Many, many times we get email or forum postings lamenting about the high cost of the Adobe Illustrator and other Adobe products… and now you can’t even buy them, you “rent” them from the ‘cloud’ . . . so we’ve done a little digging and testing and you can try these for highly functional surrogates for Illustrator :
* iDraw: powerful feature-packed vector drawing and illustration app
* If you’re not a design pro, you may need Logo Design Studio
* Animate : Bring your imagination to life!
* TouchDraw : structured 2D vector graphics
* Clipart Collection by UAB Macmanus
* VectorPro Color
. . . and more
The InfoManager went on the Apple App Store looking for some good vector drawing apps to replace or act as surrogate for Adobe’s Illustrator . . . these are the ones that look like the best thing going:
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iDraw: powerful feature-packed vector drawing and illustration app
* If you’re not a design pro, you may need Logo Design Studio
* Animate : Bring your imagination to life!
* TouchDraw : structured 2D vector graphics
* Clipart Collection by UAB Macmanus
* VectorPro Color
. . . and more
iDraw: powerful feature-packed vector drawing and illustration app
iDraw 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 iDraw for the iPad.
Create resolution-independent illustrations that can be pasted into Pages documents, included in Keynote presentations, or used together with iBooks Author.
Full story : iDraw By Indeeo, Inc. See a screen shot
If you’re not a design pro, you may need Logo Design Studio
The original Logo Design Studio Pro. The #1 selling logo design software.
Design a new logo in minutes using the flexible design tools of Logo Design Studio Pro. Easily choose from over 1000 pre-designed logo templates, or start from scratch using over 2800 premium logo-centric vector graphics and shapes to jumpstart your creativity. Then add or change text, shapes, color gradients and more to get your look right. Full story : Logo Design Studio Pro By Macware, Inc See a screen shot
Animate : Bring your imagination to life!
Anime Studio is your complete animation program for creating 2D movies, cartoons, anime or cut out animations. Create your own desktop animated shorts, or use it to produce animations for film, video or streaming over the web. Get started quickly with the Beginner’s Mode.
Create your own custom characters using the built-in Character Wizard and convert your existing paper drawings into ready-to-animate vector images with one click. Draw your own artwork using built-in brushes, import digital photos, add sound and video, and choose from pre-designed characters or create your own and make them talk using integrated lip-synching. The revolutionary bone rigging system makes animating fast and an efficient alternative to tedious frame-by-frame animation. Full story : Anime Studio by Smith Micro Software See a screen shot
TouchDraw : structured 2D vector graphics
TouchDraw is a vector drawing application for the Mac.
Just as with their iPad version, TouchDraw is a retina optimized application that gives you everything you need to create structured 2D vector graphics such as flow charts, graphs, diagrams, illustrations, logos and floor plans just to name a few. TouchDraw for the Mac is fully compatible with the iPad version and files can be freely exchanged between both versions. Full story : TouchDraw By Elevenworks LLC See a screen shot
Clipart Collection by UAB Macmanus
Clipart Collection is a set of 500 pictures useful for incorporation into your Keynote presentations, iWeb sites, iBooks Author textbooks, Pages or Numbers documents and other applications. It is even compatible with MS Office programs like Word, PowerPoint or Excel.
A great variety of colorful images with transparent backgrounds are sorted into 21 categories, which vary a lot and include Business, Science, People, Holiday, Nature, Food, Sports and more. Full story : Clipart Collection by UAB Macmanus See a screen shot
VectorPro Color
VectorPro Color builds on the successful VectorPro automatic tracing platform and adds in basic grayscale and color vector tracing.
VectorPro Color for Mac automatically traces high quality vector files from images. An excellent companion to the many lower cost illustration programs available in the Mac App Store, this app completes a full-featured design toolbox at a very low cost. Full story : VectorPro Color By Orawee Wiriyathananon See a screen shot
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