Okay, I tried this application probably over a year ago. However, I didn't do much with it and just didn't get it. Actually, I probably was stuck trying to find a solution to a graphics problem that this application did not seem to meet. Had I been paying more attention I would have realized that this is the graphics program I have been looking for since I left the Windows platform in 2004 and with it a little 1.0 program called Adobe Image Styler. Image Styler allowed me to quickly put together graphics for web pages by manipulating, arranging and pasting in images from other sources. I could do this easily and all on one canvas. It is like working with layers in Photoshop, but without having to create new layers. Each object is it's own layer. From DrawIt's online help:
Layers are the basic components of your document. Everything in DrawIt is layer; Images, Text and Shapes, Gradients and so on. Every layer has its own frame (its position and size in the document) and contains a number of style-options.
You can add all kinds of effects to any of your layers. Again from the DrawIt online help:
Almost every special thing you add to your layers in DrawIt is an effect. A layer can contain a nearly infinite number of effects and because every effect is non-destructive you have the freedom to expiriment and the power to create.
Effects are a crucial part of DrawIt. Effects are added to a layer in a stack and the order in which you stack them is crucial. Every effects takes the result from the previous, does its thing with it and gives the result to the next effect in the stack.
In the visual representation of this stack it's easy to see that the result from one effect will be rendered before another and this result will be used as input for the Stroke effect.
This application is
finally the one for me for quickly and easily getting my images put together! Give it a try today. Check it out at
http://www.bohemiancoding.com/drawit.
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