15 Facts About Deluxe Paint

Deluxe Paint, often referred to as DPaint, is a bitmap graphics editor series created by Dan Silva for Electronic Arts.

The original Deluxe Paint was written for the Commodore Amiga 1000 and released in November 1985.

Deluxe Paint began as an in-house art development tool called Prism.

Early versions of Deluxe Paint were available in protected and non copy-protected versions, the latter retailing for a slightly higher price.

Deluxe Paint was first in a series of products from the Electronic Arts Tools group—then later moved to the ICE group—which included such Amiga programs as Deluxe Music Construction Set, Deluxe Video, and the Studio series of paint programs for the Macintosh.

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Deluxe Paint was used by LucasArts to make graphics for their adventure games such as The Secret of Monkey Island, and the name of a particular filename used to store the main protagonist Guybrush Threepwood was probably at the origin of his peculiar name.

Deluxe Paint III appeared in 1988 and added support for Extra Halfbrite.

Deluxe Paint III added the ability to create cel-like animation, and animbrushes.

Deluxe Paint III was one of the first paint programs to support animbrushes.

Deluxe Paint II Enhanced was released in 1989, requiring MS-DOS 2.

Sister product Deluxe Paint Animation was widely used, especially in the videogame industry.

Deluxe Paint ST was developed by ArtisTech Development, published by Electronic Arts, and was released in 1990, supporting features such as the STE 4096-color palette.

Deluxe Paint III won Commodore International's Enterprise and Vision award in 1990, becoming the first software to win the award, for what the company's judges believed to be best utilizing the Amiga's graphical capabilities.

Deluxe Paint was frequently used for making graphics for home computer games from the late 1980's to the early 1990's, and was used for games such as Another World, Dark Seed, Eye of the Beholder, The Secret of Monkey Island, and Wolfenstein 3D.

British author and artist Molly Cutpurse used Deluxe Paint to create the video graphics for the 1989 film Murder on the Moon, starring Brigitte Nielsen.