Autodesk SketchBook Changelog

What's new in Autodesk SketchBook 8.5.1 Build fd7b8a55

Oct 23, 2017

Bug fixes and improvements.

New in Autodesk SketchBook 8.5.0 Build 8d40a498 (Sep 29, 2017)

New in Autodesk SketchBook 8.4.2 Build 4249dca3 (May 21, 2017)

New in Autodesk SketchBook 8.4.1 Build 1182f15 (Apr 19, 2017)

New in Autodesk SketchBook 8.4.0 Build 871c39c (Apr 13, 2017)

New in Autodesk SketchBook 8.3.1 Build 36bcfee (Jan 27, 2017)

New in Autodesk SketchBook 8.2.1 Build aea0aeb (Aug 23, 2016)

New in Autodesk SketchBook 8.2.0 Build eabbeb4 (Jul 12, 2016)

New in Autodesk SketchBook 8.0 Build c0228ae (Dec 17, 2015)

New in Autodesk SketchBook 7.3.1 Build c74f087 (Nov 25, 2015)

New in Autodesk SketchBook 7.2.1 Build 386258 (Aug 20, 2015)

New in Autodesk SketchBook 7.0.1 Build 435581 (Aug 7, 2014)

PERSPECTIVE GUIDES
The SketchBook team worked closely with Concept Designer, Scott Robertson to develop a powerful new tool to quickly and accurately sketch in perfect perspective. 1-point, 2-point, 3-point and Fisheye modes are available in a clean and intuitive interface that doesn’t impede the sketch or clutter up the
SketchBook environment.
Perspective Contextual Toolbar:
A lot of the features added in this release can be found in the main toolbar. Some of these items, when selected, will open a contextual toolbar. The Perspective toolbar contains the items listed below.
1-Point Perspective:
Creates a vanishing point in the center of the canvas. The brush cursor, in perspective mode, will change to a 3-axis cross hair, rotating relative to the vanishing point. You can drag the center vanishing point to reposition the vanishing point and horizon.
2-Point Perspective:
Creates 2 vanishing points, on the horizon for quick and easy grid layouts. Vanishing points can be pulled far off of the canvas for less drastic view points. The horizon can be adjusted and positioned at any angle.
3-point Perspective:
Creates 3 vanishing points, a horizon line (blue) and triangle connecting the three points (light blue). 3-point perspective is a very useful and straight forward tool for an otherwise difficult perspective layout.
Fisheye Perspective:
Creates 5 vanishing points: left, right, top, bottom, and center. The grid is composited of a horizon line, vertical line, and circle. Curves intersect at the vanishing points. Moving the center point moves the entire grid. Moving an edge point changes the circle’s radius. A great asset for creating drastic wide-angle imagery.
FLIPBOOK ANIMATION
This major release includes the first instance of flipbook style animation in the SketchBook product line. Users can now create simple Flipbook animations right inside the SketchBook environment.
Flipbook Timeline:
Opening a new Flipbook file will reveal the Flipbook Timeline window. This is where all the actions required to create and navigate frames take place. The features, including frame creation, frame ghosting (onion skinning) and playback controls, are listed below.
File Setup:
When opening a new Flipbook file, choose from standard preset or custom file sizes, playback frame rate, and the number of frames in the animation sequence.
Flipbook Layer Editor:
The Layer Editor in a Flipbook file has 4 static Layers. Background Color, Background, Midground, and Foreground.
GRADIENT FLOOD FILLS
Dynamic gradient fills are a feature carried over from SketchBook Designer. Users can now create and radial gradients with an intuitive interface that allows for adding and removing colors, adjusting color swatches on the spot with the pop-up color wheel, or selection and creation of preset gradients.
Flood Fill Contextual Toolbar:
The Gradient toolbar now contains the standard solid flood fill tools, along with Linear and Radial options. Adjust fill tolerance, sample all layers or just the active layer, or flip gradient direction.
Solid Fill
Linear Fill
Radial Fill
LAYER WORKFLOW IMPROVEMENTS
A number of changes have been made to the usability of SketchBook, many of which occur within the Layer Editor. Users can now keep their projects organized with layer grouping, select multiple layers for intricate transform operations and reordering, flip to transparent background, or choose from an expanded list of layer blending Modes.
Layer Grouping:
Layers can now be grouped, and groups of layers can be grouped up to 9 levels. This workflow allows users to keep their work organized, transform, adjust opacity, toggle visibility of groups and maintain layer groups when working back and forth with other graphic packages, like Photoshop. The Layer window can now to resized to accommodate the width of the new g roup
stacking.
Expanded Blending Modes:
The list of blending modes available in the new SketchBook Pro has been lengthened greatly, with some of the popular modes that users have come to expect, like Overlay, Color Burn, Linear Dodge and others. Glow and Soft Glow modes were created to really add some pop to your sketches.
Background Color:
You can now easily select a background color directly in the Layer Editor. Clicking the color preview will open the Color Wheel, complete with Color Picker and preset colors. Simply turn off the visibility of the background layer to switch to a transparent canvas for transparent PNG or GIF exports.
Multi-Layer Select:
You can now select multiple layers or groups of layers for more accurate transform operations, without the need to replicate the transform for each layer. Reposition a series of layers into one convenient location.
DISTORT TRANSFORM
A new method for transform has been added to the SketchBook Pro interface, in addition to the standard transform mode our users have become accustomed to. Distort Transform is another feature carried over from SketchBook Designer. A very simple, yet potent, tool allow you to adjust layers and selections in ways not previously possible within SketchBook.
Distort Contextual Toolbar:
The Distort Toolbar has options for Standard Transform and Distort Transform using the newly implemented corner manipulator interface. Simply click and drag a corner, or bounding line to adjust scale, non-proportional scale, or sculpt your selection with the Distort workflow, and manipulate the image with the central ‘bias’ manipulator.
MOVE SYMMETRIC AXIS
A minor change in the Symmetry tool makes a big difference. Users are no longer locked to a symmetric axis at the centre of the canvas. X and Y symmetry can now be positioned anywhere on the canvas. The Symmetry tool now has its own contextual toolbar with the features contained listed
below.
Symmetry Contextual Toolbar
INCREASED CANVAS SIZES
This release sees an increase in the maximum canvas size that can be created. 32-bit versions of SketchBook Pro now support canvas sizes up to
36 MP and 64-bit versions support up to 64 MP.
SELECTION ENHANCEMENTS
Selection within SketchBook Pro has been greatly improved with this release. With the addition of Polyline and Magic Wand Selection methods, users have a greater range of control when making selections. Persistent Selection now allows you to change layers and brushes while maintaining the selection. You can now paint within an active selection, in a workflow similar to masking.
IMPROVED COLOR WHEEL
Many users loved the addition of the Color Wheel that launched with SketchBook Pro 6. The new Color Wheel features a collapsible Custom Palette and custom gradient Palette, when using the Gradient Flood Fill tools. We’ve also added a toggle to switch the brush color to transparent, turning
any brush into an eraser in this convenient location.
IMPROVED CROP TOOL
The new Crop tool allows you to resize images with to-the-pixel accuracy. The Crop contextual toolbar now offers input fields, for Width and Height values, Proportional Lock, Confirm ,and Cancel options.
BRUSH ENHANCEMENTS
A lot of work was put in to maintain the brush feel of SketchBook, while enhancing brush performance. Maximum brush stamps have increased to a 512px radius. A new brush tip option, Sharp, has also been added to the Brush Properties window.
PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENTS
SketchBook now features an Auto Recovery system that will protect data in the event of a system crash, and will open the active file automatically upon relaunch.

