And totally understand why. Photoshop is a mammoth and wouldn't change
it for the world, but a few helper classes for RB would be great to
handle in-app minimal editing.
Giovanni
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Joe Strout wrote:
> On May 30, 2008, at 11:37 AM, Giovanni wrote:
>
>
>> How hard is it to do a paint program a la Photoshop in RB. I mean but
>> with responsiveness and quality of drawing?
>>
>
> About as hard as it is to do it in C. (Adobe has spent many years
> optimizing Photoshop.)
>
>
>> Has anyone come close to doing it right?
>>
>
> I don't know that anyone has put much effort into it -- Photoshop
> already has the Photoshop market pretty well tied up.
>
> I did do a layer-based paint program once, and was getting decent
> performance (for a single-process app). But I never had sufficient
> incentive to really finish it -- it's a LOT of work.
>
> Best,
> - Joe
>
> --
> Joe Strout
> Inspiring Applications, Inc.
> http://www.InspiringApps.com
>
>
>
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