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Title: Pls tell me about opal paint
Post by: rednova on March 04, 2017, 02:19:03 AM

Dear Friends:

For a long time I wanted to get opalvision to use
the opal paint program.
Now I am very happy to use brilliance on my a2000.
But i am still interested a little bit about opal paint.
Can anyone tell me anything about it ?
Thank you all !!!

Title: Re: Pls tell me about opal paint
Post by: nyteschayde on March 04, 2017, 02:47:54 AM

Like most folks who owned an opalvision...I may still have the card someplace...it is a non rtg based 24-bit paint program. There was nothing about it that really stood out to me as compared to DPaint or PPaint or any of the others. I didn't use it in a professional capacity, however, so I may have missed some super cool feature of it.

Title: Re: Pls tell me about opal paint
Post by: Raffaele on March 04, 2017, 03:33:50 AM

Quote from: rednova;822961

Dear Friends:

For a long time I wanted to get opalvision to use
the opal paint program.
Now I am very happy to use brilliance on my a2000.
But i am still interested a little bit about opal paint.
Can anyone tell me anything about it ?
Thank you all !!!

TV Paint is better in my opinion. More DeLuxePaint like approach... :)

Only defect of TV Paint is the mouse cursor with fixed size and fixed color scheme. On certain backgrounds it is almost invisible... :(

Title: Re: Pls tell me about opal paint
Post by: dovegrace on March 04, 2017, 03:51:59 PM

I loved my Opalvision card, and used Opalpaint (plus a few Opalvision tools from Aminet) for quite a while.  It's not the best paint program out there, but results are really more a question of talent than the program.

I'd probably still use it if I hadn't upgraded to a RTG card, Brilliance, and ImageFX.

Title: Re: Pls tell me about opal paint
Post by: dovegrace on March 04, 2017, 04:36:13 PM

I might add, the Opalvision card was supported by a number of popular graphics programs, so you're not limited to the Opal suite should you pick up an Opalvision card.

Title: Re: Pls tell me about opal paint
Post by: Gulliver on March 04, 2017, 09:54:18 PM

Opal Paint in its day was one, if not the first, 24bit painting program for Amigas. It was very good for professional work. Then new Amigas, and better options appeared, but for a couple of months the Opalvision+OpalPaint were the best combo you could find at an affordable price.

OpalPaint+Opalvision could happily work in both NTSC and PAL formats while the Toaster was only NTSC in its entire Amiga life. Furthermore, the Toaster was more expensive.

Thanks to the hard work and tenacity of Toni Wilen you can emulate an Opalvision and actually use OpalPaint with WinUAE.