Preview is awesome for a number of reasons, and writer Dave Winer points out that it also makes a great paint program. OS X has all kinds of great little features, but so many of them don't make. Share on Facebook Tweet this Share It’s a common question for new Mac users: where is Paint? Windows has come with a basic image-editing program since the dawn of time, aka 1985, but there’s seemingly no equivalent when it comes to Mac OS X. Preview — the default Mac program for opening images, PDFs, and other files — comes with a few editing tools. You can draw in a similar fasion to Microsoft’s Paint, and you can add text boxes and shapes. Most people don’t know these features exist though, because they’re hidden behind a button they never think to click. Here’s how to find that button and enable the paint features hidden on your Mac. We’ll also go over how to use the built-in tools, and if you’re looking for something simpler, we’ll go over a one-for-one Paint replacement you can download. Finding the hidden Paint in Preview Open the image you’d like to edit in Preview and look closely at the toolbar at the top of the window. Do you see the toolbox icon, to the left of the search bar? Click it to open the Markup Toolbar, which offers all kinds of image-editing features. If all you want to do is quickly draw on top of your image, simply click the pencil icon and get to it. Changes are saved as you go, so if you want to keep the original image in tact, consider making a copy of the image to edit before diving in. The other tools should should be fairly obvious if you’ve ever used an image-editing app, but below is a quick rundown of each toolbar function, starting from the left, for those unfamiliar. Cursor Tools The first tool controls what mode your cursor is in, with three individual options. Selection Tools allow you to pick a section of the image to move or edit. There’s the standard rectangle for selecting an area, along with an elliptical selection tool. There are also two “lasso” tools, which cling to shapes as you select an area. The Magic Wand lets you click an area of the ima. Paintbrush is a Cocoa-based painting and illustrating program for the Mac, very similar to the Paint application on Windows. Paintbrush is easy to install and can support BMP, PNG, JPEG, and GIF files. The Paintbrush interface is very simple, with a floating menu with basic tools selectable for drawing on the left, and a menu bar at the top. If you've worked with Paint, Paintbrush looks and behaves the same. It takes only a few seconds to select a tool and draw with it. Paintbrush is all freehand art, although there are the traditional handles for things like circles and rectangles. ![]() ![]() While not as powerful as third-party illustration tools, Paintbrush can do many basic illustrations. It is also good at importing screenshots and highlighting areas or manipulating the image.
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