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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: leirbag28 on July 19, 2004, 03:45:11 PM

Title: Deluxe Paint, or Brilliance? which is better?
Post by: leirbag28 on July 19, 2004, 03:45:11 PM: Ok, I am kind of tired of hearing people rambling about that past of How Deluxe Paint was great, and maybe so, but some Amigans must have left the scene having that memory in mind and not realizing that Deluxe Paint was Dethroned a long time ago by Brilliance.
Brilliance has most of the features of Deluxe Paint and works in a similar way, is much more professional and has much more professional results. And best of all the interface is the Best Interface I have ever come across on any Paint program. Deluxe paint's was bad, especially when you changed the resolution, the tool bar got sqwooshed. Personal Paint managed to get the toolbar right, even when you change resolution.

Brilliance is king.............anyone disagree? well get Brilliance and read the manual and use it. You will wonder how you ever stuck with Deluxe Paint. :-)

I would like to hear your opinions :-)
Title: Re: Deluxe Paint, or Brilliance? which is better?
Post by: blobrana on July 19, 2004, 03:53:09 PM: Hum,
I found that dpaint was the easiest to use, though brilliance had a lot more features...
i have both on my system, but i prefer to use PPaint, which just blows them both away...

er, used in conjunction with imageFX, XI-paint image- engineer, and a few other...
(imho)
Title: Re: Deluxe Paint, or Brilliance? which is better?
Post by: leirbag28 on July 19, 2004, 04:10:34 PM: I have all 3 on my HD as well, and I use certain ones for certain tasks, but its funny because I find Deluxe paint the hardest to use and the most awkward.
Title: Re: Deluxe Paint, or Brilliance? which is better?
Post by: fx on July 19, 2004, 04:23:29 PM: i vote for brilliance! i think the interface is much nicer, only bad thing is that it doesn't work with RTG (I think DPaint 5 does, but not very good?)
Title: Re: Deluxe Paint, or Brilliance? which is better?
Post by: Ilwrath on July 19, 2004, 04:29:50 PM: Depends on what I want to do.

If it's pixel art, I go for:
1) Brilliance/True Brilliance
2) DPaint
3) PPaint

If it's scanned/photo art:
1) Photogenics
2) PPaint
3) ImageFX (This is actually a very good package, it is just that I'm more familiar with others, so I reach for them first... If I had more experience with IFX, it would probably be my first choice for this.)

And, of course, if it needs to be scaled, changed format, whatever:
1) AD Pro :-)
Title: Re: Deluxe Paint, or Brilliance? which is better?
Post by: aasmund on July 19, 2004, 05:29:31 PM: what about TV-Paint, I tought that was the best program.
Title: Re: Deluxe Paint, or Brilliance? which is better?
Post by: leirbag28 on July 19, 2004, 05:42:10 PM: TV Paint has excelent quality results, But I would not put TV paint in this category because it need a gfx card.

These are 2D paint programs we are comparing such as:

PersonalPaint
Deluxe Paint
Graphics Workshop
Brilliance
Photon Paint
and other i cant think of at the moment
Title: Re: Deluxe Paint, or Brilliance? which is better?
Post by: Gav on July 19, 2004, 07:33:25 PM: Fx paint is very good also but im just a beginner,dpaint just crashes on my voodoo...
Title: Re: Deluxe Paint, or Brilliance? which is better?
Post by: leirbag28 on July 19, 2004, 07:40:24 PM: @gav

Try TV Paint and Perfect Paint (not Personal Paint) although you can get Personal Paint as well, which I believe 6.4 is free
Title: Re: Deluxe Paint, or Brilliance? which is better?
Post by: mendark on July 19, 2004, 07:43:16 PM: PERFECT PAINT!!!

The names says it :elvis:
PS: Don't tell the world that there are other programs then Photoshop :lol:
Title: Re: Deluxe Paint, or Brilliance? which is better?
Post by: koaftder on July 19, 2004, 07:56:51 PM: What about mario paint?

oh....
Title: Re: Deluxe Paint, or Brilliance? which is better?
Post by: Jose on July 19, 2004, 07:57:43 PM: TrueBrilliance2!!!
It has the best image quality I've ever seen on any native Amiga chipset program.
I've never seen a program eliminating HAM8 fringing effects like Brilliance2. I think it uses the Copper in conjunction with HAM8 so the result is better than just HAM8, you won't distinguish it from a true 24bit picture. Infact most likely, most of the pixels are in true color for most pictures.

DPaint, I kinda got using it for some stuff but it doesn't support 24bit images. Same for PPaint despite the fact that it can use Gfx cards.
Title: Re: Deluxe Paint, or Brilliance? which is better?
Post by: leirbag28 on July 19, 2004, 08:54:01 PM: @Jose

Yes, actually when I refer to Brilliance, I am refering to specifically Brilliance 2.0 version, and that includes True Brilliance as well. And I agree with you on the HAM8 fringing thing, it makes you think your not working with HAM.
Title: Re: Deluxe Paint, or Brilliance? which is better?
Post by: HotRod on July 19, 2004, 09:37:14 PM: I can only agree. When it comes to AGA, Brilliance rocks. What it does to HAM8 is incredible IMHO. It's the best program to use with HAM8.

It's *very* usable even today.
Title: Re: Deluxe Paint, or Brilliance? which is better?
Post by: weirdami on July 19, 2004, 10:08:32 PM: How about DPaint versus DPaint? :-D

(Digi vs Deluxe)
Title: Re: Deluxe Paint, or Brilliance? which is better?
Post by: Gav on July 20, 2004, 03:40:32 PM: Yes i have tvpaint and perfect paint which both seem very good but i have not used perfect paint much really.Id love to be very good at using them all but it takes a lot to learn everything..
Title: Re: Deluxe Paint, or Brilliance? which is better?
Post by: invent on August 26, 2019, 12:22:33 PM: Don't get me started, Brilliance and Dpaint are both awesome. Ultimately the true winner is the next one to release an update and my money is on Brilliance III (Once I source the owners down) :)

The attachment is an example of the morphing tools in Brilliance II.
Title: Re: Deluxe Paint, or Brilliance? which is better?
Post by: beller on August 26, 2019, 10:18:10 PM: Quote from: invent on August 26, 2019, 12:22:33 PM
Don't get me started, Brilliance and Dpaint are both awesome. Ultimately the true winner is the next one to release an update and my money is on Brilliance III (Once I source the owners down) :)

I was one of the authors of the manual for Brilliance. Sorry to say I doubt you’ll get an update. I don’t think the programmers are going to rejoin any time soon and leave their current employers. Sorry!