4 Welcome
• Create spirals (see p. 37)
The Spiral Tool lets you add simple spiral shapes with powerful as-
you-draw controls—flip or change spiral length/spacing with ease.
Any spiral, being line-based, can take any line/fill property or brush
stroke!
• Draw adjustable triangles simply (see p. 41)
Use the Triangle Tool for both equilateral and isosceles triangles.
Once drawn, drag corner nodes to make scalene triangles.
• Generate palettes from pictures (see p. 116)
The new Palette Creator intelligently and automatically "extracts"
colours from any picture—allowing for designs with vector artwork
and pictures using shared colours. Colours can be added to (or
replace) your current document palette.
• Automatic gradient fill swatches (see p. 116)
DrawPlus additionally offers gradient fill swatches which are not fixed
to specific colours. Instead, an object's solid fill or its current Start/End
fill path colours are used.
• Vintage "Hands On" Phenakistoscopes (see p. 36)
The Phenakistoscope QuickShape is perfect for creating the illusion
of motion—using a cut out of your designed and printed
phenakistoscope, a pencil and a mirror!
Ease of Use
• Non-printing background page colours (see p. 14)
Apply a background colour to your page(s) or spread that doesn't
show on export or print.
• Advanced photo editing with PhotoPlus (see DrawPlus Help)
Easily open any selected picture in Serif PhotoPlus or other photo-
editing program of your choice. On saving, changes to your picture
appear automatically back in DrawPlus.
