Designing a logo, flyer or web banner without a pricey graphics suite? NCH’s DrawPad Professional handles raster and vector artwork and combines drawing tools, text, layers, effects, and project templates for creating and revising designs.
Start from a design template
Choose a starting layout for a logo, business card, greeting card, flyer, letterhead, menu, newsletter, or online banner. Add images, text, and colors to customize it. Ready-made web banner dimensions and button shapes speed up web graphics.
Rulers, guides, grids, snapping, and alignment options help position objects. Add a watermark when a design needs attribution.
Draw with brushes and vector tools
Sketch or paint with tools that imitate pencils, markers, pens, crayons and spray cans, plus a pixel brush. Free-form strokes can be edited, and tablet or touchpad pressure sensitivity can affect the stroke width.
For shapes and scalable artwork, use Bezier curves, paths, gradients, and shape objects such as polygons, stars, and speech bubbles. Curved text can follow a designed path, while layers let you rearrange separate parts of a composition.
Edit images and apply effects
Crop, rotate, resize, and flip images as a design develops. Areas can be filled with a color, a gradient, a pattern or a texture, followed by effects such as bevels, drop shadows, and inner or outer glows.
The editor opens common graphics formats including SVG, GIF, JPEG, BMP, ICO, PNG, TIFF, and PDF. Finished work can be saved as PNG, JPEG, BMP, ICO, SVG, PDF, EPS, or PSD.
Pros
- Works with both raster and vector images
- Layer-based editing keeps elements rearrangeable
- Templates cover logos, flyers, business cards, and banners
- Exports include SVG, PDF, PSD, and EPS
System requirements: Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, Windows 11
Can DrawPad create both vector and raster graphics?
Yes. It supports both types, including vector tools such as paths and Bezier curves alongside pixel-based brushes and image editing.
Can a design be resized for different uses?
Vector artwork can be scaled, and the editor includes resize controls for image work. Templates and preset banner dimensions also provide starting sizes for specific designs.
Can text follow a curve?
Yes. DrawPad has a curved-text tool for placing text along a path.
