Thank you developer AbstractCurves for a fun and wonderful software.
I had a blast creating very cool designs by sheer accident while learning how.
Again, thank you.

IT's ANOTHER HOMERUN FOR THE GOTD staff!
After an extended slump of offering low-quality software, GOTD has delivered a string of first-rate software titles.
Go, GOTD, GO ... and thank you too.

EscapeMotions has a somewhat comparable software called FlamePainter ... for around $60.

Used the previous - like it a lot! Gonna be nice to have the new one!

I am an artist, and a book author. Thank you Giveaway of the day for another fun artist tool. I love to fool around with these.

Installed and runs fine, Windows 7/64. Looks like I did get the full version (stand-alone only). If you get the trial, try going back to the readme to see if there's something you missed.

I have no experience with this kind of program (though I do have experience with design and photography) and I produced a couple of striking designs in short order, say ~30 minutes, using the templates and playing with the various controls. There's also a *lot* to learn if you want to get into it but it should be easy enough to start for newbies if you have a little patience. Don't be intimidated by the complex, technical-looking controls - just play with them. The help file appears to be quite thorough. There are lots of templates (100 or more at a guess) and each one is almost infinitely variable.

I don't like the dark design (light grey text on dark grey background doesn't make sense to me) and can't find a way to change it. Very hard to read, but it's a little better in full screen mode.

Bottom line - it's a keeper for me. Thanks GOTD and Abstract Curves.

Before I went to bed this afternoon ... I re-installed this and installed the photoshop plugins as I had installed the freebie old CS2 build since I last installed this and had a further play.. I was able to define a complex custom gradient in PS CS2 and have that as the background layer, then add a layer to the image and use the AbstractCurves Filter to launch the program and create an abstract curve pattern and return to photoshop with that curve layer within PS CS2 and then add another layer and go create a different abstractcurve using different settings and colours and then go back to PS CS2 now with two different abstract curves as different layers that can be further customised by blend method etc and had some fun... Obviously I could add any other element I liked too and any number of additional abstractcurve layers... I guess that is the reason the developers figured why add extra functionality for backgrounds when this is really designed to be used as an addon to photshop plugin compatible graphics host programs. It will also register as a plugin in Irfanview but the end results will not be as good as using it with a full multi-layer capable program like PhotoShop or Corels version of Paint Shop Pro. No real complaints with this even with the lack of development... if it isn't broke and does what the makers wants why fiddle with it just to keep people that think programs need to be continually updated because they are still and always will be work in progress and always have bugs... it's not true a properly written and designed program will have design paramiters and once they are met unless you desire to force new sales by redesigning the GUI or adding some whiz bang new feature there is no reason to invest further dev work if it just works!

Hopefully some of the previous poor giveaway contributors that have been offereing time limited trial licenses rather than giveeaway rules limited but non-expiring commerical licenses are looking at their competing giveaways like this and seeing how it should be done... simple giveaway no deceptions just works and does what it does.

Is this only for windows or do you have a mac version?

You can spend many hours creating stunning abstract designs and although it was fun at the time I don't think it is something I use very often, but I'll keep it installed and play with it another time. Bit different from the usual software we normally get here.

where do I find it in Plug In as it's not shown in my Effect - Plug in list. I installed as plug in.

I must have missed the previous versions. No problem with the activation. This looks like it will be fun.

Didn't start messing around trying to learn graphic until the last year so didn't pick this up when offered before. Messed around with this and I really like it. Perfect for someone like me who really hasn't much artistic/drawing talent. Looks like I have a lot of learning to do as with the other progs I picked up here, but I love all these types of programs. Perhaps I won't have to rely so much on others to make my avatars for me in the future. Thank you very much!

Can't activate the program. Tried twice. Did turn off my Norton.

Now what?

Très bon logiciel dans le domaine de la photo, fonds d'écran.
MERCI.

This is a stunningly designed product that simplifies the extremely complex process of creating vector patterns, allowing the user to craft VERY professional output.

Is this really the exact same version that has apeard in the last two giveaways of this going back to Feb 2017? I was hoping for some more dev work like on adding complex gradient support for backgrounds within the program instead of having to generate a complex gradient externally and then setting it as a a background image in an external program and import the output of this with a transparent bacground as a layer on top of the gradient...

I did use it in the past to make a very large desktop to be shared accross a couple of FHD monitors and looked quite nice.

Note the previous giveaways of this versions license are still active and have never shown any problems since its been installed.

It requres significant playing with the settings to stumble upon good patterns. I do not view it as a graphics program or a program to design patterns but a tool to generate patterns and play around until you find something you like. Happy play time :)

I have this from the Giveaway a couple of years ago. It has the same version number. Any chance it's a teeny bit more recent?

It's quite fun although I haven't used it much on an ongoing basis. You can make some very nice backgrounds.

However it isn't high-DPI friendly and everything looks teeny on a 4k monitor (which I didn't have two years ago). The usual way I fix this didn't work beyond the initial screen asking if you want to start a new image, etc.

Hence I'd say if you don't have it then it's quite a bit of fun, but probably a pass if you have a lot of pixels on your screen... unless the authors have a tip?

P.S. Note, on Win 10 Pro x64 I did RMB->Properties->Compatibility->Change High DPI Settings->Tick "Override..." at bottom and select "System(Enhanced)"

Unfortunately the same version as given here three years ago.