![]() Here you can select it and use the tiny little T button to bring up the standard Mac Text Palette to set the font, size, shadows, etc. The text flies off onto the pasteboard to the side. Eventually I figured out you have to double click the just created box. I tried to figure out how to edit the text. Then I drew a text area just inside the blue box and got a helpful “Hello World†to show it is a text box. I chose a blue fill by dragging it from the Colour Picker to the Inspector Colour box and set a simple black outline from the Stroke Inspector. I chose Solid and double clicked the colour to bring up the standard Apple Colour Picker. Then you can choose Solid, Gradient or Image as a Fill (a bit more about Image in a minute). The Colour Swatches Palette appeared to have no effect at all whatever I tried, so I moved over to the Fill Inspector, and found nothing happens until you click the plus button. I started by drawing a rectangle and attempting to fill it with blue. This gives the ability to create and reorder Layers, alter the blending modes and opacity, and from the little cog icon the ability to add the standard range of Apple’s Core Image Filters.Īre we all comfortable? Then I shall begin. I then found another palette for Layers which is only available from the Toolbox. In order to help save space the individual sections or the entire palette can be collapsed and expanded with the little disclosure triangles. The Inspectors adopt a dark semi translucent theme (like Pixelmator) and look modern and smart. I moved on to the Shape Inspector which seems to contain the main substance of the program: Stroke, Fill, Arrows, Fill, Shadow, Text, and Geometry (which turns out to mean Rotation). I elected to tone down the grid to a paler shade of grey and turn off the snap to. The Page Inspector lets you turn the grid on/off, edit the grid spacing and colour, enable/disable snap to grid, change the background and pasteboard colours, and have rulers on or off. My Shape Library appeared to contain nothing useful, though the Help file shows it containing a selection of basic geometric shapes. I proceeded to open the various Inspector palettes which comprise of View, Shape, Colour Panel (the System provided Colour Picker), Colour Swatches, and a Shape Library. Nothing overly surprising in the Menus (no Zoom settings) but there is a Scales slider in the bottom left of the window that only offers rather coarse 25-50-100-200-400-800 percent settings, but again, I could live with it. I can live with that, so I expanded the window and took a look at the menus and available Inspectors. ![]() ![]() It doesn’t open to fill the whole screen nor does it make the page fit the window. ![]() Unfortunately the New document dialogue only seems to work in pixels, but it has some handy presets, so I chose A4 out of convenience and was presented with a new blank document. The first thing I am presented with is the Toolbox and the New document dialogue. I have decided to write this review in the form of a “walkthrough†of how I constructed this image. As the application is still available I am going to review it as I found it. (I am sure that doesn’t happen here on, but I have read far too many factually inaccurate reviews of programs I know and use professionally where it is obvious the “journalist†responsible just regurgitated a press release.)ĭrawBerry doesn’t seem to have been updated for some time, so any bugs I mention could have been introduced by Mavericks. In order to write this review I actually used this program to create this simple graphic so I could really test out the product and not just repeat what the developer’s website says. DrawBerry is a free/donationware vector drawing application for the Mac that can be downloaded from the developer or any number of reputable sites such as MacUpdate, CNET or Softpedia.
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