Q: Any equivalent to MS Paint in Mac?

somanna wrote:

 

If you or anyone can suggest how one can draw a straight line in this app, I would be delighted!

You are more than welcome somanna, and to draw a straight line you need to hold 'Shift' and then click where you want your line to start and then (while still holding shift) click where you want to line to end... This will create a line between these two points.

Hope this helps

Thanks for the recommendation sketchbookexpress works well and not MS, that's a bonus.

Found a great replacement for MS Paint called Paint X Lite.  This is the free version.  It has most of the same tools as what we are use to.  It has the beloved eye dropper and tons of brushes which give you a lot of effects. Has lots of shapes which you can introduce as an outline or filled.  It has a large color palette.  You can work with 2 colors at once plus the background which really makes it 3 with the use of different brushes.  It has a text tool, spray paint, paint can and free drawing.  It is really mimics how you would paint.

I had an extremely large canvas which I was able to downsize easily.  I found it very intuitive and it gave superior results.  This is what I will be using from here on out.  I am excited to see what else I can do.

I tried sketchbook express; it was okay but not MS Paint like.  I found a free program called Paint X Lite which seems to have all the same tools as MS Paint.  It has most of the same tools that MS Paint users are use to: text tool, spray paint, paint can and free drawing. It has the beloved eye dropper and tons of brushes which give you a lot of effects.  It seems better than MS Paint.  You can work with 2 colors at once plus the background which really makes it 3 when using different brushes techniques.  It is really mimics how you would paint (although I got a D in art). 

Sketchbook express has layers and I did not notice that feature in the Paint X lite.  It could possibly be in the paid version but I don't know.  I think you will be pleasantly surprised.

I also found this: http://raresoftware.org/microsoft-paint-for-mac-os/

Dear Dr. Somanna,

Glad to help. I am sorry but I have not had a chance to play around with it. I found this via youtube and then I recalled your thread and wanted to post something to help you.

I am actually considering transitioning to a Mac and so I am looking into to finding mac alternatives for compatible Windows programs. How was your transition been thus far-- minus the paint ordeal?

Found a brillaint software-Seashore...It works amazingly well.

Earlier in this thread I suggested Paint DS which is a basic copy of MS Paint

It does give feedback on the coordinates

Have a look as it may do the job

Works with OS X 10.7 and later (it also works with OS X 10.6)

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

I cam across with this application today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqPiObIHww4

Download link is : http://dl.dropbox.com/u/93190465/MsPaint.zip

Actually there is a much easier answer. All you will need is a blank white JPG (you can easily get a blank canvas of any kind online with google image search). Open this in Apple Preview, and click the toolbox icon. You will get a variety of tools similar to MS Paint, including a line tool to draw straight lines easily.

Hope this helps!

CH