There are no layers or tools to edit specific objects – in fact there are very few toolbars or pallets at all – it’s all about paintbrushes, colors and drawing. The brush strokes on the canvas in particular are fast, smooth and feel very realistic. Patina is ideal for sketching ideas, drawing diagrams, illustrating a concept or just doodling. You can crop, rotate and resize images, add arrows, open and import PSD files, PDF, AI and PS files. You can save images with a transparent background and simply drag and drop images onto the canvas for editing. Importantly for Mac users, unlike many Paint equivalents on Mac, Patina is regularly updated to be compatible with the latest versions of macOS including El Capitan, Sierra and High Sierra. This in itself is worth paying a few dollars for because although most similar Paint apps for Mac are either free or open source meaning the developer doesn’t often update them when there’s a new release of OS X and they end up not working anymore. This is what happened to Paintbrush (see review below) which used to be the best alternative to Microsoft Paint on Mac but now doesn’t work properly with OS X 10.11 El Capitan or macOS 10.12 Sierra or 10.13 High Sierra. Patina works with all versions of OS X from 10.8 Mountain Lion and above and we’ve had no problems with it in the latest versions of macOS. To learn more about exactly what Patina can and can’t do, check out the Patina FAQs. Paintbrush for Mac used to be the best alternative to Paint for Mac and is completely free. However, after the release of OS X El Capitan, it is no longer stable and so it’s only a good option if you’re working on OS X 10.10 Yosemite or lower.Īs soon as you open Paintbrush, you’ll notice that it features a very similar interface to the classic version of MS Paint with the same kind of color palette and paintbrush tools. You can open and save most image formats in Paintbrush including BMP, PNG, JPEG, TIFF, and GIF images. ![]() You can import transparent images although only those that support an alpha channel in PNGs and GIF format. You can also cut and paste images from other applications such as Microsoft Office, Adobe Creative Suite and OS X Preview. The latest version of Paintbrush for Mac also supports marching ants for the selection tool i.e. the ability to select an object and distinguish it from the background with a dotted-line border. Other useful tools included in Paintbrush include Airbrush, Rounded Rectangle, Eyedropper, and Zoom. You can also of course resize images or the canvas and zoom into images to edit individual pixels like on Microsoft Paint. The biggest problem however with Paintbrush is that it isn’t updated very often. The last update was in 2015 and we’ve noticed it doesn’t work well with El Capitan or above. Note that if you’re still using OS X Tiger or lower, you can download an older version of Paintbrush 1.2 for Mac. ![]() But if you’re on an older version of OS X than El Capitan and don’t want to pay a dime, Paintbrush is definitely worth trying. If you need a basic, streamlined image editor for Mac that can satisfy your need to doodle, entertain the kids, quickly crop a photo or image or add some text to an image, Paintbrush is still a very good equivalent to MS Paint.
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