A painter's tool: PixelPaint Professional
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SuperMac Technology's PixelPaint Professional 24-bit color painting program for the Macintosh provides on-screen access to over 16 million colors to deliver a level of realism unattainable by 8-bit painting programs. The $699 package's features include excellent color fills, anti-aliasing, airbrush effects, transparent painting and color mixing; its strength is its ability to blend, brighten or mute colors of whatever shade. It is difficult to create a new color, however, although dialog boxes provide seven different color models, including CMYK, Pantone, RGB and HSL. The masking feature intended to protect areas from being painted over disables all selection tools, which means a portion of the mask cannot be deleted or inverted. The program is best for fine art illustrations, but its confusing interface and difficult color selection make it a chore to use.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1990
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Art for art's sake: Pixel Paint, Modern Artist II
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Modern Artist II ($449), from Computer Friends and Pixel Paint ($395), from Supermac Technology, are color-paint programs for the Macintosh microcomputer. These products are said to compare to Macpaint as 'a motor scooter to a Mercedes-Benz'. Modern Artist II and Pixel Paint target artists who do freehand illustrations or who create color versions of black-and-white and scanned images. Text functions are limited. There are no charting or graphing capabilities. These programs have much in common, but Pixel Paint is described as 'more complete and easier to use'.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1988
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The proof is in the parrot: Tektronix 4693D Color Printer
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Tektronix's 4693D Color Printer ($8,495) is more useful for speccing colors than for proofing them. The product does not print subtle colors accurately, but it can provide with experience using color combinations. The product can be slow. The 4693D requires a Mac II with 1Mbyte of RAM (2Mbytes are recommended) and a hard-disk drive. The Tektronix 4693D costs less than half the price of a Colorscript 100, but Tektronix's printer is limited in its usefulness.
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Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1988
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