Canvas 6.0

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Summary: user unfriendly
Review: I am highly disappointed with CANVAS upgrades. I began using CANVAS since its 3.5.2 version and was happy to use it. Since then, the product has been upgraded several times increasing its difficulty of use with every upgrade! Amazingly, the files created by its own previous versions cannot be faithfully imported with newer versions! Importing and manipulating graphics and image files with CANVAS 6.0 is a difficult task. I kept on upgrading CANVAS (up to version 6.0) with the fond hope that Deneba will make CANVAS an easy and effective application. Immediately after I bought 6.0 version, Deneba came out with version 7.0! Apparently, every new version is released without sufficient in-house testing. CANVAS may be useful for a highly skilled and sophisticated graphics guru, but is certainly not for a person who would like to do simple image and graphics manipulation tasks. For me it has been a tremendous waste of time and money. Simple and cheaper applications like Graphics Converter and AppleWorks do an excellent job than Canvas.

Rating:
Summary: user unfriendly
Review: I am highly disappointed with CANVAS upgrades. I began using CANVAS since its 3.5.2 version and was happy to use it. Since then, the product has been upgraded several times increasing its difficulty of use with every upgrade! Amazingly, the files created by its own previous versions cannot be faithfully imported with newer versions! Importing and manipulating graphics and image files with CANVAS 6.0 is a difficult task. I kept on upgrading CANVAS (up to version 6.0) with the fond hope that Deneba will make CANVAS an easy and effective application. Immediately after I bought 6.0 version, Deneba came out with version 7.0! Apparently, every new version is released without sufficient in-house testing. CANVAS may be useful for a highly skilled and sophisticated graphics guru, but is certainly not for a person who would like to do simple image and graphics manipulation tasks. For me it has been a tremendous waste of time and money. Simple and cheaper applications like Graphics Converter and AppleWorks do an excellent job than Canvas.

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Summary: How could someone call this a user unfriendly program?
Review: Yes, Canvas IS a complex program, but that dosen't make it a bad program! It is complex for one good reason...It is the best drawing/graphics program made, and it HAS to be complex to perform the incredible affects it is able to do. Doing basic drawings and designing images is easy to do. It is only when you come into lighting affects and transparancy features that it becomes a little harder to use. (and then again, I STILL don't think it is hard to use! Just harder then normal drawing) After all, for every computer graphic I do, I use Canvas 6, and Photoshop to perform and render images. (Look, if you have Photoshop, this program is as easy to use as it.) Canvas is basically the same as Photoshop, only it is, as I said earlier, more for actually drawing the images. If you like Photoshop, then you will deffinately enjoy this program! By all means, anybody who is into graphics and web designing should have this program. It will make designing a whole lot easier and quicker. You won't regret getting this program! (I have yet to find a bug on the original Canvas 6, although I must say I haven't updated it with plug-ins. I have heard complaints that plug-ins will add some bugs to the program, and make it a little more confusing.) Even if Canvas 6 has been replaced by the new 7 version, it will always remain one of my favorite programs, and in years to come, will be looked at as a high-tech program. It's worth the price tag!