BETA: Microsoft Professional Graphics software codename: "Acrylic"
"Acrylic" is the codename for an innovative illustration, painting and graphics tool that provides exciting creative capabilities for designers working in print, web, video, and interactive media.
The beta is a 77MB download and is based on our acquisition of a company called Expression, an acquisition we made a couple years ago. Basically, the thing is a Adobe Systems Photoshop competitor, and it’s looks like it could be a darned good one too especially if we start to spam this thing out to the public like we are now. It’s very user friendly, unlike Photoshop which is a bit daunting to the newbie. It combines pixel painting with vector drawing and it natively opens Photoshop files and projects and it can export to PDF format for fidelity.
It requires a P4 machine running Windows XP SP2 with 500MB of storage and 512MB RAM.
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