Powerful Image Editor, Photo
Retouching and Paint Tool for DOS

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Fact Sheet
Press Clippings
Resources for NeoPaint Users
NeoPaint for Windows

About NeoPaint

Simply one of the best paint programs you'll find. NeoPaint continues to receive rave reviews from numerous publications, and has quickly become one of the most popular DOS paint programs in the world. NeoPaint is extremely easy to use, yet includes features which would cost hundreds of dollars more with other programs. NeoPaint's abundance of drawing tools makes it easy to create illustrations for desktop publishing projects, edit digitized/scanned photos or just explore your artistic side. NeoPaint reads and writes 2, 16, 256 and 16 million color PCX, TIFF, BMP and GIF files. It includes dozens of drawing tools, special effects, stamp pad and more. NeoPaint is also ideal for editing images for NeoBook and QuikMenu.

Tools include: multiple brush shapes and sizes; adjustable air brush with fade to second color; smudge; blender; clone/pantograph; eraser; color eraser; flood, tile, gradient and color replacement fills; text; line; bezier curve; watercolor brush; charcoal pencil; highlighting pen; oil brush; crayon; K-line; rectangle; rounded rectangle; ellipse/circle; regular, freehand and custom polygons; grid; automated 3-D pyramids, boxes and custom forms; stamp pad; rotation; scaling; and many more. You won't find a more powerful, faster and more affordable way to create and edit graphic images under DOS*.

* Many people also run NeoPaint as a DOS application under Windows and OS/2 with favorable results.

Fact Sheet

NeoPaint® for DOS

Price:

Full version on diskette: $40*
Site and Network licenses are also available.
We also offer discounts for qualified educational institutions.

(printed manuals are no longer available for this product.)

* Price does not include shipping and handling.

Summary:

NeoPaint is a sophisticated image editing and painting program suitable for easy enough for beginners and children yet powerful enough for advanced image editing. NeoPaint's abundance of drawing tools makes it easy to create illustrations for desktop publishing projects, edit digitized/scanned photos or just explore your artistic side. NeoPaint reads and writes 2, 16, 256 and 16 million color PCX, TIFF, BMP and GIF files. It includes dozens of drawing tools, special effects, stamp pad and more.  NeoPaint runs under DOS or as a DOS app under Windows and OS/2.

Features:

• Supported Video Modes: Hercules (720x348x2), EGA (640x350x16)m VGA (320x200x256, 640x480x2, 640x 480x16), SuperVGA* (640x480x256, 800x600x16, 800x600x 256, and 1024x 768x256), Hi-Color (32,000 and 64,000 colors), 24-bit True Color (16 million colors).
  
  * SuperVGA, Hi-Color and 24-bit resolutions require a specific type of video card with sufficient video memory installed. See “Supported Video Cards,” below.
  
• View and edit multiple images in adjustable on-screen windows.
• Drawing tools: Brush, Air brush, Eraser, Color eraser, Flood fill, Tile fill, Gradient fills, Color replacement, Text, Line, Bezier curve, K-Line, Color sampler, Highlighting wash, Charcoal, Crayon, Watercolor, Oil, Quill pen, Smudge tool, Blender, Cloning brush, Rectangle, Grid, Gradient rectangle, Editable rectangle, Circle, Gradient circle, Editable ellipse, Polygons, Editable polygons, 3-D extrusions, Clip art stamp/brush, Pattern editor, Solid/transparent patterns and cutouts.
• Stamp Pad: Quickly assemble pictures using the collection of clip art stamp images. Create, edit, rename and delete stamps. Stamps may even be used as custom and multicolor brushes.
• Fonts: Type faces in multiple sizes. Bold, Italic, Underline, Outline and Shadow effects. Additional fonts available from NeoSoft and third party vendors.
• Selection Tools: Rectangle, Polygon, Freehand Polygon (Lasso), Bezier Ellipse.
• Effects: Invert, Flip, Rotate, Scale, Stretch, Smudge, Pixelize, Border, Lattice, Blur, Remove Color, Darken, Lighten, Fade.
• Zoom: Multilevel Zoom allows precise editing. Scrolling and most drawing tools also work in Zoom mode.
• Color Control: Works with 2, 16, 256, gray scale and 16 million color images. Custom palettes, color balance, color similarity, brightness and contrast controls. Color reduction/image conversion supported.
• Screen Capture: NeoPaint includes, at no additional cost, NeoGrab - an easy to use DOS text and graphics screen capture utility.
• Output: Supports over 300 popular printers*. High quality halftone printing supported on HP LaserJet/DeskJet, Postscript and compatible printers. Supports Epson/IBM/Panasonic and other graphic-capable dot matrix printers.
  
  * Sorry, most newer color printers are designed primarily for use with Microsoft Windows and are not supported by NeoPaint. Check out NeoPaint for Windows for use with color printers.
  
