I am looking for a simple image editing/creation program like Paint and I have tried a few but none have been great. I have used Seashore and Pixel, which are both okay. They are not as easy to use as Paint when copying and pasting, saving can distort the images if I don't remember to save in a particular format and they run slowly on my Macbook Pro. I tired to install GIMP but it need some driver to run it and I can't get that driver to work. Not even a Mac Genius could figure out the driver issue. Any programs you guys could recommend? Thanks.
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Free Paint-like program for Macs?
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From memory, I think that there is a drawing tool in the OpenOffice suite. It may be a bit of an overkill if you already use MS Office, but it's still worth a look.
PosterPaint is pretty good. Thanks.
That's right about X11, that was the driver. Problem is, when I try to install it from the disk, it says its already on the computer but the program still says I need to install it. I have rebooted the computer several times an tried again but the same message appears.
That's right about X11, that was the driver. Problem is, when I try to install it from the disk, it says its already on the computer but the program still says I need to install it. I have rebooted the computer several times an tried again but the same message appears.
You have to install X11 from your OSX install discs, the download version won't work.
I haven't used it myself, but NeoOffice (which I absolutely love) has a drawing application in it. I like NeoOffice much more than MS Office, and more than Open Office b/c it doesn't need X11 to open, and its free!
have you seen this one?
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my mistake. not sure why Seashore is running slowly; it runs fine on my MBP (Core Duo with 2GB RAM and OS X 10.4.10). of the Paint-like programs i've tried, i think it's best.
my apologies for the irrelevant post.
