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Psykopaint - Create and paint amazing art from photos

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35 pointsUncle_Sam14 comments

Very cool and artistic design. From a user perspective, it does not matter the language it what made.

I am sorry but the GUI is confusing, I am doing something and suddenly a too fast animation overlaps it. Plus, the tutorial window cannot be closed by [x] in Chrome. The idea is good but the application is too busy, at least for me.

hi there! i am the creator of this software. Can you tell me which version of Chrome are you running so i can look into that. If you have any suggestions regarding the UI in order to improve it, please do so! So i can make sure one day you'll dig this software ;-)

9.0.597.67 beta. I can't pinpoint exactly, but the animations were just too quick, and sometimes just something moved on the screen, but it was not immediately obvious what has happened.

I found it really great ! Captures the whacky, artistic vibe that I think they wanted to create really well. (I had no problems in Chrome 8)

The UI gimmicks are a bit much… It was just barely tolerable until I saw the woman's hand holding the card below every photo I hover over. Especially since if your screen is large enough you can see the arm cut off.

Just my opinion: people who want to create art don't want to notice their tools. You don't want to be aware of your UI. If it's a novelty, people will say it's awesome but they will only use it once.

That's rather odd you say this because i totally agree with you that users don't want to be aware of the UI and that is exactly why there is no tools everywhere one the screen like other softwares, so you can focus entirely on your artwork.

We made the choice of innovating in almost every aspect of this software (tools, UI, Design) and took some bold decisions that indeed the most conservative users might be not understand. We are not named Psykopaint to do things the old-fashion way.

It's not the UI layout that is distracting to me... it was the visual gimmicks. For example, the UI draws so much attention to the pointer which is the representation UI representation of me. It was like the UI is telling the painter to look at the tip of his paintbrush or his arm instead of the canvas.

We made the choice of innovating in almost every aspect of this software (tools, UI, Design) and took some bold decisions that indeed the most conservative users might be not understand.

I understand you see it as innovation but not all existing conventions are bad and some of your bold choices may turn out to be not the best. I'm just offering you my critique. Take it or leave it; I won't be offended if you decide to leave it.

i see. Thanks for this feedback then.

Really really cool. It's a bit like a hyper interactive Photoshop filter. It reminds me of an old tablet paint program that allowed you to load a photo up, then paint over it by hand, the result was something not entirely different from using a palette knife filter. This has an entirely different feel to it that's insanely cool.

Great work!

WJW. I don't think we can do that without Flash yet.

Warning, sound (music) on the intro video when getting started, it would be nice if I could turn that off.

(I control the radio at work...)

Thanks for the feedback MindTwister. I take note of it and will add a mute button dedicated to you. With your name on it. ;-)

It seems like most of the comments are hypercritical. I thought it looked nice and performed well. It may be a little gimmicky, but so what?

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