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Word art made with Deluxe Paint I. I'm trying something new here: using vintage graphics programs for serious digital art work. Why? Two reasons, really: 1. the image quality is obviously going to be a lot different than something made in say GIMP or Photoshop because is uses a lower resolution, fewer colors, etc. which lends itself to some unique and interesting styles not possible with modern programs, and 2. using an older and more limited graphics program with a different set of features forces you to think outside the box and play around with what you have. This is a conceptual piece that I hacked out in what I think is probably the oldest version of Deluxe Paint available. Deluxe Paint was a very popular and revolutionary digital painting program during the 80s, and it was available for both DOS and the Amiga. This particular version is so old, it didn't even recognize the VGA graphics card used by my MS-DOS VM. I had to use a crappy 2-bit color mode, which I decided I didn't like, so I just went with the 1-bit (black-and-white) mode.

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Word art made with Deluxe Paint I. I'm trying something new here: using vintage graphics programs for serious digital art work. Why? Two reasons, really: 1. the image quality is obviously going to be a lot different than something made in say GIMP or Photoshop because is uses a lower resolution, fewer colors, etc. which lends itself to some unique and interesting styles not possible with modern programs, and 2. using an older and more limited graphics program with a different set of features forces you to think outside the box and play around with what you have. This is a conceptual piece that I hacked out in what I think is probably the oldest version of Deluxe Paint available. Deluxe Paint was a very popular and revolutionary digital painting program during the 80s, and it was available for both DOS and the Amiga. This particular version is so old, it didn't even recognize the VGA graphics card used by my MS-DOS VM. I had to use a crappy 2-bit color mode, which I decided I didn't like, so I just went with the 1-bit (black-and-white) mode.