• Memory Management: Supports Expanded (EMS), Extended (XMS), and Virtual Disk memory for working with large image files.

Supported File Types:

Load and save popular image formats: BMP (Windows, OS/2), PCX, ST, GIF and TIFF.

System Requirements:

• IBM PC, XT, AT, PS/1, PS/2, 286, 386, 486, Pentium™-based, or 100% compatible computer. A 386 or a faster system is highly recommended, but not required.
• VGA, SuperVGA, Hercules monochrome, or compatible graphics card and monitor. (See “Supported Video Cards” below.)
• 640K minimum RAM.
• A hard disk.
• PC or MS-DOS version 3.1 (or higher), or DR-DOS.
• Microsoft Mouse, Logitech, or compatible mouse or pointing device.

Supported Video Cards:

NeoPaint should run on any computer system equipped with a 100% compatible EGA, VGA, Hercules monochrome or SVGA graphics card. To operate in SuperVGA 256 color, 32,000 Hi-Color, 64,000 Hi-Color or 16-million True Color modes; you must have an SVGA video card capable of displaying that mode, equipped with sufficient video memory, and using one of the following (or a 100% compatible) chipsets which supports the desired resolution:

VESA standard*
ATI
Cirrus Logic
Compaq Q-Vision
Paradise/Western Digital
S3
Trident
Tseng ET3000/ET4000
Weitek
Video Seven
XGA

Note: Some newer video cards have been designed primarily for operation with Microsoft Windows and provide little support for DOS-based software like NeoPaint. Some of these newer video cards may not allow NeoPaint to run in higher resolutions.

* NeoPaint has the ability to use VESA compatible video cards. Some older video cards which claim VESA compatibility substitute very slow software TSR drivers (in place of internal VESA compatibility) to force the card to mimic VESA.

Check out NeoPaint for Windows to take advantage of newer video cards.

For more information contact:

NeoSoft Corp.
Post Office Box 5667
Bend, Oregon 97708-5667

Orders: (541) 389-5489
Questions: (541) 389-5489
Fax: (541) 388-8221 (We do not accept unsolicited fax advertisements)
E-Mail: sales@neosoftware.com
Web Site: http://www.neosoftware.com

Online Orders

Visit our Dealer page for a list of authorized international distributors.

Press Clippings

Here's what the press are saying about NeoPaint:

PC Answers:

"One of the best painting programs available for the PC is NeoPaint ... If you're a budding computer artist, or just fed up by the limitations of Windows Paintbrush, NeoPaint is a must."

MicroTimes:

"You'll find the same drawing and coloring tools here that would cost hundreds of dollars in a commercial PC package ... The toolbars and menus have an aesthetic Mac-like layout that makes the editing process intuitive. I've struggled with Mac packages like PhotoShop and Studio 8, delving through reams of documentation and nested menus in order to find out how to do the same things that NeoPaint does fairly intuitively."

PC Plus:

"At last! A paint package that will take care of all your professional needs. It is so good that we now use it for all our drawing and image manipulation for the artwork you see in this section of the magazine ... It has more facilities than the package we used to use and costs a fraction of the price."

PC Novice:

"One of the most impressive DOS-based painting programs available, and one of the easiest to use. It contains many strong artistic features, while its interface gives you the ease of use generally found only in the best Windows programs."

Multimedia World:

"For the truly budget-conscious, NeoSoft offers a 24-bit color image editor ... NeoPaint 3.0 provides a paint tool that emulates an oil or watercolor brush, single-degree increment rotations, three-dimensional extrusions, and color replacement effects. NeoPaint also works with gradients, imports text, and works with special effects filters."

Computer Shopper:

"NeoPaint has such a versatile set of gradient tools, not even PhotoShop can match them ... A 24-bit image editor, NeoPaint is a surprisingly full-bodied application ... We found NeoPaint exceptionally easy to use and relatively speedy."

CD-ROM Today:

"One of the finest DOS paint packages around, NeoPaint is a superb program."

DOS World:

"This DOS-based artistic wonder paints, edits graphics, and even lets you produce audiovisual presentations that'll knock the socks off your clients, colleagues, or students."

Australian Personal Computer:

"NeoPaint and NeoShow are a joy to use - fast and efficient, with a host of tools, that outdo many larger programs on the market today. In short: Very impressive. Brilliant design. Easy to use. Excellent GUI interface, without the need for Windows."

Resources for NeoPaint Users

These third party products are good resources for any serious NeoPaint user. If you know of a products, web site or other items that might be of specific interest to NeoPaint users, please e-mail and let us know. Maybe we'll add it to the list below.

Use Windows True Type Fonts in NeoPaint

A shareware utility that converts most Windows True Type fonts to GFT format for use with NeoPaint and NeoBook for DOS is available for download from this site.

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