carpent@coltrane.SRC.Honeywell.COM (Todd Carpenter) (08/03/89)
I just received my DigiPaint 3 upgrade in the mail. My impression can be
summed up in one word:
WOW!
I'll leave a full, indepth, heart rending review to the experts. But here are
a few comments (yeah, I should leave these to them, too. They can do the
program justice):
1) Fast. boy, oh boy, is this fast. Yeah, I'm running on basically a 2500,
but still!
2) The palette is a *lot* of fun. There are so many ways of moving through it,
seeing neighboring colors, etc. I didn't know how many color 4096 were until
this.
3) Shading, texturing, dithering all are improved over the old DigiPaint (which
I thought was wonderful anyway)
4) Scrolling whilst working on superbitmaps (or just plain old 768x480 hires)
works quite well, and is intuitive and smooth.
5) Resizing: cut out a brush, select TxMap, and scale some box to put the new
image in, and it resizes the picture to fit. I've done some unreasonable size
changes - way big, and way small. Amazing results.
6) Warping pictures onto spheres, cylinders, etc., is something to be
experiences. You simply cut out a brush, select what the warp surface is, and
paint away. Note this also does scaling.
The program should be experienced. It is well worth the cost, especially if
you are upgrading from Digipaint. No, I am not affiliated with NewTek, except
being a very satisified customer. I am still waiting by my mailbox for the day
my NewTek Cool Guy kit arrives.
-Todd C.