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In a message dated Fri 22 Jan 93 11:10, L115130@lehtori.cc.tut.fi (lehtonen
wrote:

 L> Paul_Trauth@agwbbs.new-orleans.LA.US (Paul Trauth) writes:

>Well, i can't speak for all artists, but: I'm an artist. I've been one for
>quite some time. When HAM paint programs came out, i played with them. I

 L> Same here! I started in about 85 with C=64 and KoalaPaint (ah, those
 L> old golden
 L> days...).

You too, eh? Wow, drawing in multicolor hires was SO much torturous fun!
(grin)

>have DPaint 4. I never use HAM. In my opinion, it's only suited for

 L> DPaint4 running in HAM on 7Mhz Amiga is ridiculously slow and
 L> practically 
 L> useless, but DigiPaint3 is from totally different world.

Yes, DP4 is rather, er, lame. I find that the only things it has over 3 are
the better file requesters and the wider selection of fills; everything
else just makes it more and more elaphantine. I'd tried Digipaint 3 and
some medium version of Photon; both of them were annoyingly slow for me...

>CALCULATED pictures such as ray-traced stuff, not for something that
you're
>going to sit down with and lay down every pixel yourself. I like to have

 L> Now I disagree! HAM is challenging and difficult to use, but when you
 L> get used
 L> to it there is no other choice! I love to have about 1,500 different
 L> colours
 L> in one picture - boy, it looks great! 

>pixel-level control over color, and no HAM paint program does that.

 L> Of course not, it's technologically impossible.

I think i phrased that wrong. What i meant is that, while i know full well
the dirty tech details of how HAM works, -I- want to be able to select my
OWN fringing order sometimes, instead of having the program choose for
me...

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