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tbeaubie@ringer.cs.utsa.edu (Todd Beaubien) writes:

>In article <181040@pyramid.pyramid.com> andrem@pyrman2.pyramid.com (Andre Molyneux) writes:
>>I just got an advertisement in the mail for "Expert Color Paint", offering
>>to sell me this product for $29.95 (the only catch appears to be that you
>>must currently own another Mac painting program).  They make it sound fairly
>>good on paper, but I certainly won't send them my money based just on an
>>advertisement.  Has anyone actually used this program before?
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>I rented this program a while back for a week. It seemed to me that stuff like
>drawing is a pain because it tries to dither your lines and I couldn't see how
>to turn that off. The result are lines which aren't solid, crisp, and black while
>only being x bits wide. Kind of a pain since I was trying to touch up a line 
>diagram with no color. Other than that, it seemed really neat and powerful. I
>might still buy it and use it in conjunction with my other cheapo color prog.

>Sombody explain to me why ColorIt and Expert Color Paint look like the same
>program. I was very surprised to see that myself.

>Todd Beaubien
>tbeaubie@ringer.cs.utsa.edu
>UT at San Antonio

1.  XCP was "dithering" the lines because you didn't turn off anti-aliasing.

2.  XCP looks like ColorIt because XCP was written for SoftSync by
MicroFrontier, the authors of ColorIt.  XCP is, basically, a subset
of ColorIt.  I believe there are a few features that are "different,"
but basically it is a subset.  

3.  For what it costs, I find XCP to be a bargain.  It is not as powerful
as ColorIt, but, at $29 (more or less), I canna complain.  It does what
we need -- especially when used in conjunction with other tools, such as
GifConverter (since XCP opens/saves limited formats) etc.

	Dave Eater
	New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology
	eater@njcst.gov
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