Sketch Drawer is a bit of a throwback to the 90s, when plugins for hand drawn FX were common. Nowadays those plugins probably wouldn’t work – I tried several in current & mid-90s image editors [yeah, I still have a couple of those for some reason] – so the main alternative to Sketch Drawer would be the several similar apps in Google’s Play Store. And Sketch Drawer does do what it’s supposed to, though it might perform better using an Intel CPU – with an AMD CPU I’ve got more cores, but less performance per core, & Sketch Drawer tended to mainly use just one. So with a small, 6 MB jpg it took a while, averaging about 7% in terms of the whole CPU, 70-80% on one core, using about 1 GB of RAM.

The setup file for Sketch Drawer doesn’t contain anything extra – basically it just holds the contents of the program’s folder – and as a 1st step takes you to a page on the SoftOrbits[.]com site to fill in an email address. Once you get the email, & it took a while, it’s simply a link to verify your email address – click the link, fill in name & country, and it’ll display the key. Copy/paste the key & the installation will continue, adding the programs folder, plus desktop & start menu shortcuts. Both 32 & 64-bit versions of the app are included in the program’s folder – those shortcuts will point to the version that matches your copy of Windows, 32-bit or 64-bit. The registry just gets 2 keys, one for uninstall & one for the app, but that 2nd key has a LOT of entries – I recorded 766 total in a 32-bit copy of win7.

mike  –  5 years ago  –  ¿Te ha parecido útil este comentario? si | no (+16)

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I decided to go ahead and install this version 7.1 just to see if if John's cautionary comment would come true. The installation went off without a hitch although it's a bit of a rigmarole.
SoftOrbits did remove my previous version and there is no control over where the program gets installed, so there is no control over the removal of previous versions.
This 7.1 version of Sketch Drawer seems to be a lifetime license with promo options to purchase an unlimited license (includes support and upgrades) at 70% discount equaling $21.79 CAD. Inside the program there is a tiny red box says 'promo' to link you to the discount page.
I hadn't used Sketch Drawer for over a year and so don't have a great memory of its functions but I'm not seeing a difference btwn this version and 6.0. Maybe the color shift option wasn't there before? Not sure.
It is mildly slow to render a Detailed Sketch as opposed to Classic or Realistic and did freeze on a 375kb 1152 x 768 jpg photograph when I first tried to make a Detailed Sketch but it did fine on the second try with the same photo, after I closed the program and restarted it.

Elaine  –  5 years ago  –  ¿Te ha parecido útil este comentario? si | no (+11)

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Ignore that last comment by me. I figured it out. The RUN button was hidden because I wasn't using full screen.
I now have a saved sketch.

Ignore that last comment by me. I figured it out. The RUN button was hidden because I wasn't using full screen. I now have a saved sketch.
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Elaine  –  5 years ago  –  ¿Te ha parecido útil este comentario? si | no (+8)

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