Acrylic not an Adobe competitor, Microsoft says
Source: ZDNet Australia
Written By Renai LeMay
Microsoft has denied its new professional graphics tool Acrylic will compete with similar products like Adobe Photoshop.
The company’s group product manager for its developer division, Forest Key, told ZDNet Australia Acrylic was “clearly a complementary tool to other products currently in use”. A beta of Acrylic — based on the Expression tool Microsoft acquired with its 2003 purchase of Hong Kong-based Creature House — was released for testing early in June.
“Acrylic is a highly specialised design tool focused on one aspect of professional designers’ workflow; it is common for designers to use multiple tools on projects,” Key said.
The executive said Acrylic’s advantages over existing suites were in the areas of artistic illustration and painting and in its ability to combine both vector and pixel content together in a hybrid workspace.