Graphic 4+
Vector illustration and design
Picta, Inc
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- £29.99
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Description
Graphic is a powerful feature-packed vector drawing and illustration application for macOS.
"Lightweight vector drawing; easy to use; 9/10" - Mac.AppStorm.net
Featured in "Amazing Mac Apps", "...very powerful at a very decent price" - iCreate Magazine
Graphic has all of the tools you need to create everything from detailed technical illustrations to beautiful works of art. Create intricate designs quickly and easily, and continue working on the go with Graphic for the iPad.
Create resolution-independent illustrations that can be pasted into Pages documents, included in Keynote presentations, or used together with iBooks Author.
Import/Export
- Import SVG, PDF, EPS, and Photoshop PSD files.
- Export designs as SVG, PDF, PNG, PSD, JPEG, GIF, and TIFF files.
- Copy selected objects as PNG, PDF, SVG, CSS properties, and Core Graphics code.
- Export icons, bitmap and vector images directly into Xcode xcasset folders.
- Export layers and tagged objects automatically as individual files.
Photoshop PSD Import/Export
- Import layered PSD files with vector paths and effects.
- Shape layers are imported as editable vector paths.
- Layer effects are imported as fully editable drop shadows, inner shadows, glows, etc.
- Export designs as layered PSD files.
Professional Drawing Tools
- Full-featured Bezier Pen tool for creating custom shapes.
- Brush and Pencil tools for fluid drawing and sketching.
- Essential set of shape creation tools.
- Boolean path combinations.
- Path multi-point selection and editing.
- Join, connect, and disconnect paths.
- Rotate, Scale, and Shear transform tools.
- Compound Paths.
- Convert Anchors tool.
- Eraser tool.
- Scissor tool.
- Dimensioning tool.
Layer Styles
- Apply multiple strokes, fills, and effects to any object.
- Apply inner shadows, drop shadows, and glow effects to objects.
- Arrange the order of fills, strokes, and effects using drag and drop.
- 24 vibrant blend modes, including Multiply, Overlay, Linear Burn, Vivid Light, etc.
- Set blend modes for layers, shapes, fills, strokes, shadows, and glow effects.
Many other powerful features, including:
- Shape Libraries.
- Appearance Styles.
- Text on Path.
- Multi-style Text.
- Layers and Groups.
- Smart Alignment Guides.
- Labels and Dimensioning.
- Canvas Scale, Rulers, and Units (mm, cm, inches)
- Canvas Styles.
- Snap to Grid / Snap to Point.
- Align and Distribute objects.
- Duplicate and Transform.
- Linear, Radial, and Angle gradients.
- Image masking.
- Convert Text to Paths.
- Inner and Outer Strokes.
- Outline Stroke.
- Duplicate and Transform.
- RGB, HSB, and Hex Color Pickers.
- Pixel-Preview Mode.
- Import PDF files and annotations.
- Export as vector-based PDF and SVG files.
- Plugins / Powerful scripting API.
- ColorSync Color Management.
OpenGL-optimized Drawing
- Fast rendering of very complex projects.
- Multi-threaded drawing ensures lag-free scrolling and zooming.
What’s New
Version 3.1
- New CocoaScript plugin/scripting architecture
- Swift 4 code export
- PSD export with DPI settings
- SVG import improvements
- Many other fixes and improvements
Recent updates to the iPad and iPhone versions of Graphic, with iOS 11 and iPhone X support. Many more new features for all versions coming soon!
Ratings and Reviews
Very good vector drawing app
I have been using this app for about 2 months and I can see that it is very good in what it offers but it lacks many features offered by rivals like Affinity Designer and Adobe Illustrator - especially if you want to explore perspective drawing. Another annoyance is that colour picker tool is not in the toolbar and in my opinion digging deep in to dalog boxes to pick colours is very frustrating. My biggest concern is that this app has not been updated in 2 years and it may be that most of its user base will start looking elsewhere for the features which it is missing. I hope Autodesk is listening and will update this fantastic app.
Arguably, the best of its kind...
There are lots of Illustrator & Photoshop me-too apps, but there are not many that will do basic, dimensioned scale drawing which knocks on the door of CAD without the cost, or the learning curve penalty.
For those that mourn the original MacDraw, and its later descendant ClarisDraw, or for those recently orphaned by the demise of Intaglio, Graphic is a godsend. It mostly keeps the compact and disciplined user interface from Intaglio, without lapsing into massive inflatable toolbars that hog the whole screen (I'm looking at you, EasyDraw). If you're moving from Intaglio, you have to save your stuff out as .svg, and Graphic will open these (IME) flawlessly. Intaglio will run under Big Sur 11.6.1 with just enough functionalilty to do this (and almost nothing else). It's a revelation and a huge relief.
The only downside is that Graphic is just slightly laggy in rendering newly-visible bits of your work as you scroll — Intaglio, notably, wasn't. But then Graphic responds to pinch-to-zoom, which is really handy. Swings <=> Roundabouts. Overall, lovely — a proper traditional Mac app with a very short learning curve. More of this, please.
What a fabulous application!
I’ve been using Adobe Illustrator for years - but not for anything particularly complex. For my needs, I find Graphic *much* simpler to use and, so far, everything I have attempted to do with the product has been not just possible but fun and very straighforward. I was pleasantly surprised to see just how intuitive it is. Somehow all the tools fall to hand exactly where you feel they should be and work just how you expect them to. The process of creating a vector drawing is an absolute pleasure. That is a key compliment actually - it is really fast and FUN to create drawings in this application. In terms of value, graphic is outstanding. Autodesk deserves massive praise for this lovely application and I hope they make a fortune from it.
App Privacy
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Information
- Provider
- Picta, Inc
- Size
- 16.5 MB
- Category
- Graphics & Design
- Compatibility
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- Mac
- Requires macOS 10.7 or later.
- Languages
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English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Copyright 2018 Picta Inc.
- Price
- £29.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.