| From: | Don Cox |
| Date: | 20 Jul 2001 at 10:28:14 |
| Subject: | Re: Image Processors - advice needed |
On 20-Jul-01, storm wrote:
> Photogenics. It's like Photoshop. Otherwise check out Art Department
> Pro from H&P. although I haven't used it myself. Perfect Paint would
> be a good partner for either of these, and it's free.
Sorry, but Photogenics has no resemblance whatever to Photoshop. It is a
paint program unlike any other, heavily based on one idea - painting
Undo with the right button. It is missing essential features such as
custom brushes needed in a general-purpose paint program. Photoshop is
a huge collection of image-processing tools with a confusing interface.
Art Effect is billed as an attempt at a Photoshop clone. It's not a bad
try but has modal windows for settings, so after you change something
you have to click back on an image window before you can make a mark.
This is quite annoying. The program has about 1/4 of the tools found in
Photoshop.
Art Department Pro (ADPro) is excellent but long discontinued. However,
it is an image processing program for the whole image, as is the equally
good Image Engineer, and not a paint pprogram, which is what is needed
here.
A paint program isn't the same as an image-processing program, although
some functions overlap.
Also long discontinued is ImageMaster, which is stuck with an
old-looking AGA interface, but has a remarkable range of paint tools not
available in any other Amiga program. As you can use any image as an
alpha channel for a custom brush, ImageMaster allows an unlimited
selection of "media" (chalk, airbrush, watercolour, etc) where other
paint programs have a fixed list. Painting with galaxies is fun.
The other 24-bit AGA program is Brilliance, basically DPaint redone in
assembler. It's good.
Regards
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