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I'm at a loss for MS Paint equivalent

ARF900

ARF900

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People say that macs are really good at graphic design type work, which I rarely do anyway, but now there has a come a time when I need to do a graphic design project, and... I'm doing it in MS Paint. I just cant find a mac app that I like more than paint. I can't believe it.

I Have tried:
Image Tricks
Paintbrush
Toyviewer
Seashore
Gimp

Any help?:confused:
 
ARF, I'm just like you, and I'll tell you right now, we MS Paint users don't have anything on the Mac. Sorry. I've had to install Windows in a virtual machine JUST for MS Paint!

All of these people claim that this and that is the same, but they aren't like us, so they don't fully understand.
 
How about the Adobe Creative Suite software, especially Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign?
 
Pixelmator

I stumbled onto Pixelmator a few months ago after a search similar to yours. I really enjoy it, it has lots of capabilities but is straightforward to use. Also there are lots of tutorials on YouTube and elsewhere.
 
In all honesty, if Paintbrush doesn't fill the "gap" you need for the MS Paint equivalent, I'm not sure what will.

Someone mentioned Pixelmator, you should try it out. Otherwise, I would strongly suggest investing a few hours of your time, and learning the basic functions of Gimp / Photoshop (Element if you want to go the cheaper-yet-still-paid route). I can't really see any "design work" where MS Paint would be superior to any of these softwares.
 
Name one thing MS Paint is good for compared to a legit design program. If you really want it you could probably just run Wine and port it to your mac.
 
ARF900 said:
People say that macs are really good at graphic design type work, which I rarely do anyway, but now there has a come a time when I need to do a graphic design project, and... I'm doing it in MS Paint. I just cant find a mac app that I like more than paint. I can't believe it.

I Have tried:
Image Tricks
Paintbrush
Toyviewer
Seashore
Gimp

Any help?:confused:
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You already have iPhoto. You may also want to try GraphicConverter.
 
ARF900 said:
People say that macs are really good at graphic design type work, which I rarely do anyway, but now there has a come a time when I need to do a graphic design project, and... I'm doing it in MS Paint. I just cant find a mac app that I like more than paint. I can't believe it.

I Have tried:
Image Tricks
Paintbrush
Toyviewer
Seashore
Gimp

Any help?:confused:
Click to expand...
Curious.

What would it take for Paintbrush to be a replacement for MS Paint? Is there a particular feature missing or something else?
 
toke jopic?



because honestly what can you do in mspaint that can't be done in paintbrush/seashore/gimp etc...?

lets hear ONE thing that mspaint can do and those three free alternatives can not do :rolleyes:
 
I'm not going to bother trying to explain something that can't be explained. Like I said from the start, people just don't get it.
 
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