Any equivalent to MS Paint in Mac?

somanna wrote:

Thanks for your reply. You have given the correct instruction as to how one can add color in paintbrush. However, I feel [I have not experimented fully yet with this] that it does not allow one to draw straight lines [shift>drag]. I have used Microsoft's Paint to draw diagrams to scale. If there are ways to get this feature of drawing straight lines in this app, please let me know.

[Shift > drag] + the Straight-line button results in straight lines which are limited to fixed angles.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/paintbrush/forums

Photoshop Elements and Graphic Converter are the staple food of photo editting and image creation on Mac.

Alas there's no native paint or draw apps since Applworks, and that won't run on Lion or above.

Another consideration, though not a cheap one, is Intaglio - http://www.purgatorydesign.com/Intaglio/index.html

"This has layers in them [something which Photoshop also has and I am afraid of!] "

Why are you afraid of applications that use layers? Layers are one of the easier concepts of both drawing and painting apps to understand and use. Think of layers as multiple sheet of clear paper or thin sheets of clear plastic that you can draw or paint on. You can build up a drawing or painting by putting different elements on different layers. If you want to alter elements on a layer only that layer gets affected. If you don't alike what you did on a layer, you can erase an entire layer and start drawing or painting on that layer, again, or delete the layer entirely. You can, also, more easily move elements around on a layer more easily that having all the elements on a drawing or painting on one layer.

So, there's the quick tutorial about layers.

What type of diagrams are you drawing/painting?

There are, also, diagramming programs, that have make drawing simple geometric shapes easier to do and easier to move around and esier to edit and change their appaerance. If there is text within the shapes, both the shape and text moves as one unit, saving you from moving the shapes and text as separate elements.

Here are two diagramming apps for example

Shapes

http://shapesapp.com/

OmniGraffle

http://www.omnigroup.com/products/omnigraffle/

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.

Graphics export format file extension acronyms and their full names

.eps- Encapsulated PostScript file format

.TIFF- Tagged Image File Format

.jpg or .jpeg- Joint Photographic Experts Group file format

.PNG- Portable Network Graphics file format.

eps, tiff, and jpeg formats are formats that can be used in professionally printed graphics files or for use with more processional high end laser or inkjet printers.

Jpeg and png files are used for graphics posted on Internet sites. These file formats are designed to radically reduce an images file size to making a quick to load on Internet website.

Jpeg or jpg files can be adjusted to different quality and files sizes to make them still useful in print and for use in the Internet.

To use a jpeg file in print you adjust the quality level to be the highest this format can export to.

It's highest level still reduces the original images file size, but is less severe and can still have good quality in print.

Jpegs at lower image quality levels are more suited to use on the Internet in Internet web sites.

Gimp is a free, open source equivalent of Photoshop.

You need to install Apple's X11 app to be able to use Gimp.

Gimp is really, good free alternative to Photoshop and has many of its feature set.

You already have Photoshop, why not try and use it?

Another paid Photoshop competitor that has a much cleaner and easier user interface for doing many of the things Photoshop does is an app called Pixelmator

http://www.pixelmator.com/

It's $29 and is a lot cheaper and easier to use than Photoshop, but has quite a bit of the tools and functions of Photoshop, but in a much easier to use and understand interface.

You might have downloaded the old version that needs x11 to run. They have recently released another version that runs without any stuffing around. I am on my iPhone at the moment but when I get home and on the computer I will post the direct link to download the latest version.