Best Atari ST Paint Program(s)?

[griz]

I think the ST version of Deluxe Paint is somewhere around Deluxe Paint 2 featurewise on the Amiga. Although it is the ST's first version, it came out a long while after the Amiga original so has a lot of the features from the later Amiga versions.

 

I remember the ad announcing the ST version : "He who laughs last laughs longest" - or something like that.

[ggn]

Right, sorry for taking so long to reply but here goes. All replies apply to Dpaint ST:

 

Well, something I use a lot on Paintworks for the IIgs is what they termed as "slippy colors", the ability to select certain colors for the lasso tool to avoid when it "slips around" and selects an object made of all other colors. This is helpful for selecting an oddly shaped object, and fast, to copy/paste, move, flip, remove, etc.

Well I tried a few ideas but I couldn't achieve this. Then again I never had the manual for it so it might be there, just obscured somewhere in the UI. Anyone else know something about this?

 

Another is stretching, warping, skewing of objects and perspective alterations.

After you cut a region using paintbrush icon, right click and click "distort". Also note that you can also select lasso mode there by pressing "carve".

 

Then, there's the masking ability, to select certain colors in the image to be left alone or "fixed" so that work can continue around or even behind them for layering abilities. DeluxePaint versions that I've used have had some ability, like "Fix Background" but that only goes so far.

Just right click on the S (Stencil) button that brings up the menu. Select your the indices you want to mask against and press "colors". I wasn't ever sure what the "foreground" and "fix/free" buttons do so I never bothered with them. Anyway this does what you describe. Not sure what the "ohat only goes so far" remark refers to, what else is missing?

 

P.S. Well, it might lack in features compared to Paintworks but it sure beats the crap out of it in terms of speed - that thing on the video is sloooow .

Edited July 31, 2016 by ggn

[nicholas042893]

Right, sorry for taking so long to reply but here goes. All replies apply to Dpaint ST:

 

 

Well I tried a few ideas but I couldn't achieve this. Then again I never had the manual for it so it might be there, just obscured somewhere in the UI. Anyone else know something about this?

 

 

After you cut a region using paintbrush icon, right click and click "distort". Also note that you can also select lasso mode there by pressing "carve".

 

 

Just right click on the S (Stencil) button that brings up the menu. Select your the indices you want to mask against and press "colors". I wasn't ever sure what the "foreground" and "fix/free" buttons do so I never bothered with them. Anyway this does what you describe. Not sure what the "ohat only goes so far" remark refers to, what else is missing?

 

P.S. Well, it might lack in features compared to Paintworks but it sure beats the crap out of it in terms of speed - that thing on the video is sloooow .

 

No problem! Thanks for exploring again.

 

The distort tool works, and skew is fine, but I do like being able to warp and use perspective changes which is harder to do this way by combining skew and rotations as well as repainting certain object "poses".

 

And although the stencil feature allows me to mask colors, such as what's in the background, when in combination with using the carve tool to select an object and work with it without selecting the background, it tends to get confused. I haven't figured out what it wants from me. A test of this is creating a solid gray background, masking the gray color, painting a red number two, and then carving out the number two. Sometimes the background is including in the carving making things difficult, and sometimes it omits the background. This may have something to do with the "fix / free" background, I have more experimenting to do. If I can figure out what it wants, I can make this work for replacing slippy colors.

 

YES, the IIgs is VERY slow without an accelerator!! Just while doing most things lol.

Don't worry, Paintworks and DeluxePaint and just about any software releases are equally slow on that lethargic 2.8mhz beast lol.

That is part of the reason I have put mine aside for now and adopted an ST to see what I can do with it. More speed at a low price!

Edited July 31, 2016 by nicholas042893