Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uwm.edu!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!gblock From: gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Gregory R Block) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics Subject: Re: DPaint IV Message-ID: <12983@uwm.edu> Date: 11 Jun 91 05:34:54 GMT References: Sender: news@uwm.edu Reply-To: gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu Lines: 50 Originator: gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu From article , by bobl@graphics.rent.com (Bob Lindabury - SysAdm): > > There was a short blurb in AmigaWorld about it as well. Not much > else to say about it yet because I don't have any info. The > AmigaWorld article shows a screenshot and a new "color mixer" where > you can mix your paint colors to make another color. Other features > seem to be a "lightbox" which is much like Disney's Onion Skin where > you can see the preceeding or following frame of your animation while > working on the current frame. Also is a new 3-D look and some other > features. Doesn't seem to be anything ground-breaking however. I > guess we will have to wait and see. I'm shocked at the amiga community's illiteracy. :) Doesn't ANYONE read .INFO anymore???????? June 1991 .INFO magazine. Preview: Deluxe Paint IV (beta) * menus & requesters now have grayscale shading and 3d buttons. * 5 new Gradient fills available * load/save requesters revamped * ability to define stencils by painting an area * set stencil colors by setting a "tolerance" * Gradient requestor for color ranges and spreads * A new "Translucency" effect * colors moved to a menu of its own * color palette requester added * Colors can now be mixed to create new colors * Palettes of up to 256 colors can now be saved and loaded * Ham paint mode added, modeled after the 256 color mode on IBM * Ham mode gives you a palette of 256 colors to work with * Ability to store and use an alternate brush, and swap between * Metamorph function creates an animbrush given # of frames * Metamorph will morph colors * "LightBox" mode for use with animation: - Display next and/or previous frame simultaneously - Controlled by a new animation control panel, giving a) control over LightBox functions b) VCR-like controls for animation playback ----> Available: August 2nd, 1991 <---- Greg -- All opinions are my own, and not those of my employer. Why? He doesn't know I'm doing this. -Wubba