SCO0144 - VectorDesigner
Causing quite a buzz earlier this year by winning a "Best of Show" 2008 and also being featured as one of the premium applications in the last MacHeist* promotion, VectorDesigner is a fully featured vector drawing application.
Unlike raster or bitmapped based drawing applications such as PixelMator or Photoshop, VectorDesigner uses vector based graphics allowing you to create drawings that are infinitely scalable without any degradation or loss of quality. VectorDesigner has some pretty amazing features including:
- Fully editable Smart Shapes
- Bezier creation and editing
- Flowing text along a path
- Flowing text inside a shape
- Boolean operators
- Layers
- Image filters powered by Core Image and Quartz Composer
- iSight Integration
- Flickr Integration
- Scanner Integration
- iLife photo browser
In addition, VectorDesigner also allows you to import or scan raster based images and convert them into scalable, editable vector graphics.
This weeks show touches on all these features (OK, except for iSight integration, I don't think you're quite ready for my ugly mug in a screencast yet!) and even takes you through creating a vector image design from scratch.
Of special interest is the Flickr integration that allows you to browse Flickr via a VectorDesigner Flickr browser and search for images and photos based on subject, colour or your own criteria. Once you've found an approriate image, just drag the image directly into your own VectorDesigner document as a new image or to add texture to an existing object.
This week is a free show and is sponsored by TweakerSoft.
To order your copy of VectorDesigner with $10 off the usual price, just visit:
TweakerSoft store.
The offer is available until the 23rd May, 2008.
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