Flame On

By: Reach for the Sky

We've struck it rich friend. Finally, the secret to creating Macintosh backgrounds, revealed!

Jokes aside, Flame is a java app created by Peter Blaskovic as part of his "I Am Artist" project. I've never seen anything like it before, and for that I feel as though the world is empty. Er, sorry about that, these pictures are making me go all existential.  Seriously, I've never seen such a massive gallery of absolutely incredible pictures. That's the main problem with Flame, it's impossible not to make something that looks impressive, but to deliberately make something is an entirely different story. Sure you can make pretty swirly drawings all day long, but creating a simple stick figure? forget about it. I feel like this could be an incredible tool in a paint program, but it's difficult to actually translate something in your head onto the screen with it. It's a ton of fun to play around in and it's easy to use, but actually trying to create a specific effect with the sliders is a nightmare. Have fun with it, you can actually do some pretty slick stuff with it once you get the hang of it.