Comments on: MS Paint for OS X: Your Life Is Now Complete

By: Ray Dubuque

Ray Dubuque — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 17:31:13 +0000

I was an unhappy Windows user for 25 years and have been delighted with my MAC for 16 months, except for a few programs. It’s amazing how Apple can’t match MSPAINT which MS has been providing free since at least 1982!
It’s such a simple program, so easy to learn and use, and although I’ve used it countless times, I don’t remember it ever crashing or disappointing me – except when I had unrealistic expectations of it -.
Now comes this Apple “Paintbrush” and I can’t do much of anything with it before it crashes EVERYTIME!
My MAC’s healthy and works fine otherwise and uptodate.
All I’m trying to do is select a section and modify its size. And it looks like “cropping” – which I view as routine – is a big project, which was hard to find even with the “Help” and was greyed out.

By: Me

Me — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 22:18:23 +0000

MS paint could fill, show you pixel size when cropping, cursor location, pretty much everything i ever needed for messing with pictures. This is the equivalent of running blind with a crayon.

By: Fu

Fu — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:33:23 +0000

Impressive? You have got to be joking… If you try to rotate – even with only part of the image selected – it rotates the entire graphic. This package is a joke, and the developer behind it should be shot, not donated to.

By: Jin

Jin — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 13:20:07 +0000

Still crap in comparison to the ease of use that came with MSPaint.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 18:52:38 +0000

Paintbrush’s dropper tool is broken: instead of giving you the color and tint you click on, it gives you a lighter shade than what you clicked on. So if you want to go back to another color, your only option is to grope around the color picker, hoping you find it again.

It’s at version 2. How was this missed?

By: g

Thu, 05 Aug 2010 21:35:58 +0000

Preview in OSX crops any pic you paste in it, no need for a different program.

By: Andres

Andres — Sun, 16 May 2010 15:20:12 +0000

Well the program is indeed great. Very basic, which I like. However, I use paint to crop pictures and paste onto other ones (giving it a cheap look -which I normally go for). In paintbrush, you can't really hand-freely crop things but using the square-mode cropping instead. In addition, you cannot paste a new picture you just cropped without the white background. MS Paint has that function.

I hope in the future version of PaintBrush, developers will decide to update these functions!

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 11 May 2010 05:26:22 +0000

Does any one know if paintbrush on mac can cut and shift an image that has been drawn without the unpainted background being moved too? On MS Paint this can be done by selecting the two options for cut but theres nothing that i can see on paintbrush, and its real annoying!

By: girl

girl — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 01:07:43 +0000

Why doesn’t it show cords on where your mouse is?

By: CT

CT — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:12:52 +0000

Has anybody used paint.net on Windows? That’s what we need on OS X. I recently switched back to Mac and needed to do some simple photo editing. I wanted to take 2×2 passport photos taken by Costco and arrange on a standard 4×6, so I could print multiple copies. For some reason Costco wouldn’t print extra copies of a 2×2 passport photo. I couldn’t figure out how to do it in OS X, so I ended up doing it in Windows using paint.net.