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4thRock
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I'm familiar with Art Studio but what other paint programs were popular ?
I know I can search the site for Utility: Graphics, but what did people really use? And what for?
And for other systems and screens modes, like the QL, Sam and Russian clones ?

On my case, I used Art Studio to create loading screens for my basic "games".
But owning a Timex I was a bit frustrated that there was no editor supporting the extra graphic modes...
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on the russian scene the king is most likely burial graphics editor (bge for short)
and in the early years it was well documented art studio definitely
nobody around me knew how to use the artist

but i'm not a spectrum artist myself, and can't say for everyone

you may check this list in the russian speccywiki
http://speccy.info/Категория:Графические_редакторы
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For a modern Windows software to create a screen, you could use ZX Paintbrush.
http://zx-modules.de/?page_id=55
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Yes, ZX-Paintbrush is great and supports Timex modes.
I tried BGE but the Russian interface is a problem...
Thanks for the Russian wiki, that's a good starting point for some exploration!
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I still use The Artist II and I am slowly switching to Multipaint http://multipaint.kameli.net/. On the other hand, I am far from being a graphics artist or something.
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I remember having in my first Speccy days Melbourne Draw, The Artist and Leonardo.
But I was not very keen on them, didn't used them much.

So why did I have them all? Well, I didn't own the originals, it was probably some C90 cassette with different utils :oops:

Today I use PC generic tools and later convert them to Speccy format. I find it more comfortable.
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Russian artists are so harsh that they have an editor for drawing images on the border. It is the editor, not the converter :-)
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Melbourne Draw on the Spectrum, ZX-Paintbrush on the PC nowadays.
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