Graphic Designer beta 0.8i: a fresh take on Amiga creativity

Imagine firing up your trusty Amiga and diving into a world where you can stack images, text, and graphics like building blocks, moving them around freely until your vision clicks. That’s the magic of Graphic Designer, a new tool from developer lifeschool. The latest beta 3, version 0.8i, dropped on December 21, 2025, and it’s making image creation fun and flexible again. No more rigid paint programs—this lets you layer up to 12 elements and export a polished picture when ready. Picture this: grab a photo, slap on some colorful text with shadows, add brush stamps or shapes, and tweak everything on the fly. Beta 0.8i adds cool extras like buttons and note layers for reminders, plus each layer can have its own colors—no more forcing everything into one palette. It works on classic Amiga screens, from cozy Workbench setups to bigger views up to 1280×512 pixels, bringing your demos or posters to life with smooth fades, color shifts, and even typing animations. Run a preview to watch layers reveal themselves like a slideshow, perfect for sharing ideas without fancy modern software. It’s all about that nostalgic Amiga feel, but smarter. What started as a summer 2025 experiment with basic resizing and stacking grew into this gem through dozens of quick updates. By fall, text tricks, drawing tools, and screen tweaks made it shine. Now, it’s got magnifiers for details, freer drawing, and better support for different Amiga flavors like PAL or NTSC. Sure, it’s still beta—small limits on layers and a few quirks like leftover files—but that’s part of the charm. Future updates promise even more polish. In a world of bloated apps, Graphic Designer keeps it pure Amiga: lightweight, inventive, and free to try via the itch.io demo. Whether you’re a longtime fan or new to retro, it’s a joyful nudge to create. Download, layer up, and rediscover why the Amiga still sparks joy.

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