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) Drawing takes time, but I like the practice.From quick sketches to fully finished artwork, Sketchbook goes where your creativity takes you. I can still do text presentations, but they’re a little less fun. If I need to shade things more, I can import the images into GIMP. After I do a little masking and line adjusting, I import the finished slides into a presentation program. Inkscape makes it easy to sketch elements here and there, rearranging them on my storyboard, rotating and scaling them to fit. So how does my Autodesk Sketchbook Pro workflow compare to Inkscape? When I use Inkscape (a proper vector drawing program) for presentations, I usually set up an infinite canvas, and clone a series of rectangles for my storyboard. The finished layers are easy to copy to a separate presentation program. I do any colouring on a second layer below the ink, so that the black lines stay crisp. Then I hide any layers I’m not working with, lower the opacity of my storyboard layer, add new layers on top, and draw each slide as a full-size layer. (The joys of vector drawing!) Autodesk Sketchbook Pro lets me scale up rough sketches, but the interpolation isn’t always smooth. With OneNote, I can draw storyboards, then scale up the storyboards without any loss of information and without jaggy lines. The workflow is slightly different from Microsoft OneNote. I’ve been using Autodesk Sketchbook Pro to do more and more of my presentation planning, too. Now she’s off zooming in and out, adjusting her brush sizes, and working with a large and zoomable canvas. The pen-based controls are intuitive, and the feel of digital drawing is better than the frustration of redoing and reinking on paper. I’d become a big fan of Autodesk Sketchbook Pro while working on it on my laptop, so I thought she might prefer it over GIMP. J- is digitally inking her writing assignment using Autodesk Sketchbook Pro on the Cintiq 12WX drawing tablet downstairs.
