Painting is $15 US shareware. Use the enclosed Register program to buy Painting. For more details, see the section on ╥Registering Painting╙ in the documentation.
Painting is quite easy to use, but at least skim the documentation╤especially the sections on Shortcuts & Tips. The Features section will at least inform you of things that Painting has that you may have missed. And make sure you read the legal disclaimer in the documentation.
What you should have
Painting application A version of Painting that runs only on all Macs, but is not optimised for Power Macs and doesn╒t support any Mac OS 8.5 features. Requires System 7.5 or better. If you want a PowerPC or fat version, you can get it from the website, at http://sarwat.net/painting/.
Colour Sets folder A folder which contains three colour set files: GX Common Colors (from QuickDraw GX, but you don╒t need QuickDraw GX in order to use it), Apple Icon Colours (These are Apple╒s recommended colours for use on icons. These are also the only one╒s that darken when the icon is selected on systems earlier than Mac OS 8.5), and Greys (they╒re a bunch of grapes).
Painting Readme ???
Painting Documentation This is the user╒s guide for Painting. Read it. You╒ll find a lot of useful information.
Register Use this application if you decide to purchase Painting to keep it. There are a variety of payment options. See the documentation for details. You can also pay over the web. See the documentation for details.
About the Colour Sets Folder
If you make your own colour sets, save them in the Colour Sets folder to have Painting automatically open them when you launch Painting.
Version History
Changes in 1.6.3
Ñ Using the shift key when dragging a selection will constrain movement to be either pefectly horizontal or perfectly vertical.
Ñ Supports the Display Manager. This will make sure that floating palettes don╒t go into odd positions when you reduce the resolution of your monitor.
Changes in 1.6.2
Ñ Tab key can now be used to show and hide floating palettes. See the documentation for details.
Ñ Added more functionality to the Window menu. There are menu commands (along with Command key shortcuts) to go to the next and previous windows. You can also ╥zoom╙ a window from the menu, which is the same as clicking the grow box in the upper right corner of a window.
Ñ Added Email the Author and Visit the Web Site commands to the Help menu. They allow you to either copy the URL or use Internet Config to launch the appropriate application.
Ñ The info palette is wider, to allow for larger co-ordinate displays.
Ñ Fixed a memory leak when pasting graphics.
Ñ Better error reporting when QuickTime fails to export an image.
Ñ Fixed a very rare crash when importing graphics.
Ñ Some rare flakiness with the text dialog fixed. For example, sometimes the text in the dialog would be bold, but the bold checkbox was off. Turning it on would cause the text to become not bold.
Changes in 1.6.1
Ñ Only this readme has changed to include the new location for the Painting web site at http://sarwat.net/painting
Changes in 1.6
Ñ Supports pressure-sensitive graphics tablets. You can vary the colour and/or the size of your brush strokes. See the Brush Settings dialog for options.
Ñ Uses QuickTime 3 Effects. You can apply several special effects to your document. QuickTime 3 includes several effects, including Blur, Colour Style, Colour Tint, ColorSync, Edge Detection, Emboss, Film Noise, Convolution Kernel, HSL and RGB Balance, and Sharpen.
Ñ Added 360í rotation. Requires QuickTime 3.
Ñ Added Blur and Blur More commands to the Painting menu.
Ñ The Brush Settings dialog can now be brought up by using -B.
Ñ Added a very basic scripting dictionary.
Ñ When saving a Colour Set with Navigation Services, Painting will make the default location of the Save dialog the Colour Sets folder.
Ñ Sometimes pasting a selection in would put it in the wrong spot. Fixed.
Ñ Fixed some problems opening files in low memory situations.
Important Change: In past versions of Painting, if you clicked the other Style icon on the Colours palette (for example, if the Fill icon was highlighted and you clicked the Stroke icon), Painting would set the other style colour to match (so the Stroke colour would change to match the Fill colour). Painting no longer does this. Note that you can always double-click a Style icon to disable that style (double-clicking the Fill icon will let you to paint hollow shapes). This was done because it helped when changing colours with graphics tablets, and the old way was just plain dumb. Unfortunately, if you╒ve gotten used to the old way, you probably will be irritated for a while.
To quickly set the other style (for example, if the Fill icon is selected and you want to set the Stroke colour), you can now just hold down the option key and click. It doesn't matter if you're picking with the Dropper tool or clicking in the Colours palette.
Changes in 1.5.3
Ñ Trying to move a window on PowerMacs would often crash. This has been fixed.
Changes in 1.5.2
Ñ Fixed a crashing bug involving hot keys. Changing the current tool by using a hot key wouldn╒t always disable certain menu commands. Using those menu commands would result in a crash.
Ñ Added support for Mac OS 8.5╒s Navigation Services.
Ñ Added support for Mac OS 8.5 proxy icons and path popup menus.
Ñ Some refinements involving hot key handling.
Ñ If you clicked the text tool too low in a document (so there isn╒t enough room for at least one line of text), Painting wouldn't give you any text. Now it will always give you at least one line of text.
Ñ Some user interface refinements (icons too).
Ñ Fixed a bug that allowed opening the same document twice into two separate windows.
