Paintbrush
Jake Bechtold | January 31, 2008
Mac OS X ONLY – Ever since switching the Mac over a year ago, the one thing I have missed is an equivalent to MSPaint. If you fall in the same boat, rejoice! Paintbrush is your new best friend.
Paintbrush is a Cocoa-based paint program for Mac OS X, similar to Microsoft Paint and the now-defunct MacPaint. The project’s ultimate goal is to recreate the basic functionality of Microsoft Paint, which has been noticeably absent from Mac OS X for years. Paintbrush can open and save to most major image formats, including BMP, PNG, JPEG, and GIF.
What’s wrong with Photoshop, you ask? Besides the fact I don’t have Photoshop, there are occasions when Photoshop is overkill (like cropping a screenshot for this site). Paintbrush is designed fill the need for a basic, streamlined editor for those times when you just feel the need to doodle. Paintbrush is 100% free, and is Mac OS X only.
Paintbrush