Comments on: Microsoft releases Acrylic beta

By: McKack

McKack — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 12:26:24 +0000

I don’t see why people keep comparing this with Photoshop, it looks alot more like a Painter clone, namely messy interface and non-userfriendly

By: nzgfxguru

nzgfxguru — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Will do Alex, thanks for the link :)

By: Thirteenva

Thirteenva — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

They've also dropped the mac version. Expression was cross platform.

By: MCsolas

MCsolas — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Looks feeble enough to skip is you already have Photoshop or Fireworks

By: Phil Readmore

Phil Readmore — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

If you’re using photoshop you’re probably not interested anyway as it’s completely different. I have the original beta and so far it hasn’t expired so I’m a bit wary of downloading Acrylic which I know will expire.

By: AlexW

AlexW — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Phil, you can run them side-by-side quite happily. There aren’t any killer reasons that I’m aware of for ‘upgrading’ to Acyrlic though.

By: bob

bob — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

this is another example of MS taking a decent progam and making it bloatware. Expression was designed as a vector tool, and MS wants to now make it a bitmap tool. Microsoft can't compete with photoshop or other programs because they know nothing about the graphics industry.