![]() ![]() The basic design tools of the application have always been easily accessible via the “Toolbox” transport bar, and if I wanted to simply draw something, I could do so easily. GraphicConverter, on the other hand, is intuitive as soon as you open the app, and has always been super easy to use. You literally need to take a course on Photoshop these days to know how to use it, which is fine, I guess. Speaking of Photoshop, I tried using Photoshop sometime in the 1990’s, and it was fine, but quickly became a fairly unlikeable UI, to the point where today, I still haven’t learned the in’s and out’s of it, and so I tend to avoid it, despite it being very popular and powerful. I do have some memory of Adobe Photoshop back in the 1990’s being a relatively small, free-to-use app as well, but that soon changed. One cool thing about GraphicConverter as a piece of software is that it has always basically been free (though you can register the software if you wish), easy to use, and had lots of features to play with, even in the beginning. So, although I was using it mainly as a creative tool for doing digital draws, paintings, adding filters, and other edits, part of the appeal of GraphicConverter was that it had the ability to interpret all kinds of graphic files. Part of the reason I initially got a hold of GraphicConverter back in the 1990’s was, as the name suggests, it has the ability to convert graphic files, from one to another, or simply open files that other programs may not recognize. I am now 43, and, as I said, I think I started using it when I was 15 or so – a Mac Color Classic I think it was. Prior to using GraphicConverter as an art tool, I was using MacPaint, which was another great piece of Mac-native software from back in the day.Īnyway, I’d like to say that GraphicConverter has always been there for my digital artistic needs, which have been many, over the years. ![]() ![]() I’ve been using Mac computers since my dad brought one home in about 1990, since they were beginning to be used here in schools in Canada as a learning tool. I have been using GraphicConverter, a piece of software made by Thorsten Lemke of Lemkesoft, as my go-to graphic software since the mid-1990’s, for whatever incarnation of Mac computer I’ve used. ![]()
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