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