Pretty Cool, Especially For Free!

I’m a Graphic Designer (own and use Adobe CS5.5) and I’m always looking for ways to do things quickly, for free or to recommend to friends. This is a pretty cool little app. Layers, compositing, text, moving images around on their layers, filters/fx, basic drawing tools, re-size an image on it’s own layer (click the little magnifying glass on a layer to see layer settings), all pretty good stuff. If you’ve used either of Adobe’s pro or consumer apps, the interface could take some getting used to. You can save to the open “.xcf” extension format for re-edit /additonal editing. I couldn’t export a .jpg from my 1st project, I got a pop-up that told me I needed to upgrade to paid version. But because I have a Mac and Apple gives us some good stuff, I used the Grab.app to “cut out” a .tiff from the canvas, which I dropped into Preview and converted to a .jpg. This is a small niggle, if you know about Apple’s free apps, but if you don’t, not being able to even export a .jpg of your work is not a good thing. All in all, it’s good and I’d reccomend to friends over a paid app for occasional use.

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