Changes in 1.5.1
Ñ There╒s a new Hot Key Settings menu command in the Edit menu. With it, you can assign a ╥hot key╙ from the keyboard to any tool in the Tools window. When you press the hot key, the tool becomes active. Not all keys can be hot keys. For example, modifiers and function keys are not allowed.
Ñ The old hot keys have been reassigned. Before, the option key would give you the zoom in tool, option-shift would give you zoom out, and control would give you the dropper tool. Now, E gives you zoom in (enlarge), R gives you zoom out (reduce), and D gives you the dropper. You can use the new Hot Key Settings command to customise this.
Ñ If you hold down the option key before using the eraser, you╒ll get a smaller eraser to use.
Ñ More Appearance Manager support. Alerts now have red borders, thanks to James W. Walker.
Ñ Tool modifiers are more sensible. Before, Command was used to access the quick zoom feature of the pencil tool, and shift was used to access the zoom out tool when using the zoom tool. Both have been changed to the option key.
Ñ Fixed a few incorrect version numbers.
Ñ Some user interface refinements.
Changes in 1.5
Ñ Way cool new splash screen. It doesn't come up when Netscape Navigator╒s running, because Navigator takes way too long to redraw afterwards (when that happens it seems like the Mac is hung).
Ñ Added rectangle lasso selection, free form selection, and circle selection tools. Hold down the mouse button on the lasso tool in order to get the popup menu to use them.
Ñ Added the ability to rotate images 90í.
Ñ Added the ability to flip images horizontally and vertically.
Ñ Added simple brightness control.
Ñ With QuickTime 3.0 or better installed, you can now save images in Photoshop, Windows BMP, and QuickTime file formats in addition to JPEG. The ╥Export JPEG╔╙ command changes to an ╥Export╔╙ command.
Ñ With QuickTime 2.5 or better installed, Painting can open several file formats directly, such as JPEG, GIF, TIFF, and Photoshop. This is done without the Finder doing translation, or without you having to save a ╥Converted╙ file when using the Open command.
Ñ Much more Appearance Manager support.
Ñ GX Printing support is gone (there╒s a tear in my eye), but classic printing support is vastly improved. There's a printing dialog box shown during the operation, and Painting now outputs more than one page :)
Ñ Added Balloon Help for the menus.
Ñ The documentation is now an eDoc self reading document. It allows much nicer formatting and it provides an active index to make it more useable. I am hoping that more people will read the documentation, although I suspect that some people may hate it. Please let me know either way.
Ñ The default tool is now the paint brush instead of the rectangle selection.
Ñ I got rid of the little bumpiness out of the paint brush tool. It was only noticable if the brush size was near 1.
Ñ The line tool now works when the stroke is disabled.
Ñ Fixed a couple dumb memory leaks involved with selections.
Ñ Fixed the problem that a couple users reported when opening some compressed 24-bit pictures (the image would show up as black).
Ñ More minor bug fixes and cosmetic improvements.
Changes in 1.1
Ñ There╒s a powerful new text tool that supports smoothing (anti-aliased text).
Ñ A new hand tool lets you scroll your document easier.
Ñ Some commands have been taken out of the Edit menu and put into a new Painting menu, along with some new commands. This menu will grow in the future╔
Ñ Command-clicking with the pencil tool will zoom to either 8x zoom or 1x zoom (if you╒re not at 8x, you will zoom to 8x).
Ñ The dropper tool has more options as to how it adds colours to the colour palette. You can now specify a colour set to always be the target for new colours created by the dropper tool.
Ñ You can invert graphics.
Ñ For the shape tools, you can use the shift key at any time while painting to constrain the shape, rather than doing it before you click.
Ñ Document windows now use live scrolling. Painting also supports Marc Moini╒s Smart Scroll (http://www.kagi.com/authors/marc).
Ñ You can hide the edges of a selection.
Ñ Colour Sets are now handled more like documents. They can be considered ╥dirty.╙ Before, Painting just saved them when you quit unless if the file was locked.
Ñ You can still have Painting automatically save colour sets when you quit. Just use the ╥Edit Set╔╙ command in the Colours Palette pop up menu, and select ╥Skip Save Dialog.╙ You can tell it to always not save the set by choosing the ╥Don╒t Save╙ radio button or always save the set using the ╥Save╙ radio button.
Ñ The names of the colour sets in the palette have little icons next to them. If the colour set is the ink dropper target (see above), the icon indicates that.
Ñ Added a ╥Save╙ command for colour sets in the pop up (before you could only Save As).
Ñ The Generate Name button in the New/Edit Colour dialogs generates names more precisely.
Ñ Painting remembers which colour sets were expanded or collapsed.
Ñ You can double click colour sets from the Finder to open them in Painting.
Ñ Added support for the Mac OS 8 Appearance Manager. Painting now looks good running under System 7 and Mac OS 8.
Ñ More stuff, such as user interface improvements and general bug fixes.
Changes from 1.0 to 1.0.4
Ñ Bug fixes, bug fixes, bug fixes╔
Redistributing Painting
Only give people the original Stuffit Archive that contains the Painting application, the Colour Sets folder (along with the colour sets), this Readme file, the Painting Documentation file, the Netscape Bookmark, and the Register application. Painting may not be redistributed commercially in any way (except for online services) without my written consent.
Contacting the Author
Send mail and comments to sarwat@kagi.com.
Check out Painting╒s web site at http://sarwat.net/painting/
