Best Amiga paint package?

[amigau]

I'd have to put in a word for Cloanto's PPaint in terms of Floyd-Steinberg dithering.  Often you can do a great anti-aliased image in TVPaint (free for download from our site, btw -

http://www.amigau.com/c-graphics/tvpaint.htm)

and then dither it down to a 64 color GIF in PPaint very easily.  For whatever reason, while PPaint can read JPEGs no problem, I've never seen where it can actually *save* in JPEG format. . .

kevin orme
amiga university
www.amigau.com

[RexxMast]

TV Paint kicks ass. It is extremely powerful and the learning curve isn't too steep!

Brilliance 2.0 was nice as well for it's day, but for a straight up 24bit paint package TV Paint cannot be beat.

regards,

[SlimJim]

The_Editor wrote:
If you spent a fortnight getting to know brilliance's routines ...  Your view on DPaint would RAPIDLY change !!

 
I have used Brilliance 2.0 quite a bit too. It's very good in many
ways. But I still prefer using DPaint V for most graphics
work. The fast smoothing mode in combination with a much
better interface and supreme animation features win the
race for me. I work a lot in HAM8 too you know... ;-)
.
SlimJim

[AmiGod]

DPaint 2. :-P  Okay, seriously.  I use the latest version of Photogenics to prepare images for Pagestream.

AmiGod
Hey, not bad for message #100.  It only took me (almost) 10 months. :-D

[HolgerB]

I really like fxPaint. And this program is still active developed -
there is a native version for morphos and amithlon, it supports WarpOS
and PowerUP. As soon as AmigaOS4 is finished there will be a native
version too.
Easy to use and lots of effects. It's similar to photogenics.
(iospirit)

[Mike_Amiga]

DPaint 4 was great!

It had HAM mode as well as the other older resolutions, animation and morphing. For a programme that ran on a bog standard A500 I think thats pretty cool. :-D  ;-)  :-D

:pint:

[Stom]

FXPaint is ok from what I have used of it in the past (v1.5) although its interface does seem to be a bit back to front for my liking (can never work out how to do a particular effect in it! :-/ ), However, I do like its nifty little html image slideshow thingymebob creator facility. That looks to have been improved in v2 also.

For me though, I have got to give my vote to the excellent ArtEffect v4. Its features have given me the ability to do the things I have wanted to be able to do in many other programs but been unable to work out. Unlimited layers and undos and reasonably quick too mean its definately the program of choice for me :-) (used on both of my websites listed below)

 :-D

Arteffect 4 for me also, with gaps filled by Photogenics.

[rawveeda]

You can't beat TV Paint for the price.

Depends a lot on what you actually want to do of course.  We used the Ami professionaly for a long time, still use it with our DPS PAR, no longer for drawing :boohoo:, we're on Aura for that (descending from TV paint if I'm not mistaken).  Always had the best results with the Dpaint-ADpro combo.  The other programs mentioned here may be more user friendly though.  

[Targhan]

Digging into ancient history, I have to say that the paint program
that stuck me to the Amiga was NewTek's DigiPaint(3).  I'm fairly
certain that it became TVPaint...  PhotonPaint was interesting.  In
the end, I got the most use out of DPaint and PPaint though.  

[gnarly]

TrueBrilliance (?) was great fun to use.

Photogenics is very powerful indeed but I find it a bit counter intuitive (too much time around adobe products? :-) ).

ImageFX isnt much cop for painting IME.

[carls]

It depends on what you want to do...

I wouldn't consider programs like ImageFX, ArtEffects (or even Photogenics!) as paint programs per se. So I'd have to go with TV-Paint (especially if you can get a compatible tablet).
TV-Paint is superior to all other Amiga grpahics apps I've tried when it comes to speed and pixel control.

Perhaps you should consider a combo: TV-Paint and a complementary image processing app (I'd recommend ImageFX any time of the day).