dreamscapesoftware.com wrote:
I've used Axialis Icon Workshop, and it is a wonderful program. It just kinda drives me crazy that, since Revolution is a development application, that an Icon editor would not have been already created.
As a development tool, it need not necessarily also be an asset creation tool. Some might even argue that the scope of each is beyond the scope of the other. Apple's Interface Builder and XCode, for example, do not provide image editing environments.
I've considered making an icon editor in Rev, but in spite of the cool factor I had to step back and look at my own work, recognizing that I use (and love using) Fireworks to create most images, and many others use Photoshop, and no matter which image editor you're using you're probably also relying on a few Photoshop-compatible plugins for things like bevels, highlights, glow, etc.
Rev is a great development tool, but without support for the dozens of Photoshop plugins we all rely on it'll always be somewhat limited as an image editing environment.
And even if support for Photoshop-compatible plugins were added (listening, Chipp and Chris? <g>), it would be a tremendous amount of work to create something that offered all of the conveniences already built into Fireworks and Photoshop (layers, multiple undo, vector cropping of bitmaps, mask control, etc.).
With a few externals one might well create another Fireworks in Rev, and quite possibly with greater productivity/ROI than Macromedia did. There are hooks for image bitmap addresses, so it's fully possible.
But even with Rev's advantages in crafting GUIs, an application of that scope not a trivial task. Creating something on par with the most popular image editing packages would likely cost at least 20% of what those publishers spent in development -- a notable advantage for Rev, but still requiring substantial resources.
So while I think your efforts in delivering an icon editing environment in native Transcript are inspiring, I must admit that I probably wouldn't use it myself since Fireworks does such a wonderfully rich job for me already, and I suspect many others who make a lot of icons are similarly married to a dedicated tool.
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