DrawIt 3.1 is now available. Head on over to http://getdrawit.com/ and download it posthaste.
There’s a lot of buzz about the new lightweight image editing contenders emerging for OS X. Acorn and Pixelmator have received their share of attention. If you judge your apps on hype alone, these are two worthy tools to check out. I judge my apps on feeling and productivity. Compare feature sets; DrawIt, Acorn, and Pixelmator stack up fairly evenly. Sure, you’ll find some voids left by each of the apps. But do something beyond looking at the features. Actually use the apps for some work. You’ll notice each of them takes a decidedly different direction in implementation. Of the three, Pixelmator is the closest to Adobe Photoshop. Acorn focuses on simplicity, but it is undeniably powerful. DrawIt is decidedly… different. After you’re acclimated, you may find yourself wondering why the ideas are considered different at all. Hell, they’re damn well more intuitive than the alternatives.
Obviously, I endorse DrawIt. Of the remaining apps, Acorn trails closely behind in terms of affability. Pixelmator… I’m not sold on. Why not just wait a few more “bounces” for (the more powerful) Photoshop to load?
Don’t take my word for it. Check out Jon Whipple’s in-depth comparison of DrawIt, Acorn, and Pixelmator. More importantly, download DrawIt, and give it a real test run.
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