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MacBytes
Jul 14, 2007, 11:37 AM
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Description:: Perhaps the only to reason to not recommend Picturesque is the tendency to overuse it. I found myself applying it to images that didn’t really warrant the stylized treatment, just because the app is so fun to use. It is an extremely well designed app (especially for a version 1,0), with an intuitive and responsive interface that makes it fun to crank out these reflective little graphics. Both bloggers and professional web designers will appreciate the time savings of using Picturesque to quickly handle such common tasks as adding shadows, strokes, glows, rounded corners, and resizing, but the reflection feature is what makes Picturesque unique. If you are into that shiny, reflective look Apple made famous, I recommend you pick up Picturesque.

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Nym
Jul 16, 2007, 08:56 AM
This app is fantastic, it's a life-saver if you're designing Web content and you don't want to open up Photoshop just to do a simple scale, drop shadow and get it done.

Really, people who are into Graphic/Web Design should try this app.

And the UI is very well built too.
Sdashiki
Jul 16, 2007, 09:48 AM
Are there not JS solutions for this kind of thing that isnt a "destructive" process?

Cool program though, but for web id use it sparingly.
Nym
Jul 17, 2007, 04:57 AM
Are there not JS solutions for this kind of thing that isnt a "destructive" process?

Cool program though, but for web id use it sparingly.

Yes, of course, we don't want to see rounded corners, glows and reflections in every jpeg on the web :D

As for the process being descructive, it really isn't, you just drag a bunch of files, add the effects you want and then save them all to a different folder, the originals are left untouched, it's up to the user.

Just like Photoshop, if everytime you save a document you Flatten the image then it's a destructive way of working too.
Although the application itself encourages you to work differently, it's all up to the user.
Sdashiki
Jul 17, 2007, 12:13 PM
Yes, of course, we don't want to see rounded corners, glows and reflections in every jpeg on the web :D

As for the process being descructive, it really isn't, you just drag a bunch of files, add the effects you want and then save them all to a different folder, the originals are left untouched, it's up to the user.

Just like Photoshop, if everytime you save a document you Flatten the image then it's a destructive way of working too.
Although the application itself encourages you to work differently, it's all up to the user.

My point was that the JS solutions do this on the fly I believe, so you only need 1 copy of the image instead of 1 original plus multiple changed ones.