Unique and useful, but not very polished

I have mixed feelings about this app, but I have to accept that theres just no alternative to it.

Cons: Seems to be heavily biased towards minizing the learning curve at the expense of the speed of professional usage. The editing workflow is cumbersome and slow, nothing at all like Adobe apps; forget those hundreds of keyboard shortcuts and decades of polish that Photoshop and Illustrator provide (not to mention actions, history and pro stuff like that). All the powerful features of this tool seem to be done in the most painful way possible.

Pros: Knows how to implement inner shadows, transparency layers, blending modes and all the other CoreGraphics stuff much better than I do. Additionally, its a neat tool to quickly get the coordinates of beziers that look right or match specific points on an image. Basically it delivers the value, even if the experience isnt nearly as pleasant as Id like it to be.

Ive been resisting buying this tool again for a long time (“again” because I owned a v1 license which I never used, and their upgrade policy is “nope”), but I promised myself to purchase it the first time I use the generated code to draw an actual control. Lo and behold, that time has come.

andreyvit about PaintCode 2, v2.3.2