CompuServe Messages

One thing you neglect to mention is that your area selection tools seem to have an arbitrary concept of exactly which pixels to select when doing an area select. All too often, I will do an area select operation only to find that one side has selected one extra row or column of pixels. The only way to get fine enough control is to zoom in on the image, but then you don't auto-scroll when I reach the edge of the zoomed in area during an area select operation. Also, your little boolean operators may be powerful, but they're nowhere near a simple as being able to add/remove to a selected area by using the 'Shift' key in conjunction with the area select tools (as in PhotoShop). Also, when stamping down a cut-out brush, it'd sure be nice to have a real-time copy of the image, instead of an outline. (Since PhotoShop on my Emplant can do this just fine, I don't see why my 4000 would have trouble doing it.) Also, very often your 'Outline' 'marquee' is barely visible, due to a poor choice of palette color for the 'outline'. You should use an alternating B&W 'zebra stripe' XOR'd on the image for your selection area, as most other programs offer. I've noticed a similar problem in your choice of colors for 'Show Co-ords' The BKGD is always black, but the foreground text is almost never white – it's as though you guys use a fixed palette color for the numbers, and ignore the fact that that palette position might be near-black itself. Also, I _still_ have as yet to generate a FLC that'll play on my 486. (Your tech support this week could offer no solution, and no projected date for resolution of this problem – this is too bad, since I _need_ to generate a FLC for a paying project….) BTW, PhotoShop has a really cool little feature: if you hold down the option key while using the 'eraser' tool, it'll 'erase' to the previously saved version of the image – a great way to 'undo' something you'd done several steps previously. BTW, it's EriK, not EriC. Thanks. P.S. You got a really good review in 'On Production' this month! They actually gave you credit for having the first desktop morphing program.