Disk No: 2833
Disk Title: Desktop Paint 256
PC-SIG Version: S1

Program Title: DeskTop Paint 256
Author Version: 10/91
Author Registration: $35.00
Special Requirements: 640K RAM, Super VGA, mouse, and a hard drive.

DESKTOP PAINT 256 is a powerful super-VGA paint program which will allow
you to create and edit full colour pictures. It can load and save to
PCX, GIF, TIFF (Colour and grey scale), and IFF/LBM graphics file
formats. EMS support makes DESKTOP PAINT 256 capable of working with
very large pictures.

DESKTOP PAINT 256 has a full range of drawing tools. It will perform
basic drawing functions such as adding lines, rectangles, ellipses and
so on to a picture. You can zoom in and edit details and draw freehand
with color brushes. You can also cut and paste image fragments, as well
as importing and exporting them. There's also an undo function to deal
with mistakes.

A variety of special effects are also available under DESKTOP PAINT
256. You can rotate, flip and invert areas of a picture. You can also
stain, smudge, posterize and soften parts of a picture... the latter
effect is particularly effective at reducing the effects of moire
scanning aberrations.

DESKTOP PAINT 256 also allows you to add text to a picture. It comes
with a selection of three fonts, and you can add more to it if you like.
The optional font toolkit provides additional fonts and a selection of
utilities to convert fonts from Macintosh FONT resources, GEM/VDI font
files and Windows FNT files.

DESKTOP PAINT 256 requires a Microsoft compatible mouse and driver and
one of the following super VGA display adapters:

~ Paradise Plus (256K on board)
~ Paradise Professional (512K on board)
~ ATI VGA Wonder card (256K or 512K on board)
~ Headland Video7 or 1024i card (256K or 512K on board)
~ Most Tseng Labs cards which use the 4000 series chip set
~ Trident cards which use the 8900 series chip set

Cards which are genuinely compatible with these are also
suitable. For example, there are numerous cards which use the
Western Digital chip set and are thus effectively Paradise cards.
The OEM VGA cards supplied with Dell computers behave as Paradise
cards, for example.

DESKTOP PAINT 256 does not run in the "standard" 320 by 200 pixel
VGA mode. Drivers for additional super-VGA cards are in the
works.


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