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Online Drawing Tools & Free Online Painting & Sketching Tools - I thought that most of you would love to know about all of the fantastic online drawing and painting tools that are available online. Not only are they fun, but they are also quite useful for sketching out some of our ideas.
List of Vector Conversion Software - 30+ Tools to Turn Photos into Line Art and Illustrations - Most of these tools turn Raster / Bitmap / Photo Images into Line Art / Illustrations / Vector Art.
AceDesign 1 Pro (Free to try, $70 to buy - Windows) - offers outstanding performance, a simple interface, and unbeatable cutting-edge tools. Create striking Web graphics with ease. Exploit the power of layers and the flexibility of vector tools. Do the impossible with filters and special effects.
Acme
TraceART (Free to Try, $80 to Buy, Windows)
- provides professional and fast transform functions
from raster drawing into vector format; it can be used
in various engineering drawings including architectural,
mechanical, geological, GIS, electrical drawings etc.
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Alias SketchBook Pro™ (Free to Try, $129 to Buy, Windows) - is a business and personal productivity tool that transforms your Tablet PC into a digital sketchbook, available anywhere, any time.
Ascii picture designer (Free to Try, $28 to Buy, Windows) - Create your own ascii graphics. This tool can help you to make your own ascii graphics easily!Only need to darw shape on canvas
Canvas 8™ (Free to Try, $400 to Buy, Mac and Windows) - A unique cross-platform precision illustration solution that integrates award-winning Sprite technology, photo editing, page layout, presentation, and Web graphics capabilities.
CeledyDraw (Free to Try, $35 to Buy, Windows) - is draw and publishing software for small businesses and home users.
ClearBoard (Free to Try, $49.95 to Buy, Windows / Linux) - ClearBoard is a handy tool that magically converts a photo of a white board, a flipchart, a piece of paper, or any drawing on a relatively uniform background into a crystal clear image as if you were actually drawing on a computer. ClearBoard is designed from ground up with the latest and most sophisticated image processing technologies.
Deep Paint® (Free to Try, $99 to Buy, Windows) - An advanced paint application for graphics professionals that offers a unique painting experience to digital artists.
DRAWiT(Free to Try, $18 to Buy, Windows) - is the full-featured Windows shareware drawing program that combines the best features of graphics, word processing and desktop publishing packages together
Draw Magic (Free to Try, $35 to Buy, Windows) - For all your diagramming, flowcharting and drawing needs.
DrawPlus 6 (Free to Try, $85 to Buy, Windows) - Its unique combination of simple-to-use drawing aids and high-end capabilities means that whether you're new to drawing and graphics software or an experienced DrawPlus user, you'll find that this amazing new version has everything you need to create your best graphics ever!
EasiSketch (Free to Try, $5 to Buy, Windows) - A simple, yet fun, sketching program. Just move the mouse to draw, shake the screen with right mouse to clear.
EmbeddedVectorEditor - (Free - Windows) - The incredible shrinking vector graphics editor, only 73K bytes.
e-Paint (Free to Try, $30 to Buy, Windows) - Own the affordable paint application that will give you total, ruthless domination over your graphics without requiring that you spend the next six months reading its manual.
iDraw (Free to Try, $40 to Buy, Mac) - is a powerful, yet
easy to use, illustration and animation program for
Mac OS X.
Image
Broadway ® (Free
to Try, $69.95 to Buy - Windows)- A World-class Image
Editor, Very Easy to Use and Affordable!
Image Constructor 1.2 (Free to Try, $19 to Buy, Windows) - Image Constructor helps you to create picture in form of texts and small images over some background with picture or gradient fill and import them to graphical files.
Jasc® Paint Shop Pro® 7 Anniversary Edition ($99 to Buy, Windows / Mac) - The complete graphics and photo editor for home and business
Mayura Draw (Free to Try, $25 to Buy, Windows) - is intended for scientists and engineers for creating technical illustrations.
NaturePainter Digital Canvas (Free to Try, $40 to Buy, Windows) -is a software program that makes it easy to practice painting whenever inspiration strikes!
