Any equivalent to MS Paint in Mac?

See http://mac.appstorm.net/roundups/graphics-roundups/microsoft-paint-for-mac-8-fan tastic-alternatives/

I know nothing about Paintbrush except that I am sure it will do colour.

The person responsible for the above article obviously considers both apps to be nearly identical.

Also see these video tutorials

http://www.google.co.uk/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=Using+Paintbrush+for+Mac++ youtube&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&redir_esc=&ei=Ekt9UKizIqKU0QWd7YDAAg

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Open the Mac App store and in the search field type "paint" and you will find many many paint apps available.

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.

A friend of mine once told me about a software package called Graphic Converter. It did an excellent job in terms of changing colours on an Avatar I had.

Download GraphicConverter for Mac - Graphics editor with powerful features. MacUpdate.com

Look into this app called iPaint

http://ipaint.sourceforge.net/

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

I use Sketch Book Express as a free one that has color and reminds me most of MS Paint.

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/