![]() To get the free Starter Edition of DrawPlus, you have to register and open an account with Serif. All in all, it seems that DrawPlus is succeeding at being a top-notch, budget competitor to Illustrator, but at the same time losing sight of the real prize-being a top-notch, niche vector-drawing program. The artistic brushes in DrawPlus Starter Edition are locked, but even with the upgrade to the full DrawPlus X5 I didn’t get the feeling of being a real artist gone digital, like with PD Artist 2 ($79). Just like Illustrator (albeit at 1/6 the price). ![]() ![]() Plus, nodes are hard to locate and manipulate with the node tool. Take the gradient tool for example: In DrawPlus, changing a radial gradient from the swatch default of grayscale to a color seems impossible without the help of a Google search. But if you are like me and have a long history–but not much love–for using Adobe’s Creative Suite, having Serif copy some of Illustrator’s more frustrating features is, well, even more frustrating. DrawPlus is a lot like the $600 Adobe Illustrator, which is great if you like Illustrator. To access them you have to purchase $99 DrawPlus X5. The artistic brush tools and the photo manipulation tools are locked in DrawPlus Starter Edition. ![]() ![]() In DrawPlus Starter Edition many of the best features of the program are locked, but it’ll show you enough to know if you want to pony up the $99 to buy the full DrawPlus X5 version. The Starter Edition of Serif’s DrawPlus is a giant carrot on a stick leading you to purchase DrawPlus X5, a very complete Illustrator-style tool for drawing vector graphics. ![]()
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