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  • 4.0 stars

    "Absolutely needed, clean and simple, some rough edges"

    March 17, 2012  |   By JohnGable

    Version: Paintbrush 2.1.1

    Pros

    Very simple to use and very similar to PaintBrush on Windows or the old Mac Paint app. 90% of the time I only have very basic things to do, and this let's me do that. Other apps are much too complex, do way to much, and therefore make simple things hard.

    Cons

    A bit rough on the edges. When copying and pasting within Zoom mode, it would not have what I pasted selected in any usable way.

    Summary

    If you need a simple paint program, that does get drowned in lots of advanced features, layers, photo effects, etc, get this.

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  • 2.0 stars

    "Unstable and Glitchy.... and too simple"

    October 28, 2011  |   By HugeEuge

    Version: Paintbrush 2.1.1

    Pros

    relatively easy to use

    Cons

    tools randomly change color, missing important functionality like being able to rotate image 90 degrees. When image is selected there is no way to stretch it like in every other paint program out there. Trying to resize selected image causes the program to crash 9 out of 10 times.

    Summary

    The developers have a good idea but the software just needs ALOT more development. This is the first time since I've gone MAC that I'm reminiscing about the good-old days of Microsoft Paint

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  • 5.0 stars

    "A good and fun program. Reminds me of the old MacPaint."

    June 11, 2011  |   By JohntheDragonSlayer

    Version: Paintbrush 2.1.1

    Pros

    Easy to use!

    Cons

    It is so simple that one would think it to be more than it is.

    Summary

    Very good program. Get it if you can.

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  • 1.0 stars

    "Very frustrating product"

    April 3, 2011  |   By wordsmythe99

    Version: Paintbrush 2.1.1

    Pros

    It has most of the basic features you would want.

    Cons

    Colors keep switching when you do not want them to; the eraser is terrible, sometimes adding color rather than subtracting; changing between instruments/options and the zoom arrows are sometimes very unresponsive. In dire need of a user's manual.

    Summary

    Still needs a lot of work.

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  • 4.0 stars

    "Succeeds at what it sets out to do"

    March 17, 2011  |   By ThomasHarte

    Version: Paintbrush 2.1.1

    Pros

    Simple, well written, fits nicely into the OS environment, fun.

    Cons

    Limited functionality, I guess, but that's sort of the point.

    Summary

    It's a fun little play around tool that does exactly what it intends: provides a slim, light MacPaint/Microsoft Paint-style piece of software for the modern Mac.

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  • 4.0 stars

    "perfect little image prog"

    January 29, 2011  |   By westhendon_dotmac

    Version: Paintbrush 2.1.1

    Pros

    saves me firing up Photoshop for those little jobs

    Cons

    none - simple little image editor

    Summary

    always useful to have

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  • 2.0 stars

    "Just OK..."

    January 13, 2011  |   By mwjacobs

    Version: Paintbrush 2.1.1

    Pros

    Looks nice. Works fine.

    Cons

    Nothing really wrong with it.

    Summary

    Not what I was looking for.

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  • 4.0 stars

    "I like it a lot! Simple, stable and easy to use."

    November 14, 2010  |   By bgandlab

    Version: Paintbrush 2.1.1

    Pros

    ,Simple, stable and easy to use.

    Cons

    None so far

    Summary

    I've not had it long enough to enable me to confidently give an in-deapth review, however, I'm very hapy with it so far.

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  • 4.0 stars

    "Very easy to use"

    November 7, 2010  |   By lael_dave

    Version: Paintbrush 2.1.1

    Pros

    Perfect for teaching my granddaughter how to draw on the computer.

    Cons

    For what I wanted it for it has no cons

    Summary

    This brought back memories of teaching my kids to use MacPaint on my Mac SE. I have been looking for something simple and easy to use to teach my granddaughter to draw on the computer

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  • 4.0 stars

    "A genuinely useful addition to Mac software"

    October 30, 2010  |   By ian.miller_nz

    Version: Paintbrush 2.1.1

    Pros

    I have often wanted to draw simple illustrations/diagrams for articles I am writing, and until now this has been difficult without rather expensive software. Paintbrush seems to fill that gap nicely.

    Cons

    It is slightly counterintuitive, but a little usage should get over this.

    Summary

    It is easy to use and, with some slight reservations, does what I want. It is slightly counterintuitive, thus if there are two objects, you select one and flip vertically, it is the other one that flips, which is a little unexpected at first. The biggest absence is the ability to rotate or reorient just a little bit. An attempt to increase the relative size of a selection led to the application crashing, so I do not know whether that is possible or not.

    Overall, a good application, but could be improved.

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