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From: jlong@uhunix1.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (John Long)
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Subject: Re: What is the best paint program ?
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Date: 9 Apr 91 01:08:03 GMT
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In article <441@iphase.UUCP> nagi@iphase.UUCP (Nagi Dabboussi PER ) writes:
>In article <lord_zar.669307976@ucrmath> lord_zar@ucrmath.ucr.edu (wayne wallace) writes:
>>That's what I want to know.
>>DP III is $150 or so, and according to NewTek's ad in the back of .info,
>>Digi-Paint 3 is $99 and far better.
>>
>>Are there good paint programs besides these?
>             Salutations,
>    I have used both along with Turbo Silver, Caligari, etc....for video editing
>and I seem to go back to Dpaint III most.  I like being able to draw in ham 
>mode for great detailed pictures, with Digi Paint 3,  but I found once 
>you've genlocked a picture on T.V. you lose so much of that detail.  I 
>started with DP III and still use it today.  The user interface is so good, 
>you'll seldom refer to the book...I use an amiga 2000 with 3 meg.
>Good luck!

Dpaint has one of the best user-interfaces of any program I've ever worked
with, any kind of application included. It is an example of software that
was developed by an *individual who wanted to use it himself* rather than
by a committee (like wierd-perfect is). Dan Silva hit the bell. There is
a video available that includes some statements by Silva on the design of
the program... he says that the original program had no menus, and you could
do anything from the keyboard. Indeed, the way you use it is "one hand on
the keyboard, one on the mouse" 

I have been in love with the amiga since before it was sold. Dpaint was one
of the first programs available for it. 
But I do have one reservation:
	First there was Dpaint, then Dpaint2 which added stencil and per-
	spective, and some features...
	Dpaint3 added animation. A whole order of magnitude of complexity.
	And as an animation program, it is ok, BUT..... Dpaint is a 
	*painting* program... and as such it is ahhhhhhsome. But I won't
	think of it as an *animation* program. Maybe I'm too much of a 
	purist, maybe electronic arts is into the *latest-version* syndrome.

If you don't have Dpaint, you don't have an Amiga. Yeah.

Aloha
LongJohn