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DrawIt 3.1b3 (Mac OS X)

3.1 final released this week  

I must admit that Drawit has improved a lot and is right now a very nice application. I have tried Acorn and Drawit and the point is that Drawit is by far superior. I had bought the license for the former and have stopped using it since I discovered Drawit. In my humble opinion, the other comments are totally unfair, or maybe they were fair when issued, but they do not apply any longer to v3.1 which has just been released (download it from the developer's site, as VTracker for some reason points to 3.1. Beta3 which was buggy). I am a registered user of both Pixelmator and Drawit, and think that in Drawit there are some nice functions that are totally missing in Pixelmator: For instance, Drawit contains a powerful vector drawing tool (Beziers curves), with the ability to transform any vector shape that you may have created into masks, or text formatting abilities (kern, ligature, baseline) that are not available in Pixelmator. Although Drawit is not a photography editing tool and Pixelmator claims to be one, I interestingly managed to do exactly the same with both Pixelmator and Drawit, e.g. add some water droplets onto a picture. Worth noting: Both Pixelmator and Drawit are 8 bit editors (16 bit is a must for photographers). The interface is very nice and simple, in the vein of Apple's products; It could be from Apple themselves. The user manual is a bit light at the moment, but the help available in the software is relatively good. It takes some time to get familiar with Drawit, but once familiar with it's non standard approach to drawing, it becomes very easy to use. [alert admin]

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Saturday, December 08 2007 @ 01:04 AM PST

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