketchbook' and has limited functionality as compared to Photoshop with filters, etc. See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows, Mac, Android, iOS

Top Pro

Quick iterations

Automatically names files sequentially. See More

Top Pro

Intuitive design

Includes multiple clever UI additions. Adds pucks for interacting with settings and UI: the color puck and brush puck. You can drag up/down on the puck for one setting and left/right for another. For example the brush puck drags vertically for brush opacity and horizontally for brush size. You can configure the brush puck functionality to a shortcut. When I hold down the z key I can drag my pen down left and right to increase brush size. Infinitely faster than pressing the brackets as set as default on Photoshop. See More

TwistedBrush Pro Studio

Specs

Platforms:Windows

License:Shareware

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