Quick Glance Guide To Art Software                      
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                                Brilliance 2                                  
Best Points:                                                                  
             Can do anything Dpaint can, but faster and with better results.  
             Good at colour reduction from True Colour 24-bit images. Amazing 
             anti-aliasing ability. A fast and sensibly designed range        
             entering function. A very controllable airbrush. Plenty of fill  
             types. Freehand brush cutter. Freehand frisket stencil. Easy to  
             use animation tools. The best user interface anywhere. Spare     
             page can have a different palette. Multiple spare pages.         
             Multiple undos/redos. Fast in HAM-HAM8 mode.                     
Worst Points:                                                                 
             Poor at colour reduction on non 24-bit images. Eats up a vast    
             amount of memory. No RGB colour spreading. No anti-aliasing on a 
             single pixel pen. No transparency blend ratio. Font/text.        
Rating:                                                                       
             The best there is, but still room for improvement.        9/10   
                                                                              
                                                                              
                                   Dpaint 4 AGA                               
Best Points:                                                                  
             Does not take up too much memory. Good at colour reduction on    
             non 24-bit images. Nice mixing strip in the palette makes colour 
             mixing a bit easier. Touch pad support.                          
Worst Points:                                                                 
             Slow. The range requester was designed by a sadist. No freehand  
             frisket. No freehand brush cutter. No RGB spreading. Only one    
             spare screen. Poor airbrush control. Poor at colour reduction on 
             24-bit images to AGA modes. Dated user interface. More expensive 
             than Brilliance 2. Sloooooow in HAM-HAM8 modes. No blend ratio.  
Rating:                                                                       
             Overall not a bad program, but it is beginning to show its age.  
             Still has one of the worst file requesters.               7/10   
                                                                              
                                   Personal Paint                             
Best Points:                                                                  
             Fabulous image processing abilities. Comes free with some Amigas.
             (Now on some magazine coverdisks). Various save formats including
             encrypt protection for naughty pictures. RGB colour spreading.   
             Import images from workbench so that it's possible to load any   
             file format as long as you have a loader. Excellent at colour    
             reduction on non 24-bit/HAM images. The only software with a     
             sensible font loader. Spare page can be any colour or resolution.
Worst Points:                                                                 
             No perspective. No anti-aliasing. No images over 256 colours.    
             Only one spare page. Rather sparse in the fill  department.      
             Not much of anything apart from the image processing.            
Rating:                                                                       
             Not much of a paint program, more an image processor with a few  
             basic paint tools added on.                               6/10   
                                                                              
                                   True Paint AGA                             
Best Points:                                                                  
             Nice airbrush. Transparency blend ratio.                         
Worst Points:                                                                 
             Takes up loadsa memory. Slow. Horrible user-interface. Bugged.   
Rating:                                                                       
             This could have been an awesome program if a bit more time and   
             effort was spent on it. Its slow speed and crippling user        
             interface makes it a real paint in the arse to use. That said,   
             it does have a FEW nice features that I hoped would appear in    
             future versions of Dpaint and Brilliance.                  4/10  
                                                                              
                                                                              
                        ooOO  CHEAP ART SOFTWARE  OOoo                        
                                                                              
PHOTON PAINT 2.0-HAM   Free with computer                                     
SPECTRA COLOUR-HAM     CU AMIGA coverdisk December 1993 (same as PPaint 2)    
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AEGIS ANIMATOR         Animation made simple(r)                               
* IMAGINE 2            AMIGA FORMAT coverdisk December 1995 issue 53 (2MB)    
* IMAGINE 3            CU AMIGA coverdisk January 1996 (3MB+ only)            
  VIDI 12              AMIGA COMPUTING May 1993 issue 60                      
  VIDI 12(rt)          AMIGA COMPUTING January 1994 (Better software)         
* ART DEPARTMENT       CU AMIGA coverdisk May 1993                            
  IMAGE FX             AMIGA COMPUTING September 1993 (save disabled)         
    |                  Will work with Quick Grab (screen grabber) on same disk
* QUICK GRAB           AGA SCREEN GRABBER (Good for most save disabled demos) 
* IMAGE FX 1.5         CU AMIGA June 1995 - full program                      
                                                                              
                         (*)  Important art software