ASL PAINTER!

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    Contents:

   I. Features
  II. Requirements
 III. Specifications
  IV. General Notes
   V. Ordering / Tech Support
  VI. Distributor Notes  

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I. FEATURES 

ASL Painter! is a full 256 color paint program with features and tools
that the Paintbrush Applet that comes with Windows never even thought
of. This small and fast program replaces Paintbrush for a mere $29.95
and includes special effects and filtering that you'll only find in 
programs costing up to hundreds of dollars more.

ASL Painter! is *NOT* to be used with systems using only a 16 color 
video driver. 


ASL Painter! Tools:

1. A full suite of Geometric Tools, including Perfect Circles, Ellipses,
   Rectangles, Irregular Shape, three styles of Triangles, Line, Angled
   Line, and a 3D Rectangle.

2. Standard Drawing Tools including Freehand Pencils, Paint Fills, Spray 
   Paint, and UNDO.

3. Fonts with special Shadowing effects.

4. Specialty Drawing Tools including a Radial Line tool, Charcoal Pencil,
   Quill Pen, Calligraphy Pen, "Dry Paint", Airbrush, and Chalk.

5. "Texture" laying tools including Paint Rollers, Watercolor Brushes, 
   Pastel Crayons, Textured Watercolor, and Textured Spray Paint. 

6. Special Smear and Smudge tools including Pixel Swap, Line Spread, 
   Pixellator, and Finger Smudge.

7. Area control tools including a Cutting Knife, Area Posterization,
   Area Pixellation, and Area Negative.

8. Color and Luminosity control including a color eyedropper and a 
   Threshold (luminosity) eyedropper.


ASL Painter! Image Editing Effects:

1. Noise

2. False Color

3. Pixellation

4. Pointillization

5. Posterizing

6. Color Negative

7. Threshold Manipulation Suite (multiple options)

8. Black and White Processing Suite (multiple options)


Also Included: 

1. ZOOM mode with 8 drawing tools: Pixel, Line, Open Box, Filled
   Box, Open Ellipse, Filled Ellipse, Paint Fill, Dropper.

2. Five default color palettes and the ability to work with ANY 256
   color palette.


II. REQUIREMENTS:

256 color video driver (640x480 or better)
386DX or better
2 Megs RAM
600k Hard Drive space.    <----- not much in this day and age!
Windows 3.1 or better


III. SPECIFICATIONS:

Graphic Formats Read:    BMP, DIB, RLE
Graphic Formats Written: BMP


IV. NOTES

All operating instructions are in the included on-line Help file.

This version is the same as the fully registered version except that 
the fully registered version does not include a "Test Drive" watermark
on saved or copied images. This was the best way we could think of to
let everyone play with all the tools and features and still maintain
a degree of protection. In this manner you can see if this program is
right for you and we sleep well. 

Ordering ASL Painter! will get you the latest registered version.

We will add tools and features in subsequent versions of the program.
The support policy is to upgrade to the latest version for the cost 
of materials, shipping and handling. In the USA this is generally 
around the $5 to $8 neighbourhood. 

Known Problems:

Some video drivers don't like to run the Windows Stretchblt API call 
correctly. This is used especially in the Zoom function. If you are
experiencing any difficulties you may wish to try another video driver.

Our experience has been that this is a function of the compiler AND
the video driver. (This is our 18th project with this compiler.) 


V. ORDERING / Tech Support

Tech Support is at (209) 522 - 8666.

To order by mail (check, cash, Money Order:)

ASL 
P.O. Box 581
Ruidoso NM 88345

By Credit Card:

PsL (Public software Library, Houston TX)
1-800-2424-PSL
or
(713) 524-6394
or
(713) 524-6398 FAX

IMPORTANT! **************** ORDER PRODUCT # 11481 **************

Overseas orders please add $4 shipping!


In Europe or the UK:

The Thompson Partnership
Churchcroft, Bramshall
Uttoxeter, Staffs ST145DE
(0) 889 - 564601
(0) 889 - 563219 FAX


VI. DISTRIBUTOR NOTES

As of July 1994 (release date) you are authorized to distribute the
shareware version only. 

ASL reserves all rights with respect to ASL Painter, including the right
to distribution of shareware copies. 

Your distribution of the shareware version of ASL Painter! for renumeration
or not is indication that you recognise that ASL reserves all rights 
including the right to stop all distribution.  

Otherwise, we would prefer that you list ASL as the author name and that 
is about the only requirement that we have AT THIS TIME.

Here's a short description:

ASL Painter! is a 256 color paint program with tools and
features that you can't find anywhere else. Textures, Smears, 
Art Tools and numerous Special Image Editing Effects give you 
the ability to create eye-popping visuals with this simple
yet powerful Windows Paintbrush replacement. Requires Windows
3.1, 386DX, a 256 color video driver, and a stingy 600k of
disk space. From ASL.