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- From: Paul_Trauth@agwbbs.new-orleans.LA.US (Paul Trauth)
- Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.demos
- Subject: Re: The Party II graphics competition
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- Message-ID: <Paul_Trauth.1ecb@agwbbs.new-orleans.LA.US>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 19:21:07 CST
- Organization: The Amiga GateWay BBS * New Orleans, La.
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- In a message dated Fri 22 Jan 93 11:10, L115130@lehtori.cc.tut.fi (lehtonen
- wrote:
-
- L> Paul_Trauth@agwbbs.new-orleans.LA.US (Paul Trauth) writes:
-
- >Well, i can't speak for all artists, but: I'm an artist. I've been one for
- >quite some time. When HAM paint programs came out, i played with them. I
-
- L> Same here! I started in about 85 with C=64 and KoalaPaint (ah, those
- L> old golden
- L> days...).
-
- You too, eh? Wow, drawing in multicolor hires was SO much torturous fun!
- (grin)
-
- >have DPaint 4. I never use HAM. In my opinion, it's only suited for
-
- L> DPaint4 running in HAM on 7Mhz Amiga is ridiculously slow and
- L> practically
- L> useless, but DigiPaint3 is from totally different world.
-
- Yes, DP4 is rather, er, lame. I find that the only things it has over 3 are
- the better file requesters and the wider selection of fills; everything
- else just makes it more and more elaphantine. I'd tried Digipaint 3 and
- some medium version of Photon; both of them were annoyingly slow for me...
-
- >CALCULATED pictures such as ray-traced stuff, not for something that
- you're
- >going to sit down with and lay down every pixel yourself. I like to have
-
- L> Now I disagree! HAM is challenging and difficult to use, but when you
- L> get used
- L> to it there is no other choice! I love to have about 1,500 different
- L> colours
- L> in one picture - boy, it looks great!
-
- >pixel-level control over color, and no HAM paint program does that.
-
- L> Of course not, it's technologically impossible.
-
- I think i phrased that wrong. What i meant is that, while i know full well
- the dirty tech details of how HAM works, -I- want to be able to select my
- OWN fringing order sometimes, instead of having the program choose for
- me...
-
- -- Via DLG Pro v0.995
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