New App Generates Textures, Text Effects, and More for Web Graphics

Theresa Stone

Opcoders today introduced GraphicDesignerToolbox version 1.0, an unique and powerful Mac OS X graphics editor for generating textures, composing logos, photo manipulation, text effects and web graphics, targeted at professional web designers and artists. Instead of virtual drawing tools and layers, GraphicDesignerToolbox provides adjustable building blocks which allows for extensive tweaking and re-use, much like a modular sound synthesizer.
“Because you can work with bitmaps and vectors,” said Simon Strandgaard, “it’s possible to make a wide range of graphics spanning from seamless tiling textures to vector logos. GraphicDesignerToolbox is exceptional at making web graphics.”
After more than four years of development, the Opcoders team has now released version 1.0. Radical improvements have been made since the first public alpha in early 2008. GraphicDesignerToolbox is now complete.
Features:
* Unified bitmap/vector compositing
* More than 80 building blocks
* Build assets and recycle your work
Requirements:
* Mac OS X 10.4 or later
* 1 GB system RAM
* Graphics card with 64 MB video RAM
* 20 MB hard drive space
Pricing and Availability:
GraphicDesignerToolbox 1.0 can be downloaded from the Web site. A single user license can be purchased for 29.95 Euros ($39.95 USD).