Apple’s OS X 10.10 Yosemite software introduced so many new features that users will still be trying to learn them several months after installing the update. But OS X also has some old features that you might not know about. In fact, there’s a hidden paint program on your Mac computer that has been sitting right under your nose this whole time, and a recent pose will show you how easy it is to find.

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As Dave Winer recently pointed out on Scripting News (via The Loop), Apple’s Preview app has somewhat hidden paint function that most users have no idea is there.

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This Paint alternative on Mac comes free and it has two variants available depending on your Mac OS version. First is the Paintbrush 2.1.1 for Mac OS X 10.5 or higher, then the Paintbrush 1.2 for Mac OS X 10.4 or higher. Scribbles is yet another Microsoft Paint for Mac. Download Paint Pad Lite for macOS 10.7 or later and enjoy it on your Mac. ‎Paint Pad Lite is a paint app for OS X which is similar to Microsoft Paint. It provides you the basic tools to draw quickly and allows the users to add text on images and resize, rotate, flip and crop images.

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Winer’s instructions for accessing the paint functions in Apple’s Preview app include a few extra steps, wo we’ll amend them here.

All you have to do is open any image file on your computer in Preview (if Preview isn’t your default app for image files, simply right-click on a file, hover over “Open With,” and then select “Preview.app”).

Then in the top menu in Preview, you’ll see a toolbox icon. Just click it and you’re ready to go.

The paint functions in Preview aren’t exactly on par with something like Photoshop, but there are plenty of simple tools for quick edits and markups. There is even a nifty signature function that lets you digitally sign documents using your laptop’s trackpad or a Magic Trackpad.

One of the most popular tools is the classic Paint that comes installed by default on all Windows distributions. The basic drawing program by Microsoft doesn't have an equivalent version for Mac computers, that have never offered a tool of this kind. Luckily enough you have Paintbrush.

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Paintbrushis a drawing program just like Paint that is as equally easy to use, specially for the youngest members of the household. The fact is that having an application like Paintbrush installed so that the kids stop nagging you should be a standard in the computer world...

Features of Paintbrush

  • Basic drawing and painting tools for Mac.
  • Simple edition utilities: cut, paste, crop, resize...
  • Lightweight, practical and easy to use.
  • Compatible with BMP, JPEG, PNG, TIFF and GIF formats.
  • Support for different transparency standards.

The best solution to satisfy the demand of many Mac users for a simplified drawing program is to download Paintbrush for free. Edit images in a simple manner or create your own sketches on a blank canvas, bring out your creativity withPaintbrush.

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