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PD REVIEW
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EZ_ART version 1.50
Price:£2.75
Supplier:Floppyshop
EZ_ART, was released into the public domain last year and took it
by storm, written by Rich Stockdale (incidently has written articles
for this mag.) and created in a few months of hard work.
ST Format rated ity 92% in its PD section, and gave it a Format
Gold Award, and it is regularly mentioned in other ST magazines.
Now comes the updated version, and this is the first ever review
of it.
I suggested to Rich that he should update it to version 2
, and he said he was already thinking about it and version
before I knew it he'd sent version 1.50 to Floppyshop arrived.
Ez-Art features its own multi-coloured scheme, scrolling A4
screen size, and lots more. It loads Degas, Neo and saves its
own 48 colour format.
When loaded you are greeted by the main screen, this shows you
the icon bar and the various icon options. In the top half of
the screen there's the file options, these include:
LOAD A5 DEGAS
LOAD A5 NEO
LOAD A4
The latter being Ez-Art's own 48-Colour A4 Scroll format, which
when complete you can view it, by selecting the icon from the menu,
this then scrolls the picture up and down, Rich has supplied a few
of these pics as examples.
Other options include, print picture, which of course outputs the
piccy to the printer.
Starting a fresh, selecting A5, and edit mode, we are given a blank
screen and a new menu bar.
Ez-Art has all the usual features, blocks, circles, pens, and a
few special additional ones, apart from the 48-Colours, you can
have chalk, which is like pastel colours, and covers over your current
drawings.
Overall views, are simply that this art package is the best ever PD art program
available, I would think it gives Neochrome a run for its money, Canvas, and
certainly any other PD art program. Its available from Floppyshop, so why
don't you get buying!
(Enough plugs - Rich?)
EXCLUSIVE NEWS: Rich has been asked to program a fully featured version of
Ez-Art for a certain company, so get the PD package whilst you can!
From what I have seen it looks excellent!
RATINGS:
Features 90%
Ease of Use 92%
Value 100% !!!
Overall 97% Vic's PD Award GOLD RATING 1!!!!!
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