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d . : 1 4 • 1 1 :71 1 1 1 t , lts.1 , t r actual 21 drawing commands that you i o will ei use to design your pictures. f trThe final Menu is the SPE-A Menu (special ! i effects) this screen gives you the options of designing your own g brushes, patterns and even colour cycles. h But more of this later. tAs you would expect all of the normal drawing commands are available together with a few that are unusual, yet useful. Options are included for drawing freehand, drawing circles, ellipses rectangles. triangles and even polygons. At first you may think that some of the usual commands such as Rays, etc, are missing. however, you'd be wrong. One extremely powerful command is the RCP option. This remembers the cursor position. When you next draw a line or a shape then you will automatically begin drawing at the previous start position, no doubt you can now see where you get rays from. Using the use last command will cause geometric shapes to keep their dimensions. You can then place the shape wherever you want it on the screen. Useful for details such as windows in houses, etc. Taking this a step I urther, you can turn on the continuous command. Once this is On you can leave a trail of the shape behind as you move around the screen. And there's still more. If you turn on the CYCLE option the colour that is being used to draw with at the moment will change. the actual cycle of colours being specified by you in the SPFX menu. Now you can leave a trail of multicoloured shapes behind you. Should you want the shape to be filled in you would simply turn on the SOLID option, As you can see the options are many and extremely varied. Don't forget that many of them can be used with different commands such as circles, polygons. etc. One extremely useful option is the REVIEWS fPrintJFI1* fi littrt sant Misc. Hind° 11* 111 4 o r e 1 1 1 L e f t assoloult Normal Double Treble Normal Double Treble height height height width v r Width Width ability to define an arca of the screen as a sprite. Once you have done this you can place your sprite wherever you want on the screen, you can rotate it, place it in front of or behind other colours, you can even use it as a brush to paint in areas of the screen. Within the SPFX menu it is possible to 'protect' any colour from being overwritten by an other. This is great when you come to adding detail to your pictures. For example, say you had a picture of a castle and wanted to add green grass around it. Simply protect the colours that are used in the castle from being overwritten and whatever you do with your green pen or brush the castle will not be in danger of being 'scribbled' on. One extremely interesting feature. and one that I have never come across before is the ability to RECORD your drawing actions. You could, therefore, draw your masterpiece with record switched on and watch yourself draw it again at a later date. I'm sure that a facility like this could be useful for demonstrations. You could draw say a picture of a car engine etc. and then label the necessary parts, even make changes when required. Then at a later date you could replay this to your audience. I can't help thinking that this option is quite what would be needed to do this as your audience would have to sit and watch you actually draw the picture and then swap between menus as you label your shape etc. It would have been better if you could have stored pictures at different stages and then replayed the cycle rather like a set of slides. Obviously this is possible if you keep going to the I/O Menu and saving your picture and at a later date load each one in turn. but I'm sure the record option could have done something like this. Not every package is perfect, and this one is no exception. One major YOUR COMMODORE november 1986:94 A . H r' gripe is the fact that any text entry must be done by pointing at a keyboard that appears on screen. You can't type on the keyboard. The reason for this is that the mouse continually sends information to the computer. much of this seems like a keypress to the computer which would quite happily think you had typed it. would make your text total jibberish. The on screen keyboard does seem to be the only way out. but it is a bit of a pain. The text option is extremely powerful and allows many different sizes. The smallest that the text can appear is 5X5 dots. If you really want you can take this right up to a maximum of 160x200 dots, which is very big. You can even print your text down the screen or in italics. I have only touched on the possibilities that are available with this package. In fact there ae many instructions that I haven't even looked at. If you are serious about your computer art then I suggest that this is one package that you shouldn't be without, it may be complex and take some getting used to but it is the most powerful. On Your Own I have only had a look at three of the more recent packages, there are many more available in the shops. If you do want to get into computer art then suggest that you take a close look at the manual of any package before you buy it to make sure that all the options that you require are there. Out of the three packages that I have looked at here, Picasso's Revenge is by far the simplest to use and as a recent wet afternoon proved, great fun for the kids. The OCP Art Studio is extremely well presented, easy to use and very powerful. If you don't already own a graphics package then this may be the one for you. On The other hand if you intend producing a lot of graphics pictures with your C64, Artist 64 can't be beaten. TOUCHLINE The OCP Art Studio. 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