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Q: Any equivalent to MS Paint in Mac?

Hello to all,

 

I come from a windows background and am very familiar with the simple 'paint' application; I am searching for an equivalent app for my Mac. I have downloaded [free] 'paintbrush for Mac' from the internet but find that it does not have the tools which MS Paint has, and more importantly, I can work only with 2 colors...white an black. Can anyone point out to me any free download that allows me to work in color too?

 

FYI I do have Adobe photoshop but feel uncomfortable in trying to learn it! A personal 'irrational' dislike!

iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4), garage band, FCPX:10.0.5 version

Posted on Oct 16, 2012 4:33 AM

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  • by somanna,

    somanna somanna Oct 16, 2012 9:37 PM in response to trouble me
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    Oct 16, 2012 9:37 PM in response to trouble me

    Hello trouble me! Thanks extremely for your willingness to be troubled by troubled people! I have done what you have advised and I feel your answer would 'de-trouble' me! I have not been much satisfied with paintbrush [though I might end up using it] and am looking forwards to working with sketchbookexpress which has just downloaded.

  • by somanna,

    somanna somanna Oct 16, 2012 9:43 PM in response to noondaywitch
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    Oct 16, 2012 9:43 PM in response to noondaywitch

    Thanks for your reply and suggestion. I had a dake into Intaglio and its 'sophisticated' features have had an intimidating effect upon me! I am so used to the simplicity of the lower end version of MS Paint and root for such a simple app to work with my Mac. If I fail to find one I guess I need to do such works with my windows PC or my Dell laptop.

  • by somanna,

    somanna somanna Oct 16, 2012 9:58 PM in response to MichelPM
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    Oct 16, 2012 9:58 PM in response to MichelPM

    Hello Michel

     

    Thanks for your sustained interest to help me.

     

    I have used MS Paint for many years and have switched to Mac only recently.

     

    I have written books on traffic issues and have used Paint for drawing diagrams of road related changes. I have used Pain to make diagrams of orphanages, churches and houses.

     

    Seeing the colorful diagrams I had done using Paint, a friend who teaches photoshop pressed upon me to use Adobe photoshop for my works. He in fact installed it on my computer. I found it far 'more complicated' than Paint and I saw no reason why I needed to saddle my mind learning this app when I was able to easily get my way around with Pain itself.

     

    However, this decision needs to be reviewed if I fail to find an equivalent to MS Paint. If you could suggest any site which allows beginners to learn photoshop by aid of video tutorials, kindly let me know.

     

    Thanks once again. Take care. Have a nice day.

  • by somanna,

    somanna somanna Oct 16, 2012 10:38 PM in response to trouble me
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    Oct 16, 2012 10:38 PM in response to trouble me

    Hello trouble me, sketchbook express is troubling me! I opened the app and found that the going was slow and the app quit unexpectedly. I sent a report to apple. When I restarted the app, I got this message:

     

    Screen Shot 2012-10-17 at 11.03.19 AM.png

     

    What should I do now?

  • by -=Matt=-,

    -=Matt=- -=Matt=- Oct 16, 2012 11:05 PM in response to somanna
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    Oct 16, 2012 11:05 PM in response to somanna

    Hi Somanna,

     

    there may be a possibility that your machine has started up in Safe Mode. Try restarting your Mac and trying to open SketchBook again. If that fails then you may need to look at removing startup items as one of them could be causing your machine to start up in Safe Mode. Click here for information on how to do this.

     

    As for graphics software i have found Gimp to be quite good. It has a massive number of tools and featues, not only that its free.

     

    Hope this helps.

     

    Cheers

     

    Matt

  • by somanna,

    somanna somanna Oct 17, 2012 5:24 AM in response to -=Matt=-
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    Oct 17, 2012 5:24 AM in response to -=Matt=-

    Thanks Matt for the further input. I seem to be having a problem with my Mac...it is giving an alarm after I put it to sleep. I have raised this issue in another thread and I guess I will monkey around with paint related stuff once this problem is cleared.

