iPhone App Spotlight: Sketches

If you’ve been looking for a drawing application for the iPhone or iPod touch or just want a great notes application, you’ve come to the right place. Sketches lets you do just that and a whole lot more. Launch the application and you’ll be greeted with a corkboard with a selection of tutorial sketches “pinned” onto the board.

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In addition to just sketching with different ink colors and sizes, you can also draw shapes like callouts, hats, and post-its using multitouch to scale them over a photo or note. It doesn’t stop there either – Sketches allows you to generate text in three different fonts: Helvetica, Marker Felt, and Times New Roman. To drop it on your sketch, just pinch on top of the area you want to place it and voila, scale to how big you want and rotate it in any direction.

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One of my favorite features is the ability to bring in a map of your current location, and then draw on top of it, perfect for illustrating a party location to friends and family. You can also bring in photos from your camera roll, or web sites.

Sketches also ties together nicely with email, Twitter, and to your iPhoto library when you sync.

This is one of my favorite apps, and can be used not only for fun photos, but for useful illustrations. Grab Sketches from the App Store for $4.99 today.