| Well, here is a quick review...
PRISM looks functionally the same as DeluxePaint: the screen menues
are very similar...until you select the color palette...WOW! You
are faced with a screen filling rainbow of colors.
This package also makes extensive use of the keyboard for those
of you who like to take short cuts.
Some of the color theory is a little complicated, due to the
restrictions of HAM mode. It will only run in Lo-Res. You will
experience some odd color 'fringing' along vertical edges of shapes
or lines. This is one of the drawbacks of HAM mode. Careful selection
of colors should get around this.
I can't tell you much more right now, I only used it for a few minutes.
For the price, it looks like a good value, and seems to be a better
value than the yet to be released DigiPaint from NewTek.
More later. Any questions?
Randy
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| Well, here's a little more...I still have not used it much.
Aparently, there is no way to make a brush, the way that you do
in DPaint. I haven't confirmed this yet, but I'm pretty sure there
isn't. There are none of the brush modification options like rotate,
size, stretch, etc. This severly limits one's abilities to use
this product like DPaint.
I still have not mastered the palette theory. If you airbrush in
single pixels, the color you spray will vary, depending upon what
color of pixel they are sprayed next to.
It would be nice if there was a built in shading function, like
DPaint II or Aegis Images. Here is where the range of colors could
really be put to use. As it stands now, you will have to do this
manually. Pretty primitive.
Still, I have heard that his package offers more paint capabilities
than DigiPaint. I believe that DigiPaint has the ability to create
brushes...but I'm not sure. I'm only guessing, based upon the 'merged'
images that they have shown in their advertisements.
Later, I will have to load some images from DigiView and play around
with them, to get a better idea of what this package can do.
If anything, I am under the impression that Prism is best suited
to retouching existing HAM images...or creating labor-intensive
primitive ones.
Randy
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