Vector Graphics Design Made Easy On Your Mac.

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Vector Vector drawing applications are the perfect complement to web design. Unlike bitmap images, vector designs can be manipulated again and again without prejudice.

Adobe’s Fireworks is one of my favorite Mac applications and could be considered the king of vector graphic design for the web.

But Fireworks is overly loaded with features, unduly complex, and rather expensive. VectorDesigner is not.

If money is an object, yet you need a vector drawing application that is.... (excerpted).

4 Reader Comments

firefoxy said:

I have used Fireworks for nearly 10 years, from back when it was owned by Macromedia, and long before they were bought out by Adobe.

Yes, Fireworks is a fabulous tool for those who build web graphics. Instead of upgrading to the web version of Adobe’s Creative Suite 3, I skipped that version and bought Vector Designer. Wow. It does nearly everything I was doing with my older version of Fireworks, and is easier to use. Glad to see someone else figure out the same thing.

sanford said:

Excellent choice. Vector Designer has most of the tools that artists and designers use the most, eliminating the bloated palettes in Macromedia Fireworks. Uh, rather, Adobe Fireworks. You get the hang of the brilliance of vector tools right away. Cheap at twice the price.

Art said:

I love Vector Designer for its simplicity. It’s almost like Apple designed it themselves.

When I had to create a simple menu for a friend’s little business, I reached for VD. Why not Lineform or Illustrator? I like the instant launch and alignment guides and beautiful font rendering.

It literally took 20 minutes to create a ritzy looking menu.

Here’s some things they’ll add soon..hopefully…

It needs a basic line tool. The one it has is common in illustrator apps, but not like the line tool you’re probably used to. Sometimes you really just want a line without snapping points.

It’s strange not to have a Distribute command. If it’s there, it’s not obvious.

Sometimes grabbing an object’s ‘center’ isn’t really the center. Or it doesn’t quite align right to something else. You can keep clicking it and it moves slightly.

Small quibbles though. Somehow this cheap, cool app has become my favorite simple little vector drawing app.

Steve K. said:

Vector Designer is a great app! I love it. Much more numble than the bloatware of the dinosaur code from Adobe. This is native OS X, clean and simple. Definitely check it out if you are trying to kick the Adobe habit.

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