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In the mid to late 90s and before I permanently switched to Photoshop, I mostly used a program called Corel Photopaint.
In the early 90s and before I switched to Photopaint, I had 24 bit color on an Motorolla O40 accelerated Amiga 3000 via an OpalVision Card and used Opal Paint.
In the mid 80s and long before Opal Paint I was using a far different type of paint program called Deluxe Paint on an Amiga 2000. By today’s standards it was crude but at the time it was state of the art graphics and an epiphany to me.
‘Jack’ is one of my very earliest efforts and was on an interlaced 640x400 screen or even more likely 320x200. So early in fact, I think it was a learning project done on a friend’s Amiga 1000 using Deluxe Paint 1 before I was even using an Amiga 2000. Its as much myth as memory at this point. This B&W image has been processed (de-interlaced & resized?) in the ensuing 35 years but is the only bitmap file that has (almost) made it intact from those early computer graphics day. I suspect 35 computer years roughly translates in human years to the Neolithic Period.
Fast forward ahead to today and I decided to do a modern version of ‘Jack’ in Photoshop. Its as accurate as I can get it. I’m still fascinated by technological progress although realistically, I could have done this update in PS CS around the year 2000.
At any rate, Halloween is right around the corner and I just came across ‘Jack’ (again) and thought someone might get a chuckle out of it, especially compared to the new version.
Bruce
In the early 90s and before I switched to Photopaint, I had 24 bit color on an Motorolla O40 accelerated Amiga 3000 via an OpalVision Card and used Opal Paint.
In the mid 80s and long before Opal Paint I was using a far different type of paint program called Deluxe Paint on an Amiga 2000. By today’s standards it was crude but at the time it was state of the art graphics and an epiphany to me.
‘Jack’ is one of my very earliest efforts and was on an interlaced 640x400 screen or even more likely 320x200. So early in fact, I think it was a learning project done on a friend’s Amiga 1000 using Deluxe Paint 1 before I was even using an Amiga 2000. Its as much myth as memory at this point. This B&W image has been processed (de-interlaced & resized?) in the ensuing 35 years but is the only bitmap file that has (almost) made it intact from those early computer graphics day. I suspect 35 computer years roughly translates in human years to the Neolithic Period.
Fast forward ahead to today and I decided to do a modern version of ‘Jack’ in Photoshop. Its as accurate as I can get it. I’m still fascinated by technological progress although realistically, I could have done this update in PS CS around the year 2000.
At any rate, Halloween is right around the corner and I just came across ‘Jack’ (again) and thought someone might get a chuckle out of it, especially compared to the new version.
Bruce