Re: Absolutely Useless - simonm1

You're correct in calling your comment absolutely useless. For someone who thinks this software is so bad but is too lazy to justify their reasoning, perhaps you can point us toward your own drawing app? I'm guessing that someone so lazy hasn't got around to writing one and instead would prefer to just bash other developers because they haven't written the perfect app for them.

Well I for one have tried this software and think it's got a lot to offer. I have never used Illustrator so I can't compare it to that (nor is this attempting to compete with it) but I have tried the other light drawing/vector software on the Mac. DrawIt is fairly unique among them in its overall layout and approach. I find it to be the most Mac-friendly and intuitive of all the lite drawing apps I've tried. It's organisation of layers and objects that can all be grouped, rotated and scaled to specific dimensions is particularly well implemented. I also like that you can set the canvas size in pixels, because if you're creating images for icons or the web you will often want it to be specific dimensions. This app seems perfect as a tool to design simple but effective icons for the Mac (as is evidenced by some of the example files including the DrawIt icon itself).

As for your comment about gradients, it has several gradient options that can be applied to any object so I don't know what else you want. Remember this is a relatively cheap and lite drawing app, NOT an Illustrator competitor. About the speed, I understand what you mean, but I think that the speed will slow once you apply more and more effects because after all many of the Core Image effects are quite complex in their image processing algorithms and if you're layering effect upon effect then it can slow down as they're applied in real-time, but as you correctly noted this is common to many apps.

I found the vector tool to be one of the least user-friendly parts of the app since it doesn't behave the way I expected and can be quite tricky to get the shape you want. I think the developer is improving this though and I've heard that he's extremely friendly and willing to consider any feedback from users.

Version 4.7 is coming along well and I can really recommend people give it a try and not pay attention to app-bashers that don't justify their attacks.

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Sunday, November 09 2008 @ 05:23 PM PST