Tag: SKETCH

If you're an artist or designer on a Mac, and you want to draw vectors without all the other cruft in the Adobe Creative Suite, you're in luck. Meet Sketch, a new OS X app that's designed purely for drawing vectors. It's got a lot of power tools, but it falls squarely into the "do one thing and do it well" school of software development.Sketch comes from Bohemian Coding, and it's compatible with ...

Mugtug is one name (and website) for two distinct, and equally impressive, image editing/creation applications: Darkroom is a sophisticated, in-page photo "adjustment" software. Note that I don't use the word "editing." That's because you can't really make selections (unless you want to crop or mirror). You can, however, adjust any image parameter (such as white balance, exposure, contrast, or ...

If you have a MacBook, you're probably used to using the trackpad as a basic mouse, and throwing in multitouch gestures if you have a recent model. It turns out that's not all your trusty trackpad is good for, though. With an app called Inklet, that trackpad becomes a tablet you can write and draw on. You can even get a special stylus for it. Inklet can do a lot of the things a full-sized ...

Odosketch is a drawing tool that's been around since 2006, but just caught my eye this month with its latest relaunch. It's a quick Flash-based way to do some drawing on a background that looks like a page in your trusty Moleskine sketchbook. You may not be as talented as some of the artists in the Odosketch featured gallery, but because of the way the app is designed, pretty much anything you ...

Stylized cartoon images are great, but what if you're not artistic enough to make one. That's where sites like Befunky can lend a helping hand. Befunky takes images from your computer, webcam or on the web and with some input from you, creates a cartoonish effect that you can share with others. You're free to adjust the amount of sketching, color and pencil strokes applied to get the look you're ...

Another online sketch service, Sketchcast, has entered the market and this one has a couple of neat YouTube-like integration features. Record yourself creating a sketch, add a voice over if you like, then save it for posterity. Once you're done, Sketchcast automatically spits out a URL that you can send to others and a code you can embed in your own Web site or blog post. Sketchcast also gives ...

Sketch 4 Secs is an online Java game that asks you to try to replicate doodles using your mouse in 4 seconds or less. Drawing with the mouse is only ever sort of fun, so this game suffers from that knock right away. But worse, it's actually ridiculously hard. The first two levels aren't too bad, but level 3 asks you to try to doodle a pair of headphones with many lines. Give it a try and let us ...

Though not supremely useful, Retrievr is undeniably cool. It's a web app that lets you draw a little sketch and then finds images on Flickr that match, to some degree or another, your sketch. The results are very fuzzy--drawing a red apple is just as likely to return photos of a cherry or a red Christmas tree ornament--but it's guaranteed to find you interesting pictures that, if you squint your ...