AlphaPaint
Mike,
I'm by no means an expert with Apaint, but I'll try to answer your question as
best I can.
Apint's transparency controls are determined by the greay scale luma value of a
selected brush OR palette button. Gradient transparencies can be modified by
either slecting a cutout brush with the desired spread, or by modifying one of
the existing palette buttons in the palette menu. Once you have modified or
selected your palette button or cutout brush, you can then make that item's
grey scale content the transparency value of the next item you fill or apply
your textures/pictures/brushes. You do this by pressing the CTRL key while
selecting the palette button or brush.
Texture mapping is handled a bit differently in Apint as opposed to the Tpaint
method. The manual covers it in more detail than I can explain here, but
suffice to say that I haven't found anything that is available in Tpaint that
isn't also available in some form or another Apaint.
Frank