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Welcome to DrawStudio!
On your coverdisk is a demo version of DrawStudio,
the great new drawing program by Graham and Andy Dean
and published by LH Publishing. This demo version is
Save, Print and Export disabled but all other functions
are fully working. This enables you to play and see all
of the great things that DrawStudio can do.
IMPORTANT: This is one of only a few major releases
on the Amiga and the first from the UK for quite a
while. We urge all Amiga users to follow our lead and
if you like this program, please support the authors
and publisher by purchasing it. If the Amiga is to
survive, it needs Amiga owners to take the lead and
show their support. - Larry Hickmott, LH Publishing
(Em magazine).
What is DrawStudio?
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DrawStudio is the premier drawing and illustration
package for the Amiga range of computers. DrawStudio
is an ideal package for many uses, including:
- Presentation graphics
- World Wide Web page graphics
- Poster design
- Technical illustrations
- Diagrams for reports and dissertations
The Authors
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Andy and Graham Dean are the authors of DrawStudio.
Both of them have several years of Amiga programming
experience behind them, having written the award
winning ImageStudio and TextureStudio packages. In
creating DrawStudio, no corners have been cut in
producing the highest quality software coding for
maximum speed and functionality on the Amiga.
Never before seen on the Amiga, DrawStudio contains
many features only found in more expensive packages
on other platforms. We hope that you enjoy being
creative with DrawStudio, but please do not hesitate
to contact us if you would like to offer suggestions
with improvements you would like to see or features
added in future versions.
DrawStudio - The best drawing package on the Amiga?
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DrawStudio is a drawing and illustration package,
which is different from a paint package. Paint
packages are the more common form of art programs
found on the Amiga, probably due to the powerful
graphics chipset that separated the Amiga from the
rest of the computers back in the late 1980's.
Paint packages are used to "paint" the colours of
pixels on the screen, similar to the way a brush is
used to apply paint to a canvas. If you want to draw
a yellow circle with a paint package, it is easy -
simply select yellow and use the circle tool to draw
a circle. But what if you want to move the yellow
circle after you have drawn it?
Some packages allow you to undo the last operation,
but what happens if you drew the circle several
operations ago or you have now drawn some more shapes
over the parts of the circle?
With a paint package, all you can essentially do is
paint more colours over existing ones - it is
difficult or impossible to modify the shapes drawn
afterwards.
This is where a drawing package comes in. A drawing
package, like DrawStudio, will remember that you drew
a yellow circle on the page so that should you want
to change the circle later you can by just "picking
it up" and changing it. You can recolour it, resize
it, twist it, fill it, rotate it and many other
operations any time you want.
The downside to traditional drawing programs is that
they tend to have a less exciting range of available
shapes and effects than paint packages.
DrawStudio blurs the divide between drawing and paint
packages by providing all the advantages of a drawing
package with many of the creative effects and tools
usually only found in paint packages.
DrawStudio allows you to bulge, warp, reshape and
distort objects as well as apply a wide range of
colour effects and fills. By importing and saving in
common Amiga bitmap and drawing package formats,
using DrawStudio artwork with existing Amiga packages
couldn't be easier. DrawStudio uses a standard Amiga
interface, making the program easy to use for both
new and experienced Amiga owners.
Features
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A quick look at some of the program's main features
will reveal some of the tools available to you.
- Easy to use. A great deal of effort has been
placed in making DrawStudio easy to use by both
the beginner and the professional. A standard
Amiga user interface combined with a wide range
of tools provide the capability for all users to
produce high quality work.
- Wide range of shapes. All the standard shapes
are available for drawing with, including lines,
curves, circles, ellipses and freehand tools.
- Powerful text handling. DrawStudio supports
the standard Adobe Type 1 font format, allowing
high quality text at any size. Text can be
formatted, resized and even warped and
distorted.
- Full colour support. All the colour
information is kept to 24 bits of accuracy
within DrawStudio, irrespective of the number of
colours on the Amiga's display.
- Powerful colour fills. Both the outlines and
the fills of objects in DrawStudio can be filled
with either a solid colour, a repeating pattern,
complex gradient or bitmap image. All colours
support transparency, allowing objects to colour
the objects below them.
- Fast. DrawStudio is written to complement the
Amiga's graphics capabilities to the maximum.
Almost all the routines have been hand-written
by the authors for maximum speed on the Amiga,
leading to unparalleled redraw times for complex
illustrations.