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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: pan1k on October 17, 2007, 07:37:20 PM

Title: Whats a good graphics package for Amigas?
Post by: pan1k on October 17, 2007, 07:37:20 PM

I want to edit pictures like photoshop.. my free A4000 came with:

Brilliance
Deluxe Paint
ADPRO
XIPaint
and I have Art effect and fxpaint.

Which one would you guys use?

Title: Re: Whats a good graphics package for Amigas?
Post by: pVC on October 17, 2007, 08:10:04 PM

I'd use ArtEffect(4).. magic wand is nice :) FXPaint's album is nice too for photos.

For pixeling I'd get free PPaint7 from Aminet.

Title: Re: Whats a good graphics package for Amigas?
Post by: Oli_hd on October 17, 2007, 08:14:13 PM

I would use FXPaint, its great for editing pictures.
I havent tried Art effect yet but that looks good too.
DP and ADPro are not really up to it imho.

Title: Re: Whats a good graphics package for Amigas?
Post by: jmbattle on October 17, 2007, 10:31:41 PM

Photogenics

Title: Re: Whats a good graphics package for Amigas?
Post by: stefcep2 on October 18, 2007, 02:06:52 PM

Years ago i tried in vain to get a photoshop clone for my A4000.  The closest i found were ImageFx, Photogenics, TVPaint, Arteffect and Fx Paint, in that order.  With all of these you must have a graphics card, otherwise don't bother.  Secondly although most of these programs have photoshop-like tools, the tools work no where near as good as in photoshop eg the clone tool leaves obviuos banding on amiga but not in photoshop. If you intend using native amiga graphics chips ie ecs or aga and therefore video resolutions then stick to brilliance v2 or deluxePaint 5

Title: Re: Whats a good graphics package for Amigas?
Post by: Toxitalk on October 18, 2007, 02:16:33 PM

Did a quick 'google' (I hate that word but what can you do)

Gimp looks like its ported or being done so for Amiga.

If thats the case, its probably the closest you will get to photoshop.

Its Open source, works great and of course you can slip the word Gimp in with out getting slapped. :-D

Title: Re: Whats a good graphics package for Amigas?
Post by: Tomas on October 18, 2007, 02:19:57 PM

TvPaint maybe?

Title: Re: Whats a good graphics package for Amigas?
Post by: Tenacious on October 18, 2007, 04:16:28 PM

How well does PPaint7 work with AGA?

Title: Re: Whats a good graphics package for Amigas?
Post by: mbrantley on October 18, 2007, 04:29:49 PM

I've not used TVPaint for photo editing, as Photoshop CS3 on my Mac gets that duty. But I have enjoyed getting all artistic with TVPaint and with ImageFX on my Amiga 4000 with CV643D graphics card. The last Amiga version of TVPaint is free now, and you can get it here...

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

ImageFX can still be purchased at http://www.novadesign.com/. Looks like Nova Design is having a half-off sale for Amiga software.

I also keep Brilliance 2 and DPaint 4.5 (never got 5) on my Amigas for pushing around pixels and 2D animation in standard Amiga modes. I have the last or one of the last versions of ADPro but mainly use that for file format conversion duties.

If you've got the graphics card, ImageFX is worth the money. And TV Paint is totally free including a nice manual you can print out.

Title: Re: Whats a good graphics package for Amigas?
Post by: pan1k on October 18, 2007, 04:46:49 PM

Yeah i do have imagefx man i have too much software..... :-D I find it for free on craigslist... if only i could get a cyberstorm for free!  :crazy:  :-o  :lol:

Title: Re: Whats a good graphics package for Amigas?
Post by: guru-666 on October 18, 2007, 04:54:02 PM

tv paint rocks!

Title: Re: Whats a good graphics package for Amigas?
Post by: pVC on October 18, 2007, 05:09:00 PM

Quote

Tenacious wrote:
How well does PPaint7 work with AGA?

It works fine under AGA too.

Title: Re: Whats a good graphics package for Amigas?
Post by: Tenacious on October 19, 2007, 03:22:08 PM

Thanks.  I've always liked PPaint's (and it's free)user interface.  IIRC, version 6.4 had more file format interpreting files included.

I'm putting together an A1200, PPaint might fit the bill nicely.

Title: Re: Whats a good graphics package for Amigas?
Post by: Crom00 on October 19, 2007, 03:39:08 PM

Photoshop is the industry standard... I went through all this years ago, Photogenics comes the closest.

The one thing the Amiga does great is fixed screen size animation in 2d. So if you want to do pencil testing for animation the Amiga makes it super easy. Doing the Deluxe paint or brilliance style animations on the PCare a pain in even Photoshop CS3. Aura from Newtek emualtes the Amiga way of working since it's based on TVapint.

For one project I actually needed a hand drawn graphitti  look so I did it in Dpaint and loaded the frames into after effects. All on a PC running UAE of course...

Worked out GREAT!

Title: Re: Whats a good graphics package for Amigas?
Post by: Iggy_Drougge on October 21, 2007, 12:38:33 AM

ArtEffect is the one that comes closest to Photoshop.

Photogenics has a user interface that is a bit different, and it's more geared toward creating or touching up pictures than pure manipulation.