While they’re not exhibiting at Macworld Expo, Autodesk held a press briefing Thursday morning at a nearby hotel to discuss some aspects of their Mac business for 2011. One interesting tidbit was revealed by Rob Maguire, AutoCAD product manager: In just three weeks, the Mac App Store edition of SketchBook Pro has effectively doubled the total desktop user base. (Autodesk declined to offer hard numbers, however.)

1. Mac App Store For Windows
2. Sketchbook Express Mac App Store

Would love to try SketchBook, but as a Mac pro since OS 6 and video professional for 5 years, I will not trust app management to 'the cloud' on my workstations. Reliability is too important to my work. Have Wacom tablet & other similar apps, I'll do fine without any App store product thank you very much!

1. SketchBook for Everybody! At Autodesk, we believe creativity starts with an idea. From quick conceptual sketches to fully finished artwork, sketching is at the heart of the creative process. You never know when a great idea will strike, so access to fast and powerful creative sketching tools is an invaluable part of any creative process. For this reason, we are excited to announce that the.
2. SketchBook for Everybody! At Autodesk, we believe creativity starts with an idea. From quick conceptual sketches to fully finished artwork, sketching is at the heart of the creative process. You never know when a great idea will strike, so access to fast and powerful creative sketching tools is an invaluable part of any creative process. For this reason, we are excited to announce that the.
3. Thanks to the Mac App Store, causal doodlers now have access to SketchBook Express. Developed by AutoDesk, SketchBook Express is the gratis version of SketchBook Pro, which retails for $79.99 in.
4. Sketchbook Pro 7 for Mac is a powerful tool that allows you to create all kinds of digital art through an intuitive and attractive interface. Depending on what you want to use it for, you can.

[ad#Google Adsense 300×250 in story]SketchBook Pro is a paint and drawing application, and it’s been rebuilt for the Mac App Store using common code from its iOS counterpart, which Autodesk has also been extremely pleased with since its release: the company counts two million downloads of the iOS version since its release.

Features of SketchBook Pro include gesture-based marking menus; support for pen and tablets; preset brushes, pencil tools, markers, airbrushes, and erasers; editable text layers; full layer control and much more.

When asked if Autodesk was looking at bringing simplified versions of other apps to the Mac and iOS App Store, senior product manager Rob Hoffman said, “We’ve tested the waters and the waters are good,” though he stopped short of identifying what the company’s next moves might be.

Update (01/29):

The phrase “has effectively doubled the total desktop user base” replaces “sold twice as many copies as the prevision edition did for the entire year.”

Mac App Store For Windows

We’ve come a long way since MacPaint and ClarisWorks were included with every Mac, and Apple has no equivalent to the Paint program which comes with Windows. So how do you paint on a Mac? It depends on what exactly you’re looking to do, so this article will explain how from the simplest option to the most complex.

1. Markup images using your Mac’s native Preview application

MacOS has always come with a built-in image and PDF viewer called Preview. And more recent versions of Preview actually allow you to make basic changes to images in addition to viewing them, such as rotating, adding text and arrows, and even adding signatures. To access these tools simply open an image in Preview and select the below button in the menubar:

Sketchbook Express Mac App Store

The Mac App Store is the place to look if you want to download free Mac apps. With so many free apps already installed on your Mac you might think that there’s not much more you need, but there. Download Sketchbook or another free sketch/paint app from the Mac App Store. If you want a more sophisticated app for sketching/drawing/painting specifically, the Mac App Store offers numerous free apps for this (as well as paid ones). One of the best free drawing apps on the Mac App Store is Sketchbook, pictured below.

This button will bring up the markup toolbar, allowing you to edit the picture or PDF. For a detailed explanation on how to use these tools check out this article.

2. Download the free and simple Paintbrush application

If you want a Paint program that is basically the same as the one which comes with Windows, look no further than Paintbrush. This application predates the Mac App Store and is not listed there, although the developers updated it in 2017 so it’s not been abandoned for years. Paintbrush can be downloaded from Sourceforge here.

3. Download Sketchbook or another free sketch/paint app from the Mac App Store

If you want a more sophisticated app for sketching/drawing/painting specifically, the Mac App Store offers numerous free apps for this (as well as paid ones). One of the best free drawing apps on the Mac App Store is Sketchbook, pictured below:

4. Purchase Pixelmator from the Mac App Store

To get something with more Photoshop-like capabilities Pixelmator is a great application, which I personally prefer to Photoshop. Pixelmator is available on the Mac App Store and although it is a paid app, the twenty-something dollars it costs is well worth it to have a great all-round drawing and editing app on your Mac forever. Bear in mind that Adobe now sells its products as monthly subscriptions, so unless you need the really pro features you’d be best to pick up Pixelmator.

5. Purchase a Photoshop subscription from Adobe

And of course, the industry standard for image editing is available for MacOS. Although it’s far from what you’d want if you just want to paint on your Mac, Photoshop can be purchased as a subscription from Adobe’s website here.