Pieter Omvlee releases DrawIt 3.6 for Mac OS X
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Oct 4, 2008 at 2:20pm
Pieter Omvlee has released DrawIt 3.6, the latest version of his easy-to-use, layer-based, vector-drawing and image editing application for Mac OS X. The upgrade offers an increase in speed and a decrease in memory usage. Also, bitmap layers can now be edited in an external bitmap-editing application so you can combine the best of two worlds.
Out of the box, DrawIt includes a large number of ready-to-use and customizable special shapes; circles, stars, rounded rectangles and polygons, as well as support for an unlimited number of nested groups, masks and custom overlays. To help the design process, Bread Crumbs display exactly where the user is, and lets them navigate back and forth in the layer-hierarchy. There is also an Outline View that displays every layer in the entire document.
DrawIt supports over 50, stackable, nondestructive Core Image filters. Users may apply as many filters as they wish to a single, or even multiple, layers at once, and can drag them between different layers. Individual properties can be freely edited, regardless how many filters have been applied.
Filter properties can be readjusted and/or reordered at any time; the original object is never discarded, and DrawIt never rasterizes layers unless specifically told to do so. Among DrawIt’s features are Groups. A Group is similar to a folder in the Finder, but more powerful. A group of layers can be moved as one, styled as one, and can even share single mask. Once a Group is created, users can double-click to enter it, and change the layers inside. Click outside the group and it can again be moved, resized and styled as any other layer.
DrawIt 3.6 is available as a full-featured demo. A single user license is approximately US$40; registered 3.x customers may upgrade for free.
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Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
