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Sunday, October 23, 2005
Microsoft Code Named Acrylic

Today I got my hands on a great new application by Microsoft which is code named "Acrylic." Its a great new addition amongst the variety of application that Microsoft is developing these days. Acrylic is a graphics designer and somewhat identical to the features provided by Adobe Photoshop. The great addition which I found is that it can export your images in XAML, which can be utilized in next generation of Windows and Web applications. You can have your complete deign in Acrylic and use it to export it into XAML, which can save a huge amount of time to produce xaml code if you are working on a big project. Acrylic is a part of Microsoft Expressions products and we still have to see other remaining tools to complete the package. Here are some snaps of Acrylic running on my PC.

See how beautifully it produces vector based images. There are other new features as well which I will explore in a couple of days. So stay tuned for more!

posted by Zeeshan Muhammad @ 11:20 PM |
 

 

Wow! Nice stuff. Any comparisons with Picasa?

posted by Blogger Muhammad Saqib Ilyas | 5:39 AM   

Picasa is a photo management tool and I am not sure if it can be used as a graphics designer. Although it is the best among all but I dont think it comes close to photoshop and coreldraw etc.

posted by Blogger Zeeshan Muhammad | 12:57 AM   

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