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roan
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Yes, I've seen it mentioned on a couple of other forums, though no one's yet given a review (that I've seen).
I'm attempting to download it now. It's been nearly 40 minutes and onlyu 9% is downloaded. Slow connection, obviously, and it may not be possible since my ISP seems to disconnect me after too many hours.
It's now 7:36 pm in California and should be roughly 2 am before the download is completed (if I'm lucky).
Have you used Acrylic yet? Looks like you must have, to get the screen prints. What do you think of it?
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| Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2005 9:25 pm |
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Oh is that what they're doing with Expression? Interesting. Expression was a vector-based paint app that microsoft bought about a year ago. It used to be made by a company called Creature House. Here's something I did while playing around with it a while back:
Because it's vector-based, you can't really liken it directly to PS or Painter . . . you can move your strokes around after you make them, and obviously there's not going to be any blending going on. But it's still a very fun tool to sketch with. Kicks every other vector app I've tried in the ass, anyway.
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roan
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| Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2005 12:49 am |
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Have you used Acrylic yet? Looks like you must have, to get the screen prints. What do you think of it?
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Oh no, Im on 56k, and my isp disconnects me too after too many hours. 
Anyways, the startup logo in the screenshot looks like something that can only be done in Painter, so I thought MS is going on a different direction with this codenamed acrylic program. Hey thanks for that review link jinnseng! Sorry for my english. |
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| Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2005 1:33 am |
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roan,
Be sure to read the responses below the review. They tell a better story than the review does.
If the application is based on Expression and contains the vector capabilities of Expression, the reviewer completely missed the point.
Expression is/was a great application that allowed us to paint with vectors in a way no other application can.
The vector strokes look very much like painted brushstrokes. I've seen some excellent work that looked almost like watercolor.
My download failed completely so I won't be trying again. It's a huge file (for slow connections) and only 30 MB of the file downloaded and of course it was useless.
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| Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2005 5:12 am |
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WOWZER! This is fantastic!
My download went smoothly - early Sunday morn may have had something to do with the success.
I've just played a bit, and I am ... excited!
There are so many different brushes - all vectored, but with what looks like bitmap properties.
It indicates that you can export to PSD format with layers... but that doesn't seem to work yet...
gonna play somemore...
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| Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2005 3:05 pm |
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i tried it out and I REALLY don't like it. i hate it.
but then again, its a beta... so... yeah |
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| Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2005 3:31 pm |
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I'm curious... being a vector based program, what is that you dislike about it?
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