Editing Atari ST (section)

=== Applications ===
Also popular on the ST was professional [[desktop publishing]] software, such as ''PageStream'' and ''Calamus''; office tools such as word processors (''WordPerfect'', ''WordWriter ST'' and others), spreadsheets and database programs; and various CAD and CAM tools from amateur hobbyist to professional grade, all being largely targeted or even limited to high resolution monochrome-monitor owners.

Graphics programs such as ''NEOchrome'', ''Degas'' & ''Degas Elite'', ''Canvas'', ''Deluxe Pain'', and ''Cyber Paint'' featured advanced features such as 3D design, animation. One paint program, ''Spectrum 512'', used palette switching tricks allowing the maximum number of colors to be displayed on-screen at once (up to 46 in each scan line - the STE never had a Spectrum4096, but other more minor applications filled this speciality niche, one even going so far as to trick the shifter into displaying a maximum 19200 colours).

[[3D computer graphics]] applications (like The [[Cyber Studio]]), brought 3D modelling, sculpting, scripting, and most important, [[computer animation]] (using delta-compression) to the desktop. Video capture and editing applications using special video capture 'dongles' connected using the cartridge port - low frame rate, mainly silent and monochrome, but progressing to sound and basic colour (in still frames) by the end of the machine's life.