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Freeform drawing at its best

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Freeform drawing at its best

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- From the dawn of personal computing, humankind has been looking for a tool that you can just draw with. You know, like when you take a 20 cent pencil and sketch something on a one cent piece of paper, except you want to do that within an obscenely complicated zillion dollar computer application instead. This dream escaped us for oh, 27 years, which is not a joke because, for one thing, it's not funny. That just happens to be the exact length of time. But these days here in the wondrous 21st century, it's a reality, and it's called the Pencil tool. No really, if you're used to the old days when the Pencil tool was horrible, rest assured now it's great. So okay, watch this. This is what it looks like when you draw with the Pencil tool. It's a crooked little trainwreck, right? Oh wow, I really messed up there. But then, when I release the mouse button, no, really, I'm drawing with the mouse here, it turns into this.…

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