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(HTM) Web-based image editor modeled after Deluxe Paint
pjmlp wrote 3 hours 38 min ago:
While this is a great piece of work, lets take a second to consider how
much resources the Amiga 500 had, and how much is needed to run this
clone.
mamonoleechi wrote 5 hours 32 min ago:
Somewhat related: Grafx 2 Deluxepaint clone for DOS/Windows
(HTM) [1]: http://grafx2.chez.com/
augusteo wrote 11 hours 24 min ago:
The vanilla JS with zero dependencies is refreshing. Looking through
the code, it's surprisingly readable for something handling Amiga file
formats and color cycling.
The demoscene connection makes sense. That community has always valued
doing more with less.
VerifiedReports wrote 9 hours 12 min ago:
Yeah, I'm sick of endless JavaScript libraries that assume that
everyone and everything has Node installed.
Grom_PE wrote 11 hours 34 min ago:
Deluxe Paint 2 for DOS was my favorite drawing program, so had to check
this out, pretty nice!
The only thing that stops me from recommending it is non-integer zoom
levels, which is especially bad for pixel art.
Moving layers around was also confusing, had to click Layer â
Transform â Free Transform to be able to move things around. It would
be much more obvious if there was a move icon in the tool panel that
does just that.
socalgal2 wrote 16 hours 2 min ago:
How is this like DeluxePaint? For me DeluxePaint's defining feature is
how brushes work. You press B, you select some pixels, those pixels
immediately become your brush that you draw with [1] This clone doesn't
do that, therefore it's not remotely like Deluxe Paint and it's
disingenously to claim it's modeled on it.
(HTM) [1]: https://classicreload.com/play/dosx-deluxe-paint-animation.htm...
badsectoracula wrote 13 hours 50 min ago:
It isn't in the linked version but it is in the dev version which
also has some further brush enhancements. It seems the brush stuff
are still being worked on.
antod wrote 13 hours 54 min ago:
My vague memories of DP are centered around the custom ranges for
cycling through color palettes. A talented artist could make simple
animated scenes.
Steffest wrote 2 hours 19 min ago:
Yes, this was one of the main reasons to build this: a modern
editor that still supports color cycling, allowing me to create
things like this:
(HTM) [1]: https://www.dpaint.app/?file=gallery/2026/the-vision-layer...
efilife wrote 5 hours 8 min ago:
[1] this seems to be supported
(HTM) [1]: https://github.com/steffest/DPaint-js?tab=readme-ov-file#c...
dizzy9 wrote 16 hours 24 min ago:
Another Deluxe Paint clone is PyDPainter. It's Python-based and
available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. The UI is very much reminiscent
of the original.
(HTM) [1]: https://github.com/mriale/PyDPainter
1313ed01 wrote 7 hours 50 min ago:
There is also VGA Paint 386. It runs everywhere since it is a DOS
application.
(HTM) [1]: https://www.bttr-software.de/products/vp386/
badsectoracula wrote 17 hours 34 min ago:
This is neat, some years ago i also thought of making a simple DPaint
clone (though much simpler than what this project seems to do) and
started by... painting the tool icons, then losing interest :-P. I did
end up reusing them for a pixelart editing component for Lazarus
though[0] (and put the icons in my "Bad-Common-Icons" icon set[1] that
i use for my GUI programs). But i do want to, at some point, tackle
making something like Paint Shop Pro 7 (for desktop, not web) because i
think it has the best UX of all image editing programs (including later
versions of PSP which i never liked).
That said, i played with this a bit and found some bug with the smudge
tool blending[2]. It also seems browser-related as it has different
behavior in Firefox and Falkon (which uses QtWebEngine / Chromium).
Also the way opacity works with the smudge tool feels weird/wrong as
even at 1% it seems to affect the image a lot even though it should
barely make a difference.
[0] [1] [2]
(HTM) [1]: https://i.imgur.com/kht16dJ.png
(HTM) [2]: http://runtimeterror.com/tools/icons/
(HTM) [3]: https://github.com/steffest/DPaint-js/issues/50
Steffest wrote 14 hours 39 min ago:
Indeed!
Blending colors is surprisingly hard.
I've pushed an update that addresses most of your concerns.
Not perfect yet, but an improvement.
Dev version with these changes on
(HTM) [1]: https://www.stef.be/dpaint/dev/
badsectoracula wrote 13 hours 52 min ago:
I tried the dev version on Firefox and didn't seem to fix the issue
though it was "reversed" in that things became brighter now. On
Falkon it worked better though there was still some weird
coloration for pixels that shouldn't have been altered - see the
images i attached in the bug report.
Also in both cases the brush area remained intact (it was just
'moving around') instead of being smudged, it is more obvious in
the Firefox shot because i only did a simple circular motion but
can also be seen in the Falkon shot in that there is a floating
corner at the top right corner of the orange box that was 'dragged'
from the left side (i was doing a horizontal motion to show that
the pixels above the brush were affected even though there wasn't
any vertical motion to push the orange colors up to the blue area).
newsoftheday wrote 19 hours 9 min ago:
I appreciate the nostalgia of it but DPII was a light themed tool, this
one is dark themed, difficult for me to read.
I run DPII in DoxBox on Linux like this:
dosbox DP.EXE
Something I don't see in your app is the Perspective tool.
VimEscapeArtist wrote 20 hours 2 min ago:
I've been following this app for a while. Worth noting that the author
is also a very talented graphic artist and demoscener. Works created
with this tool frequently appear in various demoscene compos.
bananaboy wrote 15 hours 16 min ago:
Yeah! I posted one of his recent entries to a compo separately but
should have just posted it in this thread [1] He also made this amiga
demo and wrote the music for it too. Heâs multitalented!
(HTM) [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyB5cvA6f78
(HTM) [2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cc8f7zg3-v8
roskelld wrote 20 hours 12 min ago:
Steffest was just showing off his entry for the color cycling
competition at GERP 2026 which uses a few of his tools to produce
including DPaint. [1] EDIT: I see he posted a link at the bottom of the
Readme.md I guess I should have scrolled to the bottom first.
(HTM) [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyB5cvA6f78
heliumtera wrote 21 hours 6 min ago:
Source code is very readable and very comfortable to use application.
This is surprising given it's a web application in modern age, did not
expect that.
Aldipower wrote 21 hours 12 min ago:
Nice! The code looks pretty neat! And also somehow clean. I like those
projects, without all those boring constraints you have in "enterprise"
or even worse start-up code.
kosolam wrote 21 hours 42 min ago:
Nice. Vanilla js with a pretty clean code. From a quick look there is
some components architecture and they are decoupled via an events bus.
I used to implement evented architectures in winform apps in the past.
On the one hand it may seem insane but in practice it was a really good
choice.
baudaux wrote 22 hours 21 min ago:
Is it simple to adapt file open/save in order to embed it in [1] ?
(HTM) [1]: https://exaequos.com
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