Different strokes
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Fractal Design Corp's Painter is a 24-bit natural-media Apple Macintosh color paint program that enables users to create and edit images that appear to be produced with traditional tools. The $299 software offers several features found in no other package, but several drawbacks keep the product from earning unanimous approval. An innovative brush palette lets users select the best possible painting tool for specific applications including oil, felt pens, airbrush, color pencils and crayons, and chalk. Fine tuning capabilities allow for determining brush size, behavior, and paper texture. The 10 styles in the Cloner Brush pop-up menu enable users to replicate existing artwork in a new medium, but users cannot select entire images for cloning. When used with a Wacom tablet, the product is particularly effective. The high number of palettes keeps the drawing area too small and there is a lag between the time certain multiple brush strokes appear and when they were first drawn. Painter also lacks conventional painting tools and does not handle color very well.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1991
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Art under the (DA menu): Deskpaint, Deskdraw
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Zedcor's $129.95 Deskpaint 2.01 is a quick and easy-to-use desk accessory that allows users to create and edit graphics while in another program. Among the new features offered by Deskpaint 2.01 and Deskdraw 1.2 are, an Autotrace function and an on-line help system for both programs. The Autotrace feature converts bit-mapped images into object-oriented images, although it cannot create true curves. The Deskdraw 1.2 drawing program acts as a separate desk accessory for manipulating images cut and pasted to it from the Autotrace function. Deskdraw, which requires 94K of RAM, as opposed to the 48K needed by Deskpaint, is sluggish when working with PICT images of more than 100 elements, will not scroll and saves images only in PICT file formats. Nonetheless, Deskpaint 2.0 is an efficient, economical and highly recommended painting and drawing program.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1989
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Monet
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Delta Tao Software Inc's $399 Monet graphics program is fun and exciting, but limited, since it can only create the look of an impressionistic painting. Monet is most exciting when it is used with an already completed photograph or drawing. Users scan the drawing and save it as a TIFF or PICT file, then drag brushes across the screen, uncovering the image underneath. Users may use the same photo any number of times, but create different computer-paintings. The program is faster than other paint programs too. However, Monet's flexibility is severely limited. Fractal Design's Painter, a competing paint program, offers cloner brushers that can produce the style of watercolor, crayon, felt pen and pastel materials, and it costs $100 less than Monet. Also, Monet lacks a rubber stamp tool to clone areas of the illustration.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1992
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