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Scribbles
Scribbles is now available! No words can take the place of
trying it out for yourself, so just give it a shot. It's free to try for as long as you want. (When you're ready,
buying a license is a cinch).
Lately there has been a barrage of image editors for Mac OS X. No doubt, a few of them are pretty great, but Scribbles is unique. First of all, it's designed to do one thing insanely well: drawing. It's not an image-editor, or a photoshop-killer, or an excuse for cluttering your screen with two dozen translucent HUD's... it's a drawing app plain and simple.
So what makes Scribbles so great? Things like an infinite canvas, context-based user interfaces, and intuitive 3D layers are nice, but what makes Scribbles really shine is the stroke rendering. Check out this picture, it's a few random doodles made with three new graphics apps. The image on the top was made with Scribbles. Note the smooth lines and curves. The second image was made with a different app. Note the strange wobbling in some of the strokes (particularly at large brush sizes). The third image was made with another app: note the strange angles in some of the curves, it looks like polygonal lines. (Note: no offense to the authors of those apps, I actually think they're both pretty cool, and obviously they are designed primarily as image editors, not drawing tools).
The Mac needs a drawing tool that everyone can use. One of the primary design goals of Scribbles was to make the interface accessible to every potential user, from kids to pros. The hope is that this is evident as soon as you start it up. The entire interface (sans the menu bar) is entirely text-less. The interface is contained in a single window, and morphs between modes. Buttons that you don't need stay out of your way until you need them. The interface for dealing with layers is my personal favorite. For people not familiar with the concept, Scribbles makes layers intuitive.
Check out
Scribbles today, and the
user gallery to see what's possible.
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