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- > If anyone in the group has used Alpha Paint with the Toaster,
- > I would be interested in any evaluation or general comments
- > about the program.
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- You probably won't find too many people who have used Alpha Paint because
- it hasn't shipped yet (scheduled for 10/25/94 I believe). But I have a
- release that is very representative of the finished product (I'm doing a
- magazine review on it). So far I like it alot. Its has a very professional
- feel and is well geared toward video users. And the text support is fantastic.
- It replaces both Toaster Paint and the CG quite hadily (minus the page
- crawls ofcourse), and makes great use of the Toaster's alpha channel. BTW,
- it is being refered to as a 36 bit paint program. What it actually has is:
- 2x 24bit RGB buffers
- 2x 8bit video alpha buffers
- 1x 8bit stencil buffer
-
- The 36 bit number comes from 24bit RGB + 8bit stencil + 8bit video alpha which
- gets dithered down to 4bits for use with the Toaster Switcher.
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