Hexels is a program designed for Mac users who wish to create stunning artwork by using geometrical shapes. The application provides you with a straightforward interface, gives you access to easy-to-use editing tools, and offers you high-quality results.
You can work with this graphic design utility to create amazing works of art and use them as desktop wallpapers or poster backgrounds. The app lets you choose the preferable canvas size, geometrical shape, grid width, textures, etc.
Hexels also allows you to use various samples which may be the inspiration for your next artwork projects. In addition, if you acquire the Pro version of this app, you unlock additional features, such as the ability to import photos from your local drives and turn them into artwork, export the results to a wide variety of formats, and much more.
Another good thing about this Mac utility is that it offers you plenty of useful hints. Hexels tips can be accessed from the main menu of the app, they provide you with numerous techniques to create a beautiful art piece.
To sum it all up, Hexels is simple, yet very capable. This drawing tool that can be used even by users with little computer experience. Hence, I'd say it's definitely worth installing on Mac, if you wish to create artwork on your computer.
v1.2 [Dec 11, 2013]
- Texturing: Apply textures to your art in a variety of ways for subtle and not-so-subtle effects (free version is limited to 3 textures, but you can use any 3 you want)
- Voronoi shape mode: Morph between Hexels, Trixels, pixels, and diamonds, and add jitter for randomness. (free mode is limited to a smallish canvas, but you can still do a lot of neat stuff with it)
- Halftone mode: Shrink shapes via their opacity for awesome effects.
- Examples gallery: A showcase of Hexels files demonstrating many different techniques it can do.
- Wrapping: All shape modes can now create tileable images for use as textures and patterns.
- Image import: Import images in a variety of ways to turn them into Hexels. (pro only)
- Color adjustments: brightness, contrast, hue, the usual stuff. Pro only.
- Custom shape mode lets you tile your shapes in new ways: flip them or rotate them per column or per row.
- Lots of bug fixes, stability improvements, performance embetterments.
- Better scrollbars.
