With all respect, I disagree Wayne. You can get nice anti-aliased edges
from lots of paint programs, regardless of the output resolution. Drawing
gives you nice clean edges, that's true, but you can't do nice fades and
transparencies or have a "painterly" look to your work with vector based
art. Vector programs are primarily for illustration and raster programs are
for painting. It's like comparing the drawings of a comic book or cartoon
strip to the soft edges of a photograph or work done with actual paint.
Elena
>Corina wrote:
>>I have finally found some time to play around with ClarisWorks
>>on my 2400. I have noticed that when I try to use MacPaint, it is
>>really hard to make smooth curved shapes.
>[snip]
>
>Corina - most all "paint" programs save in bitmap formats, so
>they will always give you more or less jaggy edges, depending on the
>resolution you can set for output. On the monitor you're limited to
>72 pixels per inch, so you'll see more jagged edges than in a printout.
>
>What you want is a "draw" program, which saves in vector format, so
>the resolution is independant of the monitor or printer. If you're ready
>to do some serious work (and spend serious money), the two most
>popular would be Macromedia FreeHand and Adobe Illustrator. You
>should be able to do a lot of simple graphics with the Draw portion
>of ClarisWorks, although the interface may not be as simple to
>understand as the Paint part.
>
>Using a mouse or tablet might help, especially for a paint program,
>but you should be able to get by without for a draw (vector) based
>program. If you don't like the shape you just drew, you can click on
>the handles of the object and pull on them to change the shape.
>
>hth,
>wayne
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