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somanna Author

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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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somanna Author

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Posted on Oct 17, 2012 6:16 PM

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?

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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