review of Acrylic
Pigpog links up a good article on the new graphics software called Acrylic that Microsoft has recently used.
Late last week Microsoft released a free download of the beta of their new graphics package, dubbed by some as Microsoft’s attempt at Microsoft. Rather than rush out a review, I spent the weekend playing with it to see what it really offered. To understand Acrylic’s strengths, you need to understand its origins.
Microsoft acquired a program called Expression last year. Originally (a long time ago), Expression was a program created by a company called Meta Creations and when released it caused quite a storm as it was the first program to blur the line between vector graphics (those graphics which are created by plotting points and calculating curves, thereby being rendered mathematically and therefore resizeable and editable without loss of quality) and bitmap (flat images, such as the JPEGs taken by your digital camera). With it you could paint a line, using a brush like in a bitmap program, so it could have a faded edge for example, and then go back and edit the nodes on the painted stroke to move the line about.
Download the beta here
For the moment, I am sticking to paint.net that seems to do all I need.