Amadine - Vector Design & Art for PC and Mac

Software Reviews and Criticism

• By BriVester

  Fresh off the Front Page

  As a huge Affinity Designer nerd for its simplicity and easy editing, this program seems to follow a lot of the similar routes. They both got something right that Adobe Illustrator did not. "An Easy Learning Curve and no monthly subscription." Everything is so straight forward, interface is easy to navigate, the tools are great, and this makes drawing fun. The only two things I dislike about this program is that it is not yet up to par with speed and compatability. Various effects and complex bitmap pattern fills really slow the program down. And I cannot transfer files I made from other vector programs in this one (efficently). SVG results to loss of formatting, and the other file formats do not work as well But for a beginning vector program, it's amazing how much has already been implimented. Usually, it takes years for many features to come with the package. This needs more awareness, a support forum, and etc. This takes a great first step.

  
  
• By St Paul

  AMADINE GREAT FOR CONCEPTUAL GRAPHS & ILLUSTRATIONS

  I just purchased a copy of the Amadine vector drawing tool last night. It is simple to use. Numerous excellent tutorials make it easy to learn with minor effort. I am writing a series of lessons about statistical analysis & need a tool that will draw & label statistical graphs (PDFs, CDFs and the like). The tool has plenty of power to achieve good results. The Snap to Grid option enables creation of figures where lines neatly meet curves & axes. The rotation tool handles labeling of both vertical & horozontal axes. A wide range of text fonts are available. “Symbols” are included which enable use of Greek Alphabet labels on graphs. This is a very easy to use, bug free tool at an attractive price. I have used “Belight” products before & they were good. Amadine is also excellent.

  
  
• By riqiv

  REALLY cool app!

  I've been using Swift Pub and Art Text for years to create my music book covers. As soon as I saw it was from Belight (which has awesome customer service) I decided to purchase it. This app is SO easy and cool to use if you want to do serious work or just fool around and learn. I've used other "Windows" apps to replace work done in Illustrator and they just seemed clumsy and/or lacking. I've only gone through just a couple of tutorials and here are my notes: Option drag shape from MIDDLE keeps the middle of the shape at the start of the cursor. Shift drag keeps shape uniform. Cmmd toggles between Move Tool (V) and Selection tool (A). Use Selection Tool to see "widgets" for corner curves on a Rounded Rectangle, Polygon and Star Shapes. Pressing "Expand" in Tool Bar above or Modify > Expand makes a shape editable. Eyeball (upper-right of Tool Bar) > Smart Guides turns "snapping" on/off. HARD to accomplish things are now easy and fun to work on...buy it!!!

  
  
• By daisy391

  Amadine is cool!

  I’m an old fan of BeLight apps, I’ve been using them for many years. Amadine is what I needed to be 100% happy! Now I have a tool for making vector drawings that is intuitive and so easy to use. I’m an amateur designer just beginning to learn the craft and for me, it’s hard to draw beautiful stuff by hand. Here’s my trick: I added pictures to Amadine and outlined them. It’s so easy! :) My children are shocked as their mother can draw beautiful things now! But this is my small secret :)

  
  
• By Rustface

  Finally a way to draw that fits like a glove

  Old guy here, I learned vector drawing on Illustrator 88. I’ve been looking for an alternative to Illustrator (too many features, it has become a major ‘lifestyle committment’). I just need to draw a few things and quickly create new versions in various sizes for a variety of media. Google Draw isn’t the appropriate tool. I also tried iVinci and Canva but they’re not quite right. I need a classic and capable pen tool, EPS & PDF export, page sizes based on the real world. That’s about it. Amadine does that and adds many other proven functions. I’m using Amadine for drawing logos, creating posts, laying out signage, stickers, patches, and graphics for websites. It feels like the original Illustrator but re-vamped for the modern world. Pristine, elegant, no stupidity. If you want to draw things and be efficient, and you already understand the value of the pen tool, and you don’t need 500 cheesy Instagram templates, and you don’t want yet another handcuff-in-the-cloud, then this program is the best answer I’ve seen. Thank you Belight. Very pleased so far.

  
  

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