With PostScript on the display, the NeXT Computer gives you access to the most powerful graphics tools you'll find on any computer.

Suppose you're in FrameMaker, you've just finished your first draft of text and you're ready to integrate the graphics.  One click brings up a palette with all your basic drawing tools--lines, shapes, patterns--so you can draw product sketches, diagrams, charts, whatever.  In fact, these could very well be all the graphics tools you'll ever need.

But if you need more specialized tools, the NeXT Computer makes that easy too.  Multitasking lets you switch to any other application without losing your place in FrameMaker.

For this page, you're going to be calling on the power of TopDraw, a complete drawing and illustration package.

First, scan in the child's portrait.  Then, using TopDraw's tools, you can crop, scale, rotate or skew the image, and adjust contrast and brightness.

You can also use TopDraw for line art.  It lets you create shapes, patterns and Bezier curves, from simple to complex.  Or perform even more extraordinary feats, like typing text (and kerning it) along an irregular, curving line.

If you do extensive work with illustration and photo retouching, there's another, equally outrageous weapon: Artisan.  It lets you sharpen, blur, scale and rotate images.  Its advanced tools include a lavish selection of brushes--including a retouching brush, pencil, charcoal, even an adjustable airbrush.

Of course, you don't have to create all of the art yourself.  To save time, some of the images here were simple copied from our customized Digital Library and files of clip art.

It just proves that with the NeXT Computer, desktop publishing isn't merely simpler or faster.  It's a higher form of art.