Before figuring this process out, I had installed both Inkscape and Gimp. Unfortunately under Windows 8, you still have to go through a little trouble to enable Save to XCF. And if you want, you can use GIMP to convert your XCF files into a PSDs, with all of your layers intact. Thankfully Inkscape is capable of accessing GIMP’s libraries and use them to translate vector images into XCF files. (PhotoShop is my choice for editing pixels.) This format allows for layers and makes it easier to jump from Inkscape to PhotoShop. My other problem is that Inkscape is also incapable of saving to Adobe PhotoShop’s native file format, PSD. Yeah, you can export to PNG and keep your transparency, but the situation still sucks. On its own, Inkscape is incapable of saving to any bitmap format with layers intact. Inkscape does allow users to use layers, which happen to be extremely handy. Now for those of you wondering why would you want to enable this feature? Well, for us advanced graphic artists, we like to mix things up between our vector and pixel graphics. In fact, it is so easy that this tutorial will be even shorter than my previous article on how to enable Save to XCF in Inkscape. Also enabling save to XCF in Inkscape is incredibly much easier than in Windows 7. The good news is that both GIMP and Inkscape can be installed and usable under Windows 8.1. But on a computer that lacks any touch-capabilities, the interface feels like more of a hinderance. And in all honesty, it was a stroke of genius. (phones, Slate tablets, and PCs) I get why Microsoft chose to have a touch-screen based interface across all devices.

was rewritten to serve as a unifying operating system for all Microsoft-related devices. The new interface of Microsoft Windows 8.1. When Parallels offered Windows 8.1 Preview for download, I had just found my new toy. Two, to serve as my experimental play-thing. It really only serves two purposes: One, to run programs that doesn’t have an equivalent on the Mac OS. Windows 7 does everything that I could ask for. When Microsoft first released Windows 8, my reaction was more of a, “meh!” I’m a Mac guy, but I was perfectly copacetic using Windows 7 under .

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