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What I want to know is why the latest Apple OS doesn't come with a paint program.
by turnersauce 16y ago
What I want to know is why the latest Apple OS doesn't come with a paint program.
- thought_alarm 16y agoThe closest modern relative to MacPaint is probably the paint program in ClarisWorks/AppleWorks, which was ported to Carbon and runs on OS X. AppleWorks was bundled with all new Mac hardware up until the switch from PPC to Intel in 2006; I still have my copy that came with my iBook G4, still works in Snow Leopard, still reads files created with the original 128k MacPaint. (And my iBook G4 ran MacPaint v2.0, circa 1987, via the Classic VM.) These days, there are all sorts of great indie and open source paint programs available: - Paintbrush: http://paintbrush.sourceforge.net/ http://paintbrush.sourceforge.net/ - Pixelmator: http://www.pixelmator.com/ http://www.pixelmator.com/ - Seashore: http://seashore.sourceforge.net/The_Seashore_Project/About.html http://seashore.sourceforge.net/The_Seashore_Project/About.h... - Skitch: http://skitch.com/ http://skitch.com/ - Omni Graffle: http://www.omnigroup.com/products/omnigraffle/ http://www.omnigroup.com/products/omnigraffle/
- cubicle67 16y ago- Acorn: http://flyingmeat.com/acorn/ http://flyingmeat.com/acorn/
- barredo 16y agoI'd like to know that too. But there's Paintbrush http://paintbrush.sourceforge.net/ http://paintbrush.sourceforge.net/
- chaosmachine 16y agoI guess they assume everyone just pirates photoshop.
- masklinn 16y agoAcorn 2 has a free version which already packs quite a punch, FWIW.
- bad_user 16y agoWhy use freeware instead of something like Gimp? http://www.gimp.org/macintosh/ http://www.gimp.org/macintosh/
- cubicle67 16y agobecause in many cases Acorn is better (lighter, faster, easier to use)
- masklinn 16y agoBecause GIMP is ugly as sin, a pain to use, overly complicated and terribly huge (the dmg is 78MB versus a 15MB zip file for Acorn). And I'm not even into actual design/drawing. If you want open source software, at least go with Seashore which doesn't look like complete crap. Also, because Acorn is a good image editor and the FlyingMeat crew is damn nice.
- bad_user 16y ago> GIMP is ugly as sin, a pain to use, overly complicated and terribly huge And yet you haven't answered ... the investment you make in these tools is substantial anyway. Why would somebody invest in crippleware ... instead of investing in Photoshop (the industry's standard) ... or in an open-source alternative that is just as capable, only more complicated to use and less standard. Also, you're complaining about 78MB? Really? Personally I love GIMP ... I even wrote my own plugin written in Python for doing smart-sharpening (based on this tutorial: http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Smart_Sharpening/ http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Smart_Sharpening/). Yeah ... it was a PITA such functionality wasn't built in, but GIMP provides all the filters you need, upon which you can build your own stuff. Once you get the initial learning curve (most open-source software is like that), it f*cking rocks. And it's here to stay, and won't disappear into obscurity.
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- anoved 16y agoWell, the original still works pretty well. ;-) I just used MacPaint to paint this portrait of MacPaint programmer Bill Atkinson: http://www.flickr.com/photos/anoved/4813947112/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/anoved/4813947112/