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