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From: ggibeau@ucqais.uc.edu (George Gibeau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Digi-Paint
Message-ID: <1387@ucqais.uc.edu>
Date: 12 Mar 88 01:36:02 GMT
References: <496@lakesys.UUCP>
Organization: Univ of Cincinnati, College of Business Admin.
Lines: 44
Keywords: Features, NewTek
Summary: Try Photon Paint
	 or Wait for Digi-Paint II

In article <496@lakesys.UUCP>, joe@lakesys.UUCP (Joe Pantuso) writes:
> I have recently had the opportunity to play with "Digi-Paint" from NewTek.  I
> am *extremely* impressed with this package.  It's shading and blending,
> tinting, etc. capabilities are excellent.  It's HAM mode is great (it's
> always in HAM mode).  But there seem to be some features missing that I'm used
> to having on more primitive paint programs.
> 1) There is no simple "fill" option, this is that sort where you just take a
> paint bucket and click on the middle of a spot you want to fill.
> 2) Arc, curved line segments.  Not such thing on here.
> 3) Spray paint.  Not available, it would-be possible to fake a similar effect
> but it wouldn't be easy (I don't mean for shading, obviously, I mean for
> making little dots of color all over, like a starry sky).
> 4) Patterns!  In almost all paint programs I've used before you can create
> patterns and then draw or fill with them, not here.
> 5) Not a missing feature but I wish you could not only control the direction
> of shading but the DEGREE of shading, without this capability you cannot do
> things such as small highlights automatically.
>
If you really want to be impressed, try Photon-Paint.  Saw a demo
of it and was most IMPRESSED.  You can grab an object as a brush
and then wrap it around other object shapes (ie. cubes, spheres, etc).
The blending mode is incredible, can adjust the dithering as well
as the luminescence (both direction and intensity), plus some of the
other features you mentioned.  Not sure on the price, but I do
not think it is too much, especially considering how impressive
it looked.

Rumor also has it that Digi-Paint II is on the way and is suppossed
to surpass Photon Paint.





George Gibeau

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