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. * There is another tool called IcoFX which is a free icon creator for Mac and Windows, but doesn’t help you much with image editing.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.

Image resizing and cropping is easier through either dragging the image box, or based on the percentage.

Rectangle with rounded edges, eye dropper is something new in the app from the earlier versions.

Marching ants for selection tool, to highlight the selected area.

Paste images that are copied from any Mac Office applications like Powerpoint etc.Support for image formats like jpeg, bmp, gif, png etc.Here are a few features of Paintbrush app for mac – You won’t need to launch the heavy apps like Photoshop for the same always. Mac comes with no basic image editing app, and you have to settle down with something from 3rd party, where PaintBrush fulfills the basic requirements of image editing. You need to initially specify the size of the box in which the image is to be created or edited. The app has all the features just like the Microsoft Paint software that comes in windows, having the options to include texts, zoom in or out, make shaped boxes like rectangle, polygon and circles. It helps in saving images in every basic and most used major image format including BMP, PNG, JPEG, TIFF, and GIF. It provides the simplest way to create images and edit any images. Paintbrush is the image editor for mac which is comparable to the default Paint software available for Windows.

Paintbrush for mac application