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Sketcher

Sketcher is our graphical collaborative art application, powered by Java. It encourages multiple users to draw on a canvas simultaneously.

Sketcher features a wide array of powerful tools that assist the user in illustrating, drawing, and coloring digital art. Sketcher increases the productivity of businesses by allowing people to collaborate on the same project without having to utilize a conference room or multiple programs to communicate. In addition, Sketcher has many social features that distinguish it. For example, users can chat via voice while drawing, or they can chat using the text chat interface.

Come give it a try and don't forget to bring your friends!


ArtGrounds.com

ArtGrounds.com is a community art site that encourages users to join and become a part of the community by creating online profiles, uploading art to their public galleries, rating the art of other users, sharing art tips, tricks, and trade secrets.

ArtGrounds provides users with a message board, public gallery, portfolio and shoutbox, so that they can communicate with others on the site, and of course the Sketcher art software, which they can use to design, draw, and illustrate their art. ArtGrounds is an excellent place to showcase your art to the world!

News & Public Relations

17, March 2011

Recently Microsoft released Internet Explorer 9. If you upgrade to IE9, you will need Oracle Java version 1.6.0_24 (Update 24) or later to use Sketcher. This update is required to satisfy the new security requirements imposed by IE9. If you use a different browser or older version of IE, you should be able to continue to use Sketcher with an older version of Java without issue.

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17, March 2011

As an experiment, we have created a way of accessing Sketcher rooms without an ArtGrounds account. Any unregistered user attempting to enter a Sketcher room will be signed in as "Viewer" followed by a random number, for instance "Viewer1234".

For obvious reasons, viewers aren't allowed to interact with the room in any way, except for entering or leaving it. Chat is read-only for viewers, to avoid disruptions, so do not expect any replies from them. At some point, we may add an "Allow/Deny chat from viewers" option in the client and let you decide for yourself instead...

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13, March 2011

We released an update to Sketcher that drastically improves the compression algorythims. Users should see a noticible improvement in Sketcher load times.

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13, March 2011

The Doodle layer and the Pen tool are now selected by default when starting Sketcher. This should make things easier for beginners. Patched bug where tool would switch when other users signed in.

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