Talk:LightningPaint

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I added book with 60 pages about this software as reference, there are also hard to find reviews of this software in old magazines.

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InfoMac abstract[edit]

Here is the author's description, probably from the info mac abstract. Sourced from http://www.gryphel.com/c/sw/general/ltnnpnt/index.html

Date: Sun, 24 Nov 91 17:25:52 -0500

From: Humayun Lari

Subject: LightningPaint

Dear MacPeople,

LightningPaint is a powerful black-and-white paint program with a clean interface, and supports paintings of practically any size and resolution. It has all the standard paint tools, plus some special ones like the starburst, spiral, and mixing spray. A unique zoom control makes it easy to choose the magnification you want -- you can zoom in or out anywhere from 1:16 to 16:1, and you can edit all the way. Special effects include different inks that all tools use, graduated gray fills and shadows, the fun 'fisheye' command, and the ability to use the picture on the clipboard to fill an area. To make painting easier, LP has the ability to mask painting to a selected area, as well as a 'snapshot' like that in MacPaint(TM) 2.0. Little touches, like power keys for special effects, and power scrolling to ease moving around the painting, help during editing.

LP is $14 shareware (only $7 if you're a student). The best thing I can say about it is that *I* use it all the time. In my biased opinion, it's definitely worth its fee; at the least, it's fun to play with! I'd really like to write more shareware, but that depends on the response I get. Your payment of the shareware fee will show me that someone thinks my programming has value!

Hope you enjoy it,

Humayun Lari

MacUser review[edit]

Book Big Mac Secrets I used to reference this software mentions review in September 1992 MacUser magazine. I don´t have this one at hand, so I post limited reference here:

MacUser. Ziff-Davis. September 1992. ISSN 0884-0997. {{cite magazine}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

Pavlor (talk) 10:07, 1 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

MacUser: MacUser guide to shareware[edit]

Preview in Google books shows another reference:

Wasson, Gregory (1993). MacUser: MacUser guide to shareware. Emeryville, Calif.: Ziff-Davis Press. pp. 151, 152. ISBN 1562760769.

Pavlor (talk) 10:45, 20 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]