DRAWing PAINTing ... uffff!

[Luis Miguel Quinta]

Hi folks!

I'd like to propose you a mind dilemma. It's about drawing and painting
and the general propose is, as always save money, time and get better
results.
All Mac users use SuperPaint for painting and Claris DrawII for drawing.
We spend many time pasting draws and picts from an application for
another. Many of us have already quit using Draw and use only SuperPaint
in is horrible draw mode.
Now the Dilemma: I'm about to buy some software to solve this problem. I
was reading a bit and I'm getting confused because it's a little
difficult to discern reality from publicity (oh! how I like all those
wonderful results putted into magazine publicity's!).
So getting the point: Claris Draw Professional and SuperPaint ? Canvas
3.0 ? Both ? None of them ?
If you experienced users on this matter are reading me now I would be
much appreciated for your comments and experienced reports.

You can reply me directly by e-mail to lqu...@animal.inescn.pt and I'll
summarise and post your opinions to the net.

Thanks in advance
Luis Quinta

[Nigel Stanger]

lqu...@animal.inescn.pt (Luis Miguel Quinta) writes:
[...]

> All Mac users use SuperPaint for painting and Claris DrawII for drawing.

I don't, but never mind... :)

> We spend many time pasting draws and picts from an application for
> another. Many of us have already quit using Draw and use only SuperPaint
> in is horrible draw mode.

[...]

> So getting the point: Claris Draw Professional and SuperPaint ? Canvas
> 3.0 ? Both ? None of them ?

Well, you won't get too far with painting in MacDraw Pro :)
MacDraw Pro is a _drawing_ package, plain and simple. No
painting whatsoever (unless they've suddenly added it to v1.5,
which I doubt). Canvas _does_ have paint capabilities, but I can't
really comment on version 3 'cause we don't have it here yet...

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[Jon W{tte]

> Luis Miguel Quinta <lqu...@animal.inescn.pt> writes:

All Mac users use SuperPaint for painting and Claris DrawII for drawing.

... NOT !

I use Painter for painting (natch) and various toold for drawing - most
notably NOT Claris Draw.

So getting the point: Claris Draw Professional and SuperPaint ? Canvas
3.0 ? Both ? None of them ?

Aldus FreeHand. I've worked with it before, and it's great, as long
as you want to output to PostScript devices. It's not as good for
plain PICT, but does well enough.

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[David Johnston]

I've just dished out for Painter and it's pretty bloody good. There are
a whole bunch of different brush types with a lot of brush parameters. It
handles 24 bit colour on an 8 bit screen far better than Photoshop and
is the first program where I've felt that I can usefully paint freehand
on the screen.
It manages to keep it's functions orthogonal to Photoshop, concentrating
on paint functions rather than image processing and output preparation.

I apologise for expressing satifation with a product in this newsgroup,
I realise that this goes a bit against the spririt of the group :->

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