Art Department Professional

[Sharingan]

So is it anything like Photoshop? Or more akin to Deluxe Paint?

[Harrison]

It's actually nothing like either. Sounds confusing to say that I know. The closest program I could compare it to is probably the Newtek Video Toaster video editing software. That might sound a bit strange. It isn't actually a drawing package like DPaint but an image processing package. The main screen is a mass of selection boxes and options. You don't even see the image while you are setting up the processing you wish to do to it.

At the time this was state of the art. It could open and convert between many different image formats, and also directly control a lot of different hardware. It could also integrate with the Morph Pro package. It actually is still quite a powerful package for conversion between file formats and reduction in colours etc... Shame the interface is quite clunky.

Take a look at the following video to see what it looked like, how it worked, and what it could do:

http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=MAxCn-901jY

Be warned! This video contains possibly the most boring voice over I've ever heard. I had trouble just staying away until its end!