Pixa – the drawing tool

I’m happy to introduce you to Pixa!

Pixa is a drawing program that takes full advantage of WPF. While it looks like a typical raster editor it is actually a vector editor, every stroke you paint on Pixa is actually a Geometry object, this allows you to zoom and resize without affecting the drawing quality.

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I have launched a CodePlex project for Pixa, so you can download and play with it or contribute if you wish.

Please take into consideration that Pixa is a “PRE-ALPHA” version and is a long way from stable, I’m releasing it now so I can get feedback and share it with you (if you are interested in the code or your have an artistic soul 😉 ).

I will talk in following posts about Pixa’s roadmap, features and explain how I implemented some of the main features.

I will be happy to know what you think.

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15 Responses to Pixa – the drawing tool

  1. Pixa/XamlFig: drawing programs targetting WPF2D - Rob Relyea - Xamlified says:
    April 7, 2008 at 6:48 pm

    […] Pixa – the drawing tool […]

  2. Ruurd Boeke says:
    April 8, 2008 at 12:28 am

    looks great! keep up the good work!

  3. Yogev says:
    April 8, 2008 at 8:50 am

    Fantasic work! very impressive design, I am looking forward for the final relese.
    Keep up the good work!

  4. Tamir says:
    April 10, 2008 at 9:58 am

    amazing!!!, look so professional. i will work with that.
    Smart code.

    Waiting for the realse.

  5. Bryan says:
    April 21, 2008 at 6:30 pm

    I’ve been working on a similar project at http://vectorstudio.com

    Vector studio is more of a traditional vector drawing program where Pixa appears to be doing more of a vector-based paint style application.

  6. Noémie says:
    April 24, 2008 at 10:59 pm

    Voila

  7. Noémie says:
    April 24, 2008 at 11:00 pm

    Ptin sa aler trop biien comment on fé pour désiner ?

  8. Pete says:
    March 14, 2009 at 11:49 am

    Looks like a great project. Keep up the good work

  9. Sean says:
    May 15, 2009 at 11:47 pm

    I can’t find Pixa on CodePlex? Can you email me the url?

    • andresd says:
      May 17, 2009 at 3:19 pm

      Sean,
      I’m sorry but Pixa is no longer available for download

      • Steve says:
        May 28, 2009 at 12:21 pm

        Why has it been removed? Has microsoft swallowed it ?

      • andresd says:
        May 30, 2009 at 9:56 pm

        No, Microsoft didn’t swallowed it, I remove it in favor of Professional tool I stated to work on…
        I will release more info in the future.

  10. sam says:
    January 19, 2010 at 7:06 pm

    Hi…

    We are really interested in this. Do you mind to share the code for your old version of CodePlex? Thanks…

    • andresd says:
      January 19, 2010 at 9:37 pm

      Sam, can you send me a mail and tell me more about your interest on the code.
      Thanks.
      [wpfnetotherstuff at gmail.com]

  11. Ricardo Machado says:
    March 23, 2010 at 2:39 pm

    Hi,

    I also would like to take a look to the code.
    I’m developing a very specific application that uses some of the concepts I guess you have in Pixa.

    Tell me please two things:
    – Are you using InkCanvas of WPF?
    – Did you implemented the fill of closed strokes?

    Thanks!