Slight thread drift, this is jogging my memory back about 12 to 14 years...

There was a rival product to Adobe photoshop and Jasc paintshop pro.

It was critically well regarded but failed to sell.

UK PC magazines used to give away fully functional previous versions.

The reason I'm trying to remember is I think it emplyed vector technology
for manipulating images.

At that time it's main bugbear, was rendering a finalised single image took bloody hours on an average home PC..