hi !

I bought an ASUS eee slate ep121 a few weeks ago and I’ve been running the SketchBook Trial. I really liked it, but I have a few comments / questions.

Actually, besides painting / sketching, I do a lot of notes, doodling, brainstorming on paper and often, I go back to those notes. This is the reason why I’ve been using physical sketchbooks for years and years. (note: no saving per page needed)

So I thought:
Why is there no option in SketchBook PRO where I can “turn the page” and continue on a blank page or skim over the last pages I’ve worked on. That would be so much more intuitive and underline the name and use of the application. All that’d need is an auto-save plus a functionality to quickly hop over all the pages with a little preview. [ Plus of course a naming convention for all the files which are named incrementally. ]

Is that something you guys have looked into ?

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The other thing is the floating menus. Why is it not possible to have the zoom/pan menu visible all the time but only when the tool is activated ? Am I missing something ?

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Otherwise: I liked Alias a lot, thus I like SketchBook .. :)

no one missing such a feature ?

I understand why you would want the “sketchbook” idea. In fact, Corel’s experiment in that direction - Painter Sketch Pad - does exactly that and might be what you’re after. Personally, I find it annoying and prefer the idea of one file, at least, that’s what I’m used to. Being able to open multiple files would be good but the last thing I want is for SBPro to become a poor man’s Painter or even Photoshop. I like its minimalism.

totally understandable. I just really like the ‘physicality’ of paper and that you can just go back over old iterations and brain work.

artists are told not to throw away any sketches, no matter how bad they are (at first). but how often did I delete a sketch/file just because I quickly wanted test something else and clicked ‘save: no !’.

I like the minimalistic approach too, but for me, this is a showstopper because I lose all the time organizing/renaming/structuring files.