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by greenspot 3716 days ago
Ok, after a really long download and another sign-in into Adobe Cloud a very light app opens with perhaps a fraction of Sketch's features. But maybe I am just used to sketch.

Don't think they have any chance against Sketch on OSX, maybe on Windows.
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Arcanum-XIII 3716 days ago
It's a first beta (in the original sense, not the Google one), and it shows. It seen to be a "simple" layout app too, not a total package like Sketch can be. I think we will see a thorough integration with the other app of the Creative Cloud.
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nkrisc 3716 days ago
From what I understand Adobe XD is meant to work in tandem with Photoshop and Illustrator. If you don't use those two program, XD on its own is almost entirely useless (as it stand). I believe they're working to add more features directly into XD. But when I went to check it out a few weeks ago you couldn't even choose a color by hex value. Then I closed it and never opened it again since.
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elainecc 3716 days ago
Actually, you can choose a color by hex value... it's just hidden because it's the Mac native color picker. (We're in the process of writing our own now, so it won't be this obnoxious in the future.) Second tab, select RGB in the drop-down.

Definitely give XD a whirl in the upcoming months, though, and please please do log what you need in adobexd.uservoice.com. We can't read minds, and we really do want to listen to what the you all need and provide an app that will meet them.

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nkrisc 3712 days ago
I will definitely do so and will check it out in the near future. However at the time I couldn't experiment with it in my normal workflow as I don't use Illustrator or Photoshop, so the then-missing features were a non-starter for me.
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demianborba 3716 days ago
Sorry to hear that is your impression @nkrisc. You probably tested our Beta 1 (Public Preview) released in March, that is our first beta, so there is a lot to be done. We have a new preview (Public Preview 2) going out in April with a lot more features. And yes, you can expect a tight integration with Photoshop or Illustrator, it's just a matter of copying and pasting items from them to XD. You can even bring content from Sketch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyoFGyENt3g Looking forward to hearing your thoughts, and please expect a lot more features landing in our monthly releases. This is just the beginning :)
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