You're no fun any more...we need a tool to distress our artwork.

[iamtheblues]

As a long-time user and a formerly frequent contributor to TG, I notice that a lot of the joy has been sucked out of TG and that is reflected in how I now use Xara Designer. I haven't updated for nearly a decade now, because there is absolutely nothing that catches my eye. No new vector tools in that time, just some bells and whistles. There seems no impetus to move the program forward with new vector drawing tools. I am tired of the pop-up messages urging me to spend money on gew-gaws that are of no interest.

I am too old to learn many more new tricks, but there is little chance of new tricks being added to Xara anyhow, so perhaps Xara and I are a perfect match after all.

New vector tools are urgently needed if Xara is to be considered as my (and your) go-to vector graphics program in the future...perhaps something like a vector distressing tool might do the trick. Vector is great, but sometimes it is just too clean or perfect and needs some tools to rough it up a bit. It would be nice to be able to apply distress (vectorly) to our work without having to draw it and then import it from Illustrator or CorelDraw.