What is your favorite 16-bit paint program?

[Keatah]

What is your favorite 16-bit paint program? This could be for the Mac, Atari ST, or Amiga.

[TMR]

Deluxe Paint 3 on the Amiga, or DPaint 4 if it counts as 16-bit since it was aimed more at AGA-equipped machines.

[Newsdee]

MacPaint 1.0. Wasted so much time between that and HyperCard...

 

In modern times I like the simplicity of Paint.Net. I found it quite nice for pixel stuff.

[JamesD]

Deluxe Paint

I give Chroma Paint for the Amiga an honorable mention.
It was a good program if you didn't need a lot of the extras that made DPaint a bit of a memory hog.
It also supported the Amiga ECS Half Bright mode which many programs did not.
But I might be biased since my company produced it.

[Keatah]

BITD it was Photon Paint on the A500. Loved all the various shades of color. It was a monster step-up from things like Koala Pad MicroIllustator and Blazing Paddles on Apple II.

[am1933]

Photon Paint 2 on the Amiga, maybe because I got it at a business liquidation sale for about 5% of it's retail price, I think it was about 1989.

[carlsson]

The only paint program I can remember was Deluxe Paint 4 on the Amiga, which I used both on OCS/ECS and later AGA models. Though I'm more a music guy than graphics guy, so I spent far more time in various MED and OctaMED programs than I spent in DPaint.

[The Usotsuki]

I think the only 16-bit paint program I've actually used was the 16-bit side of 816 Paint on the Apple IIgs.

[CatPix]

[Nebulon]

Brilliance AGA was cool. Although I wonder if it might actually have been a 32-bit paint program.

 

Before I saw the listing of systems, I was going to say CoCo Max III (but then I'm not sure if it's 8 or 16-bit).

[FastRobPlus]

DPaint, plus digipaint3 for injecting color.

[Osgeld]

paint shop pro

[MrMaddog]

I used Hyperpaint 2 on the Atari ST, came free on a ST Format coverdisk. It supported the major formats like Degas, Neochrome and GEM Images. Plus it supported the extra color pallet of the STe, all three resolutions and GDOS fonts.

 

Only other paint program I used was Degas Elite if I needed to use the fonts from that. Of course if I was more skilled at doing more than basic stuff I'd love to use Cyber Paint for it's cool features.

[JamesD]

Brilliance AGA was cool. Although I wonder if it might actually have been a 32-bit paint program.

 

Before I saw the listing of systems, I was going to say CoCo Max III (but then I'm not sure if it's 8 or 16-bit).

All 68K code is 32 bit. It's just the ALU of the 68000 CPU that is 16 bit.

 

[Tanooki]

Thanks to two posts above I couldn't remember the name, but yeah Paint Shop Pro was my thing until eventually kind of a forced move to Photoshop in the mid-late 90s. I ended up getting a licensed version of like version 5 back in the day and kept the key going until it wouldn't work anymore and slowly moved along kicking and screaming into their free download of CS2. I tried GIMP hated it, and Paint.NET was solid for a time, don't recall it it was ever 16bit though.