A worthy upgrade - in depth review follows...

Here is an in-depth rundown of the new Sketches 2 vs the old Sketches 1.7.6

Overall pretty much everything is improved upon & speedier

The GUI is much improved. Things like switching backgrounds are easily changed without going back and forth in and out of the background icon. For instance in V1 it took 3 taps to change backgrounds. In V2 you just click through the different backgrounds as they change immediately.

Adding Text appears right over the image letter by letter and defaults to being straight and level instead of the old way of having to maneuver your text, level it & resize at the same time pinching in & out.

Ink - Vast color picking wheel vs the old version that just had 24 colors. Scaling dot size was a guess with the old version. V2 Now has a HUD that changes size as you drag left & right.

Eraser - seems the same.

Opacity - the old version just has 3 types of transparency, the new version has a slider with numerous percentages of transparency which uses the same HUD slider as the ink icon.

Brushes - Included in V2 not available in V1. There are 5 different brushes.

Shapes - V2 has much more shapes than V1. The Categories are: Geometric, Fun, Office, Sports, Gadgets, Holidays, Party, Merchandise, Map, Callout, Lines and Arrows.

Library Backgrounds - no noticeable changes here.

All in all, it is a good upgrade. The price seems fair. Im glad I upgraded

TheSilber about Sketches