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Sketch

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-- Apple Design Award Winner, 2012 --

Sketch is a designers’ dream toolbox. Specifically created for designers, it powers a beautiful interface and powerful tools. Tools every designer will appreciate. Here’s one feature — multiple shadows per layer. Making beautiful graphics isn’t challenging anymore. We set out to build a better app for graphic designers. Not to copy — rather to improve.

The vector tools and basic shapes are a fantastic starting point for any drawing, whether you design for web, icons, and more. Sketch has more advanced layer style options than you can dream of: multiple shadows, multiple fills, gradients, noise, blending, blur, and more. To top it off, Sketch has boolean operations to combine multiple shapes into much more complex ones — all of this is non- destructive. Forever.

Coming from the developers of Fontcase, text rendering is as good as it can get. Sketch also supports OS X’s built-in versions and auto-saving. To ensure you’ll never lose any files.

All this power is deliciously baked into Sketch’s single-window interface. Everything is there, but only visible when you need it. A simple interface with seriously powerful tools.

Now everything is possible.

Take a look at the screenshots to see creations made with Sketch.

FEATURES:
- Simple but powerful interface, built for OS X Lion and Mountain Lion
- Optimized for Retina and non-Retina displays
- Powerful styling; multiple shadows, multiple fills, gradients, blending, blur, noise and more...
- Flexible boolean operations to combine simple shapes into complex shapes
- Artboards and Slices for exporting multiple images out of a single document
- Automatic @2x export for Retina graphics
- Unique Color (with RGB and HSB modes) and Font pickers
- Beautiful native text rendering and text styles
- Vector and pixel zoom; zoom in with infinite vector precision or see individual pixels
- Multi-stop and radial gradients editing right in the canvas. Powerful WYSIWYG rendering.
- Shared & Linked Layer Styles that automatically update each other
- Powerful, easy-to-use Vector Tool
Additionally, designers in the following areas will enjoy these features:

FOR WEB AND UI DESIGNERS
- Copy CSS Styles to clipboard (including gradients!)
- Slices: export areas on the canvas as images
- 960px grid, with support for more advanced grid options
- Multiple pages support inside a single document

FOR ICON DESIGNERS
- Artboards; each size is its own square
- iOS Icon Templates
- Pixel Grid
- Pixel Effects, such as Gaussian and Motion Blur

-- Among the App Store's 'Best of 2012' --

What's new

- Retina Export can now export the ‘@1x’ version too
- A new ‘Welcome to Sketch’ panel with a newsletter, tutorials, links and more.
- Double-clicking a text layer now selects the word being clicked on
- Shape Tool adds X & Y Fields in the toolbar for the selected point
- Sketch now respects the alpha mask on images when adding a gradient
- Improves overall reliability of text editing
- Various improvements to SVG exporting
- Dropping images or adding shapes now inserts them above the selected layer
- Text and Bitmap layers can now have multiple shadows
- Fixes a bug that accidentally disabled shadow spread for shapes too
- Fixes a bug where a fill could leak from behind an inner stroke
- Fixes a bug in Image transformations
- Fixes a bug where an image with a blur or color adjust would disappear when a color fill was enabled
- Grid lines in the color picker can now be hidden temporarily using the Option key
- Fixes a bug where a 0px border would produce blurry edges on a shape
- Fixes a bug where double-clicking a layer in the layer list could have it jump randomly
- Fixes a bug where scaling an edited rectangle could destroy the edits
- Greatly improves the speed of resizing layers and groups
- Fixes a color crasher when picking non-standard colors
- Copy-pasting objects between Artboards should be more predictable now
- When copy-pasting bitmaps with rectangular marquee, colours no longer change
- Fixes a bug where resizing a group after moving its contents could have it jump back to its original position
- Fixes a bug where the layer list wouldn't update after dragging in an image from the desktop if you were in the slice tool
- Fixes a bug where duplicating pages in the Pages sheet would not refresh the canvas properly

- Fixes a bug where some text layers could appear cut off or appear to move slightly on export
- Layer selection is now preserved when switching back and forth between pages
- When 'Zoom on Selection' is turned on, it now also zooms in/out on bitmap's selections properly
- Pressing CMD+D inside the bitmap tool now duplicates the selected area instead of the entire layer
- Right-click 'delete' on a slice in the layer list now works as it should
- When Vectorizing a stroke with a gradient, we now also transfer the gradient over
- Duplicating or Copy-pasting now has Sketch make sure that the slice name isn't in use already
- Undoing a layer insert will no longer put a thick grey band on the screen
- Better slice and artboard snapping at different zoom levels
- Flattened layers no longer appear at the top of the layer list
- "Center Selection" is now disabled when there's no layer selected
- Fixes pasting via layer list and in canvas; layers no longer appear in semi-random places
- Changing the Artboard name will now change its slice name too - and vice versa
- Better trimming of Quicklook Previews
- Restores the behaviour where pressing Escape will exit the current group
- Fixes a bug where blended layers in artboards wouldn't show up correctly
- When selecting objects, Sketch now properly shows their combined width/height in the toolbar again
- Resizing a group after transforming its contents no longer makes the layers jump unexpectedly
- Zooming out no longer centers on the artboard. This was particularly annoying with larger artboards
- Fixes an incompatibility in opening Sketch documents from version 1
- Other bug fixes and performance improvements

CSS Export improvements:
- Text layers now export proper color values
- Box shadows are now exported as comma-separated values
- Shadows now also appends 'px' to the spread attribute
- Non-prefixed CSS gradients are now exported at the corect angle

Scripting improvements:
- You can now use -addLayerOfType: to add new layers do documents. Available choices: "rectangle", "text" or "group"
- 'textColor' and 'setTextColor:' are now available as scriptable properties on Text Layers
- New APIs has been added for adding/duplicating/removing pages and layer guides

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Last changed:

May 08, 2013

Category:

Graphics & Design

Developer:

Bohemian Coding

Version:

2.2.4

Average Rating:

5.00 (45)

Size:

5.7 MB

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