NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #27/NN_1992_27.iso/spool/comp/sys/amiga/graphics/7645

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From: [e-mail] (Ben Scott)
Subject: Re: Trying to find the perfect morpher
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Summary: IM difficulties
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Ben - Williams) writes:
>Imagemaster can do everything that you needed to do. Your experiences here
>are based with an older version of the software, as you have been told several

And as I have SAID several times.  How many, I forget, but I did admit this
on several occasions.

>times. I have no objection to your "reviews", but I can't see how your
>experiences OR your opinions are representative of the majority of users.

Well, few reviews are.  But thanks for your advice.

>Something else, I've investigated the issue of the transparency curves
>quite carefully - they work perfectly, and I was unable to make them do
>anything OTHER than work perfectly. It sounds to me like you were making

I can't get them to "stick" - I create a curve I want, and try to go back in
to edit it, and it's gone, even if I try to reload it from where I saved to.

>said, multiple times, that this was one of the reasons that you "couldn't"
>use Imagemaster, I suggest that you go back and find out what you were doing
>wrong.

Well, it's rather too late for the project; and I see no immediate reason to
spend more time with the IM manual until either I receive v10 or find out
I'm not going to.  BTW, has a price been set as yet for the v10 upgrade?
Will it be more than the standard $20?  (I assume so)

>Several reasons I say this. First, I can't see where someone who "understands"
>morphing, as you say you do, could possibly misunderstand how the tx curves
>are applied. I'd like to know what we should explain that we did not. This

Gee, I'm beginning to see how Perry feels... where exactly did I say that I
misunderstood how the "tx" (nice mnemonic) curves are applied?

>you that I believe that Imagemaster's learning curves are much shorter and
>far less steep than those of Morph+; and the statements you've made here
>positively raise my eyebrows as far as they will go. I am NOT calling you
>a liar at all - but I *am* asking you to find out just what it is in your

Things are rarely the same for everyone.  Maybe I'm just slow.

>You've made quite a deal out of it, as is your option, all I ask is that you
>find out the root cause - everyone will benefit.

I doubt it's anything so dramatic as a "root cause"; on that particular
weekend, this particular user ran into difficulties with a particular
version of IM, which he did not with Morph+.  If so many others have bought
and quickly learned IM and prefer it over Morph+ as you say, then I must be
an exception to the norm.  And I've been called worse than that.

.                            <<<<Infinite K>>>>

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