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$8.** Please note, this post may include affiliate links.But for me, I'm willing to work around the shortcomings because it makes drawing fun again. The iPad Pro is capable of running professional creative tools, but it's up to Apple to make delivering them profitable.įor the moment, Graphic isn't a total replacement for Illustrator. If Autodesk were to invest heavily and deliver features like gradient meshes and SVG export, there's currently no way for them to get paid for that work. The real question is whether Apple is willing to listen to developer feedback and change App Store policies to make pro apps like Graphic profitable. A bright vector futureįor the price of $9, there's little to complain about. Amazingly, shortcut keys also do not exist for Graphic, a curious omission that really slows down input, requiring manual selection of each tool. As of version 3.1, strange artifact glitches appear when you resize and pan around the iPad. Outside of major tools, there are quite a few bugs and strange omissions in Graphic. Illustrator's gradient mesh tools are so sophisticated they can make photorealistic vector art Graphic can't even bend a gradient along a line (though it can thankfully fade into an alpha channel). You can technically build gradients, but only in one direction, and with terrible aliasing around it. And as of this writing, Graphic's gradient tools get an D. The ability to use a gradient as a color is fundamental in illustration. Graphic is sadly missing SVG and AI export, so your vector work can't be transferred to a desktop application. Fortunately, the export tools are solid-as long as you are going to a pixel format. This is, by far, the thing that keeps Graphic from being a true competitor to Illustrator, and makes coloring and shading nigh-impossible. Path-joining tools are all but nonexistent in Graphic.

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