Electronic Arts has just announced the release of their brilliant Computer Art package for the Commodore Amiga (and PC compatibles) computer, Deluxe Paint IV. This is the premium digital art package currently available to the home user.
It has some wonderful features, such as 256 colour palettes (that's ANY 256 colours that you choose) or even a special HAM mode that gives a 4,096colour palette effect using a special interlace mode (Amiga 32 bit only, such as the 1200, or 600). I can't currently find anywhere online that's selling Deluxe Paint IV at the moment. At £99.95 I expect it's only available in the USA right now, but it'll no doubt make it's way over to the UK soon, when we can all get our hands on it and take our digital cartooning to a whole new level. Hopefully that high price will be a little more reasonable by such a time by then as well.
This is a stunning bit of kit by the looks of it, Leonard. 256 colour palettes is amazing. I tried to name as many colours as I could from memory, and couldn't name more than 26, and that includes some with poncy names like azure, mauve and tapioca, which are really just your blues and greens with a dash of brown and suchlike. So they've really pulled out all the stops with this one, and it sounds well worth th4e expense. I think anything that has the word "Deluxe" in it is bound to be a bit special, don't you? A great find - do keep us posted if you discover when it will be available in the UK.
ReplyDeleteI've been searching for where to buy this software all day Steve, and the only place I seem to be able to find it for sale (Ebay) - it's available on some new fangled media called a floppy disk. As I don't have a floppy disk machine, I've given it a pass (for now).
ReplyDeleteMaking disks floppy, presumably so they can be folded up for ease of transport and storage, is a stroke of genius. What will they think of next?
ReplyDeleteI'm concerned that you have paperless cartoonists, Deluxe or otherwise. Especially when paper's so cheap and easy to acquire (Somerfield own brand). Why, I even went out and bought some more on Friday.
ReplyDeleteThese new fangled 'floppy disks' are a pain. Why can't they just stick to simple technology, like the 48x CD-ROM drive I've just bought?
ReplyDeleteI'm going to get a copy of this just as soon as I've paid for my eight track cartridge stereogram.
ReplyDeleteThat sounds very flash Gerard, although I have to admit that I've no idea what an 8 track is.
ReplyDeleteSometimes I'm so far behind on all this MP3, CD-ROM technology stuff.