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I posted a request for a good shareware painting program for the Mac.
I am an engineer who is applying for Masters in Architecture programs.
I had a PICT file that needed minor modifications and laser printing in 
order to be included in my application portfolio.  (It was a scanned
self portrait to be used as the last page.)

I needed grayscale capability and went with IMAGE 1.47 (freeware).  It
did all I needed and was a pretty slick program to boot. [Lightning
Paint was the only other one I tried.  It didn't do grayscale, but I 
bought it anyway.  I liked it, and at $14 ($7 for students) I couldn't
pass it up.]  

Attached is a summary of all (sorry if I forgot someone) who replied to 
me by mail directly, and the programs that they suggested.  There were
also replies already posted to this group which I didn't include. 
(Comments/endorsements in the summary below belong to authors of the 
original replies.)

Thanks again. 

Garrett Hamlin
HAMLING@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com



Those replying:

From:	SMTP%"jxs18@po.CWRU.Edu"  6-DEC-1992 03:17:52.96
From:	SMTP%"ingemar@rainier.isy.liu.se"  6-DEC-1992 04:43:25.89
From:	SMTP%"johnston@me.udel.edu"  6-DEC-1992 11:51:20.81
From:	SMTP%"ttan@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu"  6-DEC-1992 15:40:17.27
From:	SMTP%"@ricevm1.rice.edu:B645ZAX@UTARLG.UTA.EDU"  6-DEC-1992 21:21:30.33
From:	SMTP%"stmwang@hubcap.clemson.edu"  7-DEC-1992 21:35:18.27
From:	SMTP%"dowdy@apple.com" 12-DEC-1992 13:30:00.88

B/W:
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Lightning Paint.
	-fairly full-featured shareware paint app. It has
	all the basic functions, and is available at 36.44.0.6 (Sumex) 
	in /info-mac/app/ The only limitation is that it only supports B/W

Color:
=====
NIH Image (aka Image) (FREE and good!)
	You can FTP for it from zippy.nimh.nih.gov. It is a very  
	sophisticated image enhancing/analysis program. Free, 'cause our
	tax money paid for it. It is also available from sumex-aim, as well
	as the online services. Current version is 1.47.
Imagic
Colour Paint


Inexpensive commerical packages: 
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   Color MacCheese and Expert ColorPaint.  Both are GREAT packages with 
   tons of features, and cost around $30 each.

   MacBillboard ($35, CE Software, latest version is commercial, I think)
   comes to mind.  It is basically an enhanced MacPaint 1.5, & read/writes
   MacPaint files.


MISC:
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    appledraw

    If you need to open a PICT file (ie MacDraw) you might try MacDraw Demo
     Version from Apple's Software Sampler, circa 1985.

    I've used the Hypercard paint tools for quickie jobs.