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Freak_NL

Tip: you are blocking text selection for the terms of use and in a number of other spots. People often use text selection to copy and paste words for a variety of reasons. Some people select blocks of text to help mark what they are reading, and some people use it to paste the words in a dictionary or translation service of their choice. (Or when making a bug report to copy the version number from the about screen.) Don't block text selection for prose, only for UI elements.

robertclaus

FYI the initial modal sounds extremely AI generated.

shinze

Really fast ! Do you plan to make this a local only app ?

dylan604

No render clouds?

bsonmez19

Gave it a quick try. The fact that it’s fully local and installable as a PWA is appealing. Performance felt solid in a short test.

matteason

This looks really promising. Very snappy. I might be missing it but there doesn't seem to be the equivalent of Illustrator's direct selection tool, for moving individual anchor points? There's the anchor point tool for adjusting the curve of an anchor point, but I can't move the anchor points themselves. I expected to find it under the pen tool menu.

fallinditch

I am not getting the sub menus to expand, e.g. create > pattern >

imskanand

This is so fast in the browser, really impressive. Congrats G!

yolandac

this blazing fast and smooth, never disappointed by rust

yoz

Amazing work, well done! I found a weird bug when using the glyph tool on Hebrew text. Where can I file an issue? Also, are you planning to open the source?

pooloo

How can I access this forever without fears of it going away? I hate changing things like workflows or interfaces really. How can I keep a copy locally to run it such that it no longer requires access to the web or freeze the current working version?

sia_xi

Hey People, In case you find some gaps or find out a bug, I really do appriciate if you report it here: - https://github.com/samalstudios/scissor-community/issues/new...

daredoes

Reminds me of https://photopea.com/

lmmjvs

Excellent work, love the micro-UI decisions here. Tired of paying for subscriptions to Adobe I built a similar tool called Pixel for myself and shared it with the community for free among other design apps: https://croma.io

Kuyawa

Spectacular! Just checking help/about Scissors shows how detail oriented you are. As the saying goes, you paint the wall at the back of the dishwasher so the plumber knows you have good taste

paroaria

Nice! Love it!

paroaria

I noticed there is no file open but I still can add layers/remove layers. Is that intentional?

vivzkestrel

- i have some big questions if you dont mind answering - first of all top tier work there, lets say i want to build something like this from scratch, what does the first few steps and requirements look like - mind ya, i have no plans of making anything competing. i dont even use photoshop. what I am curious about is how to make a large software project like this - what do your requirements on day 0 look like? do you try to open every feature in photoshop and note it down on paper?