Sketch looks promising. But I would expect a couple of more features from an efficient screen design tool: Reusable elements (FW symbols), multiple pages, something like Fireworks' "Master page", (basic) bitmap editing.
There are multiple pages :)
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#22Sketch looks promising. But I would expect a couple of more features from an efficient screen design tool: Reusable elements (FW symbols), multiple pages, something like Fireworks' "Master page", (basic) bitmap editing.
is there no form of bitmap editing at all?
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#23Sketch looks promising. But I would expect a couple of more features from an efficient screen design tool: Reusable elements (FW symbols), multiple pages, something like Fireworks' "Master page", (basic) bitmap editing.
Sketch has multiple pages support, and symbols/reusable elements are to be included in v3
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#24Is there any comparable program to use for windows or linux users?
+1 for windows/linux version/alternative
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#25This 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.
I love Sketch, but I don't like Fireworks. I find Fireworks awkward and clunky.
yeah, the UI is not sexy. But the feature set that is being boasted in the article is THE SAME from firewoks around 1999.
It was the only place i could get some vector work and still be pixel perfect.
Last used photoshop in 2006 and it wasn't even close.
...sadly gimp tries too hard to be a photoshop clone even copying the lame export dialog instead of save as...
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#26Is there any comparable program to use for windows or linux users?
I have never used Sketch but judging from the article it seems that Inkscape is a comparable program.
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#27It would have been great to point out at the beginning of the article that this sketch software is for Mac only. Serious web development is not only done in Mac, did you know?
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#28It would have been great to point out at the beginning of the article that this sketch software is for Mac only. Serious web development is not only done in Mac, did you know?
You are right, I should have said that in the article. I'll edit it.
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#29This 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.
Actually not much like Fireworks at all, either UI-wise or functionality wise. 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.
I never understood why hybrid vector/bitmap editors didn't gain more acceptance: it seems a natural way to work. This one-or-the-other mentality may suit developers of the software, but it's not natural for users.
I like to be able to go back and edit my shapes, yet change the contents in ways that only a bitmap editor would be able to. Storing a history of the transformations I did and re-applying when I'd resized/changed the shape seemed sensible - as well as allowing me to go back in history and remove some.
As a self-taught designer, watching professional Photoshop users for the first time was mind-boggling: they make items and then throw them away and re-make them if they need a different size - or crop parts off, rather than masking. It's all destructive editing! I learned a lot about layers and could see the benefits of them, but still...
If I remember correctly Deneba Canvas supported the hybrid Vector/Bitmap approach, but never gained enough traction to be a viable product.
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#30Sketch looks promising. But I would expect a couple of more features from an efficient screen design tool: Reusable elements (FW symbols), multiple pages, something like Fireworks' "Master page", (basic) bitmap editing.
is there no form of bitmap editing at all?
Very basic so far, deleting pixels by double-clicking the bitmap image and use the marquee tool + backspace.