Developer(s) | Computer Associates |
---|---|
Operating system | Macintosh System 6, Windows |
Type | Bitmap-based image editing |
License | Commercial |
Cricket Paint was a second generation 1-bit (black and white) painting software program for the
Apple
Macintosh by
Cricket Software. It followed
MacPaint and was a competitor to
Silicon Beach Software's
SuperPaint. Like SuperPaint it was an early attempt to combine the separate graphic methods of
bitmap and
vector graphics.
Cricket Software already had a vector-only package called
CricketDraw.
The way it achieved this dualism was with a feature called
WetPaint. This allowed the user to draw vector graphics and modify them in an object-oriented way like in Apple's
MacDraw, for example, changing the size, stroke and fill. When satisfied, the user could click outside the object and Cricket Paint would convert the vector graphic into a bitmap and place it on the canvas, in a destructive edit.
This package had some extra tools not found in MacPaint or MacDraw, such as the Spiral and Starburst, which drew radial lines.
It was also released for Microsoft Windows. [1]
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list of references,
related reading, or
external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks
inline citations. (May 2023) |
Developer(s) | Computer Associates |
---|---|
Operating system | Macintosh System 6, Windows |
Type | Bitmap-based image editing |
License | Commercial |
Cricket Paint was a second generation 1-bit (black and white) painting software program for the
Apple
Macintosh by
Cricket Software. It followed
MacPaint and was a competitor to
Silicon Beach Software's
SuperPaint. Like SuperPaint it was an early attempt to combine the separate graphic methods of
bitmap and
vector graphics.
Cricket Software already had a vector-only package called
CricketDraw.
The way it achieved this dualism was with a feature called
WetPaint. This allowed the user to draw vector graphics and modify them in an object-oriented way like in Apple's
MacDraw, for example, changing the size, stroke and fill. When satisfied, the user could click outside the object and Cricket Paint would convert the vector graphic into a bitmap and place it on the canvas, in a destructive edit.
This package had some extra tools not found in MacPaint or MacDraw, such as the Spiral and Starburst, which drew radial lines.
It was also released for Microsoft Windows. [1]
![]() | This article includes a
list of references,
related reading, or
external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks
inline citations. (May 2023) |