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Paintbrush- Paint the Mac way

Posted on by Paul

I’ve always felt that Mac could use a software like Microsoft’s Paint program, and now, we have one. Paintbrush!

Get Paintbrush here.

13 comments

  1. ianheath653 · August 21, 2007

    Nifty. This beats the pants off firing up X11 and the GIMP for simple tasks. Thanks!

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  2. RyanOtero · August 28, 2007

    Hey this looks Awesome !
    but your link is broke , bummer

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  3. Paul · August 28, 2007

    You are right! And thanks for bringing that up, looks like Apple reorganized the 3rd party apps, therefore changing the links! Now, it should work fine 🙂

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  4. Japhy Cat · November 8, 2007

    Too bad it’s lacking a little….
    I can’t change brush shapes, and there is no spray paint can 😦

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  5. em · February 23, 2008

    i hate it because when u insert text it wont allow me to put it where i want it and it just keeps repeating it over and over again!!!!! 😡

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  6. em · February 23, 2008

    i hate it because when u insert text it wont allow me to put it where i want it and it just keeps repeating it over and over again!!!!! 😡 URRRRR

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  7. Nathan · March 7, 2008

    Great but the diagonal line needs refining, in MS Paint it stays the same width as a vertical line but here it is much fatter. Other wise great!!!

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  8. Anna · March 23, 2008

    I dont like it all that well you cannot place the text wherever you want it! It just keeps repeating…

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  9. jackson · May 18, 2008

    this sucks… why cant you crop out images like you can on microsofts

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  10. Paul · May 18, 2008

    That’s because it’s not Microsoft’s Paint. Forget that, get skitch, very nifty!

    https://pimpmymac.wordpress.com/2008/05/10/skitch-grab-it-while-its-still-in-beta/

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  11. sam · January 10, 2009

    Paint brush sucks ass I can’t even change the size of an image, honestly it can’t even handle simple tasks , and whats up with the no spray can . windows MS is the any way

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  12. Maurits Dorlandt · May 25, 2009

    Paintbrush is handy however, there are many things which paintbrush is unable to do compared to MS paint, including, easy insert pics, change size and color of parts/whole document.
    And draging whithout background is not possible, cutting peaces is also very hard.

    Can somebody make a perfect clone or even better, an improved MS Paint for Mac??

    thanks!

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  13. Josh · May 10, 2010

    Paintbrush is a wreck. I can’t even cut out specific shapes, and laying text over an image is pretty annoyingly difficult.

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