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JF>The point is that this guy was obviously doing professional JF>work and you were trying to steer him towards a kludge kinda JF>program for his needs.. Joe…here's Scott's original post…he didn't say what he's doing his work for, but he does say he wants to do it on the Amiga. Not the Mac or PC. > I am looking for information on how to view and edit a 24 >bit 1280×1280 picture on the Amiga. What will I need to do >this and is anyone doing this now? – I need to be able to see >and edit the ENTIRE picture on the screen. It looks like the >new Visiona board might be able to do this? Scott later qualifies this asking about the best hardware/software platform…again, he still seems to be asking about the available Amiga hardware and software. We created our program for exactly the type of work he asked about. We looked carefully at highend image processing and editing systems on both the MAC and PC and created a package for the Amiga that addressed these same needs. JF>He was obvious in stating that he needed to work on the WHOLE JF>1280×1280 image at one time and you were confusing him with JF>terms like "full image mode" and saying he could do what he JF>wanted with the amiga's built in video… You CAN work on a 1280×1280 image, and on the whole image, at one time in our software. You can use the Amiga's display to preview it as you work on it as well. JF>I think that the only reason your software seems faster is JF>because 99% of the time its working on smaller images. JF>Photoshop on the mac is slow by a lot of standards, but you JF>won't find any other program that has all its features. Nope. Our software is faster in many respects, when working on the exact same images under the same (relative) conditions, is due to several factors. One – the Amiga's processor isn't maintaining the video, audio, or other features and has more cpu cycles available for the program, Two – where appropriate we take advantage of things like the blitter to speed up some operations, Three – we simply have better "virtual memory" for managing and editing images from the disk.