Paintbrush is a Cocoa-based paint program for Mac OS X, similar to Microsoft Paint and MacPaint.

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Raster Graphics

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GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPLv3)

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  • THis app sucks Balls
  • Excellent tool, I spend hours on it, I don't know the author but I thank him very much, I'm an artist and when I work in digital I only use Paint, only in black and white, I really like this aesthetic and I develop artistic projects with, (drawing, graphics, gif, animation) only based on the work with Paint. People sometimes look at me like crazy, I know I could do things faster on more developed software but it doesn't have the same charm and fun. If you are interested, you can see my work on instagram: pbdl_art There are a few tools and tweaks I would like to have on Paint. - On large images, the Spray tool sometimes crashes and stops working, forcing me to restart the software. - I would like to have the single Color Erase, outline of brush and eraser stamp area. - I would like to have layers, 3 layers would be enough for most of my projects, front, middle and background. - Selectable intermediate zoom levels. Often I am stuck between 25 and 100% - tools to make perfect circles and squares
  • It's a nice tool that provides some basic raster "painting". Functionally, it's quite similar to Microsoft Paint for older Windows versions (think Windows 95 through Windows XP). I use Microsoft Paint to create pixel art as a hobby, and unfortunately, Paintbrush does fall a bit short for it to be a replacement. For one, the floating window application design has never been a good design paradigm, and it doesn't work for a tool like this. If we take a look at more advanced tools like Photoshop and Pixelmator, we can see that floating windows have been abandoned a long time ago. Even GIMP has gone for a single-window design in more recent builds. Two, to build off of point 1, the overall UI and other design language could be brought into the current MacOS design language. I would highly suggest using Preview as an example. Three, the tool is missing a few features found in modern Microsoft Paint. Microsoft Paint, going back to Windows 7, has added quite a few additional shapes and antialiasing (even though this isn't something I use, I would appreciate it being there). Additionally, a feature found even in older versions of paint, the hidden color replacement tool with the eraser tool, is missing. Four, the color picker tool does not work as expected. In Paint, the you select the color you want to replace with the picker (either the primary or secondary color), select the color picker tool, and then pick the color on the canvas you want. PaintBrush, counter-intuitively, has you "left click" for the primary color and "right click" for the secondary color. It should follow the behavior of Microsoft Paint. These are nitpicks in the grand scheme of things, though. It may be unusable to me for pixel art because of the design choices and tool functionality, but for most people whom I'm assuming are installing for nostalgia reasons or for their kids, it's great. It just needs my complaints mentioned above for it to be a tool for me.
  • I used to use Windows Paint and this application is a great alternative to it.
  • I've been using Paintbrush for a long time, many years. It never failed me.
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Operating Systems

Mac

Languages

English

Intended Audience

End Users/Desktop

User Interface

Cocoa (MacOS X)

Programming Language

Objective C

Related Categories

Objective C Raster Graphics Software

Registered

2007-03-10