deviantART Muro

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Scriptin

THAT is serious! Almost PS in the browser.

Posted on August 12, 2010

george

Great APPLICATION, this is much more than just a demo. Powerful stuff…

Posted on August 12, 2010

Samuel

Wow, quite the marketing hype.
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/deviantart-announces-groundbreaking-html5-drawing-tool—-deviantart-muro-100298909.html

Full-blown layer system? Does it enable you to drag/nudge layers? NO. Can you rotate a layer? NO.

Apparently, the UI was designed to be “pretty” (and to reserve space for banner ads) rather than with proper attention to usability. Pity the widescreen user attempting to use muro — none of its UI panels are draggable, nor hideable. Even in “fullscreen” browser mode, the css dictates 224px worth of non-painting “gingerbread” (chrome). Given a 760px vertical laptop/netbook screen resolution, user is left with around 500px tall painting area. No joy.

Attempted using muro via MSIE 8 — the muro interface displays, but I’m unable to draw

via SE Iron v5.0.381 — the app is noticeably, annoyingly slow, and suffers a strange blocky artifact (8mm black square) at the mouse cursor position (0,0 of the black square touches the center of the round paintbrush cursor).

When resizing the browser window, you’ll need to refresh to cause the canvas to expand. Conversely, if you resize smaller, you’ll wind up with some of the canvas lost, offscreen.

During my brief trial, I discovered quite a few inconsistencies across broswers. For instance the muro default webby brush paints MUCH differently in SE Iron (smaller, almost looks like ‘fur’ brush) than in Firefox. Bottom line: muro didn’t work 100% correctly in any of the several browsers I tried.

glitches encountered while using muro via Opera:

flood fill “misses” and fills incorrect area

bizarre flicker/flash on mousedown using the eraser tool

IF DEVIANTART WERE PRESENTING THIS APP AS A BETA, MY REACTION WOULD BE MORE FAVORABLE. THEY ARE NOT. THEY ARE TOUTING THIS AS, WELL, GO READ THE PRESS RELEASE HYPE. NO, IT AIN’T “ALL THAT”.

Good points:

– flood fill works acceptably fast

– a couple of the brushes (including one which paints identically to to the “Ribbon” brush in the MrDoob Harmony app) enable you paint in DUAL colors

– “basic” brush: softness setting… corrects jitter (smooths path) but causes line widening/blurring. Oops, not a “good point”

– several of the fx filters, e.g. the “dark sharpen” filter, are really distinctive.

Posted on August 13, 2010

mizar

very impressive. I think the future web design will pass through this application, something like a milestone. I saw other works like this, but this has been developed with good appeal and style.

Posted on August 17, 2010

Pavlicko

Ok, I was pretty darn impressed by this – admittedly, it’s not ‘perfect’ – but it’s definitely off to a fantastic start.

I’m running a mid-speed computer (1.6ghz windows with 2gigs ram on vista) -and the fluidity of the app on firefox is excellent. Of course, I’m also running a developer profile on FF, with zero add-ons – so that may help as well.

My favorite thing about it: ctrl +Z action. That alone places it one notch above http://mrdoob.com/projects/harmony/ – which still kicks complete @ss.

Posted on September 2, 2010