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Here is advance information about Deluxe Paint III. First, the new features. – The biggest addition is animation. You can use this in several ways. For example, define a brush, set a distance for it to travel, a rotation, and the number of animation frames to do the movement. This is all set from one requester. – Animated brushes: create a multi-frame animation, pick it up as a brush and use it as you'd use any other brush. – Allows you to paint on multiple frames just like painting on a single picture.- Compression: DPaint III requires 1 meg; and most of the features are avaiable in just that one meg (except for functions using lots of hi-res). – Uses the ANIM file format. Extra paint features: – Extra-halfbrite support. – Direct overscan painting. – Wrap and tint brush modes. – Improved airbrush tool. (It works with the other tools in more ways.) – Improved font support. The requester lets you see a font before loading it. – Improved speed on many features, such as the perspective draw. How to upgrade: We expect Deluxe Paint III to ship in March. However, you can send your upgrade in now, and be one of the first to receive it, as soon as we can ship it out to you. To upgrade, send your original manual cover (keep the disks and other stuff), plus $57.00 (50.00 upgrade + 7.00 shipping) to: Electronic Arts, Direct Sales, P.O. Box 7530, San Mateo CA 94403-7530. California resident include $3.50 sales tax.