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It's not MacPaint without Fat Bits! And all those fill patterns... I remember using the brick pattern to make a wall and then spray-painting on it with the spr

It's not MacPaint without Fat Bits! And all those fill patterns... I remember using the brick pattern to make a wall and then spray-painting on it with the spray paint can. After that I kind of ran out of ideas on what to do.

re 5y ago
I can still easily picture some of the patterns in my head, like the 3d ball one and the pie crust lattice one. https://ia601607.us.archive.org/11/items/mac_Paint_2/00_screenshot.png https://ia601607.us.archive.org/11/items/mac_Paint_2/00_scre... Also, as a fairly young kid using MacPaint, I never really understood that the icon for the fill/paint can tool literally represented paint being poured out of a can; it always just looked like a unique, sort of abstract cursor shape to me. It wasn't until decades later using Pixelmator with its more photo-realistic tool icon (with the paint pouring out the opposite side) that I connected the dots on why the fill tool looks the way it does. It does give me sympathy for younger folks during the period of time when "Save" was still commonly represented by a floppy disk. (Screenshot of the Pixelmator tool palette here: https://apple.stackexchange.com/q/139323 https://apple.stackexchange.com/q/139323)
logbiscuitswave 5y ago
Came here to say the same. I was willing to overlook the vectorization creating a very unexpected aesthetic. But the missing pattern brushes were a bridge too far! The real version of MacPaint can be found here: https://archive.org/details/mac_Paint_2 https://archive.org/details/mac_Paint_2 but it’s not particularly mobile friendly.
twic 5y ago
There was a trick where you drew a circle, selected it, then there was a way to drag it around, leaving behind copies (option-drag?), which if you did it slowly and carefully, gave a decent approximation of a pipe. I remember drawing lots of intricate pipe networks as a child.

re 5y ago

I can still easily picture some of the patterns in my head, like the 3d ball one and the pie crust lattice one. https://ia601607.us.archive.org/11/items/mac_Paint_2/00_screenshot.png https://ia601607.us.archive.org/11/items/mac_Paint_2/00_scre... Also, as a fairly young kid using MacPaint, I never really understood that the icon for the fill/paint can tool literally represented paint being poured out of a can; it always just looked like a unique, sort of abstract cursor shape to me. It wasn't until decades later using Pixelmator with its more photo-realistic tool icon (with the paint pouring out the opposite side) that I connected the dots on why the fill tool looks the way it does. It does give me sympathy for younger folks during the period of time when "Save" was still commonly represented by a floppy disk. (Screenshot of the Pixelmator tool palette here: https://apple.stackexchange.com/q/139323 https://apple.stackexchange.com/q/139323)

logbiscuitswave 5y ago

Came here to say the same. I was willing to overlook the vectorization creating a very unexpected aesthetic. But the missing pattern brushes were a bridge too far! The real version of MacPaint can be found here: https://archive.org/details/mac_Paint_2 https://archive.org/details/mac_Paint_2 but it’s not particularly mobile friendly.

twic 5y ago

There was a trick where you drew a circle, selected it, then there was a way to drag it around, leaving behind copies (option-drag?), which if you did it slowly and carefully, gave a decent approximation of a pipe. I remember drawing lots of intricate pipe networks as a child.