NeoPaint (Free to Try, $60 Download - Windows) - is a full featured artist's studio for Windows that's easy-to-learn, powerful and affordable! It's simple enough for beginners yet packed with powerful features and advanced tools. Includes an excellent screen capture feature, animated GIF editor, icon editor, special effects, natural media painting tools, and more.
Object Paint (Free - Windows) - is a simple (object) drawing program.
PageFocus Draw (Free to Try, $15 to Buy, Windows) - An easy-to-use application for drawing, labeling, and documentation.
Painting (Free to Try, $20 to Buy, Mac) - is a simple yet powerful graphics application by Sarwat Khan. It's quick to launch and easy to use. Use it whenever you need to make a quick graphic, or whenever you feel artistic.
Photo Artist (Free to Try, $40 to Buy, Windows) - Create an exciting work of art from any ordinary photograph in minutes. Whether you prefer Impressionist paintings, charcoal sketches or an elegant watercolor, the Professor can help anyone create a work of art - absolutely no experience required!
PicMaster (Top Pick)(Free to Try, $30 to Buy, Windows) - The multi-talented PicMaster promises you quick and easy image editing.
PictureMore (Free to Try, $50 to Buy, Windows) - With PictureMore, You can paint, retouch, convert, animate image, composition, trimming, change color tone, change color mode, display capture, print, and do other. The frame transparency overlapping function will definitely satisfy your purposes.
Pixopedia 24 (Free to Try, $35 to Buy, Windows) is a new approach to image editing and painting, animation and video editing. You can perform almost any action through brush movement.
rainbowpainter (Free to Try, $25 to Buy, Mac) - Open your eyes to a new world of image editing!
RETAS!Pro (Free to Try, $199 to Buy, Windows) - is the Award-Winning 2.5D digital animation production system which puts all the power and flexibility of professional creativity at your fingertips: digital drawing, pencil test, line trace, ink & paint, compositing & special effects.
Silhouette graphics art (Free to Try, $249 to Buy, Mac / Windows) - software for Macintosh and Windows instantly converts black and white or colour bitmap images into vector designs ready for use.
Strichzeichner (Free - MacOS9X / Windows) - This is a small painting Program especially for generating metallic surfaces. It will help you to draw a front view of the desired surface.
StudioArtist (Free to Try, $380 to Buy, Mac)- Intelligent-Assisted Painting and Drawing Resolution Independence
StyleSkin (Free to try, $34.95 to buy - Windows) - Styleskin is dedicated template driven interface design
software which enables anyone to easily design their own graphics. Simply layout your template using the provided shapes, choose your colors and style and almost instantly you have your very own unique skin. It is useful for designing web sites, program interfaces or skins, promotional graphics, 3D text, 3D buttons or any number of other uses.
TraceLine v.1.0 (Free to Try, $80 to Buy, Windows) - Converts images to editable vector outlines. The traced result can be exported to any program that accepts wmf, emf or Adobe® Illustrator® file formats.
TwilightBrush (Free to Try, $200 to Buy, Mac) - the all-in-one photo editing paint program. TwilightBrush excels at taking your creativity to a new level. Our wide range of easy to use tools will bring out your creative side, whether you're a professional or just learned how to draw.
Ultimate Paint (Free to Try, $40 to Buy, Windows) is a full-featured 32-bit Windows graphics program for image creation, viewing and manipulation.
Vector Studio 2.0's (Free to Try, $129 to Buy, Mac / Windows) - suite of Adobe® Illustrator® plug-ins brings designers a balance of stunning creative filters and everyday tools to make artwork creation simpler and more enjoyable.
Wizardbrush Arcangel (Top Pick, Free to Try, $25 to Buy, Windows)- Make you a great painter.
ZBrush (Free to Try, $399 to Buy - Mac / Windows) - is an award-winning 2D and 3D image creation and processing tool, powered by a real-time rendering engine. Based on unique "Pixol" rendering technology, ZBrush enables artists to paint an image with depth -- applying both 2D and 3D effects in one integrated, real-time workspace
Zoner Draw 4 (Free to Try, $69 to Buy, Windows) - helps you quickly and easily draw graphics that meet your widest possible needs.
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