New in Autodesk SketchBook 2012 6.0 Build 409702 (Nov 29, 2012)

Brush Library - Access the Brush Library from the Brush Palette. It contains an assortment of default brush sets, including a set of Copic brushes, Smudge brushes, and Synthetic Paint brushes. Create Do-It-Yourself brushes. Create custom sets to group and manage brushes. Export sets for others to use or save them to an external drive. Import and use brush sets created by others. Label your brush sets to help identify them.
French curves - From the toolbar, access French curves for drawing a variety of smooth curves.
Color Randomize - Quickly lay down varying colored strokes, using the same brush. Set a hue, saturation, and/or brightness range for the active color.
Size/Opacity Randomize - Quickly lay down strokes of varying size and opacity, using the same brush. Set a range for the size and opacity of a brush.
Steady Stroke - In the toolbar, tap to create a smoother stroke as you draw. As you increase smoothness, stylus response time is affected. To adjust this, select Edit > Steady Stroke and adjust the smoothness of the stroke.
Rotation/Spacing Randomize - Quickly lay down strokes with varying stamp rotation and spacing, using the same brush. Set a range for the rotation and spacing of a stamp.
Synthetic Paint - As you paint, this brush type dynamically blends colors that exist on the canvas. Adjust the paint load to effect the amount of color applied at the beginning of each stroke.
Smudge - Paint over an area to blend it, simulating the effect on a finger dragging over the charcoal line of a drawing.
Edges - Set the properties for the edge of a brush texture. Select:
Soft for feathered edges to blend the texture edges with surrounding content, similar to an airbrush effect.
Solid for edges that are less feathered than Soft and less crisp than Hard.
Hard for crisp, clean edges to make the texture stand apart from the surrounding content.
Improvements and Enhancements:
UI - Design and functional improvements have been made to the following:
Toolbar - Access more tools, such as French Curves.
Brush Palette - Replace default brushes with others to create a customized palette.
Color Puck - Tap the center to access the Color Wheel and Color Picker. Within the puck, tap-drag right and left to quickly change the saturation and up and down to quickly change the luminance of the color.
Layer Editor - Assign a color to a layer. This makes it easier to distinguish one layer from another, create groups, or specify specific types of layers.
Ellipse and Ruler - The handles were redesigned and the readout was moved to the bottom of the screen.
Performance and Capacity:
Brush/Stroke improvements to the Airbrush and Marker.
Layer Blending - In the Layer Editor, with a layer selected, tap to cycle through and select a layer blending method.
Transforms are faster and smoother.
Switching layers - For files containing many layers, it is quicker to switch from one layer to the next.
Open larger files, such as (6400 X 6400).

