Tag: DRAWING

When Microsoft launched IE9, they sponsored a number of interesting demo projects to showcase its hardware acceleration and HTML5 support. I posted about one of these projects some time ago – A Rough Guide To The World. The Endless Mural is another such showcase project. It's a drawing application with a twist: as you make gestures and draw lines across the canvas, fractals bloom in your ...

If you're an artist or designer on a Mac, and you want to draw vectors without all the other cruft in the Adobe Creative Suite, you're in luck. Meet Sketch, a new OS X app that's designed purely for drawing vectors. It's got a lot of power tools, but it falls squarely into the "do one thing and do it well" school of software development.Sketch comes from Bohemian Coding, and it's compatible with ...

First, let me disclaim that I do not read comics, nor manga, and I'm not a huge fan of anime. In fact, the only drawn-art medium that I really like is hentai. But enough about me! Today I've had the pleasure of using ComicRack, an eComics reader and manager. I don't have anything to compare it to, but according to my friends it's the best comic reader out there. I can't really tell you if ...

Today I had a quick play with the Google Docs drawing tool. It's awesome, but yet there's a strong chance that you didn't even know it existed! Just head over to docs.google.com > Create New > Drawing and give it a go. Don't forget to Insert > Image -- a whole wealth of Google Images await your artistic meddling! Poke around with the tools; they're very easy to use. OK, drawn ...

Every now and then I need to quickly screenshot something from a browser window and pass it along to someone else -- say, a member of the DS team to point out an error or something post-worthy I've found online. While it's easy enough to use my desktop screenshot app and attach it to a new email message, the Explain and Send Screenshots extension for Google Chrome is an easy way to do it right ...

While we're on the subject of other web technologies that do things we're used to seeing from Flash, I thought I'd show you Harmony. It's a very neat little toy (or proof of concept, I guess) that is written in Javascript, and it uses a technique called "procedural drawing". It's a similar concept to that used on the Flame app (which I covered the other day), but here you get just a single ...

Flame is a cute little Flash toy I found over at MakeUseOf. It basically lets you run your mouse in semi-random patterns and claim it's art. Don't blame me for the image above; I plead color-blindness (and I have a trackball!) The controls are surprisingly complex, letting you modify quite a few brush parameters. There is a complete help text at the bottom of the page, which you should ...

The aptly-named Paint.Net PSD Plugin is one of those pieces of software which pretty much spells it all out right in the name. It's a plugin...for Paint.Net...(wait for it)...which lets you open files saved in Photoshop's PSD format. Download the zip archive, dump the included PhotoShop.dll file into your Paint.Net FileTypes folder (usually c:\program files\Paint.Net\FileTypes), and you're ...

Over the last year, Paint.Net became my default app for quick photo edits. It's an excellent Photoshop alternative for beginners and non-professional users. Now, thanks to Jonathan Pobst, Linux users have a similar app they can enjoy. Pobst began working on the project in response to a call last year from Thomas Holwerda from OS News, who lamented the lack of a decent Paint.Net-like app for ...

It's not often that you find children writing apps -- as Gizmodo notes, he's not the youngest (that award goes to a 9-year-old from Singapore) -- but it's still pretty damn impressive, considering the excellent quality of the application. iSketch [iTunes link] is by no means as nascent or spotty as its creator: it's actually rather good, as far as drawing apps go. Better yet, the app only ...

If you have a MacBook, you're probably used to using the trackpad as a basic mouse, and throwing in multitouch gestures if you have a recent model. It turns out that's not all your trusty trackpad is good for, though. With an app called Inklet, that trackpad becomes a tablet you can write and draw on. You can even get a special stylus for it. Inklet can do a lot of the things a full-sized ...

I'll describe PhotoSketch, but you really have to watch the demo video to believe it. If you make a living putting together composite images in Photoshop, you may want to stop reading right now, and start looking for a new line of work. Photosketch takes rough, even stick-figure-like drawings you do in Photoshop, finds real images to match, and puts together a montage that looks a lot like what ...

Odosketch is a drawing tool that's been around since 2006, but just caught my eye this month with its latest relaunch. It's a quick Flash-based way to do some drawing on a background that looks like a page in your trusty Moleskine sketchbook. You may not be as talented as some of the artists in the Odosketch featured gallery, but because of the way the app is designed, pretty much anything you ...

The Google team has certainly been busy lately, adding new features to their services and apps on what seems like a daily basis. This morning a new drawing tool became available on Google docs, allowing users to create images in any browser that supports VML and SVG. As mentioned in the Google Docs blog, the tool is based on technology acquired when they purchased Tonic Systems in 2007. From any ...

Imagine you had a drawing program in which you couldn't draw what you wanted because each tool had a mind of its own. Also imagine you couldn't select the colors to use as it would decide it for you. If this is your idea for a drawing program then you should definitely check out bomomo. In all fairness, bomomo never claimed to replace any drawing program you may be already be using. Actually, it ...