CompuServe Thread

R.Satoh, Haven't forgotten your E-Mail, just needed time to compose a reply. Here goes. Yes my Iguana is all hand drawn. Came together very quickly compared to my other art projects. I digitize lots of things with the Digiview and sometimes create textures in other paint programs. It is faster to do it that way. Never throw away anything! With IP, I've been reducing a full page to smaller brushes. Most of the time the integrety of the reduction is retained. That's what having more color available does for you. I save these brushes to a separate page so I can get them without spending the time to load them all in. I have a 500, no acceleration. It is slow. I have not been able to get a definitive answer as to whether accelerating my machine will help enough to justify the cost of it. Some IP functions take forever so I do the laundry or burn dinner. Don't think this is a problem with IP so much as it is the computation time factor. I have the same problem with Imagine. To make the Ham-E real time it might need to have its own dedicated memory. I'm no hardware person so I don't really know. Yes, I wish that the drawing and painting modes were faster. Then the little screen announcements telling you what phase of the process you're in would be redundant. 'Till then I appreciate knowing what IP is doing. Now printing. What a bummer! I have artistic friends that get slides made and then photographic prints. So far, I've seen Cibachrome, Fugichrome and other print types of photographic paper. You see the scan lines with some images. I've seen dye sublimation prints and prints from video printers. Right now I'd wait. There are some Macintosh programs that had poster size prints that are not pixelized. I saw some very nice lithographs done from the computer to film to lithography process. I would guess the film recorder would have to have plenty of memory. So its possible but costs $$$$$. When I know more I'll let you know. – Margaret s