Art / Photo software w / full RTG?

[slaapliedje]

So I recently was trying to do some photo manipulation and couldn't find a program that would work properly in RTG screen resolutions above 8-bit color depth.  I tried out Personal Paint 7.1, and it would only let me select the 8-bit color depth.  Even then it crashed.

Deluxe Paint crashes in RTG as well, at least it did last time I tried it.

Any suggestions?

slaapliedje

[bbond007]

So I recently was trying to do some photo manipulation and couldn't find a program that would work properly in RTG screen resolutions above 8-bit color depth.  I tried out Personal Paint 7.1, and it would only let me select the 8-bit color depth.  Even then it crashed.

Deluxe Paint crashes in RTG as well, at least it did last time I tried it.

Any suggestions?

slaapliedje

Dpaint does not really support rtg well. I think it can work in lower Rez modes, but sill has chipram requirements.

You might try TVpaint. It requires 16bit RTG

[bbond007]

So I recently was trying to do some photo manipulation and couldn't find a program that would work properly in RTG screen resolutions above 8-bit color depth.  I tried out Personal Paint 7.1, and it would only let me select the 8-bit color depth.  Even then it crashed.

Deluxe Paint crashes in RTG as well, at least it did last time I tried it.

Any suggestions?

slaapliedje

Also try a Photogenics.

[slaapliedje]

Thanks a ton, will give them a try when I get home.

slaapliedje

[Ami_GFX]

TVPaint 3.6 is probably the best paint program for RTG. It doesn't work at all in native Amiga modes. It's freeware. Here's a quickly googled link for a download: http://www.amigafuture.de/downloads.php?view=detail&df_id=3598

For image processing ImageFX. 4.5 is the last version but any version from 2.6 on will be good. Some paint features but a lot more image processing. Not freeware unfortunately.

Deluxe paint will work in 8 bit RTG modes with Cybergraphics but not Picasso96. The best version is 5.2. 5.0 has a bug in the airbrush.

Photogenics is really unique in the way it works. I don't know of any Paint/Image program that works the way it does.

Art Department Professional also works in RTG modes.

[spihunter]

I always found Art Effect to be pretty nice.

http://www.haage-partner.de/amiga/arteffect/ae_e.htm

So I recently was trying to do some photo manipulation and couldn't find a program that would work properly in RTG screen resolutions above 8-bit color depth.  I tried out Personal Paint 7.1, and it would only let me select the 8-bit color depth.  Even then it crashed.

Deluxe Paint crashes in RTG as well, at least it did last time I tried it.

Any suggestions?

slaapliedje

[Ami_GFX]

Here's another paint program that works in RTG modes, Xipaint. It's also freeware these days.

http://www.amigafuture.de/downloads.php?view=detail&df_id=285&sid=b5cba8267973a80facfdb0d6ef40ae50

I've found it a bit difficult to use. It's very German while TVpaint is very French.

TVpaint is still around with PC and Mac versions.

http://www.tvpaint.com

http://forum.tvpaint.com/

So is Photogenics which has Amiga, Windows and Linux versions

http://www.idruna.com/products_features.html

I bought a copy of the last version on ebay a few years ago and the CD was bad. I got in touch with Paul Nolan and he wouldn't replace a copy of the Amiga version but would only give me credit towards buying the Windows version so I'm stuck with version 2. He still has the Amiga version on his website but it looks really dated and it might be in the same status as Software Hut.

[bbond007]

Deluxe paint will work in 8 bit RTG modes with Cybergraphics but not Picasso96. The best version is 5.2. 5.0 has a bug in the airbrush.

I remember that you needed as much free chip ram(if not more) as the size of the screen even with RTG so I could never get it to go higher than like 640x480 on my 2000. I think it did a little better on my old 1200T with Voodoo but was still flaky.

[Ami_GFX]

I remember that you needed as much free chip ram(if not more) as the size of the screen even with RTG so I could never get it to go higher than like 640x480 on my 2000. I think it did a little better on my old 1200T with Voodoo but was still flaky.

I've gotten as far as 1024 X 768 interlaced. Both 640 x480 and 800 X 600 work fine and are stable on both my A2500 with an EGS Spectrum and my A4000 with a Picasso II using Cybergraphics. The original Picasso II software from 1994 works too but only in 640 X 480. It isn't quite as stable as Cybergraphics. When I had a Merlin card, the original Merlin software did 640 X 480 and 800 X 600 with Deluxe Paint but was unstable and crashed sometimes.

[stefcep2]

there was another 24 bit windowing package with an OS 3.5+ look to its tool box icons, covered in Amiga Active magazine, but I can't rememeber the name.

also Perfect Paint.