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Products and Services — Sketcher

Sketcher is a unique technology for drawing, painting, and illustrating. The tools Sketcher offers are intentionally simple and closely depict the process of writing, doodling, sketching, inking, coloring, and shading as if you were using a pen, pencil, brush, and real paint. We could describe the Sketcher experience as using popular branded software without the complicated interface and menus.

Special Features in Sketcher

We host Sketcher on our secure servers. If you are interested in getting your own Sketcher room, you can use our API to easily integrate Sketcher into your website so smoothly that your users will never know they have left your site.

We provide a free demo of Sketcher here. We offer Sketcher for $29.95 per month; however, if you rent more than one room or pay in three, six, or 12-month periods, we will offer an additional discount.

Click here to rent a Sketcher room!

What are you waiting for? Come try out the most fun and advanced collaborative art software on the planet!


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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