CompuServe Messages

Bryan- I haven't check in for messages in awhile and see you got much good feedback from Kevin and Martin. I don't dispair that much of what you want to do you could do excellently with 3DS, its just that you would have to be very deliberate in your methods. And "painting" seems more attuned to your needs. We have a TARGA+ 64 and an older TARGA 16 frame buffer, and we use TIPS and RIO (argggggh!) with them extenisively. But much of the image-editing we do now with Photostyler and a Diamond SpeedStar in the windows environment. Thats limiting you to the 15k color range, which you wouldn't be with the TARGA+, but it is very practical. There are several other image-editing programs for windows. TIPS is much livelier- I find working in Windows very frustrating for brush-work and other stuff where you need immediate response. The images we use are almost exclusively scanned from a flat-bed scanner. We'll capture from video in a pinch, since we don't have a scanner in house. It's OK as long as it doesn't need to be too sharp. –Noah