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• Colour Palette Designer (p. 146)
Create your own palettes from colour spreads based on accepted
colour theory (Monochromatic, Complementary, Triadic, and
more). You can add suggested colours automatically, or mix your own
colours to create the new palette. Spreads are perfect for simulating
various skin and natural tones.
• Colour Picker Tool (p. 144)
Sample colours directly under the cursor or, for artefacted, halftone or
dithered images, by averaging colours under a shaped region. Don't
forget to try colour gradient sampling, for sampling sunsets, metal or
glass surfaces, and more.
• Brushes get more powerful! (p. 87)
Paint more realistic brush strokes by using brush-specific pressure
properties—especially good for natural brush textures. Now recolour
photo brushes in an instant!
• Lines get pressure sensitive! (p. 255)
For cartoons and line art, pressure sensitivity now encompasses
freeform lines and curves, with weight and opacity control.
• Intuitive connector tools (p. 76)
Now even easier to use, with direct editing of connectors. Perfect in
combination with the Gallery tab's exciting range of office flow chart
symbols or with ever dependable QuickShapes. Overlapping target
object's connection points are now colour-coded for easy
differentiation. Now create branched connectors!
• Pressure Studio for pen tablets (p. 260)
Calibrate and test your tablet's input devices, even setup function
keys, rings, wheels, and sliders from within DrawPlus—all in one
easy-to-use studio! For Wacom Intuos4
™ users, take advantage of
OLED touch-sensitive shortcuts, where illuminated DrawPlus tool
icons show in your tablet's Functions area.