     

    Shall return to this thread once I am able to move ahead freely.

  • by Chris Harwood,

    Chris Harwood Chris Harwood Oct 17, 2012 6:39 AM in response to somanna
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    Oct 17, 2012 6:39 AM in response to somanna

    There is a program called Paint DS which looks and feels almost identical to MS Paint.

    It is not free but costs $15. There is a free trial period.

    http://www.rdsisemore.com/paintds/index.html

     

    I bought it 2 years ago and use it for for various purposes like cleaning up scans or resizing as well as simple designs and although I had problems with the key code when purchasing, the author was extremely responsive and sorted it in under an hour.

  • by Ian R. Brown,

    Ian R. Brown Ian R. Brown Oct 17, 2012 7:37 AM in response to somanna
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    Oct 17, 2012 7:37 AM in response to somanna

    Doctor! Doctor! Why doesn't Paintbrush paint in colours?

     

    I've never seen the program so I thought I would see what the trouble was.

     

    Less than 5 minutes ago I downloaded it and produced this masterpiece.

     

    Obviously my artwork leaves a bit to be desired but the colours are all there!

     

    yo.png

  • by Ian R. Brown,

    Ian R. Brown Ian R. Brown Oct 17, 2012 7:47 AM in response to Ian R. Brown
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    Oct 17, 2012 7:47 AM in response to Ian R. Brown

    Who says Paintbrush can't produce colours?

     

    I've only had it ten minutes and I'm producing masterpieces  .  .  .  move over Van Gogh.

     

    heck.png

     

     

    Have you tried changing the colour?

  • by somanna,

    somanna somanna Oct 17, 2012 8:24 AM in response to Ian R. Brown
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    Oct 17, 2012 8:24 AM in response to Ian R. Brown

    Ha Ha Ian. Thanks for your colorful replies. Glad that I have been a little help in making you the most famous painter on earth!

  • by Ian R. Brown,

    Ian R. Brown Ian R. Brown Oct 17, 2012 8:29 AM in response to somanna
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    Oct 17, 2012 8:29 AM in response to somanna

    But the question is, have you figured out how to add colour?

     

    It took me less than a minute.

  • by MichelPM,

    MichelPM MichelPM Oct 17, 2012 8:55 AM in response to somanna
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    Oct 17, 2012 8:55 AM in response to somanna

    If you want to learn Photoshop as a beginner, go to the web, go to YouTube and search for beginning Photoshop.

    Lots of beginner videos there.

    Good Luck!

  • by somanna,

    somanna somanna Oct 17, 2012 10:22 AM in response to Ian R. Brown
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    Oct 17, 2012 10:22 AM in response to Ian R. Brown

    Yes Ian! This gentleman had given me the answer:

     

    '

     

     

    Paintbrush will work in colors, for me.

     

    At the Paintbrush menu bar select Font, then Show Colors, then select the color that you wish to use.'

     

    I had followed his instructions and learned how to add color.

  • by somanna,

    somanna somanna Oct 17, 2012 6:04 PM in response to MichelPM
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    Oct 17, 2012 6:04 PM in response to MichelPM

    Thanks Michel for all of your replies and encouragement. I have started wading into layers...this is a feature in this app called SketchBookExpress which I have downloaded. The problem with this free download seems that it lacks text input.

  • by somanna,

    somanna somanna Oct 17, 2012 6:16 PM in response to Ian R. Brown
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    Mac OS X
    Oct 17, 2012 6:16 PM in response to Ian R. Brown

    Hello Ian,

     

    I have been trying out this app which is called SketchBook Express. It is also a free download from the Apple store. It seems to be lacking text input. Let me show my showpiece, my first piece of art with this app. I guess it looks very awful, but will have this noble quality: it will make every other artwork made by any person on earth a better one! Care to view it?

     

     

    my first work insketchbookexpress1, PNG.png

     

    BTW, I had saved this work as TIFF format and it failed to upload. Subsequently I saved it as PNG and lo and behold, it uploaded! Don't know what these formats mean but I am enjoying this every bit!

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