Filed under: Macintosh, Productivity, Adobe, Apple, Shareware
Opacity lets you create great screen graphics
by Nik Fletcher Sep 25th 2009
Sure, there's the brawn of Illustrator if you want to spend big - or already own Creative Suite - and there's free & open-source Inkscape if you're looking for something that's also cross-platform. But if you're on a Mac, there's also another choice: Opacity. Unlike most vector drawing apps, Opacity is specifically designed to help you create resolution-independent icons and glyphs.
There's a tonne of presets available - from iPhone icons to desktop app icons - and perhaps most impressively, there's an option to export the vector drawing as - get this - Objective-C code that you bring straight over to Xcode and build for the iPhone and OS X platforms.
Sure, it's pretty specialised - but if you're creating icons and the like then you simply have to give Opacity a go. A licence costs US$89.99, with a free demo available - as well as a slimmer Opacity Express for US$39.99.
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