You can select your paintbrush, the eraser, the area selector, as well as a color palette that can be used for your drawings.

You can simply use it for drawing or doodling purposes. It cannot be used as a replacement of Photoshop or other editing software. You just pick the paintbrush and start drawing freely and exactly in the way that you like. 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.Paintbrush is an ideal choice for people who are looking for a Mac alternative to Microsoft Paint. 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.

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