

When you launch the app, you can choose the dimensions of the image you want to create there are presets for various sizes, or you can go with a custom size. By its very design (and similarity to Microsoft Paint), the app is not really suitable for creating high quality art on your computer, however, for most simple image creation tasks, the app will work perfectly fine. Just like Microsoft Paint, the interface is incredibly simple, and easy to use. The free app is exactly the same as its Windows’ counterpart, and has all the tools you’d find in the Paint app, right down to the spray can. You can easily create speech bubbles, by the way, by adding a little pointy bit to your sketched ellipses, and Preview will give it a different coloured interior where you can easily add text.If you’re looking for an app that works exactly the way Paint does on Windows, look no further than Paintbrush. They seem the same at first – both are directly controlled pen tools that let you draw freely on the image in whatever colour has been selected in the dropdown three from the right – but the results are very different.ĭraw simply accepts your mark and renders it as a movable layer Sketch interprets the shape you’ve made and sort of smartens it up, so a rough circle will turn into a proper circle, a rough rectangle will get perfectly straight sides and so on. The third and fourth tools along are Sketch and Draw respectively. We’ve found it a bit unreliable – give it a try for yourself.) Sketch and Draw (There’s also a ‘Smart Lasso’ that is like the Polygon Selection tool but will try its adjust its selection to shapes and colour blocks in the image. On the far left you’ll find a shape selection tool, which can be used to grab a rectangle, ellipse or manually selected shape from the image and then delete it, copy and paste it, and so on.
