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Show HN: Free alternative to graphics design giants

52 pointsby 8h agoscissor.studio
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A webassembly web based app that help editing raster and vector on browser without any subscription or signups
2h agoHN ↗

Tip: you are blocking text selection for the terms of use and in a number of other spots. People often use text selection to copy and paste words for a variety of reasons. Some people select blocks of text to help mark what they are reading, and some people use it to paste the words in a dictionary or translation service of their choice. (Or when making a bug report to copy the version number from the about screen.)

Don't block text selection for prose, only for UI elements.

2h agoHN ↗

thanks for the feedback and reporing the bug, the goal was to have the custom context menu instead of the browser one; but seems like that casued an error, will fix it asap.

2h agoHN ↗

FYI the initial modal sounds extremely AI generated.

2h agoHN ↗

thanks for the feedback, the Fox is a traced vector from a raster image and it's been added just to great users with some good vibes, and give user a wam feeling :D .

2h agoHN ↗

hopefuly I get some time and I personally create a nice vector and add it to the samples, some isometric catroon and doing it manually (there is a iso berlin that I am working but manual labor takes so much time...).

2h agoHN ↗

Really fast ! Do you plan to make this a local only app ?

1h agoHN ↗

It's a PWA and you can install it like a Native app, and as it's writen in Rust and compiled to WebAssembly it's almost as fast as a native app (and it does not send any user data to anywhere all the artwork stuff are fully local; the only thing that it send to the backend is no of users for analytics and users can opt-out in the setting).

haven't thought about it to be hoest, but now that we have AI I might be able to transalte it to Swift to make some MacOS version, or create a desktop app for Linux/... using Tauri

1h agoHN ↗

It's a static SinglePage web applicaiton that runs everything completely locally on your machine. it also mean the better computer you have the better performance.

51m agoHN ↗

what does that have to do with the price of tea in China? you've totally missed a basic feature of the app that you're trying to replicate

35m agoHN ↗

I think they mean the Filter > Render > Clouds feature in Photoshop rather than local vs cloud

55m agoHN ↗

Gave it a quick try. The fact that it’s fully local and installable as a PWA is appealing. Performance felt solid in a short test.

30m agoHN ↗

This looks really promising. Very snappy.

I might be missing it but there doesn't seem to be the equivalent of Illustrator's direct selection tool, for moving individual anchor points? There's the anchor point tool for adjusting the curve of an anchor point, but I can't move the anchor points themselves. I expected to find it under the pen tool menu.

17m agoHN ↗

I am not getting the sub menus to expand, e.g. create > pattern >