Paintbrush (software)
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| Developer(s) | Soggy Waffles |
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| Written in | Objective-C |
| Operating system | Mac OS X |
| Available in | English |
| Type | Raster graphics editor |
| License | BSD licenses[1] |
| Website | http://paintbrush.sourceforge.net |
Paintbrush is a raster image editor for Mac OS X. It aims to replace MacPaint, an image editor for older versions of Mac OS last released in 1988. It also is an alternative to MS Paint. It has basic raster image editing capabilities and a simple interface designed for ease of use. It exports as PNG, JPG, BMP, GIF, and TIFF. The application also is often used for pixel art because of its grid option, and is not made for large scale images or GIMP or Photoshop-like editing.
Capabilities
It includes a simple brush-based freehand drawing tool, an eraser tool, a select tool, a freehand spray can tool which applies several pixels onto an area instead of just one, a fill tool, a "bomb" tool that clears the page, a line tool, a curve tool, square, circle/oval, and rounded square tools, text tool, a color picker/eyedropper, and a zoom in/zoom out tool. Zooming in will go up to 1600%, while zooming out will only go up to 25%. There are adjustable stroke sizes which pertain to the brush, eraser, and spray can tools. Stroke size 1 has a width of 1 pixel, and stroke size 10 has a width of 19 pixels. The text tool allows users to select from their computer's font menu. Also, colors can be selected from a palette.
Paintbrush also includes a grid capability which shows each individual pixel on a grid. This option is particularly helpful to pixel artists.
The application includes an invert colors option, and a crop-selected-area function.
Limitations
The application has no vector capabilities, as well as very little tools for more detailed drawings. Also, it does not include any advanced photo editing tools such as saturation, exposure, sharpness, or tint. It also has a few glitches and minor bugs. One of the most unusual bugs in the application is that the brush, spray can, and eraser will not draw any colors with opacity or transparency. Also, it only exports images as PNG, JPG, BMP, GIF, or TIFF, with no advanced photo support like PSD or SAI.