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Sketch is a innovative and fresh look at vector drawing for the Mac. Its intentionally minimalist design is based upon a drawing space of unlimited size and layers, free of palettes, panels, menus, windows, and controls. Though simple to use, it offers powerful vector drawing and text tools like perfect Boolean operations, Symbols and powerful Rulers, Guides and Grids.
What's New
Version 2.0.1:
Rendering
- Improves the quality of the Inner and Outer Glow styles
- Greatly improves the rendering quality of Inner Shadows
- Improves the sharpness of the Noise style
- Improves the quality of gradients by removing banding
- Improves compatiblity with documents created with Sketch 1.x
- Improves the accuracy of vectors on small sizes
- Improves the accuracy of boolean operations
- Fixes possible clipping issues for outer glows
- Greatly improves the performance of layers with bitmap-based styles such as blur and glow
- Inserting new layers and now snaps them to the Grid
- Vector points now snap to the Grid as well Improves working with the marquee tool in deeply nested groups
- Improves the accuracy of selecting objects in deeply nested groups
- Improves SVG importing
- Improves the quality of Quicklook previews
- Fixes an issue with PDF-export on layers with multiple fills
- Fixes a potential crasher when changing text color
- Text inspector now properly works with subranges of text
- Fixes a refresh issue with Artboards & the Grid
- Align items in the contextual menu are now working again
- Fixes a few inaccuracies in the 'Copy CSS' option
- Fixes a potential crashing issue with empty shapes
- Fixes an issue where image references might get mixed up
Version 2.0.1:
Rendering
- Improves the quality of the Inner and Outer Glow styles
- Greatly improves the rendering quality of Inner Shadows
- Improves the sharpness of the Noise style
- Improves the quality of gradients by removing banding
- Improves compatiblity with documents created with Sketch 1.x
- Improves the accuracy of vectors on small sizes
- Improves the more...
Requirements
Intel, Mac OS X 10.6 or later
Intel, Mac OS X 10.6 or later
Sketch User Discussion (Write a Review)
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| Downloads:5,448 |
| Version Downloads:470 |
| Type:Multimedia & Design : Illustration |
| License:Demo |
| Date:14 May 2012 |
| Platform:Intel |
| Price: $49.99 |
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Sketch is a innovative and fresh look at vector drawing for the Mac. Its intentionally minimalist design is based upon a drawing space of unlimited size and layers, free of palettes, panels, menus, windows, and controls. Though simple to use, it offers powerful vector drawing and text tools like perfect Boolean operations, Symbols and powerful Rulers, Guides and Grids.
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Rubaiyat reviewed on 10 May 2012
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However I wish someone would develop an app that could save layered/editable png's as Fireworks does.. instead of their own .nameofapp format. That way I could have only one file type for my web development.. and then eventually export to .jpg or .svg (the future..).
I also wish apps could use the "save as" as opposed to "export" for any format.. and "open" as opposed to "import" for any format it can read.. some apps can do that just fine, why don't they all ? It always puzzled me.
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However I wish someone would develop an app that could save layered/editable png's as Fireworks does.. instead of their own .nameofapp format. That way I could have only one file type for my web development.. and then eventually export to .jpg or .svg (the future..).
I also wish apps could use the "save as" as opposed to "export" for any format.. and "open" as opposed to "import" for any format it can read.. some apps can do that just fine, why don't they all ? It always puzzled me.
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Cosjr reviewed on 04 May 2012
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It's a pity… This app is so well designed, and there is even an iPad version now. It could be a great app, really. From time to time I come here and download the latest version to see if it's grown out of beta stage. This time, it took about 3 minutes for Sketch to bring up the spinning beach ball and crash. There are thousands of ways to crash this app, it's incredible. If you like to play with it, you can use almost every drawing tool to somehow let this app quit itself unexpectedly, in every different way. Takes not more than 30 seconds, if you really want to crash Sketch. However, if you want to work with it, prepare for a lot of frustration.
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Tim27 reviewed on 17 Jan 2012
It seems like there should be a selection tool and it should allow me to drag and select points rather than shapes. Maybe there could be a modifier key to hold down to do that?
Another thing is I want my inspector visible all the time. Perhaps that could be an option as well? I don't want to have to bring it up on a per shape basis.
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Bfulop reviewed on 27 Dec 2011
With the latest version it's stable enough to replace Illustrator for me.
Longer version:
If you're a designer you probably know about the 20/80 rule, which in practice is closer to 10/90. Ninety percent of the time I only use about 10% of the features of Illustrator.
Sketch has all that 10% plus a bunch of other tools that make drawing fast and fun. In fact if I look around, most logos, vector illustrations that I see everyday, could have easily been created by Sketch.
A couple of things I like (that's not in Illustrator):
- You can indestructibly round any vector point.
- Versions in Lion gives you confidence that you can always go back if you mess up your design. With Versions, saving means saving a point, where you can go back later if you want, the rest is handled by autosave.
- Everything is instantaneous. Drag a slider, change a value and everything changes immediately. It really seems like a lightweight app, that uses just a fraction of my mac's resources.
There are a lot of other features, like the decorate tool, etc. but they're not something I use that often. I think the developer has created a nice platform and seems to me he has a lot of fun adding regularly new features. I think he has a clear vision to make a fast, minimalist drawing app and I really like to "be in this app" when I'm working. Even if minimalism means just not having a toolbar, but putting all the tools as teardown like in the iWork apps. I still appreciate that it's not just a simplified Illustrator clone, but it's a new concept. I guess I've always been attracted to novelty...
I've been putting a lot of hope into this app about one year ago. Then I gave up because it was just too buggy and I really lost too much time because of the crashes and undo not working. Right now, at least on my machine the app seems stable enough. There are still some small bugs around (related to dynamic shapes for example) though. It's really a small team (just one person according to their blog) working on the software and I have the impression that they don't have the means to test on a wide variety of machines. I have a 2009 macbook pro and with the version 1.2 I have little problems.
Tip about the undo problem: I only lose the undo, when using dynamic shapes. As soon as you create one the undo is gone, even if you delete it.
What gave me confidence to use Sketch more often is that I can export to eps and import from svg. If any time I decide to go back to Illustrator my work is not locked into one app.
So here it is. I got Sketch, Pixelmator and maybe I'll get Mapdiva Artboard too one day, for the stackable layer styles. All that for a price of an Illustrator plugin!
Reilly2011 rated on 17 May 2012