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Sketch literally gave me the push I needed to go from a non-designing developer to a halfway decent designer. It's really that good. The major negative right now is performance. I used Sketch to design a full iOS app with 7 or 8 screens on a fast mbp and things were seriously crawling. I had to break up separate screens into separate sketch files and even then it was laggy. Sketch team, your product is amazing, but p…
This looks very much like Fireworks. The author mentioned that he won't discuss it since Adobe discontinued it, but the resemblance is uncanny. I never understood why Fireworks wasn't more widely used/praised; I found it to be absolutely perfect for designing web graphics.
It's like your basic vector editor -- most of the look and work the same.
Fireworks, besides the ugly Macromedia/Adobe GUI, was a hybrid Vector/Bitmap editor.
Sketch is on it's way to being what Illustrator should be. It's still a little buggy at times, for instance, you can't export things at high resolution and the workaround, resizing a group of objects, rarely works correctly.
Yep, there are lots of bugs, but they release fixes for them and its always been getting better. I've completely ditched the entire Adobe Suite for Sketch and Pixelmator.
Pixelmator lacks the full layer styles, but it's slowly getting some of them.
Though I can appreciate what Sketch is trying to do, I feel like Pixelmators performance and layout is better suited for me.
Sketch literally gave me the push I needed to go from a non-designing developer to a halfway decent designer. It's really that good. The major negative right now is performance. I used Sketch to design a full iOS app with 7 or 8 screens on a fast mbp and things were seriously crawling. I had to break up separate screens into separate sketch files and even then it was laggy. Sketch team, your product is amazing, but p…
Reusable elements (FW symbols), multiple pages, something like Fireworks' "Master page", (basic) bitmap editing.
Sketch is better than anything else on the market simply because it's actually made for user interface design. Everything else that's existed for years was made for image processing. Get Sketch. Seriously.
I like inkscape, and if I migrate to Windows / Linux I can continue to use my assets there.
But this app looks very nice; I wonder if anyone can briefly mention the areas where one app is stronger than the other.
There are still quite a few bugs, but even with those, the Sketch workflow trumps Photoshop, Illustrator and Fireworks. Version 3 should also address most of these, and is supposed to include support for symbols as well.
I'll admit that I was initially frustrated at the constant crashes etc, but there's a very responsive team, constant releases, and I haven't had a problem in months.