paint, draw - or draft
Posted by Eliz. on February 06, 2000 at 17:10:44:
In Reply to: Re: Deluxe Paint .... or freehand posted by Catherine Cartwright JOnes on February 06, 2000 at 16:09:02:
If you're looking around for programs and you're *not* all that steady
with a mouse, I'd suggest looking for a "drafting" program as well as
a "painting" program. (When I used my mac, I had "superpaint" that
did both.) The drafting program lets you create separate elements,
adjust them, move them, then group them and such. The handiest
function is a "freehand" curve - you click in several points, and it
draws a smooth curve through them. In a drafting program, you can
even (usually) grab and move the points to adjust the curves.
In contrast, a paint program usually edits individual pixels
(dots). This is wonderful for fine editing and cleaning up, but
frustrating for someone like me with an unsteady hand on the cursor.
I suspect most modern programs have a combination of the two - MS Word
has some drafting capabilities, even.
Sources for freeware & shareware: tucows.com (but don't search on
"draft" - try "paint".)
- There are also computer "pens" and "paper" Kenzi 06:07:16 2/07/00
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