The Patina Story. In response to the often heard remark 'I love my Mac, but I wish it had something like Paint,' we evaluated currently available drawing apps for Mac. We found many complicated apps for doing sophisticated illustrations, but we did not find any apps for doing simple drawings and sketches that we felt were truly excellent. Patina is an elegant equivalent to Microsoft Paint on Mac which is aimed at those that want something stylish, powerful but simple like MS Paint.
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Although Mac doesn’t have any default sketching app, there are tons of 3rd party tools that look and function like MS Paint. We’ve absolutely no idea why Microsoft doesn’t take this as an opportunity to create a perfect Paint application for Mac, but other developers have. We are listing the best of them, select according to your requirements. SeashorePrice: FreeSeashore is the basic image editing tool with all-new Cocoa UI. It was released a long time ago, but it features anti-aliasing, textures and gradients for both brush strokes and texts. More specifically, you will get full support for XCF file format, separate editing of layers channel, layer to layer merging effects, 6 gradient effects and plugin filter effects.The best thing is, apart from being a basic tool, it supports multiple layers and alpha channel editing.
Overall, you won’t get a feeling that you are using a decade old software. We recommend it for all amateur users who want to perform some simple photo editing functions. DeskScribblePrice: $10allows you to draw on top of your window. It’s an easy to use blackboard or whiteboard that you can use for your own or your kid’s scribbles. It provides you Pencil, Eraser, color picker, thickness slider and click through tool to interact with other apps.The software can be used for creating presentations, visual demonstration, desktop highlighting, annotations and writing notes.
It has full autosave, undo and redo support, so you don’t have to care if you made an error, just undo your action and start over again. Tux PaintPrice: Freeis a drawing tool especially designed for children.
It combines a simple user interface, fun sound elements, and encouraging cartoon mascot that guides kids as they use the tool. At startup, kids are presented with a blank canvas and several drawing tools to help them be build something creative.There are plenty of fun graphic effects like “distortion” for messing up the lines, “confetti” for sprinkling the drawing with colored dots, “flower” for sketching flowers of any height, and much more. GIMPPrice: Free(stands for Image Manipulation Program) is an open source image editor that comes with several advanced features, along with all the basic functions available in MS Paint.It gives you number of sophisticated tools to get your job done.
You can adjust the pressure of brush, weight, its hardness to get a smooth stroke and reduce jitters. Gaussian blurs, color adjustment and color correction are some additional options to make your work look great. Moreover, you can install 3rd party plugins to further enhance your productivity and tool’s functionality. Paint 2Price: Free $10With, you can draw photos and edit your existing pictures.
It lets you rotate, crop and scale pictures, and at the same time you can add text onto images. The best things is it supports layers, magic selection tool and tabs, so you can easily work on several photos without having to open it in separate windows.Paint 2 supports all types of tools including eyedropper, curve, ellipse, curved texts, transparency, gradient, shadow, reflection, and grid and rulers; all this for free. The premium version, has some additional features like it supports retina display and advanced color adjustment. However, we suggest you to stick with the free version if your requirement doesn’t include detailed photography.
Paint XPrice: $10 availableis a classic painting tool for sketching, coloring and editing images. It is often used for creating simple pictures and projects, and adding text and designs to other images, like those are captured with a digital camera. It features some realistic brushes, ribbons and display choices out in the open rather than buried in menus.The tool is packed with more than 150 inbuilt paint brushes, including calligraphy brush, ink brush, blur brush, DNA brush and many more. Over 25 predesigned shapes are included (oval, heart, cloud, smile) to make your sketch more interesting. The application looks modern, and because it is free, it’s no harm to give a shot. MischiefPrice: $25 15 days trial available a free version with limited capabilityAlthough the comes with a basic tool kit, you can use it to make some eye-catching artwork.
Like MS Paint, it provides you with a pen, eraser and various shaping tools. It also offers a few configurability and additional features like 6 brush variant for quick access, unlimited number of redo or undo, and more.The free version comes with all essential tools with an infinite canvas, perfect for hashing out ideas. On the other hand, premium version has more presets, layers support and files can be exported to PSD files.
The trial version gives you access to premium version software for 15 days. So before making a buying call, make sure you are satisfied with all features provided.
Photoshop ElementsPrice: $99If Photoshop is too complex for you, there is a you can buy. This is primarily an image editing tool that helps you clean, crop, polish and share your pictures. For instance, you can transform frowns into smiles, tweak squinting eyes and make other quick adjustments.Photoshop Elements allows you to create a collage of effects and add colors, brighten, enhance clarity and add effects to multiple pictures at the same time. The price tag is quite high, but since it is a product distributed by Adobe, you can trust it. PixelmatorPrice: $30is the advanced version of MS Paint. It comes with a dark interface so that you can focus on the element you are working on.
There are plenty of useful tools like sponge tool, blur, sharpen, and retouching tool.What else? It’s a real effect software that allows you to play with over 160 awesome effects, cover any area with beautiful gradient, replace and remix colors, improve ordinary images within one click, and adjust color using professional grade color correction tool.
Overall, the application is worth every penny. PaintbrushPrice: Freeis a lightweight and easy-to-use program that allows you to create simple pictures. It includes all functions that you get in MS Paint such as rounded rectangle, zoom, airbrush, cropping, and image and canvas resizing. However, if you are expecting a high-end image editors, this tool is not for you.Read: 15+ Best Online Photo Editing Tools to Enhance Your SelfiesPaintbrush supports transparency for image format having alpha channel like PNGs and GIFs. Also, you can paste copied picture from different Mac applications including Apple iWork and MS office.
The Patina StoryIn response to the often heard remark 'I love my Mac, but I wish it had something like Paint,' we evaluated currently available drawing apps for Mac. We found many complicated apps for doing sophisticated illustrations, but we did not find any apps for doing simple drawings and sketches that we felt were truly excellent. Many of the more simple apps we found were based on the Paintbrush open source code, which is not a very appealing replacement for Paint.With the realization that there was no currently existing app that could satisfactorily fulfill the role of 'Paint for Mac', our team in California and Washington set out to develop a simple drawing app from scratch that would delight Mac users. We didn't want to rush Patina to market, and we knew it couldn't be hacked together in a fortnight, but the journey ended up being longer than anticipated. More than a year of hard work went into making sure the app was up to the standard that Mac users should expect in terms of visual appeal, user-friendliness, performance, and quality.Throughout the development process, we adhered to a very thorough testing process, and we only launched Patina once we were confident that most major bugs were already found and eliminated. Please let us know how we did.
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