VideoPaint started out several years and many bugs ago as the French import GraphistPaint, an 8-bit graphics-and-retouching program. Although the name is new, not much else has changed. Speed is somewhat improved, but VideoPaint still isn't fast. The manual is better, but there are still some serious terminology problems. What makes VideoPaint worthwhile are its special effects, many of which are found nowhere else.
Basic operation is multilayer, with masks always available. The Stencil layer is essential, because many of the special effects are created in this layer and then blended or moved into the main layer. You' re limited to only one open document at a lime, however, so transferring work between documents can be cumbersome.
The Incrust special effect, for example, puis the contents of the Stencil layer into the selected graphics item or area in the main layer, A painting of a marble pattern, for example, can be placed inside the letters of the word Marble, producing a written-in-stone look. The Sphemation special effect converts a rectangular selection into a circle, producing a “fish eye" effect. Although they're spectacular, you won’t use these features every day.
VideoPaint includes tools for creating regular 3-D objects (rectangles, cubes, 3-D circles, spheres, cones, cylinders, and perspective planes ) in both solid and wireframe modes, but this is not Swivel 3D or Super 3D by a long shot.
VideoPaint includes drivers for Microtek and Sharp scanners, and it can import MacPaint, PICT, P1CT2, Pixel-Paint, Color TIFF, LZW, and Studio/8 files. The export list is even longer, including EPS, gray-scale PostScript, and PostScript CMYK formats. A developers toolkit is available for users who want to create their own extensions.
VideoPaint can create visual effects that are difficult — or impossible — to achieve in other programs, and it does so fairly easily. The program is hard to learn, and the manual could be much better. Once mastered, VideoPaint's operation is slow but quite easy. If you’re looking for an everyday color painting program, you would be better off with DeskPaint or Studio/8. But if you’re interested in something special, VideoPaint is certainly worth investigating.
Bobker, Steven. (February 1991). VideoPaint. MacUser. (pgs. 96-97).
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Emulating this? It could probably run under: 
Basilisk II
