Sketch 101

What's new in this version:

New:
- Smart Animate in prototypes: We’ve added a new animation option between Artboards — Smart Animate — that animates changes between layers with matching names. If you’ve used Magic Move in Keynote, you’ll know how this works. There are a variety of easing options to choose from and you can customize the animation duration to get things moving just right.

Improved:
- Previously, you could only show and hide Overlays while hovering in prototypes, but now you can also transition from one regular Artboard to another on hover. This pairs nicely with the new Smart Animate options!
- You can click your middle mouse button (if you have one) and drag to pan around the Canvas
- Di ‘hola’ a diseñar en español. A partir de ahora, podrás usar Sketch en español e interactuar con la interfaz de manera más familiar e intuitiva. Para poder utilizar Sketch en español, asegúrate de que el idioma principal de tu Mac es también español o, si quieres utilizar tu Mac en otro idioma, configura Sketch en español en Ajustes del Sistema. Echa un vistazo a las instrucciones de Apple para ajustarlo todo a tu gusto.
- We now remember and maintain the scroll position of scrollable areas with the same name and position in the Layer List hierarchy across different Artboards when you switch between them in prototypes.
- You can now click and drag to scroll within scrollable areas when you play a prototype. We’ve also made sure that scrolling a horizontal scroll area that’s nested within a vertical scroll area no longer causes any unexpected vertical jumps.
- We’ve added HEIC as a new export option. You can export up to 8192 x 8192 in size in this format.
- You can now set a hidden layer as an interaction target and it won’t be triggered until you make that layer visible.
- You can now replace the underlying Library for all Components in a document (or a specific Component type) by heading to Edit > Replace Library. This replaces all components with the same name with their counterpart in the replacement Library. For more control, you can select specific Components (usually Symbols) on the Canvas and choose Edit > Replace Selected Components to replace the underlying Library for just those Components.
- We’ve made some big improvements to PDF exports. You can now choose which Artboards to export, optionally add Artboard titles and include comments (for Workspace documents only) and choose to render Artboards as bitmaps for more precision. Also, for Workspace documents, you can export all comments as a CSV file.
- You can now double-click on an Artboard’s name on the Canvas to rename it! One of those things that you didn’t realize you needed until you start using it.
- We’ve added new display options to the prototype player in the Mac app. You can now choose to display any prototype at full width, meaning the prototype will resize so its width always matches the player window’s width. As a result, prototypes you play in the full width display mode with a larger height will scroll vertically.
- We know it’s been a long time coming, but you can now use Color Variables in gradients. Nothing else to say about this one, we’re just glad it’s here and hopefully you are too!
- We now support exporting bitmap images up to 65535 x 65535 in size. WebP images are limited to 16383 x 16383. You can export PNG and TIFF at much larger sizes, limited only by your Mac’s hardware and memory. Exporting images at these larger sizes will take longer.
- We’ve made it easier to add and enable the most popular Apple UI design Libraries directly from the Libraries pane in Sketch’s settings.
- The Workspace window now remembers your previous sidebar selection (Recent Documents, Templates, Libraries, etc.) when you close and re-open the window or quit and restart Sketch.
- You can now hide any layer within a Symbol instance, just like you would hide a layer in a group, for example.
- You can now switch between different Component types in the Insert window by holding Command and pressing the numeric keys 1–4 to move between the different views.

Changed:
- With this release, we no longer support macOS 12 (Monterey). We update our support of macOS versions to continue improving Sketch with the latest Apple frameworks and APIs.