Twist for Windows

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• I'd recommend this for artists wannabies and webmesters

  GezaGabrielJuly 3, 2006

  Pros

  Nice - it seems a bit alphablended - buttons and good features from a java-based program. With the built-in possibilites you may also want to try to create logos, personal name cards, ads and the thins mentioned by the author as well. Twist will offery you shadows to almost everything, this might be another possibility to create duplicated objects. It could also give you the feeling that you are working in a 3D environment. I like that this program won't notify you about layers but you can actually work with your objects as with different layers at other programs. <p>By simply drawing two lines - connected with each others - and clicking the Fill checkbox you can create a triage within 1-2 seconds, awesome. <p>The export includes BMP, GIF, JPG, PICT, PNG, SVG and TIF formats: there's a Transparency checkbox at GIF and PNG. <p>There's a little arrow near the Cancel button which can help you to measure download time differences with more connections types. <p>I'd give a start for the help, it contains normal details.

  Cons

  The text shadow is the same as the objects have, nor space doesn't matter. <p>While i've tried to rotate a text (with small opacity) an unknown error occured. It's sad that you can't modify shadow's opacity with another scollbar. <p>While there are several colors at the color pane, that's less than the other tools can provide. Also, while i've tried GIF export i discovered it can use 256 colors only... I didn't tired to count the others but this is a "Hello there, it's 2006!". By choosing the TIF format you can specify special printer parameters - that's good! - but the maximum resolution is no more than 600dpi (so this isn't designed to create big advertisments), which is usually a very good resolution for a home user but i think they want to sell this product for artists as well. <p>TWI is the program's own extension but it's not added to the drop-down list (NOR the others at export) of the export window and the extension isn't shown. <p>There's no report on successful export, i miss it very much (even a text at statusbar, etc. would be good) and the TIF export is very slow. I'd also suggest to add some BMP compression algoritm to the program: and i wonder if those specified dpi values are real or not. I also wonder how GIF transparency works. <p>Right now, this program is between 3 and 4 stars, i hope they'll improve it so i can give them more stars.

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