New in Autodesk SketchBook 5.0 Build 347404 (Oct 18, 2010)

Updated the look of SketchBook, making changes to the icons and Brush Palette, and adding a toolbar
Brush Palette:
The palette is now collapsible
The following are new ways to move brushes within the Brush Palette:
To copy a brush from one brush set to another, Shift-tap and drag the brush to its new location, then drop it into place. The original remains in the first brush set and a duplicate appears in the second brush set.
To move a brush from one brush set to another, tap-drag the brush to its new location, then drop it into place. The brush is removed from the first brush set and now populates the second brush set.
To rearrange brushes, tap-drag and drop the brush to its new location within the same brush set.
Brush sets:
Brush sets have been added to the palette. They enable you to group and manage DIY brushes. Export sets for others to use or save them to an external drive. Import and use brush sets created by others. Label your brush set to help identify each one.
Brush Palette menu :
New Brush Set:
Creates a new area for grouping and managing brushes.
Delete Brush Set:
Removes a brush set area and all its brushes from the Brush Palette.
Rename Brush Set:
Enables the changing of the brush set name.
Export Brush Set:
Creates a file containing all the brushes in a selected brush set that you can send to others or save to a harddrive.
Import Brush Set:
Loads an exported brush set file into the Brush Palette.
Delete Brush:
Permanently removes the selected brush.
Copy Brush:
Creates a duplicate of the selected brush and adds it to the selected brush set.
New Brush:
Creates a new brush and adds it to the selected brush set.
Toolbar:
For mouse users, a toolbar consisting of editing and selection tools, guides, shape and symmetry tools, and editors was added to improve interaction.
Brush properties:
Rotation Jitter was added to Brush Properties.
Tablet support:
Added the Kworld Kanvus and N-Trig to the list of tablets we support.
Image editing:
Brightness/Contrast:
Adjusts either the overall luminance (brightness) or increases the gap in luminance values between adjacent pixels (contrast).
Hue/Saturation:
Adds/subtracts color (hue) or adjusts the relative amount of color (saturation) in each pixel.
Color Balance:
Adjusts the amount of cyan, red, magenta, green, yellow, and blue in each pixel.
Grayscale:
Removes all color from an image
Invert:
Converts the color information for each pixel to its complimentary color.
In the Layer Editor, the following color correction options have been added to provide additional image editing tools:
Screen:
Produces an overall lightening effect to the composition. Each pixel on the layer is brightened by a value equal to or lesser than the value of pixels on other layers occupying the same location in the layer stack. It produces an effect opposite to that of Multiply.
Multiply:
Produces an overall darkening effect to the layer appearance. The value for each pixel on the layer is darkened by a value equal to or greater than the value of pixels on other layers occupying the same location in the layer stack. It produces a similar effect to combining one or more photographic transparencies together and looking through them.
Add:
Lightens the overall composition, similar to Screen, but in a more extreme manner. Each pixel is brightened by a value equal to or lesser than the value of pixels on other layers occupying the same location in the layer stack. This is applied as a lineaer calculation.
None:
Removes any color correction applied to the layer.
Persistent layer selection:
After selecting a region on the canvas, if you switch layers, the “marching ants” created by the Select/Lasso/Crop tools stay active. Your selection isn’t lost.
Save with alpha :
When the background is transparent, a checkered pattern appears. When the image is saved as a TIFF, PNG, or PSD, the alpha channel is saved.
Text creation:
Add Text Layer:
Opens the Edit Text Layer for entering text. When finished, a Text layer is created and the text appears on that new layer
Edit Text Layer:
Opens the Edit Text Layer window for making changes to the text.