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There is typically high anticipation when applications that could potentially compete with the powerful Adobe CS product line-up get released. Designers everywhere are very reliant on those products in a lot of situations and while they do get the job done (and typically better than any other available option) there seems to be this burning desire for something different.
Even though applications like Photoshop and Illustrator are so widely used, you’ll often see complaints about different aspects of these tools. One common gripe is that the applications have begun to feel bloated after so many years of feature additions. If you’ve ever spent time with either Photoshop or Illustrator you are nodding your head right now. That’s probably why when a prospective, more simple, competitor pops up we’re all staring right at it hoping it can be just what we want. We hope that all of the great features we love in our CS applications make it over and all the fluff dies off.
The buzz about the release of Sketch 2 started a while back and being a designer myself I followed along closely. All things pointed to this thing being pretty darn cool so I decided to take it for a spin.
When you think of drawing tools, you think of an Adobe product, right? You think of a really expensive piece of software that costs thousands of dollars. What if I was tell about a completely vector based program that is both feature packed and affordable.
Let me introduce you to Sketch from Bohemian Coding.
From the same one-man-team who developed Fontcase, Sketch is a vector based drawing program for designers and artists alike. Vector drawing means instead of pixels, everything is a mathematic piece of data. If you ever needed to enlarge the vector image, it wouldnʼt become pixelated, even at large sizes. Vector design programs are heavily preferred by designers for that unique quality.
We’ll take a closer look at how Sketch works after the break.
Winners Announced!
I’m pleased to let you know that we’ve selected all the competition winners, and their details are as follows:
Fontcase Winners
Lestyn Lloyd, Michael Polák, and Riccardo Luigi Varisco
DrawIt Winners
Andrew (@andrewpflynn), Ivan Nikolić, and Schellman
Sketch Winners
RHett, Nur Azam, and Tomas Bartko
SlipCover Winners
Eduardo Partida, WebKarnage, and Aaron Jackson
Congratulations to you all, and thanks for reading AppStorm!
Old Competition Announcement
We have an absolutely fantastic competition for you all today, giving away three licenses of every Mac application developed by Bohemian Coding.
Known for their beautifully designed software, Bohemian Coding have created a series of wonderful apps that you have a chance to win today. They are:
- Fontcase – Fontcase is a font management application that provides an elegant and powerful workflow to help you organize the fonts you have installed on your system.
- DrawIt – DrawIt is a vector editing application with support for bitmap-like image filters.
- Sketch – The most important part of any drawing application is arguably the drawing area, so we’ve just made Sketch contain one big and infinitely large view with no palettes to be seen. That doesn’t mean we’ve compromised on the tools though.
- SlipCover – SlipCover makes it easy to create custom case icons for all your media files.
How to Enter
Entering is really easy. All you need to do is retweet the following message, and leave a comment with your Twitter username!
Just entered a competition to win Fontcase, Sketch, DrawIt and SlipCover courtesy of @macappstorm: http://bit.ly/cjfLcR
Click here to tweet the message and enter!
Best of luck!. We’ll be picking the winners in exactly one week, on Thursday the 14th. Thanks for taking part!
